The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15


cusation provoked by CASTOR Sentiell,
cook aboard the bark Guetary. In
addition to brandishing a large and
sharp knife and slightly wounding
/ Captain Charles Sawtrell of the bark
Marguerite Dollfus. they averred. the
defendant had committed the less
pardonable offense of deliberately vio-
lating that code of hospitality which is
cherished more than life. itself by
every true Gallo son of the sea. The
knife-hourishing aye, even. the
blood-letting-m might be overlooked,
but the attempt to extort money from
captain-there could be no condone-
ment of that.
1t is the wont of the French master
mariners in port to assemble for So
cial intercourse each Sunday after
noon aboard some vessel flying their
nations flag.
Day before yesterday the Guetary.
moored to the Fflbert-street wharf;
was thus honored. With pipe and
glass and yarn and chanson the skip
pers were hugely enjoying themselves
when CASTOR, the cook, suddenly
shocked the amenities by demanding
that each gentleman present hand
over to him the sum of so cents.
When the guests recovered sufficiently
that the custodian of the galley was
not joking they advanced upon him
as one man to wreak punishment for
his outrageous breach of the keystone
principle of seagoing social usage.
Twas then he drew his knife to de-
fend himself. Captain Sawtrel1, in the
vanguard, had a small slice of cuti-
Gle removed from his hand ere the
cook was disarmed and turned into
- l. Ill
CASTOR pleaded that he failed to
see his offense in the light of enormity
cast upon it by the prosecution. ley
eat an zey dreenk an zey has Ze dam
good time" he said, while do all ze
work. Sacre. Wy should not also
l has ze good time? 1 has not re
monee an l ask for ze feeftee cent.
Pouf! Zey try to keel me. l defend
mineself. Wy not? Eh?"
The question will be judicially an
swered next Friday.
After four female adults had sue
cessively talked until Judge Cabaniss
silenced them, Miss Kate Robbins as
cended the witness stand and tempo
rarily dumfounded the court by an
nouncing that she had nothing to say.
When the Judge falteTingly asked her
why she had nothing to say there
came no answer and there was Won
der mingled with the admiration eX-
pressed in his Honor's glance as he
told her she might step down.
Mrs. Kate Reardon, reIict of a po-
liceman and occupying the second
story of 522 Capp street, was accused
by Mrs. Hattie Hinkle, her downstairs
neighbor, of maligning character.
Miss E. Hippenbacher also complain
ed of having been slandered by Mrs.
Reardon. OF all the ladies Miss Rob
bins was the only one afflicted with
reticence. The case was dismissed.
Mary Napoleon, accused of vagrancy
and sentenced to thirty days impris-
onment by Judge Fritz, confessed that
she had adopted the surname, not be-
cause she was of French nativity or
even descent, but because it had a nicer
sound than either her maiden name of
Budd or her husbands cognOmen, which
was Mack
For what's the use" she asked. "of a
girl having an ugly name when there
are so many nice ones to pick from?"
Mrs. E. c. Campbell of 119 Jones
street, whose 14-year-old daughter. Lo-
rella, was shamefully treated by 20
year-old w. A. Proll of Oakland, was
averse to making formal complaint be-
cause of the undesirable notoriety it
Judge Mogan, however. considered the
case too serious to be thus disposed of,
and informed the woman that if she
did not prosecute the defendant the pO-
lice would do so, as the evidence showed
that his betrayal of the child was un-
usually reprehensible. On pretext Of
taking her to the theater last Saturday
night he enticed her to Golden Gate
Park. Finally the mother consented to
swear to a complaint and the case will
be heard to-day. The girls father is in
Alaska.
Kate Atherton and May Harris be-
came so mutually attached while in the
County Jail that they decided to con-
tinue the sisterly relationship when re-
stored to freedom, and a few hours
after their release last Saturday they
were arrested together for drunkenness.
Kate. being the oldest offender, got six
months from Judge Fritz, while Mays
punishment will expire at the end Of
| thirty days.
John Preston, a barber, created so
much confusion while he was at work
| last Saturday evening in Nose Harris
| tonsorial parlor, $50 Eleventh street.
that he was arrested for disturbing the
| peace. In jocular spirit, alleged to have
! been of alcoholic inspiration, he shout
! ed Next" and when response was
made by one of many waiting custom
ers he laughed heartily at the ensuing
embarrassment, as no chair was emp
! ty. 1t was also testified that he
''sassed" his employer and joshed" the
helpless ones who fell into his clutches.
When he expressed sorrow for what he
had done and promised to abstain from
repeating his unprofessional conduct
Judge Mogan dismissed him.
Charles Rupert of 20 Sutter street.
Joseph Meyers of los O'FarreI street
and L. Allen of 101 Ellis street will be
tried before Judge Mogan next Friday
on the charge of poolselling.
=,
John T. Brennan, a fish and game
peddler, permitted his spirit of enter
prise to override his sense of discretion
| when he sold suckers" to an unsophis-
ticated housewife by representing tC
her that they were mountain trout The
fraud was discovered, he was arrested
and Judge Fritz gave him thirty days
The prosecuting policeman limited that
Mr. Brennan was also strongly suspect