The San Francisco call., 1903-12-01

ing his hand upon Harris shoulder,
said in Enthusiastically threatening tone:
.sDon't you tell me l lie."
f,he men were separated by a low
rail and the hushed spectators fully
expected to see one or other of them
leap the barrier and deal carnage,
when a voice from the bench rang out
sharply and commandingly:
The bailiffs will preserve order in
the court"
In a moment two stalwart forms
were between the angry lawyers and
the danger of collision. was averted
Don't you tell me 1 lie.'' repeated AL.
ford as he turned away. Harris said
nothing in repartee.
Subsequently both attorneys apollo
sized to the court for their unusual be-
havior and the incident closed. The
examination of Field was continued till
Wednesday,
For a while yesterday morning the
appearance of Police Judge Mogan's
tribunal was strongly suggestive Of a.
scene from THE Romany Rye" or the
great third act of Carmen" Swart
gypsy men and women jostIed each
other in courtroom and corridor, and
the picturesqueness Of their cos
tumery, the. queer patois in which they
chattered and the expressiveness of
their gesticulations contributed novel
effect to an environment in which
strange sights and sounds are not rare.
The gaudily attired women and side
whiskered men were there to see what
would become of Annie J. Mitchell and
Katherine Domingo, charged by Frank
Mitchell of the same tribe with rob-
bing him of a railroad ticket for which
he had paid SIS. Mitchell testified that
he had desired to go to Kansas City
and borrowed from his mother-who
seems TO be the Azucena of the camp
on the San Bruno road-the money
with which to procure the means of
TRANSFORMATION. When he returned to
the camp the ticket was in his coat
pocket, and by some means-he could
not tell exactly how-the two. defend
ants distracted it. When he missed
the pasteboard he openly and vigorous
" accused the women of having pill
fered it, and the accusation led to de-
NAL and finally developed a faction
fight, in which the entire tribe was par
tieipating when three mounted police
men swooped down upon the scene of
strife and gathered in the three prin
cipals.
With a saucy swish of her Carmen
esque skirts, Annie ]. Mitchell took the
witness stand and denied point blank
the charge filed against her and Kath-
crime Domingo by Mitchell. What really
angered the. man. she stated, was her
refusal to lend him her horse and
buggy to haul his traps" to the ferry.
After surveying the competing wit
nesses and apparently relinquishing his
effort 10 ascertain which of them had
come nearest 10 telling the truth,
Judge Mogan dismissed the case.
The court is of the opinion" was his
final order, that as five attorneys are
engaged in this case the defendants
have been sufficiently punished"
Then there was a concerted babel of
harsh gutturals from the side-whisker-
ed men and a chorus of shrill COM
ments from the hooded women, and
the curtain fell to rise next moment
upon a pIaylet in which the characters
neither looked nor acted out of the or
dinary.
For attempting to plunder the poor
box Of st. Francis Church. at Mont
gomery avenue and Vallejo street,
Louis Marmont was sentenced to- the
limit, six months imprisonment, by
Judge Fritz. Marmont is So years of
age. He was caught in the act of
pilfering the contents of the box by
Father Caraher. When arrested he We
hemently denied the charge made by
the priest, but in court he owned up
that he was guilty.
Isaac Clubs future appears TO he
about as black as his skin He is the
negro that met Mrs. Ellen Dougherty
of 409 Oak street at o'clock one MORN
Zig last week and robbed her of her
purse after he had poked one of his
fingers into one of her eyes and almost
blinded her. Judge Cabaniss heard the
evidence against Club yesterday morn
ing and remanded him TO the Superior
Court. with bail fixed at. $4,000. The
negro is in jail
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