The San Francisco call., 1904-07-17
POLICE JUDGE REFUSES
FRAGRANT FLORAL GIFT
Mrs. Annie Lppe Charged With Having Disturbed Peace
of Tenderoin District Offers His Honor Mogan Bou-
quet of Sweet Pea Blossoms and Receives Polite Snub

1t cost w. Lesoy. peddler, 50 so
for each of the two minutes he will
fully allowed his wagon to obstruct a
Washington-street car. The fine was
imposed by Judge Fritz.
Margaret Barrett, good looking
young woman, sold a glass of beer to
Patrolman Down, who was in plain
clothing when he entered her mothers
grocery and purchased the beverage.
She pleaded ignorance of the revenue
laws. Judge Mogan had the case un-
der advisement.
Charles Erickson, arrested at North
Beach for fighting with Michael Quinn,
expressed horror when he ascertained
that the complaining witness, Police
officer Nelson, was Of Scandinavian
birth.
"Ah ban van code Swede," said
Charles, "and' van code Swede shoad
naught pinch van code Swede.''
Judge Fritz alleviated Erickson's
horror to some extent by discharging
him from custody.
Judge Mogan gave Kate Gallagher,
who has spent about eleven and three
quarters of the last twelve years in
Jail, six months more for having been
drunk and incapable at II O'clock
a. m. Friday on Mission street. The
woman's reformation has repeatedly
been attempted by Salvationists, but
she is evidently hopeless case.
A similar sentence was imposed by
the same Judge upon Frances Lopez
for drunkenness. In five years Frances
Lopez has descended from being the
pride of a respectable Spanish family
to being one of the most degraded
creatures on the Barbary Coast. She,
too, has successfully resisted all mis-
sionary efforts to restore her to decent
living.
Judge Fritz gave John Sands sixty
days Imprisonment for stealing a pair
of gardeners shears from the Gus
todian of Portsmouth Square, whose
name, by the way is Gardener.
Health Officer W. D. Hobro arrested
D. Iwataki, Japanese, for practicing
plumbing without a certificate, and in
cidentally informed Judge Mogan that
the absence of a plumbers license law
from the Hawaiian statutes has re-
suited in placing an important indus
try entirely in the control of the lit
tie brown men. Iwatakis case will be
heard tomorrow and the prosecution
is likely to be vigorously pushed.
Patrolman Joy heard the tinkIe of a
banjo in a Pacific-street dance hall
after midnight Friday and he burst
the door and arrested all the inmates,
fifteen in number, and pretty equally
divided as to sex. Their defense be-
fore Judge Fritz was that they came
from Alameda to celebrate the birth
day of young woman of that town
who has made quite hit as
danseuse, and that they were ignorant
that the, law prohibits the playing of
musical instruments in saloons after
the solemn hour. Cases dismissed.
Patrolmen E. j. wiskotcheIl and c.
Ogden were assigned to the task of
rounding up and running in women
who conduct alleged massage or for
tuie-telllnB eSIdDnSnmentS as a cover
for illegal vocations, and the result of
their first days work was the appear
ance in Judge Mogan's court of nine
defendants - three "Mauds," two
Brides" one Violet" one "Tessie,"
one Ruby and one Daisy" The
policemen recounted weird expert
ences. one of them having taken no
less than four vapor baths in a single
evening. AS they told their respective
stories the nine defendants INDUCED in
running comments of uncompliment-
airy tenor. Mean old thing" Reg
ular sneak" and He told me he was
an army officer" being some of the
remarks audible to Bailiff Hickey. De-
fense will be heard tomorrow and
Wednesday.