The San Francisco call., 1904-03-22

Anton Rulfs did not actually steal
a red-hot stove, but in Judge Conlan's
court yesterday it was proved that he
and another man, name not registered,
picked up stove filed with burning
Goals and carried it from the tailor
shop of L. b. Wiecz, 49 McAllister
street, to the outer air, and that every
foot Of their progress was bitterly con-
tested by Mr.. Wiecz and several of his
workmen. Mr.. Rulfs was arrested and
charged with battery.
The testimony went to show that
Rulfs manages a stove emporium at
1904 Market street and that Wiecz pur-
chased from him a stove for $4, of
which he paid SO down and agreed to
pay the remainder if he found the
stove was satisfactory. The try-out
proved the stove unsuitable and Rulfs
replaced it with one that also turned
out to be unsatisfactory to the tailor,
who claimed it did not properly heat
his tailor irons. Wiecz refused to pay
the dollar still due and Rulfs and a
trusty assistant went to recover the
stove. Thev found it packed with
glowing Goals, but its temperature did
not deter them from seizing it. Wiecz
and his aids tried to prevent the re-
moval and in the struggle for posses
sion of the stove several gentlemen sat
upon it, but immediately. stood up
again. The RuIfs contingent finally tri-
umphed, but not until Wiecz, in retail
alton for his loss of the stove had
snatched a watch chain from Rulfs'
vest, which he kept.
After much argument, the case was
settled by Wiecz agreeing to pay the
dollar and return the chain, Rulfs
promising to return the stove.
There was no vexatious delay of law
in the case of James Rogers, chaVged
with burglary He was arrested Sat
urday night while ransacking the room
Of John Sewelt at SAT Howard street,
and when Policemen Connolly and
Kruger searched him they found a
bunch of skeleton keys and some of
Sewelt's property in his pockets 1t
took Judge Fritz about five minutes to
hear the testimony and hold Rogers
to the Superior Court with bonds fixed
at $4,000
Bernard Dressler, who has pursued
street begging so long in San Fran
cisco that the police are weary of run
ming him in. was given thirty days for
practieing his speciality on Montgom-
cry street. Judge Mogan delivered the
sentence.
Half a dozen citizens who had ig-
serve as jurors in Judge Fritz's court
were arrested on attachment and con-
veyed to that tribunal where they re-
ceived an address from the bench that
will probably deter them from repeat
ing their offense. His Honor's remarks
were more forcible than courteous.
Harry Gallagber's wife left his home
about a week ago and neglected to re-
turn Harry's search for her was not
rewarded until about o'clock Sunday
evening, when he perceived her aboard
Mission and Kearny street car that
was crossing Market street. She was
accompanied by a man with whom she
seemed to be on terms of familiarity
for she was laughing and talking to
him. Harry boarded the car and re-
quested the woman to return to his bed
and board, and while the two were dis
cussing the suggestion the other man
struck the husbands face with his fist
Then the trio mixed, and when they
appeared before Judge Mogan yester-
day morning each of them had visible
evidence of the affray. The other man
turned out to be ]. D. Bertkin, a Mis-
sion street restaurateur, and it devel-
oped that Mrs. Gallagher had been
working for him since she left her hus-
band. After hearing both sides of the
story the court dismissed Gallagher
and pronounced the gallant Bertkin
guilty of assault
When the name of Thaddeus KauffeIt
was called in Judge Mogan's court
there responded in person a good-look-
ing young chap attired in full evening
dress. His expansive shirt front was
not as immaculate as virgin snow, nor
was the sheen of his patent leather
pumps as brilliant as it could have been
made, for he had spent some hours in
the tanks of tlHe City Prison. But, new
ertheless, he cut such an exceptionally
genteel figure for the Police Court that
the Judge stared at him. The prisoner
did not seem TO relish the scrutiny, and
Bailiff Hickey offered odds that he was
some heavy swell who had been out
on a nocturnal lark, but Clerk Gray
declined to bet.
Police officer Earle testified that
early yesterday morning he caught
Thaddeus in the act of drinking a bot
tie of milk that had been left on the
doorstep of 1874 Eddy street. When. the
court asked Thaddeus what his regular
occupation was Thaddeus replied that
he was a professional waiter and was
on his way home from work when the
policeman arrested him for no cause
that he, Thaddeus, could remember.
Then the policeman said he could get
the inmates of 1874 to corroborate his
testimony, and he was given a week in
which to round them up. The defend