The San Francisco call., 1905-05-02

aldSOn and Lee e. Matthews, came
together" with the result that Mr..
Donaldson was arrested for battery on
Mr.. Matthews.
The DonaldSonS and the Matthews
are residents in the 200 block of Mir
amar avenue, Ingleside District, and
last Sunday morning the alleged bat
terry was committed. Mrs. Matthews.
who transferred her baby to the keep
ing of Mr.. Matthews ere she ascended
the witness stand, informed Police
Judge Fritz that she was seated upon
her porch, the aforementioned infant
being in her lap, when she heard a
scutt1ing as Of persons engaged in ac-
tive conflict, but as the scene Of battle
was around corner she could not see
who the combatants were. From the
fact, however, that she heard the voice
of Mrs. Donaldson shout, "Bobi Bob!"
she naturally inferred that Mr.. DON
aldson and Mr.. Matthews were at it"
and after depositing her baby in a safe
place she went and got a gun, her. in
tent being to shoot, if that extreme
should become necessary to protect her
and hers from the Dona1dsons and
theirs. Fortunately she was not i'm
PEELED TO discharge the firearm.
Mrs.. Donaldson did not appear in
court to support her husbands plea Of
provocation, and the Judge seemed to
think her testimony would be less val
liable than that of certain COMPARE
lively disinterested young lady who
had seen the scrap" and knew Of the
circumstances that led to it, so a SUBJ
pena was issued for the young lady's
naturalization in court next Friday.
Robert Rock and three male COM
panions were touring the world via the
canal-tunnel. route at the Chutes, and
when their boat. arrived off Naples
they mischievously disabled the ma
chinery that propelled all the craft in
the fiume, thus bringing the scattered
fleet to standstill. In the balmy
Italian atmosphere Mr. Rock and
chums Jared pleasantly, but the voy-
ayers who were stranded in less IA
vored cliMes had less agreeable ex-
perience. A party of three suffered
keeI1ly in the Klondike because of their
sartorial unpreparedness for a pro-
longed stay at that latitude, and the
occupants Of boat that halted in
darkest Africa sweltered in the torrid
heat and hoped they would escape
jungle fever. Ere the special police
man detailed to discover and remove
the obstacle to free navigation had time
to reach Naples-he having been
obliged to cross two continents to get
there-one of Mr.. Rocks comrades
playfully uprooted Vesuvius and razed
the Palace of Doges by battering 1t
with the Bridge Of Signs. AS COM
mander of the crew, however. Mr. Rock
was the only member Of the quartet
subjected to arrest, and he promptly
paid the S5 fine imposed by Judge Mo-
gan.
Mrs. May Dutra expressed regret
that she had formally charged Louis
Lacazzett, husband and father, with
the betrayal of her 15-year-old daugh-
ter. In explanation of her extraordin-
ary state Of mind she stated that while
she did not doubt the mans guilt, she
sympathized with his two little chill
protection If he were convicted.
You are the most heartless mother
I ever heard Of" said Judge Mogan
to Mrs Dutra- The awful predica-
ment Of your own child seems to trou-
BILE you less than does the misfortune
of those who are dependent upon tho
man who. has ruined her character. It
luctance to prosecute IL Of mercenary
instead of humane prompting. In
other words, / believe you have been
fixed either with money or promise
of money, to withdraw your COM
plant. At any rate, you have proved
yourself utterly unfit to be intrusted
with the care of this young girl and
she will be sent to the Magdalen Asy-
lum pending the outcome OF the case"
The girl cried bitterly as she was
removed In custody Of Policeman
White and Miss Garrity. the probation
officer. A continuance was then or
dered until May In order to permit
the prosecution to produce documen-
tary proof Of the date of the little VIC
TINS birth.
Marty Murphy, the baseball player
who battered Umpire Perrine last Sun
day while game was in progress at
Recreation Park, will receive hearing
next Thursday before Judge Cabaniss.
Carl Muller suspected that Irene Du-
plice had picked his pocket of $15 while
he was conversing with her in a Pa
cific-street dance hall, and he was
choking her to enforce his demand that
CHE return the cash whan PafrnIrrno :,