The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-22

refused to print another bogus lottery
ticket. The work frequently kept me at
the press until the early hours of the
morning, as the process of printing is a
slow one The tickets were in seven
colors, and as l could only print one color
each day, 1t was long job. l cannot re-
member the exact number of tickets L
printed, but ! supplied at least 5000 dupli-
cate lottery tickets each month from No
Vember, 1898, till June, 1895 We would
duplicate the Little Original of San Fran
cisco in both 20 cent and 81 tickets. OF
these we printed about 1000 every month.
We also printed original Louisiana tickets
of the p cent size to the number of about
1900 monthly and 800 of the dollar tickets.
Our operations, however, were not con-
fined 10 these companies, for we printed
about 1000 Mexican lottery tickets and
the same number of Metzger & Franklin's
Benefcencia Republica Of San Francisco
tickets.
in 1896 my press broke down, and Mrs
Johnson, who now appears as plaintiff in
this case under the name of Miss Bur-
dick, went my security for new press,
which we bought of Palmer & Rey. The
purchase price was S165. l gave my old
press as part payment, borrowed $25 from
Mrs. Johnson and the balance was to be
paid in monthly installments of SO each.
Twenty days later Mrs. johnson surprised
me by settling the whole bill at once. At
ter this Mr.. and Mrs. Johnson were not so
regular IN their payments, and at present
they owe me over a thousand dollars for
which has never been paid for
Last August l sold my outfit, and the
press was bought by r. S. Kitchener a
printer of this city. After that l was en-
ployed as advance agent for Hamblin' s
Minstrels and have travelled with them
through California, Nevada ana Utah 1
came home about the middle Of Novera-
Der, and since then Mr.. and Mrs. Johnson
have frequently called on me at my home
on Franklin street and have urged me to
go ahead and print for them again. This
/ have positively refused to do, and this
trumped-up charge of embezzlement on
ION one of their visits TO me Johnson
told me that he had never been in San
Quentin in his life but he would take an
oath that he mad power enough TO have
me sent to San Quentin or Folsom If I did
not do his work The last time | refused
TO print any more tickets for them was In
December of last year, and ] did not hear
from them again until last week, when
was arrested on a charge of ernbezzling
the press. The charge was brought by
a Miss Burdick. who is none other than
the woman / have all along known as
Mrs. Johnson and whom / identified as
such q my preliminary examination"
Homer is a. years Of age, and has fol-
lowed various occupations in this county.
He came here in 1862, and until recently
published the East Oakland Mail and
North Oakland News. Some years ago
he was a deputy under Constable c. NJ.
Day of Alameda, and at one time he acted
as prosecutor in the Alameda Recorders
court, when the late Charles Uznay pre-
sided
While Homer is languishing in the
County Jail his wife and four small chill
dren are starving and in destitute cir
cumstances in a little weather-beaten cot
tage at 764 Madison street Over their sad
plight he broke down and wept bitterly
to-day when seen by a Call reporter at
the County Jail. Homer says that Joe
Epson and Miss Burdick do business at
1S1 Montgomery street. San Francisco.