The San Francisco call., 1904-04-26
DEFECTIVE COMPLAINT ENABLES
LILLIAN BAKER TO GET RESPITE
Diminutive Swiss Whom She Promised to Make
Happy and Then Defrauded Out of $11OO
Takes New Means to Recover His Cash

also QecelNeQ Dy a pOl1cemdn IN pam
attire, TO whom he sold a quart bottle
of beer. He pleaded that he had a
Federal license and did not think a
municipal permit essential to the law
full selling of intoxicants, and Judge
Mogan dismissed the case.
San Francisco's gain will be Can
tons loss" said his Honor Judge Mo-
gan as he dismissed Get Fon. famed
~as the star bum of Chinatown Get
was arrested for vagrancy, and when
one of his innumerable cousins prom
ised to have him deported to Canton
the court let him go.
Nels Andersen intoxicated, inform
ed Patrolmen Brown and Nolan that
he had been robbed of IS by Tim Kill
leen in a water front saloon, and the
officers took his unsupported word for
1t and arrested the accused. Ander-
sen sober. however. declined to press
the charge made by Andersen drunk.
and Judge Mogan was obliged to dis
miss the case after he had advised the
policemen to exercise more discretion
in believing the statements of an in
ebriate.
"Hay maight un' hay maight not
hav' robbed may, Yudge," said Nels,
alluding to Mr.. Killeen. "Ay loast
yust eight dollars un' ay was droonk." ="
Mrs. ]. w. Gilman. chiropodist, ap-
peared in Mogan's court as complain
ant against James Quinn. who fell
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of paris mold of a human foot beau
tifully embellished with corns, bum
ions and distorted toe joints She
oDined that Mr.. Quinn was either stu
pidly drunk or maliciously mischiev-
Gus when he staggered against her
treasure as it invited public inspection
in front of her establishment on Mar
ket street. Mr.. Quinn said the wind
blew him against the showcase. but
the policeman who found him wan
dering with his hair full of shattered
glass and plaster had no doubt of his
inebriety. The Judge, after ascertain
ing that the showcase alone was worth
$25, ordered Mr.. Quinn to pay that
sum to Mrs. Gilman, who expressed
willingness to overlook the intrinsic
value Of the foot.
"Olaf Hansen." shouted Bailiff
Hickey, and ''Oh, Laugh Hansen and
the world laughs with you" immedi-
ateIy added Clerk Grey.
But there were no visible evidences
of laughter possessing the soul of
Mr.. Hansen as he heard himself for
mally accused of grand larceny by
William O'Keefe, able seaman, who
testified that he was robbed of his
open-faced silver watch, his nine-year-
old briar pipe and a leathern purse
while he dallied with the defendant in
the Spanking Breeze saloon.
Judge Mogan continued the case till
next Thursday. when Olaf will either
attempt an alibi or deluge the tri-
bUnal with character testimony"
Manuel Lucero, marine fireman. af-
fected inability to speak English when
Judge Mogan asked him to explain
why he had been arrested for using
profane language at $50 a. IN. last
Sunday on Broadway and shocking
folk who passed him on their way to
church. The policemen who arrested
him testified that Manuel had bias
phemed in English with a fluency that
denoted thorough acquaintance with
the language, but not one word of it
would he utter in court. Through an
interpreter however, he pleaded that
he had lost his hat and was provoked
to profanity by failure to recover it.
"Wel, Manuel" said the Judge. Il
will sentence you tomorrow, and now
advise you TO have ready all the money
you can scrape up, as your fine will
be no light one. Church-going people
must be protected from hearing such
language as this policeman heard you
indulge in
Manuel's face reflected perfect knowl-
edge of what the Judge said to him.
The maximum penalty for vagrancy
will probably be handed down to B.
Masuda when he appears before Judge
Mogan to-day for sentence. He looked
as if he had just stepped out of a
tailor's spring fashion plate when he
faced the bench, and when a policeman
and several other witnesses had testi-
fed that he lived by levying blackmail
on japanese women of the underworld
he was not in the least ruff1ed bv the
disclosure.
I'll bet that your spring suit will be
a back number by the time you get
out of this scfape," Bailiff Hickey
whispered to the defendant.
The wager was not booked.
William Ryan and John Mcdonald,
teamsters by occupation and both ap-
pearing to have passed mans allotted
three score and ten, mumbled the story
of their trouble to Judge Fritz. John
was the complainant and battery the
charge. William testified that John
had asked him for S5 and that he had
responded by declaring that he had
other uses for his hard-earned money
than squandering it upon John, who,
thereupon, called him a blind old
miser," which he had resented by "biff-
ing" John.
You bows ought to be ashamed of
yourselves said the Judge, and then
he dismissed the case.