The San Francisco call., 1904-02-03
BRUTAL MURDERER HELD
WITHOUT CHANCE OF BAIL
George Benes Who Killed Wife Because She Re-
fused to Live With Him. Must Answer for Crime.
Judge Hebbard Is Reversed by Divorced Man

as the "Megaphone Kid" in pug1llStlc
circles and as the blue eyed baby
boy among his near and dear friends,
is the complaining witness. Pratt
hates a four-fusher, even when he ID
compelled to announce from the ring
side that 1.-The Sausalito Silver has
just sent telegram that he will fight
Jeffries, Corbett and FitZsimmons in an
ash barrel, all at once, with no time
limit, for a 81 purse and $4,000 on the
side"
When he found that Greyson had got
him for the real mazuma to the amount
of $25 he got purple around the neck
and swore out a warrant. The police
have various other fictitious checks
which were passed by Greyson. His
hobby is to buy automobiles with the
splash of q pen, while less Industrious
people have to hoard their money for
months merely to rent one for night.
He was arraigned and his case will un-
Fdergo a radium-ray examination on
February s.
E. M. Horton, whose flim-flam joint
at 11aS Dupont street was temporarily
disarranged the other day by a gentle
man from Nevada, who insisted in
playing large lead bullets from a
yawning gun instead of throwing
fings for an'impossible mixture of nails
and was convicted of discharging fire.
arms within the city limits, came be-
fore Judge Mogan yesterday to answer
to charge of grand larceny by trick
and device.
The complaining witness was H. F.
rIo G,1
When he went to his home at 226B
Ninth street, he made another search
and found that he was shy $105 in
American money sas a result of trying
to make ringers with round quoits that
had not been manufactured by the vii
lage blacksmith.
Together with Horton were two
Frenehmen whom Matthew Arnold, in
his terse English. would denominate as
Boosters" The money they won on
disputed points, while Seek was seek
ing, would have replenished the gold
deficit in the national treasury at
Washington. They were charged with
vagrancy .and their cases were contin-
ued in Judge Fritz's court. Judge Ca
baniss will pass on the merits of Hor
toms case as quickly as he can unwind
his mind from the tangles of the Soeder
trial, which will be Thursday.
o.
Twenty Japanese, hued like a khaki
uniform, were in Judge Conlan's court
yesterday for violating the cubic air
ordinance They were dragged out Of
q couple Of rooms on Stevenson street.
in which they had been packed SO
tightly that they could mot identify
their own feet. Among them was
woman. swaFthy but comp1acent.
During the hearing the landlord Of
the premises appeaCed to. exercise his
pulf for. the ltberations of his lodgers.
He was as well grsomed as Colonel
Martin Brady and he had bundle of
excuses for the dodgers th8t would
have stumbled hurdle jumper. SThe
Judge Immediately ordered him into
custody with his right hand, while vito
his left he assessed a fine of $50, or
twenty days, on the prisoners. When
the landlord appears to-day there will
be something coming in his c9reGtion
that. cannot be sidesteeped.
Louis Herman. Mission distHct boy,
came before Jddge Cabaniss yesterday
on the charge of carrying concealed
WEAPONS. He appears honest and if
his words be true there is really moth
ing TO the charge. He claims that in
company with Thomas Powell, proprie-
tor Of the st. Charles Hotel on Elev-
eBth street, he went aout for little
time Moslday. Finally they wound up
in the barrooTr6 of POwells hotel az an
early hour Tuesdag morning, where
Herman says he took a revolver away
from his companion after two shots
had been f1red by Powell.
/ The arrestirsg officers said that Pow
ell was so stupefied yesterday morning
that he aoougd cot appear in court. They
hinted darkly at a possible case of
knockout drops and attempted robbery,
and Judge Cabaniss held the case over
until to-day for investigation. Her
man bears an exceptionally good char
actef sanG his mother testified that he
was the best boy tn the world" which
is going some when one thinks of the
rest Of the Juveniles.
EWING'S STANDARD OIL