The San Francisco call., 1904-06-02

Egan was sentenced to sixty days inn
prisonment, without alternative of fine.
by Police Judge Cabaniss A motion
for new trial was denied, but an ap-
peal to the s superior Court was taken
and the defendant released on $500
bonds.
The evidence which led me to con-
clude this defendant guilty" said the
Judge, showed an offense which was
at once cowardly and brutal in the
Internationally, because it was
shown here that the complaining wit
ness while upon a public street, NOV
ing along quietly in the exercise of his
constitutional right TO do so, was set
upon by two men, one of whom was
this defendant. who struck him from
/ behind, telling him to the ground, and
that after having fallen to the side
walk he was kicked by the defendant.
/ That presents a grave case, and being
a grave case deserves severe punish
ment. The defendant deserves to be
punished by reason of his wrongful
conduct, and 1t is to be hoped that the
punishment which / impose in this case
will have tendency to deter others
from committing like offenses. 1t must
be distinctly understood that wherever
/ it is established by the evidence that a
man who is himself blameIess In the
eye Of the law, and particularly where
the assault in addition to being merely
an assault upon another mans person
is in the nature of an assault upon the
constitutional rights of every citizen,
those offenses when proved by the evil
denee must be punished, and will be
adequately punished by me-
Egan is now under bonds of $4,000 to
/ answer for another battery case, which
was heard in Judge Mogans court.
/ Both cases were prosecuted by the Citi-
zens' Alliance and defended by the Sta
blemen's Union.
! Judge Fritz held DR.. Thomas F. Bren-
nan TO answer in the Superior Court
/ the charge of embezzling $3S,000 cash
/ from the Rev. Father P. F. Gray,
/ former rector of St Patrick's Church,
while serving as his physician. The
defendants attorney. w. H. Cannon.
/ Immediately applied to Superior Judge
I Cook for a writ of habeas corpus for
his clients release, and the writ was
issued and made returnable on Friday
morning DR.. Brennan was then re-
leased on $4,000 bail.
! Nineteen-year-oId Sidney Hester
was found guilty of disturbing the
/ peace of a lady who was awaiting her
husband in Golden Gate Park and
+ Judge Mogan will sentence him next
/ Saturday. His Honor took occasion to
roundly censure the defendant, whose
defiant and impudent demeanor in
court did not serve to help his case.
The complainant, who is cripple.
testified that she was seated on the
grass when the defendant insisted up
on talking to her, and went so far
as TO grasp her shoulder and restrain
her when she attempted TO leave him.
Her testimony was corroborated by
disinterested witness, a young man
I from the country, who went TO her aid
when she called for assistance. The
defendants gray-haired father and
mother were in court and the old man
wept when his son was pronounced
guilty.
IF it were not for the sake of your
! respected parents, with whom 1 deep
7 ~ sympathize," said the Judge to the
/ defendant, Il would send you to the
County Jail without alternative of fine.
/ Women and girls who visit the pub
/ lie parks must be protected from such
( individuals as you-fellows who con-
slider themselves 'mashers' and thrust
their attentions where they are neither
( invited nor encouraged-and if it were
not for the punishment that 1t would
convey to your father and mother 1
would make an example of you"
The young fellow seemed less affect
! ed by the Judges words than were his
parents.
Leon de Bernardo. locally famed as
king of the Newsboys," will prob
ably experience no trouble next Sat
urday in convincing Judge Fritz that
4 his arrest for pursuing his calling at
( the ferry depot was simply a blunder
on the part of Policeman p. K.
! O'Keefe, who is new On that beat.
Leon holds the exclusive privilege,
awarded him by the Harbor Commits
sioners, to do the very thing which
the officer arrested him for doing
selling papers in the gangway leading
to the Oakland boats. He is charged
with peace disturbance, and he claims
that it was the policeman, and not he,
who started the disturbance.
Kittie Lewis, petite and blonde.
leaned her elbows upon the bench in
Judge Fritz's court and in confiden-
tial whisper said that her arrest for
vagrancy was ''put-up job"
For I'm no vag," said Kittie, but
a professional actress. 1 sing and
dance in the North End Varieties, and
the police ought to know that
Whom do you suspect of 'jobbing'
your" his Honpr inquired.
MY husband. Johnnie Fowler" was
the answer. You see he's sixty-three
years of age and I'm getting divorce.
s'I'H bet anything he's at the bottom
of this job
Miss Lewis was dismissed.
Judge Cabaniss dismissed the charge
Of renting premises for immoral pur-
poses which had been hanging over
haod Of MargicanO for manY