The San Francisco call., 1905-04-27

company him to it's source. When they
entered the baTroom. however. Miss
Rice coyly declined to trip measure
with him, her whispered excuse being
that she could not think of doing such
a thing at such time in such a place.
But for Mr.. Weed there was no resist
ing that crashing allurement. His
feet tingled and his knees involuntar-
lily twitched until. incapable of fur
ther self-cestraint, he grabbed MIR.
Constantine and swung him in lieu of
a gentler partner. They danced and
danced until Mr.. Weed was surfeited
with the exercise and promenaded to
the bar, where he discovered that from
q rear pocket of his pantaloons purse
containing $25 had been surreptitious-
IL extracted. Mr. Constantine indigS
nantly denied cognizance of the theft,
but Mr.. Weed caused his arrest and
charged him with larceny.
In the court of Police Judge Conlan
there was no response from Miss Rice
when her name was called and as the
prosecution could not make much
headway without her testimony con-
tinuance until to-day was asked for
and granted. Mr. Weed, who dwells
at 610 Geary street, declared that his
confidence in Miss Rices integrity was
so strong that nothing less convincing
than her confession could make him
even suspect her of the robbery. AS
for the purse dropping out of his
pocket and being picked UP by some
dishonest person while he and Mr..
Constantine danced, Mr.. Weed pro-
nounced the idea too preposterous for
his serious consideration. In the
meantime Mr.. Constantine's original
plea of innocence of the pilfering and
ignorance of the plumbers whereabouts
remains unshaken.
Joe Murphy, heavily whiskered and
generally unkempt. was nesting amid
flowers in Union Square and hurting
at the towering st Francis
Hotel when Patrolmen Riehl and Proll
stopped his profane soliloquy, dragged
him from the spot and booked him for
drunkenness in a public place. In the
court of Judge Fritz he declared that
his detestation of lofty structures was
inherent and ineradicable, but never
found audible expression until he
drank to excess So abhorrent were
tall buildings to him that he seldom or
never slept in one, preferring to SUM
ber out o. doors to entering any house
exceeding one story in height Then
the Judge informed him that by ex-
planning his peculiar aversion when he
faced the custodian of the County
Jail where he is to spend the next ten
Gays, ne IulSHl ODIdlll a 1Cil Oii thiS
ground floor.
Louis L. Bibiscu, minus half of one
ear, was arrested for disturbing the
peace on Howard street, between Sixth
and Seventh, but Judge Cabaniss dis
missed him after he had explained that
he was provoked TO violent utterance
by the taunts launched at him by a
rival in the second hand furniture
business.
The mutilation of Mr.. Bibiscu's
auricular organ was performed about
a year ago by the teeth of a Japanese
restaurateur. whom he had offended
by criticizing the quality of certain
viands served This meat he said,
after vainly endeavoring to insert hfs
incisors in a beefsteak, lis tougher
than all-get-out."S Whereupon his ear
was seized between the molars of the
little brown caterer, who apparently
found his mouthful quite tender, for
without difficulty he nipped off a lobe.
Arrest and trial for mayhem resulted
in acquittal by jury.
After strenuously lighting until they
succeeded in getting their clients bail
reduced from $40, 900 to $4,000. the at
torneys for Julio Ziegner Uriburu. ar-
cused of misappropriating the Tetraz-
zinis ah-so-many francs, failed to obs
tain surety for the latter sum and the
erstwhile adorer of the piccolo- voiced
prima donna continues to languish in
that oh-so- miserable City Prison. His
case will be called again to-day by
Judge Conlan and his lawyers declare
that the bond essential to his release
will then be ready for approval.
George Grasseil, who said he was
both butcher and sign painter, pur-
suing one avocation when he GOULD not
get opportunity to follow the other
and loahng when unable to embrace
either of them gave his wife SO as
proof of intent that he would not again
fail to provide for the maintenance Of
their infant child, and Judge Cabaniss
permitted him to go free on his own
recogniZance.
In the court of Judge Conlan the
sum of SO was contributed by Peter
H. Lucero, barber at 262 O'Farrell
street, to the support of his minor
child and he, too, was allowed to de-
part.
When the case of Michael Heggerty,
charged with wife beating, was called
before Judge Cabaniss the defense pre-
sented a physicians certificate to the
effect that the complaining witness
was i'll and unable to attend court, so
continuance until May 8 was or
dered. BY that time the bruised and
blackened eye which Mrs. Heggerty
displayed week ago will have re-
sumed its normal hue and it Is likely
that her intention to prosecute the au-
thor of the injury may also have yield
ed to times curative influence, aided
by the missionary endeavor of the au-
thor and his friends. The Heggertys
dwell at 1881 Bryant street and neigh