The San Francisco call., 1904-07-17

Mrs. Annie Lippe, charged with
having disturbed the peace of the ten
derloin at an early hour last Friday
morning, laid a bunch of pink sweet
pea blossoms upon Police Judge Mo-
gan's desk yesterday and smilingly in
formed his Honor that it was a slight
token of her esteem. The fragrant Of
fering was politely declined and the
woman pouted her displeasure.
On the previous day Mrs. Lippe
tried but failed to convince the court
that she was demented and the gen.
eral expectation that she would in
dulge in some other spectacular vag-
ary yesterday was amply fulfilled. At
ter the Judges repulse Of the floral
tribute she sat upon the prisoners
bench and ogled Bailiff Hickey until
his frowns seemingly scared her and
then she violently thumped her chest
and gasped and complained of heart
failure. She was hurried upstairs and
restored to the custody of the prison
matron until her case was called,
when she reappeared and ratified off
defense that allowed no other person
to get in a word edgewise.
It's a shame to keep me up there,
she said, for that matron doesn't like
me a little bit and threatened to put
me in the plunge because L blackened
an eye of the lady who was in the cell
with me and whose vulgar appearance
and manner I could not stand, and If
you let me off this time I'll never dis
ha in nd Efrnd FnrCf-
ing may consider himself lucky if l
don't give him the shake before he
can carry out his threat of shaking
me, and you know we're to be mar
ried as soon as 1 get my divorce from
Al Lippe, and I'm sure Al will be glad
when 1 get it, for he likes almost
anybody better than he likes me; and
you know I was only 15 when 1 mar
ried him in Owensboro, Kentucky, and
my wedding dress was a white shirt
waist and a short skirt, and I'm sure
you'd "a laughed if you'd seen Al and
me standing up before the minister,
and Al said afterwards that it was a
mock marriage, but he couldn't fool
me, for didn't I know the preacher
and didn't my folks know him, too,
and do you think they'd stand for
marriage that wasn't all right? No,
stree; Fred wanted to marry me seven
years ago IN Chicago-that was after
Al said I was such a crazy thing he
didn't want to have anything more to
do with me-and just as we were go
ing to Justice Murphy's Office 1 says
to Fred, says I, Fred, we can't get
married because I'm a married woman
1,
did you tell me you were a widow
woman for?' and 1 says, says 1, Just
to Sc if you would marry me- and he
says, says he, All right, Beatrice
my real name is Lizzie Clara Belle
Lippe; my folks are Westleys, but 1
can't abear the name of Lizzie, so 1
call myself Beatrice-where was L at,
Judge-oh, yes-so Fred says, says
he, All right Beatrice, get a divorce
and I'll marry you and ever since
then we have been the best of friends,
but I'm afraid he might leave me and,
between you and 1, Judge, that's what
1 came out here to get a divorce for,
and wish you'd come out to my fat
and see the lovely embroidery 1 do
with these hands. and everybody says
1 could make a good living at it, but
thank goodness l don't have to work,
for 1 have a steady income and my
horse and buggy and I'm sure 1 don't
know whatu become of them if I go
to Jail, for Fred is so careless that
he'd be sure to let the horse starve to
death, and I'm sure I never saw any
one as careless as that Fred Forsting,
and his own folks say that they never
could depend upon him remembering
a thing"
Guilty of disturbing the peace and
battery-sentence Monday"
I'm sure, Judge, you don't mean
that, for L told you that if I'm not
crazy I'll go crazy, sure, if you put
me back in that cell"
TAKE her away
well, if it must be, it must be, and
l know you'll let Fred in to see me,
and"
The remainder of the sentence was
uttered in the corridor.
Major ]. NJ. Hanford, paymaster for
the Southern Pacific Company, kept
the attorneys table in Judge Fritz's
court agrin by his precise testimony in
the case of G. /. Daniels, charged with
embezzling $9S belonging to the Illi-
nois Pacific Glass Company while he
was that corporations claims agent
Some Of the Southern Pacific's books
were in evidence and Major Hanford
was there to identify and vouch for
the genuineness of certain signatures.
During his examination by Assistant
District Attorney Harris his answers
eclipsed in Pathological exactness the
queries that rolled so glibly off the
lawyers tongue and he was particular
that there should be no room for mis-
construction of any of his statements.
When asked If the signatures in ques-
ton were written in this city and
county, he replied: Yes, sir; they
were written in an office of the South
ern Pacific Company in the Hobart
building, on Market street in the city of
San Francisco, State of California,
United States of America" The hear
ing was continued till Monday.