The San Francisco call., 1904-10-12

Mrs. Clara Neall and Mrs. Julia
| Weirmann, next-door neighbors on
| Mary street, had 1T OUT yesterday
morning in the courtroom of Police
Judge Cabaniss. 1t was a peace dis
| turbance case, with Mrs. Neall as COM
plainant and Mrs. Weirmann as de-
fendant, and each of the ladies was
aided by an eloquent lawyer and
abetted by a crowd iof sympathizing
witnesses.
Mrs. Neall and her cohorts averred
that Mrs. Weirmann distressed the
neighborhoOd by her disorderly conduct.
| She frequently and cruelty beat her hus-
| band, a small and meek-tempered man.
| they swore, and never missed an oppor-
| tunity to hurl uncomplimentary re-
marks at any one who criticized her
unseemly behavior. To such extent did
she carry her offending of Mrs Neall
/ that it was absolutely impossible for
| that most amiable lady to maintain
| her self-esteem and refrain from So
| liciting the laws protection. She (Mrs.
! NealD had suffered and borne in
silence what person of less pacific
| inclination would have revolted against
weeks-aye, months-ago.
Mrs. Weirmann and her contingent,
on the other hand, alleged that the
/ Nealls, mother and daughter, and their
/ lodger, Harry Jones, combined to make
/ life an unendurable burden for the
Weirmanns. They had "chucked" coal
at Mrs. Weirmann as she was pursuing
! her domestic tasks in the yard of her
! dwelling and they had cut her clothes
/ line and also threatened to continue
| their persecution until it forced her to
leave the street.
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were vigorously denied by those
against whom they were made, but the
proceedings were comparatively tame
! until the counsel for the defense asked
| a witness, Mrs. Ellen Harrington, to
! state her age. She promptly answered
that her age was none of his business,
and the Judge approved the answer
and marveled at the mans temerity in
! asking such a question. Thus en-
| couraged, Mrs. Harrington scornfully
| eyed her interrogation and exclaimed:
| THE ide-ahi The ver-ray ide-ah,
That Dutchman asking me my age.
The ide-ah!"
And if look could have annihilated
the indiscreet attorney he would have
perished on the spot.
When the court continued the case
! for thirty days in order to give the de-
/ fendant opportunity to prove by good
| behavior that she was not deserving Of
punishment, the attorney for the de-
fense applied for a warrant charging
Mrs. and Miss Neall and Mr.. Jones
with disturbing the peace of his client.
Il won't sign any such warrant" ex-
claimed the Judge. This court pro-
poses to preserve it's dignity, to say
nothing Of its reason. These people
are worse than the Russians and the
Japs, who evidently have some reason
for fighting each other. Next case, Mr..
Clerk"
Judge Conlan again continued the
case of DIR. Thomas F. Brennan, ac-
cused of stealing $97, 900 from the Rev.
Father Grey while serving as his medi-
cal adviser, and intimated that he will
| hold the defendant for trial In the Su-
perior Court. The continuance was or
dered in order to give the defense time
to prepare bonds and appeal papers.
May Macdonald, a young matron.
did not seem to regard with due Sc
riousneSS her arrest for aSSOciating
with inmates of disorderly house on
j Howard street and allowing them to
have custody of her 3-year-old daugh-
/ ter. She treated the matter f1ippantly
when interrogated by Judge Mogan,
and insinuated that as a married wom-
an she was privileged to do as she
liked in the way of training her Off
spring. His Honor, however, disil-
/ luSioned her to the extent of annOunc-
ing that she would be held in custody
until provision is made for the child's
proper upbringing.
Because the Insanity Comissioners
could not find formal complaint
against Joe Mulhatton, remanded for
! investigation as to his mental state by
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inc him and he was returned to the
Police Court. Two reputable citizens
who have known the man for years
testified that they considered him de-
| mented, and as the circumstances of
| the alleged theft for which he was
arrested point to the same conclusion
he will probably be dismissed to-day
He took from Clay street lodging
| house an almost worthless coat and
left in it's place his own garment con-
tanning letters addressed to him.
| Nicholas Morris, vegetable peddler,
silently wept as he paid the fine of $40
| imposed by Judge Mogan as penalty
! for working q horse which the COM
planning officer f1ippantly likened unto
| IAN animated hat rack" so knobby
was it's exterior. And when His Hon
or ordered the unfortunate animal to
instant execution the defendant boo
| hooed loudly and declared that he
would be ruined financially by the
! proposed deprivation.
| II can't help that" was the courts
unsympathetic comment. "If you are
unable to obtain livelihood without
practicing cruelty to dumb animals
you, too, would be better dead"
Herman Mitchell, professional mes
senger boy falteringly testified that he
1 Of
he slipped and fell through a front
window in the secondhand furniture
store of A. Lichtenstein, 1904 Howard
street He subsequently, qualified
the startling statement to some extent,
however, by remarking that rain was
j heavily falling at the time and that his
haste was inspired by anxiety lest his
official uniform might be permanently
| damaged by saturation.
Judge Mogan dismissed the case af-
ter he ascertained that the lad had not
been given into custody until he had