The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-07-30

Mrs. Sarah Curtis left her Jessie
street residence one day about fort
night ago and went to the dwelling OF
Mrs. Emma Fitzgerald. ITO Minna
street, where she deliberately smashed
four panes of glass and was arrested
for malicious mischief. When the case
came up before Police Judge Conlan
there was evident reluctance on the
part of all concerned to say any more
than was absolutely necessary of the
causes that led to Mrs. Curtis act or
vandalism and in response to her dec
laration of intention to pay 81 80, the
amount of material damage sustained
by Mrs. Fitzgerald, the case was dis
missed.
a sequel to the foregoing case de-
veloped one Of the liveliest incidents in
the history Of department No 2. Mrs.
Curtis was again a defendant and
Mrs. Fitzgerald again her accuser and
the charge was sending threatening
and obscene letters. 1t appeared that
instead of paying the 81 so to Mrs.
Fitzgerald, as she had promised to do,
Mrs. Curtis wrote upon pieces of wrap
ping paper and with a lead pencil a
number of badly-spelled missives and
sent them to Mrs. Fitzgerald, the tenor
of the messages thus conveyed being
too filthy for publication. Suffice it
llldl MIS- 1ul lis NIllO6l
cused Mrs. Fitzgerald of alternating the
affections of Mr. Curtis from his law
full consort and that the writer pro-
posed to retaliate by weaving Mr..
Fitzgerald's love from the lady who
bore his name. The letters were pro-
duced in evidence and while Judge
Conlan was examining them Mr.. Cur
tbs, who sat among the attorneys, holly
aVerred that his wife was not their
fOTpPriPS
written with malicious intent to bring
trouble and disgrace upon her and
him. At the request of the complain
ants counsel the Judge handed the let
ters to him and Mr.. Curtis suddenly
grabbed at them. In an instant the
lawyer and Mr.. C1rtis were mixed"
and an instant later Mr.. Curtis was
helpless as an infant in the herculean
grasp of Bailiff Laws. The Judge is
sued a bench warrant for Mr.. Curtis
arrest and the case of the woman was
continued till next Monday, when her
husband will probably also pose as de-
PENDANT on trial.
Judge Cabaniss relieved the conges-
ton of the Police Court calendars by
returning from his six weeks vacation
and resuming business with the physi-
cal and intellectual vigor of a giant
refreshed. In consideration of his re-
cent lack of practice, however, most
Of the cases assigned to him were of
minor import, it being the purpose of
the official distributor to work his
Honor into old-time form by degrees.
After dismissing a number of opium
smoking cases for lack of sufficient
testimony to warrant conviction, Judge
Cabaniss heard the larceny charge
against John Schmitt, specifically ac-
cused OF stealing a can of kerosene from
a Suffer street grocery. Mr.. Schmitt
had no recollection of purloining the
coal oil, as he was intoxicated at the
time, nor did he attempt to prove in
nocence Indeed. he was rather inclined
TO accept the prosecuting testimony as
true in every detail. because he knew
that anything in liquid form had an ir-
resistible attraction for him while he
was drunk and athirst He would not
be surprised indeed If the policeman