The San Francisco call., 1905-02-15

the sentence and the reminder.
Mr.. Nicholson expressed sorrow
that the stigma of desertion attached
to him, and hoped he would be re-
heved Of 1T by those who understood
the circumstances of his enrolment
as a Volunteer. Alcoholic indulgence
had impaired his reasoning faculties.
he averred, else he could not have
been induced to serve In an army for
whose methods he had no warm SYM
pathy during his intervals of mental
lucidness. Indeed so disordered was
his mind at the time of his enlistment
and until the time of his arrest that
he felt justified in pleading temporary
insanity and demanding retraction
of the charge that he was willful
! deserter. The penalty of his peace
! disturbance he would accept without
/ demur, because he felt that the brief
Incarceration it involved would con-
tribute to the clarification of his
senses. That was all.
Major Markham said that he was
| addressing his comrades when Mr..
| Nicholson provoked arrest by unseem-
! ly Interruptions of the discourse. For
! instance, when the Major said, MY
| friends, I'm so glad to be able to tell
you" Mr.. Nicholson frantically
shouted. 'Hooray, hooray, hooray.
t-i-g-e-ri" thus derailing the Majors
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attention of the auditory from his
argument. These irrelevant and ire
weren't CALCULATIONS by Mr.. Nicholson
were borne until the assemblage
unanimously demanded his expulsion.
Arrest followed.
Private Stedman corroborated Ma
jor Markham's testimony and adduced
other facts and some surmises. Mr..
Nicholson joined the Volunteers on
Saturday afternoon, on Saturday night
a clock disappeared from the barracks
and on Sunday afternoon the new re-
cruit openly backslided. No, the
clock was not found in Mr.. Nicholson's
possession.
1t looks like dismissal for Mrs.
Grace Schwartz, charged with having
operated a poolroom annex TO her
husbands stationery business on Polk
street. Her conviction is dependent
upon the testimony of a woman en-
ployed by the police to buy a pool
on a certain horse in a certain race at
Emeryyille, but the feminine sleuth
must be an amateur for she refuses
to appear in court and repeat the
story of the betting transaction which
she told to Patrolman Kracke. A
number of women who were arrested
with Mrs. Schwartz and booked for
visiting a poolroom have been fined
SIU apiece Dy Judge MOSdn.
Alfred Hudson, chief boatswain's
mate of the battleship Ohio, came
ashore and ran afoul of two firemen
from the same fighting machine 81 and
| when he was arrested for. peace dis
! turbance one of his eyes was bruised
and discolored. Judge Mogan dis
! charged him from custody and ex-
! pressed regret that the stokers had not
also been arrested so that they could
be punished by civil law for abusing
! him, but Mr.. Hudson said he could
not share His Honor's regret, as he
| (Mr. H.) preferred to have his assail-
ants punished aboard ship. where he
will be in a position to see to it that
they get all that is coming to them.
And they won't do a thing to
them," remarked Bailiff Hickey, who
is looked upon as an oracle in matters
pertaining to nautical life.
| Mrs Mary Frisco, who was caught in
the act of stealing Is cents from
Spanish church on Broadway was the
recipient of much police sympathy prior
to her arraignment before Judge Ca
baniss for she told a piteous tale of
having been driven by the cries of her.
two hungry and helpless babes to COM.
NIT the robbery. When she departed
from court, however. with a five
months term of imprisonment in front
of her no coincidence was heard, be-
cause it had been proven that she had
made a practice Of pilfering aims from
the church in which she was arrested
and that she carried a key to assist her
4, in the burglaries. Her unfortunate lit
tie ones will be cared for in public
institution.
Mrs. Jeanette Clark. a colored wom-
an, who fractured a white mans skull
by shifting it with baseball bat while
she was under accusation of peace dis
turbance, could not pay a fine of $3.50
and started to serve an alternative SEN
tence of seventy-five days. pronounced
by Judge Fritz. The peace disturbance
case is in Judge Mogans court, and
she will appear there for sentence next
| Friday.
The woman lived on Beach street,
near the Presidio, and abused some
| Caucasian .neighbors, who apparently
| objected to her residence in the vicin-
| fty After she was found guilty as
charged she went home and battered
the head of Harry Clarke one of her