The San Francisco call., 1905-04-04


bout when the policeman stopped 1t.
In the court of Judge Mogan the COM
batants were charged with having d1s-
turbed the peace, and as they stood
before the bench each of them was
flanked by young and pretty sister.
Is it not superfiuous to say that the
girls did most of the explanatory talk
ing?
After patiently listening to two
sided review of the contention from
the time that Master Stout was arrest
ed for assaulting Zimmerman mere
until the hostile clash on Sunday
evening the Judge said that, in his
opinion, peace could only be restored
to the neighborhood by the removal
therefrom of one of the warning
families.
That's what 1 think" Miss Stout
briskly acquiesced. land, of course.
the family to stay in the neighborhood
is the family that has longest resided
in it. We have lived there several
years longer than these thinner
mans"
Miss Zimmerman demurred. Il
think" she ventured, that the fam
lily to go is the family that is most to
blame for all this trouble. Any dis
interested neighbor can tell you,
Judge, that these Stouts started the
fighting and have kept it up. picking
on US all the time
"Who is most to blame-that's the
question % quoth his Honor Each
| of you ayers that the other monopo-
lies the provocation and | don't know
which of you is telling the truth.
Now I'll offer another suggestion: Get
! together in amicable spirit-if you
can-and draw lots to decide who
! shall go and who shall stay. I'll give
YOU a week in which to settle the mat
| ter, and if it is not settled when you
return here next Monday snail pun
ish both of you defendants for dis
i turbing the peace and increase the
! punishment every time zimmerman
or Stout is brought before me on
complaint of the other. Now go and
see If you can't sit down and talk 1t
/ over without fighting.
| They went, but not as quartet.
| Indeed, the two young ladies did not
deign to look at each other as they
swept from the tribunal.
! Patrolmen Kracke and Bolton ar
rested Charles Picard in Chinatown
because he refused to move on when
they commanded him to do so, and
after hearing the testimony Judge Ca
baniss pronounced the charge defective
and suggested that it be altered to that
of disturbing the peace. So While the
officers were filing an amended COM
plant in the warrant clerks Office Mr.
Picard walked out of the courtroom
and he could not be found by his ac-
cusers when they returned to prose-
cute him on the new charge. The
Judge said that as the man had been
dismissed it was up to the policemen
to find him, and when they hinted that
he shclld have been detained In court
during their brief absence his Honor
remarked that if he had been properly
charged in the first instance an en-
balrasslng situation would have been
averted. Then the two stalwarts went
forth to seek the person who had
slipped through their fingers.
Bert Goldsmith, an insurance agent,
went to baseball game last Sunday
afternoon leaving his wife and her sis
ter at the family home, 612 Broderick
street, and when he returned the ladies
were hysterical and informed him that
one Thomas A. Riggs, we'll known to all
of them, had dropped in and terrified
them by his rude and boisterous be-
favior Mr.. Goldsmith went forth to
/ investigate and found Mr. Riggs loiter-
ing at a nearby street intersection, and
no sooner did Mr.. Riggs see Mr.. Cold
smith than he sailed into him" with
both hands and feet The basic cause
of Mr.. Riggs strange conduct was not
disclosed before Judge Conlan. who
| pronounced him guilty or peace as
turbance and ordered him into custody.
Mr.. Goldsmith's sister-in-law is cash
ier at the Emporium.
Patrolmen Thompson and Nolan raid
ed a cigar store at 134 Fifth street and
arrested Peter Wallace for selling pools
and Samuel Britton and George Brooks
for buying them, but the only evidence
of gambling that was submitted to
Judge Mogan by the officers consisted
! Of several bits of cardboard which they
+, found upon table. The cases were dis
missed for lack of sufficient evidence
to warrant conviction.
John F. Johnson whose larcenous
j specially was the carrying away and
selling of lanterns left as warning sig
mails on roadways undergoing repair,
will be sentenced to-day by Judge Mo-
! gan. 1t was proved that Mr.. Johnson
stole no less than eleven lanterns in one
night.
Miss Florence Thomson, arrested for
shoplifting, paid the 500 fine imposed
by Judge Mogan and her attorney