The San Francisco call., 1905-02-12

and bleeding. (Facial Disagreement
glanced at and mentally noted by the
bench.)
/ Then came the defense. By conscien-
j tious and painstaking artistic endeavor
Miss Wainwright had established for
herself a most enviable standing in
North End vaudeville circles. Her act
was in demand by an appreciative pub
/ lie and managers clamored for her SER
vices. So when she was advertised to
make her first appearance upon the
stage of a certain concert hall in the
Latin district last Friday night the
clientele of the house rallied with un-
precedented numerical strength, to the
extreme qualification of the impresario
who had engaged her and to the great
| displeasure of those performers whom
she threatened to eclipse in magnetism.
! Unscrupulous spitework of the latter
underlay the fight that resulted in her
arrest. She was billed to open her
turn" by dancing a pedestal clog,
but one of her clogs was surreptitiously
removed from her dressing-room, and
consequently she was compelled to sub
stitute a soft-shoe jig, announced by
the stage manager as Miss Alice
Wainwrights terrific hit, entitled foot
steps in the sand So nimbly and
gracefully did she trip the lively meas
ure that the spectators rose en- masse
in admiration and freighted the air
with floral tributes shouts of Go it,
kiddoh,' and "Oh, you, Alice." Old
patrons of the place averred that never
in its history had pedal talent provoked
such an ovation.
After the performance Miss Vain
wright found an automobile occupied
by Mr. Truesdell awaiting her, at the
stage entrance, and in the vehicle she
made a triumphant tour of the Bar
barry Coast. occasionally hating to re-
ceive congratulations and reward the
bestowers thereof with liquid offerings.
1t was at the intersection of Jackson
and Kearny streets that the first un-
pleasantness occurred While the auto
mobile was stationary two of Miss
Wainwright's disgruntled feminine
stage probably the pilferers
of her missing clog-suddenly ap-
peared and with, tongues and fists
abused her, and when Mr.. Truesdell at
tempted to protect her he, too, was sub
jected TO oral and corporal chastise-
ment by them. Patrolman Nelson's ar
rival scared away the assailants and
probably saved the assailed from fatal
injury, for so infuriated were the
former that their blows were heavy, as
Miss Wainwright's lacerated nose
would silently testify
The case was continued to afford the
policeman opportunity to produce the
two combatants who fed at his ap-
proach.
John DAILY. who tried to shoot Reuben
Ready in the latter's employment office,
will answer in the Superior Court the
charge of assault with deadly weap-
on. Judge Mogan fixed the defendants
bond at $1,000.
galvanized iron pan, blood
stained apron and a wine Dottle
tempty) were material exhibits in the
case of Julia Lucia, accused of batter
ing Maria Brefana at the Brefana resi-
dence on Marguerite place, in the Latin
quarter. Signora Lucia said she had
been smitten twice on the head with
the pan. and Signora Brefana declared
that she had been made target for
the bottle, hurled with inaccuracy of
aim by Signora Lucia. Judge Fritz
spent considerable time in listening to
testimony filtered through an interpret
er ere he relinquished hope of ascer-
tanning the cause of the combat, and
then he gave the attorneys another
week in which to bring in more wit
nesses.
No sooner had Judge Mogan SEM
fenced Miss Jessie Bell. accused of dis |
orderly behavior at Ellis and Taylor
streets. than young woman friend of
the defendant FASTENED to the corridor
and said in loud tone to feminine |
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