The San Francisco call., 1904-04-06
JUDGE MOGAN PREVENTS
WIFE VISITING SPOUSE
After Getting Her Husband Arrested and Telling Peous
Tale of His Cruelty to Her, the Woman Provides Him
With Comforts Prison. but Again Resolves to Prosecute

In the case of the Johnsons, Michael
and Hattie, it developed yesterday that
since his Incarceration on her COM
plant the young wife has visited the
middle-aged husband at the City Prison
and supplied him with creature COM
scrts; also that she neglected to ap-
pear in Judge Mogan's court last Mon
day to prosecute, as she had been in
structed to do, and that an attachment
for her person was issued to secure her
attendance yesterday.
For a while the unfortunate woman
testified reluctantly, but under direct
questioning by the Judge, and despite
the strenuous objections of the defend
ants attorney, she gradually abandoned
whatever lenient intentions she may
have harbored and told her piteous
story freely. From the time when, as
a 16year-old girl, she was ruined by
Johnson until his arrest last Friday
she had been his helpless slave, sup
porting him in idleness, under intimi-
dation, by the earnings of her shame.
He it was who arranged the prelimi-
naries of her admission to various i'm
moral houses in Portland, Los Angeles
and this city, and he it was who threat
ened to kill her if she ever appeared
in court against him. During her re-
cital Johnson stared fixedly in her face,
but she kept her eyes upon her kindly
interrogation and spoke fearlessly.
The attorney for the defense alluded
70 hfc oil ha del
zen, and the allusion apparently ex-
ploded the judicial indignation which
the womans tale had kindled.
This defendant" said the court, 'is
the most depraved and contemplate
wretch that has ever appeared before
me- and while he shall be treated fairly
within the law, he shall receive no con-
cessions from this bench. His unfor-
tunate wife is entitled to protection,
and 1 shall see to it that she is neither
coerced nor cajoled into refusing to
prosecute him.
Then, turning to the bailiff, the Judge
requested him to inform the city jailer
that the woman was not to be allowed
to hold any communication whatever
with the defendant
A motion to dismiss the charge of
carrying concealed weapons was re-
fused, as was an application for
transfer of the case to another de-
partment on the ground that Judge Mo-
gan had shown prejudice.
The record shows no such preju-
dice" was Judge Mogan's only COM
ment Then he advised the prosecut-
ing attorney to supply the police au-
thorities of Oakland with that portion
of the woman's testimony stating that
her husband had placed her in a dis
reputable house there and collected her
earnings.
The hearing will be resumed this
morning
In addition to violating the ordi-
nance which prohibits the selling of
pools on sporting events, an offense of
which he was convicted yesterday in
Conlan's court, w. j. Meyer stands ac-
cused of "welching," and may be for
mally charged with embezzlement.
]. Cole, the complaining witness, tes-
titled that after losing several invest
ments in the race handbook kept by
Meyer at his cigar store, 4S Fourth
street, he at last picked a horse named
ChlD hS " VIII DIT Odhlduu, anu ShlD
Me did not disappoint him. The pre-
vailing odds were to 1, and Cole
backed his judgment with s5, thus win
ming $40. But when he went to collect
Meyer coolly informed him that no
such wager had been entered in his
book and firmly declined to give Cole
as much as one cent. Coles statement
was corroborated by j. Horton, who
was present when the S. was staked on
Skip Me and heard the terms of the
wager.
Meyer denied that he conducted a
pool room, but the court disbelieved his
plea and ordered him to appear to-day
for sentence. Then it was suggested to
Cole that he might make a charge of
embezzlement stick against Meyer, and
Cole has the suggestion under advise
ment.
Maurice Knapp, a ladies' tailor, and
the husband of one of his customers
were before Judge Cabaniss on charges
of disturbing the peace, and after all
the evidence had been heard, the court
dismissed the case as one that could be
amicably settled without the aid Of the |
laws machinery.
1t appeared that the tailor made a |
SIS dress for the lady and that in pay
ment for it her husband offered $40 |
cash and bill for S. which he held !
against the tailor's father-in-law, and |
that thereupon the tailor waxed |
mighty, wroth and refused to accept |
anything but full payment in money, |
with the result that an alteration en-
sued which led to the court proceed |
ings.
Laura Martinez, who was born on
one Of the spice islands that stud the
Snarnish Main held hnf hno rt i,nton n4 -.