The San Francisco call., 1904-03-16

to be sure and call again he studiOusly
avoided looking in their direction As
they swept away there accompanied
them mingled perfume of violets and
new mOwn hay that for the nonce had
supplanted the usual courtroom odor
of stale beer and damp umbrellas.
Stealing a loaf of bread from
Franklin-street doorstep was the charge
against Gustave Heitman in Judge
Conlan's court, and visions of a des-
perate husband and father pilfering
food for a starving wife and babies
were rapidly feeting through the judi
cial mind, when the fact developed that
Gustave was an old offender at that
sort OF game and that his sanity was
doubtful. His case was continued till
TOMORROW.
Francis H. Coy of 1861 Fourteenth
street stoutly maintained that one Of
his prerogatives as a husband is to ad-
minister corporal punishment 10 his
wife when. in his opinion, she is de-
serving Of chastisement, but Judge
Conlan took a directly opposite view
of the question and held Mr.. Coy for
battery.
Mrs. Coy testified that Mr.. Coy had
been in the habit Of beating her, and
during their four years of marital in
felicity she never doubted his right to
do so until she became acquainted with
a member Of the legal profession VINO
explained her rights in the matter.
While in possession Of this enlighten-
ment she declined to accompany Mr..
Coy to a downtown dinner and inGiden-
tally informed him that if he laid as
much as one punitive finger upon her
she would invoke the law. 80 you
have been talking to some de.ned
shyster. have you?" said Mr.. Coy, when
sufficiently recovered from the aston
ishment into which he was plunged by
the wife's revolt. Then he admins
tered a few blows TO her head and
locked her up in their common sleep
ing apartment until she promised to
be good"
Mr.. Coy viii be sentenced to-day, and
Mrs. Coy has announced her intention
TO procure a divorce.
Noble K. Williams, who was arrested
for breaking open a clothes locker in
St Ignatius Church gymnasium, will
be tried to-day in Judge Conlan's court
The arrest was made by Policeman c.
J. Carroll.
DR.. Mace of 406 Sutter street had Fred
Gillette, a driver for the Standard
Dairy. before Judge Mogan on a charge
Of distributing adulterated milk The
complainant testified that for some time
he had entertained misgivings as to
the purity Of the lacteal fluid served
TO him daily by the defendant, and
the other morning he took some of it
to the Health Office and had il an
alyzed and his suspicion confirmed.
The scientists pronounced It milk of
the chalk and water variety" said the
doctor. and then l swore to a COM
plaint against the man who served it
TO my family for consumption
And by so doing you proved yourself
a good citizen" was the courts COM
mandatory comment.
Gillette wanted to have his case dis
posed of right then and there, but his
employer arose amid the chair-warm-
ers and announced his desire to be rep
resented by the counsel. So the matter
went over till to-day.
George Smith, whom Policeman Mel
son pronounced the most industrious
and irreDressible street beggar on the
Pacific Coast and entitled to champion
ship distinction in that line, was given
three months by Judge Mogan. Mel
son. TO satisfy his curiosity, followed
Smith and within period of three
minutes and a distance Of less than one
block saw him accost and receive aims
from three individuals.
James Farrell. youthful, good looking
and stylishly appareled, was found
guilty Of vagrancy and carrying a con-
cealed weapon by Judge Mogan and
also received a rather scathing lecture
from the bench. Police Officer Connel-
ly found Farrell standing at the closed
door of an apartment in a lodging
house at IS Mason street and breathing
vengeance against a man and a woman
that were inside the room. A search
of Farrell rewarded the officer to the
extent Of a big and sharp dagger.
Then the Judge asked the prisoner
what he did for a livelihood, and the
answers led to only one logical infer
ence-that he subsisted on the bounty
Of the scarlet woman whose life
he had threatened. He had not been
employed anywhere fer five months
preceding his arrest, yet he was well
nourished and attired.
You and your like would better be
at the bottom Of the bay than circulat-
ing among decent people" said the
Judge. and when you come UP here to-
morrow for sentence I viii endeavor to
rid society Of your presence for as long
a term as the law prescribes for your
double offense."
Police officer Joy reported progress
in his quest for Jason Jackson, col
ored man that was badly beaten by
several soldiers in a Barbary Coast re-
sort last Sunday night, and upon whose
appearance and testimony in Mogan s
court are dependent the immediate fu-
ture movements of Private j. w. Col