The San Francisco call., 1904-10-27

avenue, and Police Judge CabanlSS
imposed a fine of $50, which was paid.
Mr.. Troy, who is an insurance
agent, testified that the complained-of
"shadowing" began Immediately af-
ter his participation in mass meet
ing of Richmond district residents, at
which steps were taken to effect some
reforms in the street railway service
of that region. It was alleged by
some of the orators that q fatal car
accident of recent occurrence was at
tributable to inefficiency on the part
of the men who had charge Of the
vehicles, and Mr.. Troy promised to
investigate that and other matters
pertaining to the management of the
United Railroads in its relationship to
Public convenience and safety. Pur-
suant TO that pledge he sailed forth
to inspect and interview, soon to find
that his every movement was watched
by Mr.. Bancroft whom he had pre-
viously suspected of being employed
as a "capper" by the street railroad
corporation.
AS the jackal clings to the lion and
the pilot fish adheres TO the shark so
did Mr.. Bancroft stick TO Mr.. Troy.
When Mr.. Troy did his probing afoot
Mr.. Bancroft also walked. When Mr..
Troy used his buggy Mr. Bancroft
dogged him on a bicycle. And even
when the days touring was finished
and Mr.. Troy enjoyed rest in the bos-
ON of his family Mr.. Bancroft loitered
in nearby tonsorial parlor and en-
gagged the proprietor thereof to saun-
ter with seeming absence of intent
past the Troy domicile, but really,
Mr.. Troy believed, to ascertain what
was going on therein. So wearied did
Mr. Troy at last become of the inter
minable espionage that he filed formal
complaint against his Nemesis and
made the charge disturbing the peace.
After hearing all the testimony
Judge Cabanss said that it proved the
defendants guilt as accused.
r. A. Woods of Westport, Mendo-
cino County, told a very remarkable
tale of how he had been waylaid and
robbed by James Cullen one night last
week on Fourth street and at its con-
clusion Judge Mogan dismissed the
case and advised the narrator to re-
turn to the redwoods.
1t was about Z o'clock ,. rl., Mr..
Woods testified, when Fourth street
suddenly swan around him and then
disappeared entirely Shortly after 5
o'clock the following morning Fourth
street gradually reappeared to his
vision and he found himself PROSTATE
upon one of its sidewalks. The ten
hour interim would have been an un-
broken blank if some Samaritan had
not raised his head and poured a gen.
erous dose of whisky down his throat.
He had rather hazy recollection of
that act of kindness, he said and it
was evidently the whisky then ad-
ministered that led the policeman who
effected his permanent reSuscitation
to suspect that he was drunk. How
much money he had been robbed of
he could not clearly remember, nor
could he positively identify Mr.. Cullen
as the author of his protracted stay
in oblivion. But that he was struck
down. and plundered and that he was
not drunk when stricken down he
would swear.
When it was disclosed that Cullen
had been arrested on suspicion, chiefly
based on the fact that he was impe-
cunious and idle, the court abruptly
disposed of the case.
Mrs. Cordelia Burbank of 174 Fourth
street denied that whisky was contained
in the flask found in her possession
when she was arrested for sleeping at
1920 o'clock D. m. on a bench in Union
square. The liquor was sherry, she de-
clared and she would like to know
something definite about the statute
which authorized the policeman to spill
the tipple. This desire on her part was
inspired by doubt that any such statute
existed. In fact, she firmly believed
that the destruction of her property
was an offense punishable by law, and
she proposed to stand upon her rights
as a taxpayer.
why did you fall asleep where the
officer found your" asked Judge Mogan
when he obtained opportunity to insert
the query edgeways.
ITS a nice thing that a lady can't
sit down in public square and close
her eyes without being arrested for it."
was the rather evasive answer. I'D
like to know what public squares are
for, If lady can't sit down in one of
them and close her eyes,"
Public squares are not maintained
as public sleeping places" his Honor
retorted, nor were they ever intended
to be used as public drinking places.
You both drank and slept in Union
square, the policeman says"
I'D like to hear the policeman say
what he spilled that sherry for" said
the defendant.
Then she was pronounced guilty of
misdemeanor.
Louis Gracce, a diminutive italian
with one arm terminating at the elbow,
declined to accept dismissal on the
condition that he pledge himself to shun
the wine cup for one calendar year.
Life, he averred in fearfully mutilated
English, would be absolutely arid to
him If he were to abjure it's occasional
irrigation with grape Juice If he had
beaten his wife while Bacchus ruled his
brain, as she alleged, he probably was
provoked to do so by her defiance of his
authority-an authority, he would have
Judge Fritz to understand, that was
not curtailed by the amputation of one
of his forearms No. he would not swear
off indulgence in intoxicants, and the
court might do its worst.
The court did not do it's worst, but
sentenced the fiery little man to thirty
days imprisonment. and expressed a
hope that at the end of that period
his senses would be sufficiently clarified
to enable him to appreciate the error
of his obstinacy
Miss Hazel Damon, who displayed fe-
line proclivities when Patrolman Orr
arrested her for drunkenness and dis
orderly behavior one Saturday evening