The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-04
NOW He WANTS
TO OBTAIN HIS
PRESENTS BACK
Magic Has His Ex-
FianCee Arrested.
A RING AND A CARBUNCLE
RATHER MAKE HATS THAN
MARRY THE ATTORNEY.
Touching Tale of Pretty Geary-
Street Milliner and a Lawyer
Who Declares He Will Not
Be Bunkoed.
A RING AND A CARBUNCLE
RATHER MAKE HATS THAN
MARRY THE ATTORNEY.

Attorney G. G. Nagle swore out war
rant for the arrest of Mrs Lille Rodgers
on the charge Of feIonious ENLIGHTENMENT
in Judge Mogans court yesterday morn
ing.
So anxious was the friend of the Rev. C.
O. Brown that the arresting officer should
make no mistake in the performance of
his duty that he accompanied the repre-
sentative of the law to the milliner's es-
Establishment on Geary street, and with his
own well manicured but unfortunately
ringless finger pointed out the woman
whose detention he prayed the court to
grant.
According to the attorney, the offense
the hat maker is charged with is having
in her possession a garnet and diamond
ring that should be ornamenting the
Nagle digit. He claims that he has tried
many times and oft to regain possession
Of his jewel, but on each and every occa-
sion was given the ha-ha by the merry
milliner.
Nagle's story OF the loss of his ornament
is a touching tale of a story of unsophis-
tieated mans suffering; of how a carbun-
Gle proved the legitimate successor to the
much abused pleasant representation"
proposition, and a final determined chap
ter that should be entitled II won't be
bunkoed."
Strangely enough, Mrs Rodgers story
is Numerically opposed to the Nagle tale,
and what he cites as facts the lady ridi-
cules and terms fiction. According to the
lady, she once honored the attorney by
considering herself his affianced wife, yet
according to Nagle there never was any
engagement existing between them. .''She
says the plaintiff. MY husband is dead
and | have no family" says the defend
ant; If Maggie had not been, addicted to
carbuncles this trouble would have never
occurred. on the 10Th day of November
a pretty red but unbecoming bud was
preparing to blossom on the Maggie coun-
tenanCe. AS is the nature of its kind, the
Towering was heralded by shooting pains,
that made the wearer weak and helpless.
To stay his fainting spirit the attorney
repaired to the Bay State oyster house, /
on Stockton street. and INDUCED in a cup
of tea and English chops" Mrs. Rodgers !
was also present in the oyster house. but
past Maggie went to the telephone TO sum-
mon the doctor to ease his handsome face.
He raised his hand to the instrument,
to Nagle-that was the last he saw of it.
Mrs. Rodgers saw the ring while 1 was
land begged that I take 1t from my finger
and let her examine it [ did so. | had
a chat with the doctor over the line, and
he asked me TO come out to him. I pre-
pared to go, and as I was leaving the
restaurant L said to Mrs. Rodgers, Give
me back my ring She laughed, and said,
Later and i went off.
About four days after I was going to
a Masonic gathering, and wishing to do
honor to the affair I thought [ would
wear my ring. So L called on Mrs. Rod
gers and asked her for it, but she said
she had mislaid II. The time went on,
and / made numerous demands for my
jewel, but was always laughingly put off. |
Finally I sent B. K. Collier to Mrs. Rod !
gers home at 1858 Twenty-third street, !
but he received no satisfaction. 1 had the
lady arrested this morning, not on ac-
count of the value of the ring, but 1 want
to show her she can't bunko me.
"Once when 1 told her unless she re-
turned me the ring [ should have her ar
rested she laughed and said, You are too
prominent man to dare to have
woman arrested. "
Nagle claims that he first met the mill
liner a year ago last November in a pro-
fessional way, and that at that time the
lady was betrothed to the Rev. N J. B. !
Schultz, a Unitarian minister. He further
states that she is the divorced wife of
never been engaged to marry the lady and
that at the present time she is receiving
the attentions of Harry r. Fee, a clerk
in the San Francisco Trading Stamp Com
pany.
After her arrest, while waiting in the
City Prison for the bonds that would re-
lease her, the milliner made the following
statement:
II was engaged to be married to Attor-
ney Nagle, and kept company with him
and started in business. 1 know nothing
about his ring. 1 was very much sur
prised when Nagle and a policeman came
into my store this. morning and told me
was under arrest"
The statement that she was divorce
and had been betrothed to the Rev. Mr..
Schultz Mrs. Rodgers efnphatically de-
MED.
The case will come up for trial this
morning at 10 o'clock before Judge Mogan.