The San Francisco call., 1904-03-13
PLAYS TO WIN A BOX OF CIGARS
AND STAYS TILL HE LOSES $3.50
Victim of "OoII and Ball" Game Tells His Honor
Fritz of the Means by Which -Four Defendants
Tempted Him to Linger With the ShreWd Device

colored. so grievously as to make him
unconscious, in which condition he was
removed 70 the Harbor Hospital. While
under treatment there he recovered his
senses and became so violent that the
operating surgeons had difficulty in re-
straining him from injuring them and
himself. In self-Drotection they were
obliged to. dose him heavily with chic
roform. But that's another story.
]. w Calgren, a soldier, was before
Judge Mogan yesterday on a charge of
having been drunk and incapable the
previous night on the Barbary Coast,
and when the Judge asked him II he
remembered having been arrested he
said he did not, but had ''haZy recollec-
! ton of having smashed q niger on the
head with a beer glass" Policeman
/ JOY, who had made the arrest, failed
! to appear when called to prosecute Cal
gren. and the case was continued until
! tomorrow, when an effort will prob
ably be made to identify the defendant
as one of the military assailants of An
drew Jackson, colored, in the North
/ Star saloon.
! Annie Kearney was indulging in
skirt dance on the sidewalk at Third
and Howard streets when Policemen
/ Owens and Cameron ran across her
very early yesterday morning, and for
the seventh time she was booked for
vagrancy Six months was the punish
ment prescribed for Annie by Judge
! Mogan, and she smiled as the words
were spoken.
Peter Bargone. a teamster, had a
quarrel with a fellow workman one day
last January at North Beach, and in
the course Of the dispute Peter hurled
a heavy rock at his opponent. The mis-
sile flew wide of its intended mark and
caromed from the skull of an onlooker
named Reuben Curtis, inflicting a
wound so severe as to keep Reuben
confined in a hospital for a month.
When Peter was arrested and taken
before Judge Mogan he expressed deep
contrition and promised to defray all
the pecuniary expense that his faulty
craftsmanship had created for Reuben.
and with that understanding he was
discharged from custody. But he failed
to keep his word, and yesterday he was
again before Judge Mogan to show
cause He pleaded inability to pay as
per promise. but extended renewed as
surance that he is now able and willing
to do so. The case was continued till
tomorrow to give him an opportunity
to make good his assertion.
Joseph HILL James Murray and
Thomas Brown, shabby genteel young
fellows. were before Cabaniss on the
charge Of having broken the seal of the
refrigerator car in the Southern Pa
, cific yards in which they were found
concealed by Special Policeman O'Con-
nor. Attorney Frank Kelley appeared
in behalf of the railroad company, and
, the vigor with which he prosecuted the
case provoked mild remonstrance from
the bench.
1t was shown that the three lads
: had boarded the car at Monterey, hao
remained in it until it arrived at Fourth
: and Townsend streets. and were almost
frozen when the policeman found them
The charge that they broke the sea
was not proved, and then Mr.. Kelley
insisted that they be held for vagrancy
4 but this the Judge declined to do after
r he had ascertained from the defendant:
that they came from the East and wer'
seeking employment. So they were dis
= charged.
: william Bell. the painter who threat
ened to cut the throat of former Parl
t Commissioner NJ. Jasper Mcdonald
/ was placed under $1,000 bonds to keer
1 the peace by Judge Cabaniss. Tht
r charge of threatening to kill failed o.
proof, whereas the accusation of dis
turbing the peace would probably have
d resulted in conviction.
Failure to keep his expenses within
!, his legitimate income was the basic