The San Francisco call., 1904-04-28
MRS. C0RDELIA B0TKIN Is HELD
FOR NUMBERING MRS. |. H. DEANE
Police Judge ConIan Reviews Testimony and Says
1t Is Sufficiently Conclusive to Justify Him
in Holding Notorious Defendant Without Bail
his case will be resumed to-day.

playing craps in the rear apartment OF
Hamilton's cigar store, 356 Third street,
informed Judge Mogan that the COM
planning policemen were mistaken, as
the prearranged and only object of
their congregating was to organize the
Peerless Social Club, which is now
duly incorporated. All the defendants
adhered to this explanation of their
foregathering, and officers Skelly and
Small swore with equal positiveness
that they found money wagers and
dice upon a table surrounded by the
defendants and heard technical terms
Of craps freely and loudly interchanged.
The proprietor of the cigar store, a
young man with ferruginous curls
masking his forehead, stated he did not
know what was being done in the rear
room, as he let the boys have the use
of the apartment when they told him
they desired TO get together and take
the steps preliminary to adding a page
TO the Blue Book. He was excused
without being reminded that not very
long ago he was a defendant on a
charge of violating the anti-pool selling
ordinance
Then the case of the unlucky thir-
teen was continued till tomorrow.
Sixteen-year-old Walter Johnson.
tall for his age and fiery of hair. pro-
fessed inability to tell what prompted
him to climb lamp post at Eddy and
Steiner streets and perch there while
he dipped the business end of a broom
into an adjoining pool of dirty water
and Herewith besprinkle an Italian
vegetable peddler and his stock in
trade. The boys father also confessed
himself unable TO find logical reason
for such conduct, but darkly hinted
that there was something behind the
case. and some day it may come to
light
L cannot conceive of anything be-
hind it other than a silly spirit of mis-
chief in your son. who ought to be
either at school or working" was Judge
Mogan's comment. Then the case went
over till this morning.
Ed Weaver. who introduced himself
to Judge Mogan as vice president of
the Shoemakers' Union, was found
guilty Of battery, the complaining
witnesses being two of his fellow
workmen in a footwear factory at
Hayes and Polk streets. The defend
ant did not deny that he had assault
ed the complainants, and when asked
why he did it he replied:
They were bad actors in the union"
Wherein did their bad acting COLI
sist?" his Honor asked.
Well" said Mr.. Weaver. "thev'd
start to work before the whistle blew"
Then why didn't you discipline them
through the union instead of assault
ing them?'
No answer Sentence to-day.
Mary Z. Blethen. a comely matron.
copiously wept, frantically tore her
hair and wildly called for pitv as her
husband. told Judge Mogan how the
woman had made his home a hades bv
her dissolute conduct
She has been steadily drunk for six
years." said the man, "and she has
shamefully neglected our two little
girls
Officer Young of the S. P. c. c.
corroborated the husbands testimony.
and the woman was sentenced to six
months Imprisonment. The BIethens
reside at 4S7 Sixth street
r. II. Reynolds, whose whiskers were
suggestive of a relic of PopulIsm. said
he came from Colusa and was without
criminal intent when a policeman ar
rested him for having Chinese lottery
drawings in his possession. Then he
paid S. fine TO Clerk Grey of Judge
/ Mogans court.
1t was costly April 1 joke that ].
c. McGregor played upon a sport-loving
populace. for Judge Conlan yesterday
sentenced him TO six months imprison-
ment for obtaining money under false
pretense.
Mr.. McGregor celebrated All Fools
/ day by standing at the door of his
residence on the Barbary Coast shout
( ing. in the dialect beloved by Meenister
McLaren o. Thrums:
I Thees way, callants. thees way!
Plank doom a deem-ten bawbees-an'
We kin gang eenside an see a Draw
sicht-a boxin' match"
Among those lured by the McGregor
| slogan was policeman in plain
clothes. He paid his dime, entered the
door and was confronted by a corpu-
lent lady, who laughingly held up for
his inspection an ordinary matchbox
and an ordinary match.
April fool" she chuckled. This is
the box an match. Don't Civ it away
when you go outside. We're foolin' doz
ems of 'em."
As the lady did not receive any
money from the victims Of McGregors
joke she was dismissed.
In their rivalry to capture an immi-
grant at the ferry depot J. L. Souther.
baggage hustler, and Matt WheIan,
hackman, so far exceeded the rules of
etiquette as to punch each other and
mix it," The immigrant went his way
and they were arrested, but as the
honors of combat seemed to have been
about equally divided Judge Mogan
dismissed the combatants with a eau
ton.
Disturbance Of the peace was the
charge against Milton Slender Alfred
Negle and John Kilduff, each about 20
years of age. and a patrolman stated
that it had been their wont to assem-
BILE on Sundays at Hyde street and
Broadway and indulge in loud, vulgar
and profane language, to the great dis