The San Francisco call., 1904-07-09

It's an outrage" she concluded,
that such a strong, able-bodied young
man as this complainant should strike
a feeble old man like my client"
May it please the court" was
Judge Ferrars confession of over
whelming defeat, L have no reply to
make to the argument of my accom-
plished sister in law"
Then the Judge summed up to the
effect that the defendant merely in
dulged in illustrative gesture when
the blow fell that Mr.. Mccarthy ac-
cepted as a willful assault. I'VE must
make allowance, said his Honor, for
the defendants irrepressible habit Of
swinging his hands while he is talk
ing and give him the benefit of the ex-
listing doubt as to whether his strik-
ing of the complainant was really in
territorial. The case is dismissed"
In moment Monsieur Cognet was
delightedly shaking the Judges hand
and complimenting him upon his keen
prescience, complete knowledge of
law and infalIible sense of Justice
And a moment later Monsieur Cognet
was in the midst of a crowd of attor-
neys, all Of whom were showering him
with congratulations most enthusias-
tic Even then, in the proud flush of
her first professional triumph, Miss
Claribel David maintained the digni-
fed composure that marked her de-
pertinent throughout the trial She
quietly gathered up her law books.
shook the hand of Monsieur Cognet
and withdrew.
Judge Fritz held Harry Radcliffe to
answer in the Superior Court on a
charge of murder. Radcliffe was arrest
ed on the morning of June 26 and
charged with numbering Andrew Riley.
hodcarrier. at Ninth and Sheridan
streets. The preliminary examination
brought out no important facts other
than were adduced at the Coroner's in
quest.
Miss Ella Sherabi and Miss Bessie
Shattuck, young girls in conventional
bicycling costume, had All Lean, a Chi
nese teamster, before Judge Conlan on
a charge of battery, and they testified
that he deliberately ran his wagon into
the tandem wheel they were riding on
Folsom street, between Fourth and
Fifth. one day last week. The riders
were thrown to the pavement with such
violence that Miss Sherabi had to be
taken to the Receiving Hospital
For the defense appeared Mrs. SEN
senbrenner and Mrs. Miller who testi-
fed that they had seen the collision and
that the bicycliennes were responsible
for it, as they ran their wheel into the
wagon. Neither of the matrons went to
the injured girls assistance, but both
Of them went voluntarily to court to
testify in the Chinaman's behalf
The case was continued till to-day.
when Captain Of Police SpiIane, who
made the arrest. may cast some new
light on it.
While the Radcliffe case was on hear
ing in Judge Fritz's court one of the
spectators abandoned his chair in the
front row, and among those who
sprang to get possession of it were Dong
Gong and Jerome Millard, rival Chinese
interpreters. Dong was first to reach
the seat. but ere he could squat he was
rudely seized and thrust away by Mil
lard. who used such violence that Dong
went spinning among the attorneys.
Ddlllll 1ull4du llilulGUldlGil ndul6Q MIL
lard before the Judge, who gave him
twenty-four hours Imprisonment for
contempt of court. Then Dong took the
empty chair.
James Duffy, accused of stealing a
roll of blankets and an overcoat from
underneath a pool table upon which
their owner was punching the ivories
in a Third-street saloon, informed
Judge Mogan that he would like to
! have Dublin Dan," Deaf Murphy,
Billy the Boxer and Pete the Bar
keep" proper names unknown, subpe-
naed to aid him in proving an alibi.
Subpenaes accordingly issued.
An additional charge of horse steal
ing was filed against RaouI de Costa,
on trial before Judge Mogan for pur-
loining a team belonging to the Has
lett Warehouse Company. The second
complaint was sworn to by w. W. An
derson of S44 Geary street and set
forth that on May % the gentleman
with the society drama cognomen did
feloniously take and drive away one
harnessed horse, also a buggy. Both
cases were continued till next Tues
day and the detectives say that before
then they will have more charges of
the same kind to fasten on Raoul.
Charles Rose and Robert Horton.
juvenile tourists from Milwaukee, were
armed with loaded revolvers when
Patrolman Skain overhauled them at
2 o'clock yesterday morning on the
Barbary Coast. They pleaded fear of
attack by footpads, as before leaving
home they were warned that San
Francisco is a ''robbing town" To
which Judge Mogan said:
Tut, tut, Charles and Robert While
in San Francisco you can leave your
shooting irons in your trunks with i'm
punity. We have some robbing here,
'tis true, but the percentage of it ac-
hcompanied by violence is trifing. Even
in your own city, made famous by its
beer, / understand tnar most of the
pilfering is done by politicians. Go
your way and don't believe all you
hear about the 'toughness' of San
; Francisco"