The San Francisco call., 1905-06-17
BY JAMES c. CRAWFORD.

sanity by clambering over the bars of
the prisoners cage in Police Judge Con-
lan's court and attempting to overpower
Bailiff Jack Laws. Then 1t was unan-
imously agreed that no man in possession
of unimpaired sense would have under
taken such a hopeless endeavor, so the
Judge sent him to be dealt with by the
Lunacy Commission.
Connolly, who was baptized James T.,
served the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany as a special policeman until he was
arrested at o'clock yesterday morning
for wantonly emptying his revolver by
firing it while he was on duty at Ken
lucky and Channel streets. To the regu-
lar police officer who was attracted to the
spot by the shots Connolly gave such
ambiguous explanat tion that he was sus-
pected of inebriety, but his permanent
sanity was not questioned He incoher-
entity limited of man who had followed
him with evident felonious intent, and
other remarks uttered by him were so
vague that the patrolman deemed 1T wise
to take him into custody. He was tract
able from that moment until he made his
crazy break for freedom in the court
room.
veracious witnesses of the incident de-
scribed it as extremely thrilling 1t fell
upon the routine like a bolt from the blue.
His Honor gasped and sat back in his
chair, Clerk Jack Rice cast despairing
glances at the oncoming menace and then
bolted into the Judges chamber and
slammed the door behind him; the chair
warmers, men and women, rose en- masse
and dashed doorward. Only the sturdy
Bailiff Laws stood his ground Involun-
tarily reaching for his pistol pocket he
yelled 'Go back there to Connolly VINO
ignored the command. Then they grap-
pla nd moment required
in the subjugation of the lunatic and the
restoration of safety to the tribunal.
In a fight with roughs several months
ago Connolly received cranial injuries,
which are believed to have resulted in the
reinforcement of his reason.
Mason Marion underestimated the Wig
lance and memory of the police. for two
months after he had stolen an overcoat
and fed the city he considered it safe to
return to his former haunts. where he
was promptly arrested. Judge Mogan
gave him three months.
When he missed SIS from one of his in
side pockets the skipper of the gallant
schooner Tidal Wave Immediately sus-
pected that it had been surreptitiousiy
extracted by Jessie Mason, with Whom
he had engaged in conversation on the
cry of its loss He impaired his suspicion
to a policeman. who arrested Miss Mason
in a saloon on the street which bears
her surname. In the court of Judge Mo-
gan she asseverated that she had never
seen her accuser until he took her breath
away by denouncing her as thief. and
then she was given till June 2S to make
good her declaration of innocence
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ans after he had been convicted of an
novina; streetcar passengers by in
dulging in unprintable language.
And drunkenness is not an accept
able excuse for your blackguardly be-
havior," said Judge Mogan. AS 1t was
your first ofsense-or the hrst time
YOU have been convicted OF 1T shall
give you twenty days imprisonment.
without alternative Of fine. and l hope
that recollection of the punishment VIII
have deterrent effect If you should ever
again feel incl l-ned to unload foul Ian
guage in public"
Mrs. Lillian Vincent mortgaged her
piano twice several months ago, and 1T
looked like Imprisonment for her un-
til an attorney convinced Judge MO-
gan that since she committed the Of
fense the statute that made 1t punish
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dismissed.
Police Captain Duke -wus saunterinE
along Taylor street. when Miss Alice
Brown, inebrlated, grasped his coat
lapels in a familiar way. addressed him
as kid" and otherwise deported her.
self in such an offensive and decidedly
unladylilse manner that he consigned
her to custody. AS it was her seventh
cd dovn of that Kind
the court records were not exact as to
the number--she was given six months
IMPRISONMENT by Judge Mogan. Her
preceding arrest was effected while she
was spectacularly embracing a horri-
fed male comInuter at the ferry sta
tion.
Talmage Waugh. who. with Frank
Reivera and Edward Brown. was ar
rested for disturbing the peace at
Hayes and Folk streets. declared to
Judge Cabaniss that he and his fellow
defendants were more sinned against
than SHINING He was a house painter
by trade. Mr.. Waugh explained, anG
while of work on a building at Fell
street and Central avenue his foreman.
A. NJ. Mundeli. abruptly discharged
him. and as reason therefor accused
him of having neglected his work to
fiirt with passing members of the op-
posite sex. Although innocent of the
offense alleged. he accepted his dismiss
sal quietly. and when he subsequent
ly visited Mr.. Mundell at the place of
arrest his intent was to apply for re-
instatement, and not to bully or beat
any one, as the prosecution had averred.
Indeed there was no peace disturbance.
desrite the testimony of Patrolman A.
G. Hostetter and other persons to the
contrary.
Several other versions OF the affair
were recounted by several other per-
sons. One OF them alleged rude and
threatening conduct by Mr.. Brown,
armed with a hammer. and another de-
picted Foreman Mundell as violently
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