The San Francisco call., 1904-07-03
FALLS ASLEEP IN CASK
AND SHORES AND SWELLS
George Long Seeks Slumber in a Barrel That Once
Contained Whisky, and the Fumes Of the Stuff
Bloat Him So That He Has to Be Chopped Out


prosecuted under the State as well as
the municipal law. The matter is
likely to be threshed cut In court next
Tuesday.
Judge Conlan pronounced J. Poreison
guilty Of practicing optometry without
having first provided himself with the
certificate OF competency demanded by
the State, and w. M Mcguire. special
prosecutor in the case, earned some
prestige as the attorney who secured
the first conviction under the new law.
Sentence will be postponed till next
Wednesday,.
Judge Fritz continued till Tuesday
the case Of 17-year-old Herbert Ja-
cobs, accused Of battery. Patrolman J.
Galloway testified that the boy was not
looking ahead Of him as he ran swiftly
around the corner Of the Palace Hotel
at Market and New Montgomery
streets, and that when the woman with
whom he collided was extricated from
the mix-up her silk dress was torn to
ribbons. The defendant declares the
collision was unavoidable.
William Hammet didn't exactly re-
member what prompted him to bonn
bard with rocks and fists tho doors of
various houses IN Bartlett alley, but
was inclined to think that his inspira-
ton was moral, because In his sober
moments he had often grieved over the
futile efforts Of Chief of Police Whitman
to close UP the city's disreputable
houses. He had no fault to find with
Policeman Farrell for arresting him,
because he knew that his conduct was
law-breaking, but he hoped that Judge
Mogan would take into consideration
the character of the places he assailed
and the probable motive that actuated
him. The Judge promised to think 1t
over
Policeman Curtin told how he rushed
the line Of pickets thrown out by the
director general Of the crap game In
the alley back of the Palace Hotel, and
how he managed to bag 12-year-old
Willie Curtin, while a dozen other juve-
nile knights of chance escaped by rum
ming. The young gamesters, mostly
newsboys, had made so much noise as
to annoy certain hotel guests, whose
complaint to the management resulted
in Curtin being specially detailed by
Chief Whitman to break up the game
and arrest as many of the gamesters
as he could catch. Willie's aged mother
appeared in court and made such an
eloquent appeal IN her sons behalf that
Judge Mogan suspended sentence and
advised Willie to stick to marbles.
Max Kantowitz, charged with cruelty
to animals, took his alleged horse to the
Hall Of Justice and invited Judge Mo-
gan to step downstairs and see for him
self whether the animal was In such a
dilapidated condition as Policeman
Hooper had alleged. When the Judge
arrived at the sidewalk he casually in
quired whose automobile 1t was that
stood In front of the hall entrance, and
officer Hooper explained that it was
not a chug- -chug machine. but the Kan
towitz horse, that confronted his
Honor.
THAT a horsei" exclaimed the Judge
after rubbing his eyes and gazing long
and searchingly at the strange-appear-
ing and inanimate structure. Then he
acknowledged that 1t did bear some
slight resemblance to equine anatomy,
and when he returned to his bench Mr..
Kantowitz was discharged and the
thing at the door sentenced to imme-
date transformation into chicken feed.
With a knotted rope end Florence
Mccarthy was disciplining a revolu-
tionary steed on the main driveway Of
Golden Gate Park when he was arrest
ed for cruelty to an animal, and when
he failed to respond to the calling of
his name in Judge Mogan's court his
$40 bail was declared forfeited.