The San Francisco call., 1905-01-01

one to come way out here to learn
what's up-to-date. Poor old Sheecawgo
is so awful backward, I'm sure, not"
Patrolman ]. f. Bruce remarked that
when he interrogated Miss Watson at
Sixth and Howard streets, preliminary
to arresting her, she told him, among
other things, that she was a daughter
of Missouri.
Smart chap this" the defendant re-
Joined, winking at the bench and al
luding to the officer. IF he has an
other think coming l wish you'd tip
him to remember that 1 didn't tell him
that at all. When he threatened to run
me in 1 asked him what for, and he
said for vagrancy, and / said, We'll,
I'm from Missouri, and you must show
me- Another thing the Sheecawgo po-
lice do is to try to tell the truth-but
they are such back numbers, ye know" "
Then the Judge asked Miss Watson
to state her age, and when she replied
thirty he looked at her incredulously
and said. rs that alp"
'All?" she Kissed. All? Amt that
enough? I'm sure if had even sus-
pected you thought / was more than
thirty I'd attacked on a few more
years. I'm awfully obliging that way"
You appear to be at least fifty" said
his Honor, with brutal candor.
'Hee, hee. dye really think so? My,
how did you guess so closely? I've
never heard of Sheecawgo Judge ask
ing a lady her age-but the Sheecawgo
Judges are so stupid, ye.know."
Miss Watson, with frequent ironical
digressions to Sheecawgo, averred that
she lived at 1876 Howard street with her
husband, an actor, and that she, too,
was a stage artist, but resting"
I'm poor, old-fashioned Sheecawgo," "
she concluded actresses are not rated
as vagrants."
She was remanded for further in
quiry, the Judge promising that If her
plea was only half-confirmed he would
permit her to return to ''Sheecawgo."
There were four distinct charges of
swindling against David de Costa.
Judge Conlan pronounced him guilty
on each and sentenced him to one
years Imprisonment.
Mr.. de Costa's game was TO engage
a room in a lodging-house and tender
in payment of one weeks advance
rental a $40 Confederate bill If the
landlady accepted the bill and gave
him whatever change was due he pock-
eted it and departed, to return no
more; but if she detected the worthless
ness of the paper he feigned both sur
prise and grief and declared he had
been taken in and done for by some
imaginary pefSOus WHO ndQ given MIN
the scrip. When arrested he had sue
Gessfully worked his trick on Mrs. So
phia Rainier of 456 Eddy street, Mrs
Barbara Kerr of COS Eddy street, Mrs.
Hortense Powers of 1882 Octavia street
and Mrs. E. r. Milford of 1910 Fillmore
street, all of whom testified against
him. His accomplice, one Roy Gorlane,
is held for sentence.
After an attorneys eloquent plea in
behalf of lone Moore, convicted of shop
lifting, Judge Fritz imposed a $50 fine,
which was promptly paid. A few min
utes later his Honor ascertained that
the woman was an old offender in the
light fingered line, and he said things
which We're not entered in the court
record.
Robert Bacon, a job printer, was ac-
cused Of battery by Edward C. Evers,
a fellow craftsman. Both the COM
plainant and the defendant displayed
bruised and blackened eyes to Judge
Cabaniss. The story was that Mr.. Ba-
con had dismissed from his employ a