The San Francisco call., 1905-04-02

professional treatment, said receipt
ostensibly being intended to protect
both him and the depositor, yet if the
depositor fails to produce said re-
ceipt and Ye Poy refuses to deliver
said articles, said depositor can recov-
er possession of said articles by re-
sorting to another time honored stat
ute, which enables their recovery by
process of search warrant. The sub
tleties of this contradictory proceed
ure are too profound for Ye Poy's
sense of reason and justice to assimi-
late.
Makee me alice samee dam
foolee," he protested to Policeman
Jack" Laws, who was detailed to re-
cover for Miss Etheline Dodson of
$50 Golden Gate avenue the lingerie
which she had left with him to be
done up" and his receipt for which
she had lost.
But it's the law, said the officer.
Law no goodee," declared Ye Poy.
Law say, No getee tickee, no givee
washee.' Len lady she say, "Losee
tickee, wantee washee.' Len 1 say.
Law say no getee tickee, no givee
washee.' Len lady bling law, an law
say, No tickee, givee washee alice
samee. Law clazee.''
His resolute refusal to give up Miss
Dodson's property, although she ac-
curately described and positively iden-
titled it, led to his arrest and he was
booked for resisting an officer. When
H.
gan the complainant was there, but
Ye Poy, who had been released on
bail, failed to appear and his absence
was explained by notification from
hospital that he was therein confined
with nervous prostration, evidently in
duced by his mental wrestle with the
intricacies of American law. The
case was continued till next Thursday.
Miss Fannie Martin, school teacher,
residing in Alameda, was crossing
Market street, near Powell, one after
noon about a month ago when BIZ
cycle ridden by Rego Coslodio knocked
her down, and for several weeks she
was under treatment for conclusion of
the brain. In the court of Judge Mo-
gan yesterday she identified Coslodio
as the man who prostrated her and
said she would be satisfied if he were
compelled to pay the expenses in
CURED by her injury. Coslodio de-
INJURED on the ground that the dam
age was unintentional on his part and
not even a result of carelessness, as he
was lodging chuck hole" In the
asphaltum pavement when the COLI
sion occurred. He pleaded poverty also,
saying he was employed in a furniture
factory and received scanty wages.
The Judge, however, held that if the
defendant had not been riding at ex-
cessive speed he could have lodged
the chuck hole" without striking the
lady and that If reasonable damages
were not paid by him he would be sem
fenced for battery.
After the Police Judges had ex-
planned to the Grand Jury why arrests
for pool selling or buying are so sell
dom followed by conviction, his Honor
Mogan returned to court and was con-
fronted by the case Of Charles Hamil-
ton, accused Of keeping a poolselling
place in connection with his cigar
store at 256 Third street. and OF
Charles Thompson aid Joseph Ed
wards, charged with having visited
said place for the purpose of betting.
Patrolman c. F. Thompson. the
complaining witness, testified that in
company with Patrolman Nolan he
found Hamilton ostensibly attending to
his cigar business and the other two
defendants perusing a list of over
did he hear any proposal to bet, and
the only material evidence he had to
offer consisted of several cards in
scribed &C. T. S." which he found in
a cigar box.
This case" said the Judge, 'is a fair
sample of the pool-selling cases brought
into this court. There is absolutely no
evidence that pools have been sold by
the defendant Hamilton. or that pools
have been bought from him by these
other men. To pronounce the defend
ants guilty as charged would be a
travesty on law and justice. yet failure
to convict them may be utilized by the
police to bolster their plea that en-
deavor to suppress the pool-selling evil
is not properly supported by the mag
istrates. Now, 1 do not desire to be
understood a censuring you, Policeman
Thompson, or the captain who COM
mands you, any more than I desire to
be regarded as exercising undue le
niency toward persons charged with
violating the anti-pool ordinance; but
/ do not approve the fling of COM
plants by the District Attorneys office
on such meager evidence as has been
presented In this case and almost every