The San Francisco call., 1904-06-15

The rare spectacle of a jury of two
hearing testimony and returning
verdict was seen yesterday in Police
/ Judge Cabaniss' court William Dan
iels and Fred Hahn, apprentice har-
nessmakers, were the defendants,
whom Joseph Rico Of SO Rausch
street accused of peace disturbance
and battery. He testified that he ac
cepted employment in a Front-street
harness factory from which they had
retired because their demand for higher
( wages had been refused, and that on
| June they assaulted him after he had
! declined to resign his position. They
pulled him off a street car and called
him insulting names, he said. The de-
fense was a denial of the charges. and
/ the verdict was acquittal after the two
| good men and true had been locked up
! for seven minutes.
1t was the contention of the rival
: attorneys that resulted in reducing the
panel to two members. The legal rep
resentative of the Citizens Alliance
! conducted the prosecution, and Walter
/ Gallagher was retained by the Har-
/ nessmakers' Union, so the case, al
/ though trivial in itself, possessed all
! the interest that attaches to any con-
! f1ict between the advocates and op-
ponents of the ''open shop" There
/ was a venire of fifty to draw from,
| but none of the men sworn seemed
/ eager to serve, and finally the situation
| reached a point when it meant either
| proceeding to trial with a jury of two
or trying a new venire. So the attor
neys agreed to go ahead with the duo
/ in the box, consisting of F. Beckstein
/ of 1861 Market street and S. G.. Mosti
of "a Seventh street.
! Neither of the jurors seemed to
| relish the responsibility that was so
suddenly thrust upon them, and one
of them so informed the Judge.
! My dear SIR, said His Honor, you
/ have only to imagine that you have
( eleven companions instead of one, and
( to base your finding upon the evidence.
I Then the rest will be easy. How would
/ you like to sit here day after day,
as 1 do, and assume entire response
+ bility of deciding the guilt or inno-
! cence of a defendant. instead Of shar-
/ ing it with another, as you do in this
case?''
( The juror replied that one-half of
! the responsibility was as much as he
cared to shoulder.
Policeman Hemenez testified that on
Monday afternoon he was summoned
/ by telephone to hasten to the
rear of the saloon at 547 How
ard street. where he would see
/ something worth witnessing and Ger.
L s,T
/ He hastened as requested, and at the
| place designated found Mrs. Cecilia
/ Hughes of A Harriet street and Mrs.
/ Kitty Moore of 6111a Jessie street dane
/ ing for the entertainment of a small
I but select group of spectators, fnclud-
/ ing some children. The dance was en-
/ hanced in effectiveness by the scant
/ costume Of the dancers. When ar
rested Mrs. Hughes resolutely de-
/ clined to don any more cloth
| ing. but Mrs. Moore, who was less
/ intoxicated and more amenable to rea-
/ son, did consent to put on her skirt
and shoes. In that condition they were
/ conveyed TO prison in a patrol wagon.
! When the women were arraigned be-
| fore Judge Mogan they had not en-
/ tirely recovered from the effects Of
1 their imbibing. and with arms inter-
/ locked they swayed unsteadily before
the bar and pleaded not guilty. His
Honor promptly ordered their removal.
/ They will be sentenced to-day.
Judge Cabaniss dismissed the charge
/ of assault with intent to do bodily
| injury which Edmund E. Coblentz,
| newspaper reporter, had entered
against former Police Sergeant Reuben
+ f. Wolf and then the defendant was
! Immediately rearrested on a charge of
/ battery sworn to by the same COM
plainant before Judge Fritz. VOLTS
| bail was fixed at $1,000, and he fur
! nished it.
! The original charge was dismissed
| because the testimony was insufficient
| to prove it, but there is ample evil
| dence to support the accusation Of
! battery. Wolf will be arraigned be-
/ fore Judge Fritz this morning.
/ When the Latin quarter hears that
Mary Cuneo, chronic disturber of the
peace and defendant in Police Court,
4 is in her cups and on the warpath,
/ there is a general scurrying for cover
behind DarreQ QOOTS- Inc DTdNeSL spirit
in all that brave district prefers COM
pulsory seclusion to encountering
Mary's tongue and fists. So it came to
pass that when she started out to
/ find a fight last Monday afternoon her
quest was vain. Little Italy fed at
her approach as chaff scatters before
the wind 1t was in sheer desperation,
| therefore, that she decided to seek a
scrap" where a ''scrapper" was GER
tain to be found. she went to the sa-
| loon owned and presided over by Toby
! Irwin. the well-known lightweight
pugilist, and smashed a window by
way of a challenge. But i'll fortune
attended the experiment. Irwin prob
ably had heard of her fistic prowess.
/ or it may have been that he considered
it indiscreet to go out Of his class and
| give away so muchN weight (she tips
/ the beam at 1S3 pounds); but, whatever
\ biu Yaa son he Side-stepDed the def and