The San Francisco call., 1904-03-29
POLICE COURT SPELLBOUND
BY A WOMANS BUSY TONGUE
For Ten Consecutive Minutes COlored Witness
Testifles Without Apparent Intake of Breath,
While His Honor Cabaniss Helplessly Listens

Winifred Norton. a buxom negress,
was a most voIuble witness in the as
sauIt case of Daniel Freeman, colored,
against John Garider. white, in the
court of Judge Cabaniss yesterday. She
talked and talked and talked, with
recklessness of pronunciation and pau
city Of punctuation, While bench, attor-
neyS and chair-warmers sat spelibound
by the oral flow. AT the end Of ten
minutes. during which period she had
seemingly not effected one intake Of
breath. the Judge managed TO cast off
his thralldom and stop the torrent.
In the complaint Mr.. Garider was ac-
cused Of having assaulted Mr. Freeman
IN the back yard of the latter gentle
mans residence on Jessie street. the
only provocation for the offense being
the complainant's mild expostulation
against the kicking of his two-year-old
puppy and other canine treasures by
the defendant The kicking was not
denied. but in Justification Of IL Mr..
Garlder displayed a wound on one or
his ankles, which he averred had been
inflicted by the teeth Of the two-year-
old puppy prior TO his assault upon
that animal.
Miss Nortsn had not witnessed the
quarrel between Mr.. Garider and Mr.
Freeman. but she did know something
Of the character respectively borne by
the parties, and she could also vouch
for the calm temperament Of the Free
man kennel as A whole and the peace
able disposition Of the two-year-old
puppy in particular. A more amiable
animal than that two-year- she had
never met As for the neighborhood
friends Of Mr.. Garider-well. perhaps
the less she said about them the high
er they would stand in the esteem Of
the court Mr.. Freeman himself was
personified respectability. She prided
herself on being a woman Of few words,
and her abstention from over-indul-
gence in language was, she felt certain
her salvation from slaughter at the
Hands of the Gariderites. They were q
malicious, quarrelsome lot, and her
only wonder was that Mr., Freeman and
his dogs had escaped bodily injury at
their hands so long. She could keep
that court interested. although in
credulous, for a week in recountal Of
the outrages against the peace and dig
nifty of the neighborhood committed by
the chosen crOnies of Mr.. Garider-out-
RACES which unquestionably were of his
conception and instigation. 1t was at
that point Of the lady's recital Judge
Cabaniss applied the brake.
Garider had witnesses-a host of
then-who had not seen his encounter
with Freeman but knew enough about
( that person and his associates 70 jus
tify them in asseverating that if there
was any fault in the premises he
mOnopolized it. A more obnoxious man
than Mr.. Freeman they had never met.
They had exhausted every means Of
kindling within his heart a spark of
neighbOrly love, but that organ was ab-
solutely tmDerviOus to fire. They had
taken his color into consideration and
resolved to ignore il and TO treat him
as a man and brother. but he haught-
ily spurned their fraternaI overtures-
They were still willing to forget and
forgive the humiliation he had visited
upon Mr. Garider-than whom there
was not on earth a more perfect citi-
zen-if the charge were cast out of
court.
In sheer self-protection the Judge dis
missed the case
Undeterred by the severity of the
penalty handed out TO previous offend
ers in the same line Of larceny. Richard
kentscher pilfered d Sunday Call from
the doorstep Of a subscriber at Califor-
MIA and Franklin streets, and Judge
sentencing him 10 thirty days impris-
onment- The arrest was made by Of
/ ficer A. L. Leary.
Another call for p. Synopolis. accused
Of practicing medicine without a IL
cense at SIS Montgomery street. failed
TO hale that person into the court Of
Mcgan, and then it was judicially an
nounced that If he does not appear next
Friday his bail in the sum Of 800 will
be declared forfeited
The police opine that the inventor Of
the alleged gout cure has departed from
the city TO avoid imprisonment. and
( this opinion is shared by the boy who
runs the elevator at 62S Montgomery.
His Office traps have been taken out"
said the conductor Of the lift to Judge
Mogan. and it looks to me as if he has
few the GOOD"
I'm an actor was Harry Harms
deliberately delivered answer to Judge
Mogan's stereotyped query as to occu-
patton.
"Legit or comedy?" inquired the
court
AT present I'm doing monoIogue
in a Market-street theater"
And what did you mean by getting
inside the fire lines on O'FarreH street
and resisting the officer who requested
you TO go outsider"
My presence within the ropes was
unintentional, and the officer addressed
me in q manner that was unnecessar-
lily discCUrteOus. I'm not accustomed
70 being bullied.'
PatroIman Murphy stated that he
was ordered TO expel the monologist
by Lieutenant Gleason. who shouted.
Murphy, chuck him out" When he
attempted 10 obey his superior officer
the defendant "sassed" him and re-
sisted arrest.
Taken under advisement.
That the police are keeping sharp
lookout for viOlators of the curfew or
dinance was demonstrated yesterday
in Judge MOgan's court. where three
Caucasian youngsters and half a dozen
Asiatic juveniles were accused of hav-
ing been on the streets after O'Clock
p. n. without escort or good excuse
for being away from home. The white
lads were arrested Al Brannan and Gil
bert streets and the slant-eyed bows
in Chinatown. All were sent up to the
Juvenile Court
Wilfred Stewart, a cook aboard the