The San Francisco call., 1904-03-25
GIRL TELLS AFFECTING
TALE TO POLICE JUDGE
She Comes From the Country With Her Infrm
Father to Honestly Earn a Livelihood for Both
and Gradually Descends to the Barbary Coast

in where their advice or comment is
not solicited there would be much less
work for you attorneys and US Judges.
fine your client $40 for assault"
Henry Talman, a 17-year -old lad who
resides with his parents at 904 Minna
street and is an apprentice in an iron
works, was the defendant before Judge
Cabaniss on a complaint sworn TO by
Miss Annie Sheridan of 1888 Folsom
street, who testified that while she was
walking along Market street he snatch
ed her purse from her hand and was
retreating with 1t, when it slipped from
his fingers and dropped at her feet:
Then, she added, he returned, placed
his hand upon her shoulder and solici-
tOuSly inquired as to the state or her
health, whereupon she summoned a
convenient policeman and had him ar
rested.
To this serious charge the boy plead
ed not guilty. He denied the purse
snatching accusation in toto and ac-
knowledged that he had accosted the
complainant as she had testified, but
| did so because he had mistaken her
for young lady with whom he is well
acquainted.
Judge Cabaniss took the case under
advisement until to-day.
When death deprived z. ]. Mangan's
six young children of their mother s
care the man became Respondent and
foolishly sought solace in drink. From
sober and Industrious citizen he was
gradually sinking to the level of con-
firmed sot, when Secretary White of
the S. p. c. c. had him arrested and
! taken before Judge M0gan to see if
he could not be persuaded to devote
/ more attention to the proper rearing
of his offspring. Mr.. White did not
want to have the man imprisoned, but
simply warned that he would be pun
ished if he continued to ignore his pa
ternal esp0nsibilities. So the Judge
continued the case until April Z, and
informed the defendant that if he does
not treat his children properly during
the interim he will certainly be jailed.
Mangan is a butcher.
Katsouni Kobaiyashi, a little brown
man who ran amuck in st. Mary's
place the other evening and stabbed
several of his compa triots, is held in
$4,000 to answer before the Superior
Court. He was arrested by Policemen
McShane, Mills and Lycette, and they
unite in the opinion that If the Mika
dos army were made up of such hu-
man toughness as K. K. proved him.
self possessed of the odds against the
ion is shared by Judge Cabaniss.
For distributing obscene literature in
the shape of advertising circulars DR..
j. n. Brown, a medical specialist, was
fined $50 by Judge Cabaniss. who sup
plemented the sentence with a gratui-
tous warning.
Louis Novinski and Moses Levy,
n Inc hoy oI,o-
of burglary in the Western Addition
were clinched by Detectives O'Day and
Mulcahey, are held to the Superior
Court, with bail fixed at $4,000 apiece
on each charge. The detectives in
formed Judge Mogan that they have
twenty-one other clear cases of bur-
glary against the youthful defendants.
For kicking a dog belonging to Will
liam Norton and threatening to shoot
the animals owner when he entered
protest Edward Samuelson was fined
500 by Judge Conlan.
Judge Mogan is confronted by a
nice problem in the case of All Pang,
All Loo and All Wong, accused Of in
fringing bill 944, ordinance 937, which
provides that it shall be unlawful for
any person to visit or resort TO any
place or. room so barred or barricaded
as to be difficult of access or ingress
to the police. The three defendants
named were found to be the sole in
mates of a room so barred or barri-
caded in Chinatown. and now their
attorney cites another section of the
ordinance which says 1T is unlawful
to visit such room or place when
three or more persons are present"
and asks for dismissal of his clients
on the ground that as there were no
other persons in the room when they
were arrested they cannot legally be
held for visiting the room when three
or more persons were there. The court
has the question under advisement,
and his Interpretation of the ordin-
ance is likely to be that the intent of
the Legislature was to prevent the
assent bling of three or more persons
behind a barred door for gaming or
other illegal purpose.
Arthur Cullen, an eighteen-year-o
lad who ate hot cakes and coffee in
Howard-street restaurant and then ran
away without paying for the viands,
was arrested and released on his own
recognizance to appear for trial yes
terday in Mogan's court. He failed to
fulfill his pledge, however, and a bench
warrant was issued for his arrest.
Now he is in the City Prison and will
remain there until the complaint
against him is disposed of.
John Hamilton, who shot holes
through glass door panel in the resi-
dence of his brother-in-law, in the
Richmond District, is willing to plead
guilty of simple assault, but Judge
Mogan has not yet decided to accept
that plea. Hamilton's wife had de-
serted him and sought refuge in the
dwelling of her brother when the
shooting occurred, about a month ago.
Herschel Goodman will be tried be-
fore Judge Mogan on the charge of
stealing a purse from German re-
mittance man yesterday morning in
q saloon at Mason and Ellis streets.
The purse was empty when Officers
Hayden and Matheson found it upon
the floor of the patrol wagon in which
they conveyed Goodman to the City
Prison.
Judge Conlan gave William Ramello
and August Peroria six months each