The San Francisco call., 1905-03-24

chin by means of a string encircling his
head. When it was removed the Off
GERS recognized Mr.. KratZ as a man
whom they had been notified to ar
rest the comDlainants being the per-
sons who occupied the house from
which he had just emerged
In the court of Judge Fritz it was
said that Mr.. Kratz had been a lodger
in the house until his infatuation for
the daughter. an invalid, became so an
noying to her and her parents that he
was forced to vacate. Then he loitered
around the premises, endeavoring to
communicate with the sick girl, until
the police were requested to suppress
him. They warned him that he would
be arrested if they again found him
in the vicinity, and not until month
later was he captured as hereinbefore
described.
Very miserable did Mr.. Kratz look as
he heard his misdemeanor recited be-
| fore Judge Fritz. He had gone to Los
Angeles, he said, with intent to live
down his unrequited love, but at the
end of a month the flame burned more
furiously than ever, and he felt that
| he must either gaze once more on the
| face of his inamorata or perish in the
attempt. 1t was for the purpose of de-
| ceiving the police that he made and
| donned the whiskers, and he safely
| passed the picket and entered the
house, only to discover that she whom
| he had come so many miles to look
at was confined to her apartment by
| illness. If the policemen had not seen
| him and suspected he would have es-
capped. for the relatives Of the patient
had not penetrated his disguise.
| The charge against Mr.. Kratz was
/ peace disturbance, and the Judge or
| dered his detention In custody until an
I exploration of the statutes can be made
to ascertain if an additional accusa-
ton of wearing false whiskers cannot
| be entered with some assurance that
+; it shall adhere. The young woman in
| the case is a consumDtive.
Howard Caradoc Rees, former New
brother, r. Llewelyn Rees, back to
I, Gotham. AS a souvenir of his San
| francisco experience Howard Caradoc
| was served with papers notifying min.
tha the has been sued for $4,000 dam
/ ages by r. NJ. Gignoux, whom he as
/ saulted one night several months ago
| at the Princeton Hotel, and for which
assault he was originally arrested.
/ Oscar West a young mulatto, denied
| that he had accentuated the darkness
I of that portion of Miss Dorothy
/ averred that she received the facial
! injury by accidentally falling against
an article of furniture in her apart
ment at sos Bush street.
Oats puah untrufe," declared Miss
! Payne. 80 he's jes' as jellix as de law
| lows, en- eff he amn't stopped he shoah
I, teh de sumfin desprit.''
Painstaking inquiry by Judge Mo-
gan developed the information that
Mr.. West, who is attached to a stable
of bangtails at Emeryville, suspected
that Miss Payne, his fiancee, was TAX
ing advantage of his absence to exer-
else her Establishments on one Rube
Brown, of several degrees lighter com
plexion than her betrothed, and that
she was a steady habitue of the Pa
cific-street concert hall in which Mr..
Brown nightly appeared in likelike
limitations of the smaller member of
the colored comedy team of Williams
and Walker. Indeed, so enamored of
the protean artist had she become
that her infatuation was subject of
much gossip in the social circle moved
in by both herself and Mr.. West and