The San Francisco call., 1904-10-29
Woman's Tongue Subdues
Judge and Lawyers.
Talks Herself Into and Out Of Court
1t Is Not the Quality but the Quantity
of Her Words That Devastates

and Judge Mogan continued, the case
against him, but pronounced Frank
guilty of having disturbed the peace
that environs the intersection Of Mar
ket and Stockton streets at $3.50 a. m
"a
Richard Lasco of 264 Michigan street
told Mrs. John Ebert of 352 Michigan
street that while he would not direct
ly accuse her husband of chicken steal
ing he was inclined to believe that II
the hen missing from his coop had
strayed into the Ebert yard 1t would
not have been "shooed" out again oy
either Mr.. or Mrs. Ebert. Very wrotn
waxed Mr.. Ebert when his wife in
formed him of what Mr.. Lasco had
said, and he at once visited that gen
tleman and vigorously resented the
imputation cast upon his character, but
did not commit battery or even
threaten to do so, Mr.. Lasco's testl-
mony to the contrary Notwithstanding
Judge Cabaniss dismissed the case on
the ground that the taxpayers OF San
Francisco could not afford to have 20
worth of his time consumed in adjudi-
eating a dispute over a six-bit chicken
Judge Fritz sent two men separately
accused of felony to answer in the Su-
perior Court, with the bail Of each FIX
ed at $1,000 John Mccormick was
charged with having stolen some small
change from the pocket Of man VINO
was asleep in a waterfront saloon,
and George w. Tyrrells alleged Of
fense consisted of passing forged
check.
G. L. Borreben was fiourishing a re-
volver of antique pattern and terroriz-
ing the crew of a Hayes-street car
when his arrest occurred. As the
weapon was unloaded and as the de-
fendant pleaded that it must have been
placed in his pocket by some practical
joker Judge Mogan dismissed the case
James McCauley calmly ignored the
admonitory changing Of the gripman's
bell. the shouting of the excited con-
ductor and the yelling of the impatient
passengers as he drove his horse and
wagon along the Larkin-street rail-
road. Patrolman Cottle, who happened
to be among the passengers, arrested
the obdurate teamster after the latter
had defiantly declared that he would
not turn out for any id railroad
company" Before Judge Cabaniss Mr..
McCauley denied that he had uttered
any profanity and pleaded that cOnsid-
Grafton for the feelings of his horse
a rather sensitive animal-was the
cause of his delay in clearing the track
For neglecting TO consider the feelings
of the passengers, who were in hurry
to arrive somewhere, he was fined s..
John Murray was whipping a re-
luctant horse attached to a wagon
load of wood when a policeman arrest
ed him on the Wisconsin-street hill.
and before Judge MOgan he pleaded
that he was forced to apply the lash
to keep the animal from being dragged
backward down the declivity by the
vehicle. This explanation, coupled with
his confession that he was an anna
teuI teamster. obtained his dismissal.
Eleven matrons from Bartel street,
in the Latin quarter, were ready to
testify for or against Signora Sunta
Zuchelli, who accused Signora Ales-
sandrino Graziani of having assaulted
her with fists and sticks and stones for
no provocative cause whatsoever Seven
of the ladies had dark-eyed babes in
arms, and the infants insisted on re-
ceiving maternal attention to the ex-
clusion of everything else. AS Judge
Cabaniss could not. even if he would,
punish them for contempt of court.
he continued the case and suggested
that when the witnesses return they
neglect to bring their tyrannical in
cumbrances.
Judge Conlan continued till Novem-
Der 4 the case of Thomas Thornton,
alias George Wilson, charged with hav-
ing stolen diamond pin from Anon
G. Carter of 107 New Montgomery
street. There are two similar accusa-
tions against the same defendant. and
they will be taken up after the Carter
complaint has been disposed of.