The San Francisco call., 1904-03-06

months imprisonment by Judge Mo-
gan.
Morris Auerbach, who has attained
police notice through his penchant for
accosting strangers and abusing them
orally, was caught performing his act
Friday evening on Point Lobos avenue,
far from his usual haunts, and yester-
day morning Judge Mogan gave him
three months to ventiIate his vitupera-
F., ton in the County Jail
| Two pleas for leniency in behalf of
as many youthful lawbreakers as
| cended to the bench of Cabaniss. John
H. O'Connor, aged 19, was convicted
of having obtained goods by falsely
representing that he was an employe
/ of Jepson Bros, whip manufacturers.
| His petition for mercy might have
been more successful if the court had
not remembered that a few months
ago he worked an exactly similar
game by naming Nathan Dohrmann
& Co. as his employers. At that time
he and his mother begged tearfully
that he be given another chance and
he was given it. AS the lads attor-
sound the court has passed him. UP to
the Lunacy Commission.
Grand larceny was the charge
against William Connolly, aged 21, ac-
cused of stealing anvils from the Will
merding School. William asked per-
mission to plead guilty to petty lar
ceny, but as he had been convicted of
the minor offense on previous occa-
sion his request was firmly declined
and the case continued.
Politics figures in the complaint of
NJ. Jasper Mcdonald against william
Bell and threatening to kill is the
charge on hearing before Judge Ca
baniss. Mcdonald was a member of
the Board of Park Commissioners
when that body decided it had no fur
ther need of Bells services as a paint
er, and Bell ascribed his removal to
McDonald's influence. So when Nc
Donald was retired from the board
Bell exulted, and when the two men
met on the street a few days ago the
painter uttered remarks that led to
his arrest.
Mcdonald alleges that Bell said
among other offensive things: Now
we are on terms of equality, and I
have good mind to cut your throat.
You cut my throat, and now Mayor
Schmitz has cut yours" Mr.. Forbes
a friend of Mcdonald, interviewed be-
fore Bell could execute his cutting
threat, if its execution had ever been
seriously intended, and the arrest was
made.
Judge Cabaniss continued the case
for a week. Bell is active in Butcher
town politics and once was a candi-
date for the State Senate.
Mrs. Mary Davis informed Judge
Cabaniss that w. F. Burke had mali
ciously cut down some carpets which
she had just washed and suspended
from a clothesline to dry. and that he
had added insult to injury by calling
her a murderess.
w. F. Burke informed Judge Ca
baniss that Mrs. Mary Davis had hung
her soggy carpets in such way that
soiled water dripped from them upon
his freshly laundered linen and that
! when he protested she sneeringly re-
marked that none of his children
looked in the least like him, thereby
insinuating that they were not his
children at all.
The parties are separate occupants
of a tenement at 1861 Sixth street and
their mutual antipathy is said to be
fierce and of long standing. Mrs. Da-
Wis was tried and acquitted several
years ago on a charge of having
caused the death of Mrs. Klein and
her child, who were killed by an ex-
ploding lamp. 1t was this incident
that probably prompted Burke to call
Mrs. Davis a murderess.
After hearing both sides of the
case Judge Cabaniss decided that the
honors were about even and ordered
a dismissal.
The two Rooney brothers peddle fruit
in a single wagon, and so closely do
they resemble each other in personal
appearance that the naked eye expe-
riences difficulty in determining which
one of them is James and which one
John. At least that is what police
man yesterday told Judge Mogan, be-
| fore whom James was accused of ply
ing his calling without license. The
policeman also opined that the two
! Rooneys had only one legal permit be-
tween them and alternately used it
when occasion demanded. Each of
| them naQ Deen ONeTnduleQ De1Ore, Dut
not until Friday did the asked for
license fail to materialize. James was
unable to produce when requested to
show his warrant for hawking oranges
James, you must get a license if
you intend to peddle fruit, said the
court This two-Dromios business
cannot be worked with impunity
any longer, for the argus eye
Of the police is fixed on you and your
brother, and you might as well sue
| cumb to the inevitable"
James promised to equip himself with
license forthwith, and he was allowed
to go free.
George Guerin and Frank Carroll.
who stood up and robbed a man named
Joyce one night last week on Bryant
street, were held to answer to the Su-
perior Court by Judge Mogan. with
bail for each fixed at $4,000. John w.
Aiker, pantryman aboard the river