The San Francisco call., 1904-07-13
BARGAIN. SALE ALLURES
AMAZON TO HER UNDOING
Mrs Julia de Grazia Too Feeble to Appear in Court Yields
to SeductonS of Job-Lot Displays She IS Arrested
and Convicted Of Asaultng Neighbor With Clothes Prop

duFlSCu ~ produce tneU1 IN court next
Saturday if he desires TO avoid a jury
trial in higher tribunal.
Six months in the County Jail was
the sentence imposed on Mrs. Mary
Proctor for cruelty neglecting her
three young children. Her husband.
who is stableman, was ordered into
custody and will be tried to-day for
the same offense. Miss Lucy Fisher.
visiting nurse for the Associated
Charities testified that within three
weeks she had gone to the Proctor
! home on Shipley street thirty-one
times, and on each occasion found the
woman drunk and the children hun
cry ragged and filthy. Photographs
I of the little ones were exhibited to
Judge Conlan and the emaciated ap-
pearance of the unfortunate subjects
prompted his Honor to express regret
that the law would not allow him to
punish the inhuman mother more Sc
verely.
Annie, Brown, a middle-aged siren
of the Barbary Coast, was held by
Judge Fritz to answer a grand larceny
charge in the Superior Court. The
complaining witness was a gray
haired farmer, n. n. Robinson. from
] up Stockton way, who accused the
woman of having robbed him of a
purse containing 5000 while he was in
a Pacific-street saloon.
George Curry, the gripman who shot
and killed his wife in a Turk-street
lodging-house on July s, was a picture
OF absolute detection when he ap-
peared before Judge Mogan for pre-
liminary examination. The testimony
was repetition of that given at the
inquest and viii be resumed at noon
/ to-day.
/ An echo of the glorious Fourth re-
sounded in Judge Mogan's court when
/ Z. j. Walsh was called and charged
with peace disturbance. The complain
ant was Policeman Suttman. who testi-
| fed that on the last anniversary of the
nations birth he was conversing with
lady at Twenty-fourth and Castro
! streets when the defendant covertly
| placed a large bomb, with lighted fuse,
| between the complainant's feet, and
that the resultant explosion not only
! frightened the lady almost to death,
but scorched and tore his clothes.
Walsh declared that some other fell
/ low, unknown TO him, committed the
! incendiary act, and his Honor gave
HIM till next Saturday to prove his
defense.
Charley Murray, alias Moore, an es-
! "a nod convict oh rOod with o-ropd 10
ceny. was returned to Folsom prison
by order of Judge Fritz. At the time
/ of his escape Murray had several years
/ to serve.
Dottie Kelly and Maggie Smith, who
had been arrested for vagrancy and
| released on SO bail, were attired in
snowy opera cloaks and towering
masses of white millinery when they
/ entered Judge Conlan's court yester-
/ day morning, and so disorderly was
their demeanor as they sat awaiting.
trial that they were ordered into Gus
tody for contempt.
Mercy" exclaimed Miss Kelly, in
iDcredulous tone, you don't mean to
say you expect US to wear these
clothes in them filthy cells?''
THE matter of prison wardrobe 1
leave entirely to you," was the Judges
response. It's not the clothes, but
! their wearers, that have outraged the
/ dignity of this court"
After a prolonged and audible intake
of breath Miss Smith Indignantly in
| quired, Did any one ever?" No one
had.
Edward Woods and Harry Scott, tel
| ephone linemen, and Edward Burke, a
/ Southern Pacific brakeman, were ac-
| cused Of holding up Florian Andraine
vocation not registered. and robbing
him Of $3.50 early yesterday morning on
Stevenson street, between Third and
Fourth. Florian, who lives at 951 Six
teenth avenue south, did not appear to
prosecute, and Judge Mogan continued
the case until this morning.
Patrolman W. ]. Sheehan repeated
the story told to him by Florian. The
defendants, he said, were eating break
fast in a Fourth street restaurant
when Florian entered and in a burst
of good fellowship, although he had
never seen either of them before, in
sisted on paying for their food. They
magnanimously allowed him to do so.
and he left them there and proceeded
on his way. Then they followed him
and took his money.