The San Francisco call., 1904-11-19
EARNEST SYMPATHY
PROVOKED BY PLEA
OF HUGH ROBINSON
ROLLCE COuRT SLGHS
Exposure of His Vocation, However, Has
Effect of Spelling Impression.
BY JAMES c. CRAWFORD.

Johnson's due. but he could assure the
court that his dealings with the Tor
mer lady had never exceeded the
strictest formality. At any rate, Miss
Johnson's jealousy was unwarranted,
as he was not bound by any tie of be-
TOthal TO her.
Despite his plea. Mr. Stewart was
pronounced guilty and will be SEN
fenced this morning. Since he retired
from active service as the champion
cOlored cakewalker of the Pacific
Coast he has posed as the chocolate
hued Adonis of the Barbary Coast,
and the police say that his occasional
piano playing has been merely a
stall" 10 avert his arrest for wear
ing gorgeous raiment and neither
weaving nor spinning.
George Dempsey, about 20 years Of
age, five feet four inches IN height
and weighing 115 pounds, was pun
melting a stalwart Chinaman at Mar
ket and Fifth streets when Patrolman
p. Murphy, six feet in his socks and
tipping the beam at 200 pounds, un-
dertoOk to arrest him. AS result of
that undertaking the officer displayed
A badly bruised left eye in Judge Ca
baniss' court and testified that the
united efforts Of four able-bodied
peace guardians were barely sufficient
TO subjugate Master Dempsey. who
emerged scatheless from the fray. At
ter the Judge had imposed a fine Of
$50. which was promptly paid, it was
unofIicially announced that the wiry
little man is a nephew of the late
Jack" Dempsey. from whom the
worlds middleweight pugilistic cham
pionship was wrested by Robert
Freckles Fitzsimmons and that he is
IL Ill
Hawthorne Clubs stable of fighters.
Bradford T. Schen, who seriously
stabbed James T. Morrissey, was sent
TO the Superior Court to answer the
charge of assault TO murder. Judge
Mogan fixed the bail at $4,000. ScheH
was beating his divorced wife when
MOrrissey interfered and was cut in
the left groin and the right hand.
Samuel MERGERS wife. an invalid,
was carried into Judge Mogan's, court
where she testified that her husband
Samuel, had repeatedly threatened to
kill her and his stepchild at their
home, So California avenue, Bernal
Heights. She is a sufferer from spin
al nervousness, but that fact she
averTed. did not prevent her spouse
drinking to excess and acting like
madman when intoxicated. He kept
six fully loaded firearms in the house
and the Judge ordered that the wea-
pons be produced in court to-day.
William Hurley was driving q. drug
gist's delivery wagon on Market street
when Patrelman c. T. Thompson ar
rested him for exceeding the legal
limit and escorted him TO prison. de-
spite his explanation that he was hur-
rying with medicine to a patient in
critical condition. J. Edward Hoff-
man, A cigar merchant, testified that
the defendant told the truth, and
Judge Mogan dismissed the case.
James NJ. Silvia. accused OF vagrancy,
declared that he worked three days a
week as q barber and got drunk on
the side" He will be released from
custody in time to don his apron this
morning.
Lizzie Irwin, alias Bessie Hill, was
arrested eight days ago for vagrancy
and did not appear in court until yes
terday, because when the Jail officials
called Lizzie Irwin" she neglected to
respond, for the probable reason that
no prior convictions were recorded
against Bessie Hill. Judge Mogan con-
sidered that she had been sufficiently
punished for both her registered offense
and her attempt to evade justice, and
she promised TO face him no more.
Special Police Officer w. T. Carham
would not even consider Judge Ca
baniss' proposal that he marry Miss
Annie NJ. Malette Of 379 Eleventh street.
who accused him of paternity of her
month-old babe and alleges that he be-
trayed her by promising matrimony.
Her mother says the girl is II years of