The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-29

/ SenteQ IN Police Judge Mogan'S court
room yesterday morning while the
peace disturbance charge against two
prominent residents Of that suburb,
Andrew Douglas of 131 Sadowa street
and William Wells of 1877 Sadowa
street, was on hearing. The defendants
We're locked in deadly embrace when
Patrolmen King and Cronin arrested
! them and spent five minutes in tearing
1 them apart.
According to the testimony Mr..
! Douglas is the owner of a windmill
pump that supplies several of the resi-
dents of Sadowa street with water and
. that he shut off the aqua supply or
I Mr.. Wells home because that gentle
man refused to pay for the repair OF a
/ window in the house which had been
I broken by some small boys. Mrs. Con-
/ don, the owner Of the Wells residence,
is Mr.. Douglas mother-in-law and
/ Mr. Wells declared that she ought to
pay for the glazing, while she, on the
other hand, asserted that he alone
should defray the expense. 1t was to
help his mother-in-lawain the dispute
that Mr.. Douglas deprived the Wells
family Of water and it was Mr.. Wells
I eXpOstulatiGn that led up to the tight
in which the two men were found by
the police.
Judge Mogan thought that the re-
pairing Of the window was a trif1ing
matter to quarrel about and Mr. Wells
emphatically stated that he would
neither pay for a new pane nor leave
the house. 1T is not the price of the
glass but the principle Of the thing
1 that impels me to this attitude" quoth
Mr.. Wells. To which Mr. Douglas,
: speaking for Mrs. Condor as well as
himself, retorted by asserting that I'M
til the window is repaired or the Wells
I folk vacate the house not a drop Of
4 water shall be conveyed to the latter
through the pipe leading from his
pump.
4 have seen such asinine stubborn
ness on the mimic stage" said the
/ Judge, but never till now has ii con-
frOnted me in court You remind me
1 Of the obstinate characters in a New
England rural drama The time of this
tribune is too valuable TO be wasted in
trying to bring reason to bear upon
/ such stubbornness and the case is dis
missed. But if you are again brought
here for disturbing the peace of your
neighbors by fighting you may find less
( leniency."
Judge Mogan continued till next Sat
urday the case of August Weinman, ac-
cused of having cruelty beaten a young
child Of Mrs. Annie Weintraub, which
had been placed in the home man
aged by him at 400 Twenty street.
Secretary Levy of the Eureka Hebrew
Benevolent Society testified that the
child had been entrusted to Weinmans
care by that organization, the mother
being unable to provide for 1t, and that
it was properly treated. Mrs. Kate
Petite, manager of the Universal Ser
vice Society, stated that the child had
been struck with a cane by Weinman
and its thighs showed evidence Of the
- ss-l-~ ID
PENDANT, blind man, then averred that
Mrs. Weintraub's object in complaining
against him was to recover the custody
of the child and get the 81 month which
the Eureka Society paid him for its
support. The continuance was made
in order to get the testimony of neigh
bors as TO the treatment received by
the little inmates Of the Weinman
home
Anna Burelbach, who accused w. H
Pittman of having robbed her of sew
eral diamond rings and a gold watch,
told Judge Mogan that for seven years
she had been the defendants only
| means Of support. During that period,
| she testified, she had gwen him, from
time to time, $4,000 in cash. They
lived in almost every town Of any size
! on this coast and in each place he
I posed as a gentleman until her vo-
/ cation was discovered and then they
/ sought pastures new. She is now re-
siding at Victoria, B. c., and when ar
rested he was managing a get rich
quick concern in Los Angeles. The
hearing will be resumed Wednesday.
B. Cohn, peddler, was accused of cru
city to animals, the specific offense be-
/. ing the twisting Of a PROSTATE horses
tail in futile effort to make it rise. Mrs
Hattie Mardis testified that Mr.. COINS
treatment of the animal was unneces-
! sarily harsh, and her statement was
I corroborated by H. Iben, A. L. Paul
sen and other persons, who witnessed
the tail twisting. Several small boys
averred that in so far from being cruel
/ to his steed Mr.. Cohn's conduct was
| most humane. Judge Cabaniss took
( the case under Amusement till October
&c.
Marcus Perris was in the crowd that
blocked traffic at Third and Market
| streets and absorbed the bulletined re-
ports Of the Mccoy Sullivan prizefight,
and so enthused was he by the clever
work of THE Kid" that he involun-
| tarily gave il practical Illustration by
jabbing and uppercutting and sidestep-
ping and shOrt-arm-j olting persons
( within his arm reach. He was environ
I ed DY sore ana lnOlSudnl NlSlAlIlS WITCH
1 Patrolman tom" Murphy elbowed his
way into the throng and quickly sub
1ugated and then arrested him for dis
turbing the peace. Judge Mogan con-
tinued the case till tomorrow in or
der TO give the defendant opportunity
to prove that his fstic indulgence was
| not malicious.
Five small boys-Charles Everhard,
Walter Spangler, Frank Ripstein, Har-
~ Page and Henry Douce-were ac-
4 cused by Andrew jacobson Of having
stolen forty-eight doughnuts from him
at Twenty-fourth and Howard streets.
Patrolman Fogarty, who arrested the
lads, testified that they swallowed the
material evidence for the prosecution,
and Judge Cabaniss held that their re-
sultant stomach pains was punishment
/ sufficient for their offense.
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