The San Francisco call., 1904-07-07
WOMAN LEAPS OVER GARDEN
FENCE AND BEATS NEIGHBOR
The Failure to Return a Borrowed Household
Article Leads to Severance of the Entente
CordiaIe Between Mrs. Perrin and Mrs. Grod

side of the case of Mrs. Julia Girod or
430 Eleventh avenue against Mrs.
Teresa Perrin, her next door neigh
Dor. The charge was battery and to
Police Judge Mogan was assigned the
, delicate task of getting at the facts
and deciding in accordance with them.
Mrs. Girod testified that until last
January she and Mrs. Perrin had
nothing but kind words for each other
and the severance of their friendship
was entirely Mrs. Perins fault. She
(the witness) was absolutely at a loss
to account for the coldness with which
I Mrs. Perrin repeatedly repulsed her
cordial advances, and finally she
ceased trying to renew Their erstwhile
amicable relationship, pride restrain
ing her from subjecting herself to fur
ther snubs. So for several months
prior to June "a. the date of the al
| legged battery, communication between
the Girod and Perrin households was
entirely suspended.
At the time of the assault, Mrs. Gil
rod stated, she was watering plants in
her garden, when to her amaze
ment, she saw Mrs. Perrin leap
over the five-foot fence that divided
the two rear yards and advance to-
ward her with threatening mien. The
next thing she knew was that Mrs.
Perrin was beIaboring her head with
a heavy stick and calling her some un-
printable names. After she broke the
stick on Mrs. Girod's Uranium, Mrs.
mir nd NKrac a
to utilize it as weapon when a young
child of Mrs. Girod wrested it from
her. Thus disarmed Mrs. Perrin com
pIeted the battery with her fists,
swinging several hard right jOlts into
Mrs. Girod's ribs.
Mrs. Perrin's version of the affair
was somewhat different from that Of
| her accuser. The entente cordiale
was first broken, Mrs. Perrin stated,
by Mrs Girod borrowing from her a
certain domestic utensil and then
slamming the door in her face when
she went to ask that it be returned.
After that she was told by several
persons of unblemished reputation for
| truth and veracity that her character
! had been covertly asailed by Mrs. Gil
rod, and when that lady was taxed
with it she fairly deluged Mrs. Per-
rim with unladylike language.
! 1t was true that Mrs. Perrin had
beaten Mrs. Girod with stick until
! it broke, but the weight and thickness
| of the weapon was exaggerated by the
prosecution, as the Judge could see
! for himself. Shattered stisk pro-
duced in evidence by prosecution.)
An attempt to renew the attack with
an ak was stoutly denied, as was the
administration of body blows with
fists. No, the children had nothing
| to do with inspiring the assault. The
| three little Perrins and the four juve-
nile Girods always got along togeth-
er as agreeably as kids" could get
along with each other. The primal
cause of the trouble was the slamming
of the Girod door in the face of Mrs.
Perrin when she went to ask that the
property borrowed from her be sent
back.
Then came the witnesses. Robert
! Grant, carpenter, saw Mrs. Perrin use
her fists, but not a stick, on Mrs. Gil
rod. Joseph T. Terry knew the par
ties, but did not see the assault and
would like to know what he had been
subpenaed for, anyway. John Perry,
whiskered a la Svengali, saw Mrs. Gil
rod struck with the stick by Mrs. Per-
rim. Harry Perrin, bricklayer, hus-
band of defendant, was sure his wife
did no more, maybe not as much, as
any lady would have done under sim
liar provocation and circumstances.
The case was continued till to-day.
Mrs. Maggie Kelly and Mrs. Mary
MCGOWAN were the stellar performers
in Judge Fritz's court. They live next
door to each other on the first block
of Clara street and opposite to the
domiciles is a police station. But the
latter fact, according to Mrs. Kelly's
complaint. did not restrain Mrs. Nc
Gowan from disturbing the peace. The
specific charge was that Mrs. McGow-
an hurled uncomplimentary allusions
and made threatening demonstrations
at Mrs. Kelly.
"I'll show you how it was, Judge, "
shouted Mrs. MCGOWAN, leaping from
the prisoners bench and swinging
bailiffs and other court attaches aside
until she had cleared a space sufficient
to give her ample room to illustrate
her plea. II was attending to my own
| WHSD lIllS WOtIldn says, says
she, Bring out your bare-legged
Scotchman of a husband and I'll spoil
his face for him. 1 says, says 1, You
know he amt at home or you'd never
say that She says, says she, Wouldn't
/? Well, you're at home and I'll spoil
your mug for you Then we both
went at it."
During the defendants recital the
complainant sat as if transfixed with
horror at it's inveracity and then she
took the floor and graphically describ-
ed how she was doing or saying moth
ing at all when she was suddenly as
sailed by Mrs. MCGOWAN. To which
Mrs. MCGOWAN kept up a steady
"Tschuck, tschuck, tschuck," with her
tongue, thereby expressing both in
credulity and derision.
Twice did the Judge break into the
proceedings and order a brief continu-
ance to give the ladies opportunity to
kiss and make up, but each effort re-
suited in failure. They returned to the