The San Francisco call., 1904-04-19
POLICE JUDGE CLASHES
WITH STATE OFFICIAL
His Honor Judge Mogan Sharply Reprmands
Labor Commissioner Meyers for His
Seeming Discourtesy Toward the Bench

That's what" was the answer.
We'll, we was e-tryin' to ride out
on de rattler wen desc bulls copped
us. Wot's de use of yer advisin' a
mug ter do a ting an den givin' him
twenty-four for a-tryin' ter do it7 Is
dat iustice?"
"Ah, but 1 didn't advise you or any
one else to steal a ride. Hitting the
pike as 1 interpret the phrase. means
walking on the highway. And that's
what I would again advise you to do
as soon as you are at liberty to walk
abroad"
anks."
Don't mention 1t.
After getting Charles, her husband.
arrested for battery. Mrs. Martha
Jackson relented and informed Judge
Fritz that 1t was by accidentally fall
ing over a stove that she received the
cranial injuries which were covered by
courtplaster."
Besides" she pleaded, Charles is
my only means of support
Il don't believe the stove story" said
the court, "and I'm afraid that Charles
and you must live apart for a while.
I'll sentence him tomorrow"
William Hayes, aged and possessed
Of only one serviceable eye, and his
son Stephen, aetat "a, and far gone in
tuberculosis, were before Judge Mogan
on the charge of vagrancy. They had
taken up sleeping quarters in an empty
basement at Brannan and Gilbert
Of he rla
feared that they might accidentally set
fire to it and burn him out of house
and home. After promising to go to
the Almshouse they were dismissed.
There is in the court of Judge Fritz
a milk -adulteration case that has
dragged long and furnished an excep
tional example of how the art of pass
ing the buck is practiced In effort to
balk justice.
Health officer Mish arrested gro
ceryman for having among his wares
a can of lacteal fluid that contained
more than the legal maximum of aqua.
The groceryman pleaded that he had
not watered the milk, but was selling
it just as II was delivered to him by
a dairyman. Subpoena issued for
dairyman, who appeared and testified
that he had purchased milk from
farmer and had not "doctored' it in
any way. Farmer subpenaed. and he
passed the responsibility up to the COW,
by swearing that he had not watered
the milk taken from her.
LAS we can't subpoena your cow"
said the Judge, and as she might be
an unwilling witness if she were here
TO testify, will you be so good as to
explain how the milk taken from her
happened to be too heavily diluted
with water?"
The guileless person of pastoral pur-
suit Immediately complied. THE re-
cent heavy rains have saturated the
pastures" he said, and the grass con-
tains an unusually large percentage of
moisture
Il suppose we must issue a subpoena
for the clerk of the weather" said the
Judge, and then he ordered another
continuance.
Suspecting Ruth Prestons affection
was in process of transference to the
keeping of a detested rival, Edward
Clifford waylaid her last Saturday
evening dS Sne was SduHl6TlnR dlOnS
Kearny street with the ostensible OBJ
ject of holding tryst, and he accused
her of fsckleness and otherwise up
braided her until she lost her temper
and retorted warmly. Then he struck
her and they were entangled in rough
and tumble mix-up, when the in
evitable arrests were made. In the
court Of Justice Mogan yesterday
morning Edward looked as If he had
been having an uncomfortable time,
while Ruth appeared in a stunning
tailor made of creamy white, with pic
ture hat to match, and seemed to be
amused rather than terrified by her po-
stion. Both the defendants pleaded
not guilty to disturbing the peace and
their defense will be heard tomorrow.
Naughty little boys annoyed Mrs
Elsie d. Lasher of 2510 Sutter street
until she deluged them with anathemas
and water and thus disturbed the
peace. To Judge Fritz she explained
that her feminine neighbors did not
seem to approve her spiritual belief,
which was that of psyche therapeutics.
Which means?" ventured the court
THAT / am inspired by the Divine
Spirit" was the answer IF this
court does not help me-" she added
significantly, "a higher one WILL
bevy of Mrs. Lasher's neighbors
The case was continued.
corroborated what she said concerning
their regard for her. Every one of
them pronounced her a disagreeable
person.
Francis Hanska, a German, was ac-
cused of terrorizing certain inmates of
the Spanish boarding house on Broad
way in which he dwelt. Thomas Price,
a fellow boarder, testified before Judge
Mogan that the defendant had held a
knife in proximity to his (witness')
throat and threatened to sever his
windpipe. and that he then transferred
his menaces to the landlady of the es-
tablishment who had been made i'll by
the experience. Further testimony will
be heard next Thursday.
Four times did Charles Wilson, a