The San Francisco call., 1904-04-09
REJECTED SUITOR CUTS
WOMAN'S NEW CARPETS
he Kesens Her interference by Committing Battery. for
Which He Is Arrested, and Then He Celebrates His
Release by Returning and Threatening to Take Her Life

NOtneilus j. Murphy, arrested night
before last for assaulting Mrs. Augusta
Towie. celebrated his release on bail
by returning to his victims domicile
and threatening her life. For this Of
tense he was rearrested, and when ar
raigned on the original charge Of bat
terry yesterday morning before Judge
Conlan that magistrate issued q war
rant accusing him Of making threats
against life and ordered him into GUS
tody.
Mrs. Towie Is buxom, fair and forty
and manages & lodging house at 225
Mason street. Murphy. who is petty
politician, was smitten by her charms,
but his endeavor to capture her affec-
ton was handicapped by the fact that
she disapproved his habit Of acquiring
alcoholic hilarity. So she presented him
with the hgurative mitten, and he
sought TO dispel the detection born OF
rejection by imbibing fiery liquids. The
more he drank the more firmly did
he become convinced that the object
of his infatuation had not treated him
as he deserved. Then his alteration
gradually turned to hatred, and it was
with malice In his heart that he went
TO her house Thursday night and de-
liberately mutilated her new hallway
carpets with his pocketknife and re-
proved her interference by shifting her.
The rest has been told.
Murphy was a deputy County Clerk
during the Haley administration and
since then has held various minor po-
sitions in the City Hall. He recently
was attached 10 the municipal electric
ity department.
Six months for begging and six
months for defrauding an innkeeper
will be served by Mary Ellen Farrier.
and Annie Meehan will be imprisoned
half a year for the former offense. The
women were arrested for violently ac-
costing a Berkeley woman while she
was walking along Mission street.
Judge Mogan sentenced them
For making April fools of several
unsophisticated admirers of the So
called art manly Mrs Charles Nc
Carthy and ]. c. McGregor will be
tried before Judge Conlan next We'd
p neSQdN On q GncA &c VI NOAASEAA lis ~
obtain money by false pretenses. They
were arrested on the lst inst by Pa
trolman Reade, who caught their
fraudulent enterprise in full swing.
Mr. McGregor stood at the door of
a certain house on the Barbary Coast,
I the policeman says. and shouted with
loud voice, Step inside and see the
boxin' match, admission only 10 cents
/ The officer, who dearly loves good
fstic exhibition, paid dime to Mr..
/ McGregor and entered a room in which
sat Mrs. Mccarthy, smiling fit to en-
trance.
Where's your boxin' match?" in
quired the visitor. noting the absence
of anything that was even remotely
suggestive of pugilism.
Here il is" responded Mrs. McCar-
thy, and she held forth for the officers
inspection an ordinary matchbox and
a match.
What do you mean?" he gasped-
Don't YOU sea box an match -
she elucidated.
Then he raked her in, and picked up
Mr.. McGregor as an accomplice. The
prisoners protested that they were only
practicing a first of April joke. but the
man Of law was implacable, and thus
they stand charged"
Among the effects found in the pock-
cts of Wilhelm Brandt. arrested for
making night hideOus on kearny
street. was a brass 'knuckle-duster,
and in fractured English the prisoner
informed Judge Mogan that he had
brought the weapon from Germany
where it is regarded as an indispensa-
bic feature of every gentleman's- per
sonal equipment No genteel Teuton
Herr Brandt declared. would think OF
going abroad without having
"knuckIe-duster" where he could con-
venientiy grasp il if occasion should
/ demand its use for either defensive OF
aggressive purpose.
But the carrying, much less the ap-
plication, of such a relic Of barbaris4
is strictly prohibited in this country
the Judge elucidated, and while you
are in Rome you must live as a Ro-
man. / hereby declare your 'knuckle-
/ duster' forfeited and order you to ap'
pear tomorrow for sentence"
Police Sergeant McAuliffe and Pa
troIman Flynn asserted that they haC