The San Francisco call., 1904-04-27
cow FIGURES WITH PROMINENCE
IN TESTIMONY FROM SAN BRUNO
Animal Slips Away From vaquero and Is Despoil-
ing "Truck" Garden When Captured by Owner
Thereof and Struggle Ensues for Possession

I and notoriously genial temperament
would willfully invite hanging for the
sake of cents. You are dismissed"
Another group of teamsters who had
been arrested for violating the boule-
ward ordinance by steering their horses
/ over the South Park Settlement oval
were dismissed by Judge Mogan, who
| took occasion to remark that the Board
] of Works is really responsible for all
! such arrests by neglecting to post con-
! spicuous signboards at the entrance to
] the boulevards.
These teamsters have no means Of
knowing the difference between an
open thoroughfare and a boulevard" I"
said his Honor, "and their plea of is-
norance that they were trespassins
i must be accepted. 1 hope the Board
| of Works will pay some attention to
/ this matter and thus prevent the ar
rest oe men who do not know they
| are breaking the law
i
When the case of Peck" Eppinger,
charged with battery, was called in
| Judge Fritz court there was no re-
sponse from the defendant, and his
Honor. was informed that Mr.. Eppin-
, ger had departed for Chicago with his
I brother, a race-horse man. A bench
warrant was accordingly issued for his
arrest and his $40 bail declared for
feited.
! Eppinger was originally accused Of
assault with a deadly weapon by
smashing either a bottle or a Seltzer
siphon on the head of George Greco,
night clerk in the Ellis-street apart
ment house in which the defendant
! lived The charge was subsequently
cution having failed to definitely es-
tablish the kind of weapon with which
the assault was committed.
| The boy had been arrested and de-
| tanned on information from Portland
to the effect that a youth of his de-
scription had run away from home and
his parents wanted him back. Police
Officer Flynn, whose complexion and
features are more suggestive of Scan
dinavian ancestry than Celtic nativity,
visited the lad in his cell and endeav-
ored to inveigle him into a betrayal of
| identity.
Hello, Johnny" was the sleuth's
greeting. II have been sent from Port
land to get you
"Aw, you git out" said the kid -
shrewdly eying his visitors blonde
hair and eyebrows.
It's the TRUTH said Flynn
'Wotyer giviniz ?" I'm from Portland,
an know dey wouldn't have a Swede
cop dere.''
Now, what tn divil did tn brat
mane?" Flynn inquired. after he had
reported the interview to his sergeant
Louis Robinson (colored) hobbled on
one leg and a crutch to the bench of
Judge Mogan, the other neither limb
charged with vagrancy and the charge
was fully proved.
"As you have only one Leg" said the
Judge, Il will give you only one day
in Jail. If you had two legs I'd give
you two days.
| Den" said Louis, with cheerful
grin, tank de Lo'd 1 amt a center
pede.''
Kate Gallagher, chronic vagrant, al
| ternately sobbed and chuckled as she
stood before Judge Fritz for the
'steenth time on the same old charge
Kate, your temperament is like this
April weather-smiles and tears" said
his Honor. by way of preface to pro-
nouncing three months sentence.
Three jolly quarrymen-John John
son, George Casey and John Casey
were found slum bering, side by side,
upon a Sacramento-street sidewalk, be-
| tween Montgomery and Kearny, at 2:3O
o'clock yesterday morning, and when
| Policeman McGrane had told Judge Mo
gan of how helplessly drunk they were
Mr.. Johnson applied for and was grant
ed permission to speak.
May it please the court" he began,
/ ION behalf of the two gentlemen who
were arrested with me / concede that
| we had been drinking wine
White or red?" inquired his Honor.
Black was the rejoinder. 1T was
claret, and it cost us five quart
Dear me, that must have been great
! ippleAimported of course?" and the
court involuntarily smacked its lips, as
the connoisseur tastes rich vintage.
He means cents quart-not s..
| your Honor Bailiff Hickey whispered,
making a megaphone of his hand.
What? Is this true?"
| Mr.. Johnson bowed in affirmation
Then I'll give each of you six mon
but, no; the gastronomic disturbance
created by claret at 5 cents quart is
sufficient punishment. Begone,"
| Judge Fritz sent three defendants to
answer in the Superior Court. Louis
Pacheco. who took his fiancee out shop
ping and then stole a pair of earrings
valued at $40, while he had about $1,000
] with which to buy betrothal gifts, is
held in $1,000 for grand larceny; Jacob
J Schubener, for conducting a bunko
| game on Dupont street, by which STAN
islaus Bochek was swindled out of
about $500, is held in $4,000; Arthur Phil
| lips, for robbing the apartment of a
woman residing on Geary street, is held
in $4,000.
| After vainly endeavoring to make his