The San Francisco call., 1905-02-05


the reputation for wisdom acquired by
the Scottish bard who wrote:
For rank is but the guinea stamp
The mans the man for a that. ~
Witnesses of the final struggle tes-
titled before Police Judge Fritz that
it was strenuous and decisive. With
the perversity that cynicism pro-
nounces inseparable from her. sex,
Miss Montague switched her allegi-
ance from the corporal to the SER
geant and then abruptly transferred
it to the private, where it adhered
with a tenacity that neither the single
nor united effort of the Tilted non-coms
could relax. Arm in arm with her
latest choice she paraded the waxed
floor until the temper of the ousted
duo succumbed to the strain, and they
attempted to accomplish by violent
means what blandishrnent had failed
to effect. Casting themselves sinul-
taneously upon the private they tried
to break him. away from Miss zMonta-
guess clutch, and then the battle was
on The. private proved himself as
formidable in combat as in love. for
when. the police entered the arena
they found his superior officers pros
trate, while he and the more-than-
ever-infatuated Miss Montague strut
ted in triumph. 1t was despite the
protest of all neutral onlookers that
he was placed under arrest with his
.vanquished rivals, for the poetry Of
the situation clearly opposed such a
climax. To the victor belonged the
spoils of war, and no portion of its
penalty was logically pleaded in the
private's behalf, but with charac-
teristic lack of either sentiment or
practical discrimination the police
tore him from Miss Montague's en-
brace and booked the soldiers three
for peace disturbance.
Prior to the calling of the case it
was whispered in the court corridors
that Miss Montague's sudden surren-
der to the private was actuated less
by admiration for him than by resent
ment of caustic comment flung by a
sister danseuse. This lady was re-
ported to have said when she saw the
corporal abandoned for the sergeant,
1.-The sergeant is Johnnie on the spot
until a soldier of higher rank comes
in, and then he'll be where the cor
poral is.' This remark, rumor had it,
was either overheard by or trans
mitted to Miss Montague, and to con-
found it's author she descended from
the sergeant to the private at one
swoop.
Judge Fritz emulated the police
mems failure to reward valor and
fined each OF. the defendants $40.
Mrs Hugh Krens. whose husband
was arrested for beating her, told
Judge Mogan that she was sales
woman at the Emporium when she
became bride last October and that
since then she has supported her hus-
band in idleness by leading an i'm
moral life, he having forced her to
do so. She had tried to get away
from his influence, but he threatened
to kill her II she left him, and he was
brandishing a knife when she
screamed for help last Friday night
in her apartment at 311 Grant avenue.
Judge Mogan held the defendant in
$1,000 bal, and suggested that he be
formally charged with having COM
PEELED his wife to lead life of shame.
The amended complaint will be heard
tomorrow.
Patrick O'Brien said he did not desire
to prosecute Thomas E. Stack, by
whom he was stabbed about a dozen
times at Fourth and Folsom streets
several weeks ago. 1t was in resent
ment Of an insult addressed to his wife
by O'Brien that Stack piled his knife
Judge Mogan dismissed the charge OF
assault with a deadly weapon.
Confessing inability to probe to the
bottom the case in which Giovanni
Dondado was accused of pursuing D.
Martini with a hatchet and apparent
murderous intent, Judge Cabaniss dis
missed the complaint. There were halt
a dozen Italian witnesses and each of
them told an almost entirely different
story Of the chase and what led to 1t.
PREDATORY to his sentencing of ]. w.
Alley, vagrant, to three months i'm
prisonment, Judge Fritz said:
The present Legislature would do a
commendable thing by passing up to
the Governor a bill making 1t felony
for a man to accept maintenance from