The San Francisco call., 1905-02-18

their laceration of that lady's nose one
night last week at Jackson and Kearny
streets. There was marked physical
difference between Miss Bell and Miss
Dimples, the former being squat of fig
ure and pectorally prominent, while
her companion, attired in a tight-f1t-
ting, double breasted coat, looked
every inch Gibson girl, even to the IA
cial punctures that probably prompted
her adoption of "Dimples" as a stage
sobriquet. When she smiled-which
she frequently did-her cheeks seemed
to roll inward at the middle. Miss Bell,
on the other hand, only allowed her
naturally austere features to relax
when she Uttered, 1.-The i-de-ah!" in
response to the Judges query as to
whether professional jealousy had
prompted the waylaying of Miss Vain
wright
Why, how could we be jealous Of
herr dimpled the taller lady, when
We are vocalists and she is a dancer?"
From her statement TO this court,
said his Honor, 1T appeared that when
she made her debut at the North End
Music Hall, IN which you artistes were
employed, your envy was aroused by
the fact that she won more applause
than either Of you received, and that
you deliberately attacked her in the
playhouse and afterward while she and
her husband, Mr.. Truesdell were going
to their home"
Miss Dimples calculated Mercy"
and Miss Bell saturninely muttered,
THE gall Of her."
Patrolman Nelson, who had arrest
ed Miss Wainwright and her spouse
and subsequently scooped in the Misses
Bell and Dimples, took a hand in the
~
If Ii were not true that she and Miss
Bell had been restrained by their man
ager from assailing Miss Wainwright
as she was leaving the theater, that the
impresario found it necessary to i'm
prison them in his Office until after
the new star had departed, and that
when they were released they immedi-
ately followed and beat her.
'She didn't tell you that she kicked
me in the ribs, did she?' was the ir-
relevant answer Of Miss Dimples, de-
livered unsmilingly.
cor that she kicked me in the eye?"
Miss Bell solemnly inquired.
Bring ell the parties here to-mor-
row morning." said the Judge to the
officer.
W. A. FAINT, who blackened his wife's
eyes and tried to stab her with table
knife, got six months for battery from
Judge Conlan, who ordered that a
charge Of attempt to murder also be
entered against the defendant.
Mrs. Fant and her spouse had been
separated and she was earning live
lihood by managing a clearinghouse
at AL Tehama street, when he visited
her and insinuated that she was on
more familiar terms with one of her
male lodgers than her position war
ranted. When she denied the impeach-
ment he planted his fist between her
eyes and then picked up a table knife
and lunged at her so fiercely that the
weapon was broken by colliding with
a corset steel. A lodger named Ed
Mexican disarmed the infuriated man
and the police and Judge Conlan did
the rest.
Juan Ayala, age 70 years, had s11
in his possession when a policeman
arrested him for begging by means OF
circulating a petition which stated that
he was of rich Castilian blood and de-
sired to obtain money enough to en-
able him to return to Mexico, where
he had many proud and wealthy rel
atives. Judge Cabaniss experienced
considerable difficulty In pronouncing
the defendants surname, and twitted
Prosecuting Attorney Hanley on being
similarly deficient in the utterance of
Hanley said that thank goodness and
his forebears nobody had any trouble
in voicing his cognomen and that
Ayala was hardly less difficult than
Cabaniss to roll an Anglicized tongue
around, to which the bench retorted
by declaring that some tongues-he
would not mention who wagged them
were alleged to be Anglicized, when,
in fact they might as well be Choc-
tawese so far as the intelligibility of
what they said was concerned, and
then before Mr.. Hanley could tilt in
return the Judge closed the repartee
by fining Senior Ayala ten Of his $11
with the alternative of forty-eight
hours Imprisonment.
Bast Nickel a peddler of chestnuts
who was arrested for refusing to keep
his horse and wagon in motion, spoke
a lingo that his counsel, Mr. Spinnetti,
could not entirely understand, so
Grecian gentleman named Frank was
called to interpret. He. too, was
stumped by the defendants language
and called to his aid a compatriot
whom he addressed as George For
q while 1t looked as If George would
be inadequate to fill the lingual breach,
but after a brief and animated re-
hearsal with the defendant he an
nounced that he could derive enough
from the latters patois, accompanied
by illustrative gestures. to convey to
Frank who could convey to the attor-
ney, who could convey to the court
what the defense was So the plea
of Mr.. Nickel was jabbered and wig