The San Francisco call., 1905-08-15

pulling a knob attached to a wire, and
each pull brings a responsive changing.
brazen, loud and prolonged. One pull was
sufficient to awaken all the inmates, but
Mr.. Sweeney did not satisfy himself with
one. 1t was his wont to lfnger with the
knob in his clutch and repeat his jerks
until every one in the house was out of
bed and in fighting mood. Then he dis
creetly retired.
''If he isn't compelled to let me alone"
said Mrs. Sweeney to Judge Fritz, Il
won't have a boarder left, for each OF
them has told me that unless sleep is OBJ
tainable in my house I will soon be its
sole occupant. They sympathize with me,
Of course, but they can't afford to be kept
awake all night"
His Honor is devising ways and means
to prevent Mr.. Sweeney from renewing
the persecution of his better half, which
was interrupted by his arrest on her COM
plant.
Marion Laramore, bright seventeen
year-old calmly averred that ere he
indulged in the stone-throwing for
which he was arrested at First and Te-
hama streets, his right jaw had been
smitten with a fragment of rock, about
the size of a hens egg, and he believed
that the person who hurled 1t was con-
cealed on the roof of a nearby house.
DO you mean to tell me-" incredu
lously inquired Judge Fritz, that an
egg-sized stone cast from roof struck
your jaw and made no injury?"
Yes, sir" was the unruff1ed reply.
And yet" mused his Honor, "one
Battling Nelson has acquired fame and
ducLts because he refrains from going
to sleep when his jaw has been jolted
with soft glove. Go home, Master
Laramore and consider yourself a mar
vel of ability to withstand physical
punishment-if not of ability to pre-
varicate."
Six defunct cotton-tail rabbits were
offered as material evidence that Gio-
vanni Varney did discharge firearms
within the city boundaries and close to
Golden Gate Park, and Patrolman Levy
swore that he not only heard the re-
port of Signor Varneys shotgun, but
actually saw him shoot. Yet the Signor
blandly informed Judge Fritz that he
killed the rabbits at San Pedro, which
is beyond the county line but the plea
was ignored and pronouncement of
guilty handed down.
Then the rabbits abruptly and mys-
terlously disappeared, and no person in
the courtroom could inform the inter
ested bailiffs whittier they had gone.
: Patrolman Minehan arrested J. Fran
els Conf for drunkenness in Pinckney
place. and as he was escorting his
prisoner to the pearest patrol box
Charles Migno, saloon keeper, accosted
him and spake as follows:
Say, wotinell r yah pinchin' dat
mug for wen his pockets fulla money?
Wotyah tryin' tab do, anyhow? Spoil
bizniz 'roun' here, hey? Say. wotyah
t'ink wese guys pay rent m put up
license for, hey? Let tha mug go m
giftiz a chance tab get dollar Say,
yah mex may tired"
Mr.. Migpo's oral appeal was supple
mented with physical endeavor to re-
lease the opulent Mr. Comi from his
custodian's clutch, and he, too, was ar
rested.
Judge Fritz dismissed Mr.. Comi and
fined Mr.. Migno in a sum of SIS for in
terfering with a policeman.
William Zachozerski, accused of
stealing a stove from Arnold LAWNS
stock of hardware at 1856 Mission
street by selling it for SO to a friend
of his named Lavette, although it was
worth $40 of any shrewd speculators
money, declared he had perfect right
to make the sale, inasmuch as by oral
agreement he was the complainants
business partner Judge Fritz there
upon gave him until to-day to prove