The San Francisco call., 1903-12-18


secure SO somehow and pay it over for
the support of his 1O-year-old daughter,
Mignon, some time before Santa Claus
appears, or otherwise he win spend his
Christmas in Jail. The father says it is
almost an impossible task, as he is so
STEPPED in poverty that, compared to
him, Lazarus might be considered a
trust magnate. But Judge Mogan has
spoken and his word is as the law of
the Medes. The judgment was rem
dered yesterday when the father ap
peared in court to answer to warrant
charging aim with failure to provide
for a minor child. The defendant is
a real estate dealer at Petaluma. For
q year he and his wife have been sep
arated and divorce proceedings are
pending between them in the Santa
Rosa courts. He has been ordered by
the civil court to make provision for
the support Of the little girl, the issue
of the marriage, but his pleas of pow
erty have suficed to keep him from
being jailed for not complying with
the order. At the hearing of the Grim
inal charge yesterday the defendant
told of ill-health, so that he was not
able to make any money out of his real
estate business, and said that he was
compelled to borrow money to pay his
own expenses. The attorney for his
wife, the complaining witness, told the
court that when the defendant was in
Il. l1-
he came to San Francisco he hid his
Jewels The counsel for the defendant
branded this statement as maliciously
false and intimated that the uttereG of
it was a notorious liar, any way.
Where did you get those clothes?''
asked the special prosecutor of the de-
fendant. Hargreaves explained that
their acquisition antedated the begin
ming Of his matrimonial difficulties.
The attorneys eye happened to catch
sight of new overcoat left on chair
bv the defendant Where did you get
that overcoat?' The defendant admit
ted that it was a recent purchase
which cost him IS. Your Honor"
said the special prosecutor, this man
has money TO buy overcoats for him
self. but he says he cannot keep his
his real estate circulars he has the
words printed Money to loan Why
doesn't he borrow some money from
himself and give it to his little girl for
nroner clothing and food?" The argu-
ment struck Judge Mogan as conclus-
i've and he ordered the father to pungle
before Christmas on pain of going to
q dungeon cell for the holiday season.
Mary Hannon came down Howard
street Monday evening in an independ-
ent frame of mind. In crescendo tones
she declared that she did not care for
the laws. the police, the public, the
heavens or the earth or the waters that
are under the earth. She said she had
a job. At the corner of Fourth street
the observant gaze of a policeman rest
ed on Mary. He had only been on the
force fourteen years, but even to him
it was apparent that she had been lap
ping up more liquid incentive to crime
than was consistent with the peace and
dignity of the city. So he halted Mary
in the middle of an apostrophe and
gave her a ride in a nice blue wagon.
When she appeared before Judge Mo
gan yesterday she had lost in large
measure her spirit of independence, but
she still maintained that she had job,
and offered several newspaper clippings
as documentary evidence of the fact.
She said she was a stenographer. Some
deliver into days that are gone pro-
duced from the police records the fact
that Mary had formerly served two
terms in the County Jail for outbreaks
similar to that of Wednesday night, so
Judge Mogan sentenced her to another
three months in the same resort. Mary
now has job on the square.