The San Francisco call., 1904-04-17

HioIilHS, ana SO deeply impressed was
his Honor by the pathos of the nara
tive that he continued the case till
next Wednesday, by which time the
defendants hope to have sufficient
testimony to convince him that their
Imprisonment would convey to the up
per stratum of Barbary Coast society
deprivation most cruel.
Stealing bread was the charge
against Thomas Wilson and the COM
plainant was Mission grocer.
Before stealing that loaf" the de-
, , fendant pleaded before Judge Fritz. II
. had eaten nothing for thirty-six hours
and continually walked the streets
during that time. 1 have lived in San
Francisco thirty-fivc years and once
| was well-to-do. Speculation in mining
stocks ruined me. and Of all the men
that once called me friend not one
VIII keep me from starvation or theft
by giving me employment"
The complaining grocer stated that
he did not desire to prosecute Wilson
and the charge was dismissed.
Charles Thompson was saunterins
along Pinckney alley last Friday even
Ing, when Beulah Faggett suddenly
emerged from her dwelling and smash
ed a heavy crockery basin upon his
head. He went down and out and
she was taken to prison for battery.
Mr.. Thompson's mental faculties were
rather confused when he tried to- ex-
plain why he had been assaulted, but
enough of his story was ineligible to
convince the police that he had offered
no provocation for the woman's act.
She is reserving her defense until the
case is called before Judge Conlan to-
morrow.
Save me from myself" said George
Smith to Patrolman Winslow last Fri
day evening on Third street.
What's the matter with you" in
quired the officer
II have been hitting up the booze
steadily for a week." replied George,
and now I'm in the stage that tempts
suicide. If you don't lock me up I'll
likely be a dead one tomorrow"
The officer complied with the request,
and ere the prisoner arrived at the
Hall of Justice his lucid interval had
lapsed and he was frenzied inebriate.
A night Of solitary confinement and
enforced abstinence from intoxicants
restored his reason to some extent,
however. and his mind was pretty clear
as he faced Judge Mogan yesterday
morning. To complete the SOLDERING
process he was given another weeks
Imprisonment.
Because he attempted to promote the
| safety Of pedestrians passing his dwell
ing, on Broadway, between Front and
Davis streets, Louis Chicci was ar
rested for laying a wooden sidewalk
without a legal permit to do so.
| Mr.. Chicci explained to Judge Mo
gan that the timbers composing the
footway fronting his residence are old
and loose. and that his religious sense
| has often been shocked by the pro-
| family uttered by persons whose shins
| were barked by detached planks fly
ing UP and striking them. 1t was in
a spirit of philanthropy, he said, and
with no intention to defy the laws, that
he procured hammer and some nails
| and started to fasten down the pro-
vokers of unholy language, and in that
occupation he was industriously en-
gagged when a policeman gathered him
| in.
Charge dismissed.
Mrs. Ellen McGibney on two sepa-
rate occasions was caught in the act of
stealing chickens from the poultry yard
of Mrs. Mary Zickgruff, at 121 Converse
street, and on each occasion Mrs. Zick-
gruff's remonstrance against the pill
fering of her feathered property was
followed by a display Of fistic science
on the part of Mrs. McGibney and
damage to the face Of Mrs. Zickgruff.
1t was on Friday last that the latest
attack by Mrs. McGibney upon the
countenance Of Mrs. Zickgruff was
made, and as evidence of it Mrs. Zick-
gruff showed broken nose yesterday
to Judge Mogan, who said to the de-
fendant:
Mrs. McGibney, the purloining Of
Mrs Zickgruff's hens and the battering
of Mrs. Zickgruff's face seems to have
become a habit with you, and to en-
able you to get rid of it 1 will sentence
you to as long a term of imprisonment
as the law allows.\ Call around again
Monday"
The death of witness whose testi-
mony was essential to conviction re-
suited in dismissal of the felony en-
| bezzlement charge against Charles
| Clark in Judge Mogan's court. Clark
was accused of embezzling $10S so while
he was employed as bookkeeper for the
| Farmers and Manufacturers Associa-
| ton of America, and it was on motion
of the District Attorney that the case
| was dismissed.
| Charles Gale, convicted Of battery
J was given thirty days by Judge Mogan.
The complaining witness was Miss
Clara Goodman, who was walking with
young man when Gale, maddened by
| jealousy, struck her on the face, and
was promptly knocked down by her
escort, his skull being fractured by its
| impact with a curbstone.
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