The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30

expert dialecticians groaned and COM
fessed themselves baffled. Linguistic
sharps also stood beaten by Sadowa' S
verbal contortions, and finally Judge
Mogan postponed his hearing of the
mans testimony until the services OF
a person qualified to translate mutt
lated Polish into up-to-date English
can be obtained. Enough of Stevens
gibberish could be interpreted to con-
vey the information that he learned
to talk in some part of Poland's falr
land that is in proximity to the en-
pire of the Car and has mixed up
some of the Slavonic lingo with its own
original tongue.
1t was as complainant that Steven
appeared in court He charged mid
die aged and decidedly unprepossess-
ing female named Sarah Martin with
having pilfered $3.50 belonging to him,
and il was his effort to explain how
the alleged robbery occurred that drove
the interpreters to despair. From other
witnesses, however, it was learned that
Steven came to the great city from
the town OF Hanford, where for two
years he had worked industriously as
a dairyman and scrinped his pecuniary
expenditures until he had saved $500
of his scanty salary. With this goodly
sum in his pocket he sought social
recreation on the Barbary Coast and
found il in a Pacific-street dance hall.
There he saw and was Immediately
smitten by the matured charms of
Sarah Without insisting upon the for
NAL introduction that in some other cir
cles of society is considered an essen
tial preliminary to the proper fore
gathering of strangers. Miss Martin
permitted herself to be addressed col
loquially by the gentleman from Han
ford. In her defense it may be pleaded
that his weird dialect left her in doubt
as to what he was saying when he
asked her to accept liquid refreshments
at his expense. but such a plea must
collapse before the fact that she I'M
hesitatingly imbbed the beverage
when he handed it TO her. 1t has also
been proven by the undisputed testi-
mony of persons among those present
that Steven and Sarah did not dance,
but posed as wall flowers and slipped
ardent spirits until they departed from
the temple of Terpsichore in the small
hours of morning.
What happened after that is known
only to Steven and Sarah. but prob
ably will be disclosed to-day with the
aid of an Interpreter, in search of whom
the city is now being secured.
6ixteen-year- Patrick Crotty is
spected members of the Standard Ath-
letic Club, an organization of boys en-
ployed in the Union Iron Works. The
clubs headquarters occupy the second
floor of the building at Nineteenth and
Kentucky streets, the lower portion Of
the structure containing Louis Edel-
STEMS stock of second hand furniture.
In the court of Cabaniss yesterday Mr..
Edelstein accused Master Crotty of
having been the ringleader of a crowd
of club lads that mobbed him about s
o'clock Monday evening while he was
about to board a street car and pro-
coed to hts lodge. The complainant
averred furthermore that the defendant
struck him with a stick.
There was no lack of testimony for
the defense. A swarm of Master Grot-
tvs Juvenile acquaintances were posi-
tive that from I till 9 o'clock the ac-
cused was in the cfubroom, punching
the bag and indulging in other meth
DDS of self-mflicted physical torture.
Despite the overwhelming evidence of
an alibi, however Master Crotty was
bound over to keep the peace toward
Mr.. Edelstein and all other residents
r
Since she separated from her hus-
band and the father of her young
child, about year ago, Ruby Brad
ford has been the acknowledged belle
of the Pacific-street dancehouse which
she entered to earn livelihood for the
little ene and herself. The police have
thrice. arrested Ruby for va
grancy, and her third appear
ance as a defendant was made
yesterday in the court of Conlan.
A special pleader had been engaged in
her behalf, and he was I'm a fair way
OF having her dismissed when Officer
Joy casually said something that
prompted the Judge to address a few
questions to her. The answers dis
ing her. child in the delectable atmos-
phere of the dancehouse and then she
was pronounced guilty and ordered to
appear to-day for sentence.
Y. Sanchi and another subject of the
Mikado sought solace for the repulse of
Togo's fleet at Port Arthur by imbibing
various liquors, but instead of mollify-
ing the shock received by their sense
of patriotism the drinks gradually in
famed, their feelings until they became
disorderly as well as drunk. 1t was in
this condition that Patrolman George
Harrigan found them at a. m. yes
terday in the vicinity of Grant avenue
and Pine street, and when he endea-
vored to Curb their exuberance, Sanchi
suddenly turned playful and tried to
belittle the officers dignity. He was
fined S. by Judge Mogan.
Peck Eppinger, son of a member of
the recently failed grain firm of Eppin-
ger &Co., is held on bonds of $1o0 to ex-
plain to Judge Fritz this morning his
reason for smashing a SeltZer siphon