The San Francisco call., 1904-07-13

] length and sturdiness 10 serve with
distinction as the mainmast of a forty
! foot yacht was the implement utilized
/ by Mrs. Julia de Grazia to convey ply
sical injury TO Mrs. Mary Ann Patton.
I Mrs de Grazia will be sentenced by
Police Judge Mogan to-day for bat
terry.
/ The women are neighbors in the 500
block of Greenwich street and the bat
terry was committed on June Is. Since
then the case has been called several
times and continued on account of the
reported illness of Mrs. de Grazia.
She was a nervous wreck and unable
TO leave her couch, an eloquent young
lawyer said, so severely had her feel
ings been injured by Mrs. Patton prior
10 the telling of that woman by the
clothesline prop. How long Mrs. de
Grazia's excuse would have kept the
court in suspense no man could sur
mise, but the news came that she had
been seen on the street Then it de-
veloped that bargain sale was the
undoing of her seclusion. She was
unable TO resist the alluring announce
ments of summer stock clean-out by
one of the big dry goods establish
ments and was caught mingling with
the crowd Of femininity that packed
the store and blocked the sidewalk.
When the Judge heard of her ability
TO hold her own in the bargain sale
melee he pronounced her fit to with
stand the comparatively tame ordeal
of a Police Court trial. A bench war
rant accordingly issued.
Mrs. Patton averred that she had
never by word or deed provoked the
enmity Of Mrs. de Grazia. 1t was true,
however, that the little Miss de Grazia
had written on fence with chalk GER
tain libelous attacks on little Miss Pat
ton and that she (Airs. Patton) had
informed Mrs. de Grazia that the SLAM
ders must be stopped. This warning
was given in quiet tone and printable
language as the women stood in their
respective back yards, separated by a
fence. The next thing Mrs. Patton
knew was a severe pain in her head,
caused by the clothesline prop.
Mrs. de GraZia's story, as filtered
through an interpreter, was a complete
denial of everything Mrs. Patton had
testified.
Antoine Horezy of S4S Howard street
Z ordered mush and medium boiled eggs
in a Fourth-street restaurant, and
when the waiter, Dan Vascalles,
brought him fried eggs he refused to
take them Then he complained of
the quality and quantity of the but
ter served to him, whereupon the
waiter blackened his eye. Judge Con-
Ian viii hear further details to-day.
With an iron bar S. c. Lewis, stall
wart soldier, cracked the heads of
Faust Musant and another complain
ant, with whom he entered into COM
bat in a Pacific-street saloon, and so
seriously was Faust injured that Judge
Fritz continued the case against his
assailant till next Saturday.
Police Sergeant Dunn's squad went
valiantly to protect the bench warmers
in Columbia Square from the hoodlum-
ism TO which they were subjected by
a gang of small boys, and the result of
( the first roundup was five prisoners
/ of ages ranging from ten TO fifteen. 1t
was the wont of the quintet and others
like them, the policemen said, to dis
turbs the wooing of youthful couples
( by stealing UP behind the benches upon
! which they were seated and violently
pushing them over. In that way the
/ defendants had abruptly transformed
moments of bliss into moments Of
fright for their victims. One pair were
upset with violence and severaly in
jured.
/ The defendants unanimously declared
I that they were guiltless of the offense
alleged, but confessed they knew Of
such offenses having been committed
by other kids" Cases continued till
/ Saturday by Judge Mogan, and police
instructed to bring 'other kids" to
court.
Glen J. Ross, the juvenile blackmailer
/ who operated in Jefferson Square, got
thirty days for begging. and then Jucge
Mogan deferred until to-day the SEN
tence of Edward Depot, similarly
charged and convicted, who said he
could prove good character if given
time TO produce witnesses.
Temporary insanity is the defense Of
Adolph Goldman. who shot ex-Mayor
Snow Of Oakland on June II, in the
Clarendon Hotel. At the continued
preliminary hearing yesterday before
Judge Mogan the defendants attorney.
Frank Murphy, said he intended to
show that at the time of the shooting
Goldman was mentally deranged, hav-
ing been driven to that condition by
Shows treatment Of him in financial
matters,
Snow was subjected to a severe
cross-examination by Murphy, and
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