The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30
STRANGE DIALECT BATTLES
MOGAN'S CORPS OF. EXPERTS
Native Of Poland Tries to Narrate How Barbary
Coast Siren Robbed Him, but Neither His Own
Language Nor His Weird EnglishI Is Understood

to Leslie Falkenberg, that the law re-
stricts me from sending you to the
penitentiary. l can only order your I'M
prisonment in the County Jail, but
your term there will be the longest
can legally impose. You are the most
contemplate wretch that ever raced
this court. Your instincts are those OF
the hoodlum. 1 will sentence you to-
morrow"
Falkenberg was convicted of mali
clously obtaining q warrant for the ar
rest OF Mamie Clarity, the mother OF
MS two ;llegitimate children, with
Whom he had quarreled. He sent Word
TO the woman that he would like TO see
the youngest. of their offspring, ten
month-old babe, and when she TOOK IL
TO the house of his parents and left 1t
there. intending to call later and get IT,
he swore out a warrant accusing her
of abandoning the infant, and alleging
that its father was his brother George.
In court it came out that he never had
brother George. and that his charge
against the woman was Systematically
trumped up for the purpose of obtain
ing revenge on the unfortunate woman.
DR.. Thomas f. Brennan submitted
his defense yesterday to the charge
that he embezzled $4,000 from the Rev.
F. j. Grey. and evidence in rebuttal
will be heard next Saturday by Judge
Fritz. r. w. Putnam, a notary public
at Paso Robes, testified that on Sep
TENDER 13, 1899 while DR., Brennan and
Father Grey were staying at the hotel
there, the latter signed a document as
signing all his money on deposit in the
H1bernia Bank to the defendant, and
that the aged clergyman seemed to be
In good and vigorous mind" at the
time. Five photographs of as many
different houses in which the doctor
and priest had dwelt were produced to
d1sprove the charge that the defendant
had insufficiently cared for his pa
tents comfort. Mary Ann Wilkinson,
who had served as housekeeper for
Brennan, testified that his treatment
of Father Grey had always been good,
and then Brennan submitted an affida-
Wit made by him and dated January 4.
1904, that Father Grey had signed the
checks on which he drew the $4,000
from the Hibernia Bank.
After he had been sentenced to six
months Imprisonment for vagrancy
John Roach glared at Judge Mogan
and yelled
What have | done to get such a
dose as that?
Then the court gave him thirty days
additional for disturbing the peace, and
John again brided up and was about
TO say something more when Bailiff
Hickey considerably grasped his col
lar and hurried him from the court
room.
Myrtle and Francis Gallagher are
held to answer to- the Superior Court
on charge of robbing John Parker
of $50 in a Minna street lodging house
The defendants are man and wife.
having been married many years, and
in Judge Conlan's court each tried to
pass up to the other sole responsibility
for the robbery. Their bail was fixed
at $500 each.
Teresa Hendry. accused of lombard
ing with rocks the residence of w. F.
Whittier on Jackson street, between
Octavia and Laguna, had brief hear
ing through her attorney in Judge Mo-
cams court. The complaining witness
did not appear to prosecute and the de
PENDANTS counsel dramatically declared
his readi-ess to proceed with the trial
and demanded either instant dismissal
or the immediate production of testi-
mony sufficient to convict. Then he
darkly limited that the complainant had
been 'smusgled away" A continuance
till tomorrow was ordered.
The defendant alleges that she has
claim against Mr.. Whittier for an
injury inflicted in the long ago and
that she is willing to settle it for $1,000
cash. Some time ago she was arrested
for assailing the complainant at his
place of business and Judge Mogan dis
missed the case when she had prom
ised to abstain from repeating the Of
Tense. When she was reminded yes
terday of that promise she informed
the court that she had not broken it,
as her latest offense was not com
mitted at the place of business, but at
the residence of the complainant.