The San Francisco call., 1904-02-07

Dr. Thomas F. Brennan was before
Judge Fritz yesterday on a charge of
mulctlng an aged Catholic priest, Rev.
Father p. J. Grey, out of $97, ,524 Is.
Under the stress Of illness he claims
to have confded to Brennan most of
his property interests, which con-
sisted principally of a deposit of more
than $4,000, which the aged priest
had in the Hibernia Bank.
In order to obtain the real facts
Judge Fritz held court in Father
Grey's room yesterday afternoon and
heard the story of the priest. Age had
dulled his memory of the tran
sactions within the last few years, but
! he was thoroughly clear on the char
/ ity he said he had extended to Bren-
nan during the years of the physicians
early struggles. For such efforts, he
said he expected better returns in
gratitude. Brennan. he said. had
conducted the priests private business
in many ways. When the priest was
asked to sign a paper by Brennan he
did so. he claims, without distrust and
sometimes without knowing it's con-
tents. Last September he learned
that four checks. which he claims he
signed without knowledge of their
purport, were presented to the Hiber-
MIA Bank, Withdrawing all the funds
he had there.
The bank officials have been sub
penaed and will be witnesses in the
case.
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which was fixed by Judge Cabaniss
after Judge Fritz had placed his Sc
curity at $4,000 cash. or 100000
bonds.
Niccolo Postine. who was ordered
into custody for perjury by Judge
! Conlan because he told such evident
untruths in the preliminary hearing
of Giovanni Rossi and Francisco Fos-
sa, charged with the murder of Vim
/ censo Lavaginino, was released by
/ Judge Mogan yesterday. Judge Con-
Ian refused to affix his signature to a
/ complaint against the accused man
and the District Attorney took no in
terest in the matter, so that prosecu-
/ ton was hopeless. Under such treat
ment perjury in police courts will be-
/
John Lundgrin, the original man
from Missouri, who tempted the top
and bottom game" and was ordered
! into custody by Judge Fritz for fear
I that he would be dispersed in squads
/ at the temptations offered by his rob-
/ bers, was given his liberty yesterday.
He told the Judge, under a strict
~
I alleged bunko men, Con" Sullivan by
name, whose record runs through
many a stone-fagged trail, with clink- |
I ing steel to maintain it, made over
! lures to reimburse him If he would |
/ dip into countries previously unknown |
/ to him.
Lundgrin, claims that he refused all |
/ overtures of settlement, and intended |
! to prosecute the case thoroughly. On
| this statement and a further one that |
! he was in the way of securing a job !
in a wholesale house he was allowed /
his liberty. Sullivan, who is at large
on $1,000 bonds, was not in court to
listen to the proceedings.
John Hanson was convicted Of dis
/ turbing the peace by Judge Mogan yes
terday. He was accused of throwing |
/ two bottles of Barbary Coast booze |
at ]. H. Price, a streetcar conductor |
who guides the destinies of car that |
plows its muddy way to the Pacific |
Mail dock. The charge should have |
been assault with a deadly weapon, but |
the Prosecuting Attorney overlooked |
the chemical part of the missiles.
Theodore Wolters, known among
criminals as the Identification Kid"
and as a strong right arm for Sergeant |
Tim cambridge, who has charge of |
the excellent Bertillion bureau for the
identification of criminals maintained |
/ by the Police Department Of San
! Francisco, was in trouble yesterday.
Sergeant Brainbridge rushed down
from Judge Cabaniss' court and in
formed Wolters that a brother of the |
latter had been given sixty days for
being drunk in a public place.
Theodore buried his face in his hands |
and sobbed. II had a brother once
a gracious boyi" he exclaimed, >"but
1 don't know what became of the
guy
He hurried to the prison, and peer
ing through the iron bars, found In
the confined man a likeness that
startied nlIn "A moments converSa-
tion convinced him that the prisoner
was not kin to him in any way He
wandered back to the Identification bu-
reau with his faith sadly shattered In
regard to facial resemblances.
James Bailey, the cocaine fiend who
made failure Of a getaway" by
Pumping into the sinewed arms of
Deputy Coroner Jim Murphy, was
given three months in the County Jail
yesterday by Judge Mogan. Bailey
broke away from policeman who had
him under arrest and did dipping and
veering act around the Morgue huild-