The San Francisco call., 1904-03-04
TALE OF THREE COURTS
IN FOUR WEE CHAPTERS
Police Judge Fritz Resents the Reduction OF
Bail Prescribed by Him and Restores
Original Amount Cut Down by Conlan

and 1t was with extreme difficulty that
the prosecution persuaded her to- ap-
pear In court yesterday. Once there,
however she told her story without
hesitation, though she swept frightened
glances at the press reporters.
Testimony for the defense will be
introduced next week
Leo Weingarten declared he was a
business man and that the mercantile
instinct impelled him to peddle thea
ter tickets without a license in front
of an O'Farrell-street playhouse.
Was it the mercantile instinct that
impelled you to ask rs cents for a ticket
that cost you so cents at the box Of
fice?" inquired Judge Mogan.
Twenty-Five cents profit was little
enough to compensate me for my trou
BILE in purchasing the ticket and my
disappointment at being. unable to at
tend the theater that evening was
the reply.
Well" said the court, your plea
isn't such a bad one, and I'll continue
this case for thirty days TO give you
time to quench your desire to pervert
that mercantile instinct of yours
Charles Wilson was the signature
attached to a complaint accusing Jo-
seph May of assault with a deadly
weapon at 400 Pacific street, and while
the case was on hearing yesterday be-
fore Judge Conlan the fact was adroit-
ly brought out by the defendants at
torney that the complainants real
name is Charles Faraola, and that he
is a chronic vagrant The court dis
missed the charge against May and
severely scored his accuser for signing
an alias to sworn document.
Judge Fritz sentenced David Darling
to six months Imprisonment for steal
ing a watch that could be purchased
anywhere for SO. The fact that David
pilfered the timepiece from a mans
pocket enabled the court to give him
such a heavy dose of incarceration.
Charles Altmint occupies the unique
position of standing half convicted of
vagrancy. He and Walter ]. Burke
were before Judge Mogan on a charge
of being connected with a Dupont
street bunko shop in which a ruralist
was recently swindled out of $3.50, and
Policemen Ryan and Taylor had no
trouble whatever in convincing the
court that Burke was a chronic va
grant. When it came to proving their
case against Altmint, however, they
had only half succeeded in doing so
when the Judge ordered a continuance
in order to allow them to procure ad-
ditional testimony. So with so per cent
of him proved vagrant and the other
so per cent of undetermined quality,
Altmint was reconsigned to the
tanks"
Certain storel1eepers doing business
Market, will learn with regret that
brilliance in a prison cell. Mary was
arrested at o'clock yesterday morning
for parading her smile at an unseemly
hour, and she is being held until his
Honor Judge Mogan can find out just
what section of the Criminal Code pre-
scribes a penalty, and exactly what
that penalty is, for indiscriminate be-
stowal of beaming glances. During the
hearing of the charge against Mary
she smiled at the complaining police
man, the Judge, the clerk, the bailiff,
the benchwarmers and the motley crew
in the prisoners cage. And it was dis
closed that her daily practice has been
to convey her smile along the west
sidewalk of Fourth street and stop at
store windows and flash it through the
glass at the merchants within. Some
of these men of business did not yearn
for artificial illumination of their stores
by Mary and complained of her to the
police, while others welcomed her
facial radiance and smiled back at her.
But it was not until her smile began
TO work overtime and bedim in COM
parison the arc lights and gas lamps
that Mary was arrested.
Mary's smile is apparently inextin-
guishable.
Thomas Beattie, champion Caucasian
cakewalker of the Pacific slope, was be-
fore the tribunal of Judge Mogan on a
charge of vagrancy entered by Police
man Nelson, who testified that Thomas
has been dividing all his waking hours
between the Jackson street dance halls.
In reply to a query from the bench the
defendant stated that he is a drum
player as well as a cakewalker and Wis
tied the dance halls to help out the or
chestra when the vocal sounds of rev.
elry became so loud as to drown the
instrumental music. Then he volun-
teered some other statements as to his
social standing, which were so contra
dictory of each other that the court
continued his case till to-day.
G. Paganini and G. Scandivini, ar
rested for selling flowers on the side
walk at Market and Kearny streets,
were found guilty yesterday by a jury
in Judge Mogans court. AT request of
the defendants attorney sentence was
deferred for a week.