The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-01
ADDS DISTINCTION TO NAME
THAT SHEDS BRIGHT LUSTER
0. GarIbaldi Goes on Record as the First Man
Who Is Arrested for Having Violated the New
Law for the Preservation of Street Pavements

this policeman sufices to prove you
guilty of the charge now against you.
You'll be sentenced Tomorrow"
AS Miss Fogg was led away she con-
fidentially Informed Bailiff Hickey that
the statutes of the State of California
must remain defective until they pro-
vide for the proper protection of ladies
who work on percentage.
For stealing a cheap watch from
Frank Stork and pawning the article
Charles F. Brennan was given thirty
days Imprisonment by Judge Fritz,
and for pilfering SO from Victor Yves
terholm's pocket ]. j. Schinick was
sentenced to six months in the County
Jail. Then the Judge named half q
years Incarceration as H. Hoskomoti's
punishment for stealing a diamond
ring from Miss c. F. Nutting.
d. ]. Murphy and Miss Dottie Will
liams We're engaged in wordy dispute
in the lady's apartments at los Eddy
street when the landlord of the house
interfered, and in the scrimmage which
enSued he and Mr.: Murphy embraced
and rolled down the stairs, clutched in
each others arms. Judge Mogan fined
Mr.. Murphy IS for disturbing the
peace.
For conducting a lottery business at
121 Geary street George Lewis, a young
man with a rotund and shiny face,
was ordered to appear for sentence to-
| day in the court of Mogan.. The latest
fine. for this offense was imposed by
Judge Fritz last Wednesday, and he
made it $3.50. = "
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various witnesses testified in. Mo
gan's court that James Snow, colored,
acted like a veritable dime-novel des-
perado last Friday night when he rob
bed. a man. at Kearny and Geary
streets and then led a number, of po-
Iicemen. and citizens a lively chase un-
til he was cornered and overpowered
at Stockton and Post streets.
While a man manned Nelson; stranger
in town, was breathlessly watching the
latest wired intelligence from the scene
of the Britt orbett engagement. as
flashed upon the newspaper bulletin
screens, his watch was suddenly
snatched by Snow: whe then fiourished
a. big knife and threatened to carve
amy one who attempted to stay his con.
templated flight. But the menace fail
ed Of intended effect. AS the negro
ran up Geary street he was pursued
by several. witnesses: of his rrime, and
one of them, F.. &C. Jaeger; overlook
and grabbed him: Quick as a flash the
| desperate fellow slashed his captor on
| the hand, infiicting deep cut, then
shook himself loose and continued his
run until he entered an alley which
proved to: be a :cul de sac. There the
pursuing crowd held him at bay; one
of the men keeping a. pistol leveled at
| his head, until policemen arrived and
secured the fellow after he had fought
them until he could fight no longer:
When these facts had been heard by
Judge Mogan he held Mr.. Snow to
answer in the Superior Court. the
charge of grand larceny and then SEN
fenced him to three months: impris-
onment for assault with a deadly wea-
pom.
Charles Martin declared 1T was hun
ger that prompted him to steal a copy
of the Daily Call from the bootblack
stand at 407' Bush street. where it had
been deposited by a carrier. :.
But you didn't intend to eat the
Newspaper, did your inquired JUDGE
AIegan. While The Call unauestion-
ably furnishes excellent food for the in
tellect. doubt that as an edible it
would be either palatable or digestibIe. "
Mr.. MartiH explained that his purpose
was to sell the paper and purchase MAJ
terial with the proceeds of the sale
with which his gastronomic craving
might be appeased.
He will be sentenced to-day for petty
larceny.
Lola Hallett and Lille King promptly
paid the so fine which Judge Mogan
imposed upon each of them for having
assaulted Marie Alberts in an under
ground .theater at Kearny and Jackson
streets.
Thus was closed an incident that for
a month kept the first circle of. Barbary
Coast society in state of feverish in
terest The prominence of the contend
ing parties in both theatrical and social
life and the general suspicion that un-
DERIVING the stated reasons for the at
tack upon Miss Alberts-billed as Mile.
/ Gismonda-were the elements of love,
Jealousy and hate, with man at the
bottom of the combination, served to
keep the gossips agog and to pack the
courtroom at every performance.
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