The San Francisco call., 1904-02-25

sence of Judge Mogan. He is boy
aged to the 16-year notch and for
four spare months he has inhabited
this wild United States after a steer
age voyage from Sicily. From the time
of his arrival he has engaged himself
in the pursuit of stealing copies of The
Call from doorsteps on Green street.
The testimony she ID that the boy
had robbed doorstep after doorstep and
left the occupants of the houses wit
less of the main doings of the day the
while they ate their breakfast food in
silence and knew not whether Japan
or Russia was tGpup in the little mix
up that is occupying the center of the
worlds stage at present
The Judge gave the youth some much
needed advice, partly on the lines of
petty larceny, but more largely on the
deprivation that accrues to citizen
when he finds The Call absent from
his breakfast table.
Under the constitution of the United
States" said the Judge, "a citizen is
entitled to life. liberty and the pursuit
of happiness. A dish of bacon and
tSSSy Will q uON Cup VI COlCCy VIII dAl-
swer the two first prerogatives, but
where can one chase the elusive phan-
tom of JOY unless one reads The Call?"
Pale to the gills, the youth heard the
lecture and promised that never again
would he steal newspapers from door
steps AOn this positive understanding
he was allowed his freedom.
UBabe" Curtin, whose main name is
Anthony, if baptismal cognomens go
for anything, was before Judge Fritz
yesterday on a charge of carrying con-
cealed weapons. He was held under
bail of 800. That was the least of
Babes" troubles He was ready to
furnish 800 in good United States coin,
but Judge Cook differed. There was
a burglary charge against the Babe
that had been pending since last March.
Therein he is charged with burglariz-
ing the premises of a roomer on Mis-
sion street and purloining a watch and
several dollars in hard iron money.
Curtin was ordered into custody with
out bail by Judge Cook, and the ce-
ment floor of the City Prison furnished
him the scant comfort of a bed last
night The case against him is weak
and he will probably be acquitted, but
whatever discipline he gets in the
meantime is coming, to him.
Joseph Hodge was a complaining wit
ness in a grand larceny charge against
William O'Brien and John Moran in
Judge Fritz's court yesterday. The
witness claimed that the two young
men had robbed him of a gold watch
and SO so in coin.
Both defendants testified that Hodge
was old acquaintance of seventeen
years standing and that the alleged
robbery was merely a figment of the
brain. They admitted taking Hodge
to his room in the Lindell Hotel, but
positively denied the larceny of his
money and watch.
Hodge blew into the courtroom dur
ing the hearing withsa load of peaches
that would swamp a Fresno County
orchard. Judge Fritz eyed him classify
for minute and then ordered him into
custody. Bailiff Jack Conlan put him
in the dock and Hodge went off into
sunderland with a rapidity that star
tied a cocaine fiend. "Chee," said the
fiend, IF booze will give the big get
away, why didn't 1 troi dat foist?"
Father Grey, the aged priest, who
claims that Thomas F. Brennan had
robbed him of $4,000. was unable to
appear yesterday in Judge Conlan's
court. Illness and age have gripped
the old pastor forcibly and he is in
no condition to leave his bed.
On the witness stand yesterday there
were three officials of the Crocker-
Woolworth Bank and one from the
Hibernia Bank who told in detail the
monetary transactions that Brennan
conducted with Father Grey's account.
Further hearing in the case was con-
tinued until next Friday.
Edward E. Stoddard, who once was
the manager of the bicycle department
of Dunham, Carrigan & Hayden
Company, was held yesterday to an
swer to the Superior Court by Judge
Fritz in bonds of $4,000 on a charge
of felony embezzlement. The COM
plant alleges the theft of $3.50, but
the firm says that Stoddard is shy more
than $4,000 in his accounts.
II desire to return to that honorable
Nippon and take up honorable arms"
explained Jen KaZa to Judge Conlan
yesterday. For five nights he had
been bedfellow to Chinatown gin
buns, Barbary Coast consumers of
paint and the fiotsam and jetsam that
rest every eve in the City Prison un-
der the generic classification of "lodg-
ers'
He had been plying the trade of
good, honest Industrious schoolboy"
for several years in this port. He
lived up to those conventional asdjec-
tives until the Japs saw Admiral Alex
Jeff first. Then the fire of patriotic
ardor that burned in the breast of J.
Kaza exploded.
He remembered the example of N.
Bonaparte, who got the double cross
in the frozen highways of Russia. He
wanted to prove that this Frenchman
was mutt" He desired to return to
that dear Nippon ond roust up an
army and strike a blow for his home
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