The San Francisco call., 1905-01-15

accused OF threatening to kill R. M.
Gignoux, launched another vociferous
and incoherent appeal for freedom at
the head of Judge Mogan. His incar-
ceration, he declared, was one of the
greatest outrages ever perpetrated in
the name of law.
'As for this man Gignoux," shouted
the incensed prisoner, hes nothing
more to me than a cockroach. If
were free this minute and were to meet
him, I'd ignore his very existence. For
heavens sake how long am to be i'm
prisoned? ?''
Until next Tuesday" the Judge
gently responded. your friends in
New York have requested that you be
taken back to them."
Me taken back-me that is forty
two years of age-me to be escorted
like a child-me-,
He was reminded that his case is
defended by able counsel who believe
1t is best that he be kept under re-
straint until his mind is free from the
effects of the liquor that undoubtedly
prompted his attack on Mr.. Gignoux
He confessed that several years ago
he escaped from a New York sani-
tarium where he was confined for mem
tai alteration.
A dispatch from New York says that
Rees' father has heard of his sons
conduct here and considers 1t result
ant of indulgence in liquor. Several
days ago., Rees senior is quoted as
saying, II received letter from a
man in San Francisco saying that
Gignoux had called at the Palace Hotel
with two notorious characters and
taken my boy out TO show him good
time. and that afterward Gignoux
tried to compel my son to pay the bill
for the nights extravagant entertain-
ment, but my son, in nervous frenzy,
threatened Gignoux with a beer bottle
and later, on his knees, agreed to pay,
the bill himself. My son went West
to collect some money owed him by a
Colorado party and thence to the
Pacific Coast, thinking he might pos
sibly establish himself at Seattle.
have sent to the Palace Hotel check
for his bill there, but must refuse to
pay for his carousals."
Angelina Abbott, who erstwhile es-
capped conviction for vagrancy by de-
luding the police and Judges into be-
lief that she was q full blooded In
dian, was sentenced to three months
in Jail on that charge by Judge Fritz.
1t was ascertained that she Is Of Mex
ican birth and has just the tiniest per-
centage Of aboriginal corpuscles In
her veins.
Con Walsh was drunk and deliver
ing a curbstone grafton on Kearny
street Friday afternoon when a po-
liceman stopped the flow of rhetoric.
To Judge Cabaniss he pleaded that
his inebriety was acquired in celebra-
ton Of the sixtieth anniversary OF his
birth.
"A man who was born on the 18th
day OF any month cannot expect to be
laden with good luck" said the Judge.
'but I'll fool the fates this time by
ordering your dismissal
When the two plain clothes men
raided Charles Russ barber shop. on
the 3400 block of Mission street, their
suspicion that the anti-pool selling
ordinance was therein being violated
was confirmed by their hearing fem
mine voices discussing the relative
merits of various race horses starting
that day at Emeryville. Abruptly en-
tering the kitchen, whence the sounds
of discussion emanated, the policemen
saw five matronly ladies, four of |
whom burst through the back door
and fed. In the hand of the remain-
Ing woman, who subsequently turned |
out to be Mrs. Russ, was q purse
which had hastily been thrust there