The San Francisco call., 1905-02-09

lishment to 1903 Pacific street, where
he and his better half. Augustus NJ,
were hardly settled when infelicity en-
tered and bided with varying degrees
of discord. until it eliminated in the
occurrence that climaxed in his incar-
ceration. During peaceful intervals he
had wondered why the jars happened,
and his conclusion was that il certain
housewives living in the vicinity had
attended to their own business and
abstained from counseling his wife
there would not have been any jars.
AS he spoke he glanced significantly at
two matrons who had testified for the
prosecution, and one of them ex-
claimed Mercy" while the other
glared angrily at him and said,
''W-e-l-l,'
AS for the accusation that he had
battered his wife, Mr.. Rogers pro-
nounced it preposterous, despite what
she or any of her witnesses might
have sworn to the contrary. When he
left home that morning it was with
bitter feeling toward the complainant,
because they had engaged in a matuti-
nal tiff but as the day advanced his
anger waned and when he returned at
eventide he was eager to forgive and
to be forgiven. With outstretched
hands and in conciliatory spirit he ad-
vanced upon his helpmate, but she,
tention, started in alright and col
lided with one of his fists. Then she
raised a window and loudly screamed
''Police," and neighbors gathered be-
meath the lattice and called him un-
complimentary names. When the
police arrived he offered no resistance.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Rogers de-
Tense the two lady witnesses, Eva
Markell and Jane Haspteau. looked at
each other with elevated eyebrows and
mournfully shook their heads. Mrs.
Rogers, however, was differently i'm
pressed by the narrative, for she gazed
tenderly at the defendant and then re-
quested the Judge to dismiss him. But
the mischief was done. He was pro-
nounced guilty and remanded for sem
tence, with bail fixed at 5000, which
was furnished.
Seventeen-year-o Margie Prentz,
charged with waywardness by her
mother, professed penitence and was
told to go and sin no more. She ran
away from home four months ago.
Judge Conlan was Informed, and an
officer of the Boys and Girls Aid So
ciety traced her to Oakland, where he
found her living under an assumed
name in a disreputable house on Fifth
street. When told that she must ac-
company him, she went to her room
tc don street attire, but almost imme-
diately reappeared and frantically
called for her mother to come and
kiss her for the last time, as she had
taken poison. She was hurriedly re-
moved to a hospital and treated until
she was past the danger point, after
which she was conveyed across the
bay and to prison. She wept copious-
IL as the Judge pointed out the error
of her way and depicted the inevita
bic finish of the life which she had
deserted her mother to adopt.
Marian Temple, 10 years of age,
also promised TO reform if Judge Mo-
gan would temper justice with mercy.
Betrayal under promise of marriage
led to her disgrace and abandonment
of her mother, a professional nurse,
who expressed Willingness to forgive.
The girl was dismissed.
Charles Perino, a barber, disclaimed
paternity of the infant child which his
wife accused him of failing to provide
for. He told Judge Fritz that after
the birth of the babe, at Eureka, he
was forced by a body of citizens of
that town to marry the woman. They
showed him into carriage, he said,
and compelled him. under dire threats
of bodily injury, to make the woman
his wife He had never seen the baby,
nor had he ever lived with it's mother.
The case went over till next Mon
day.
w. M English, accused of defraud-
ing a hackman, averred that he had
acted the part Of Samaritan and was
entitled to commentator instead of
arrest for it. In a saloon at Ellis and
Powell streets ]. Dunphy of 2122 Wash
ington street had been knocked down
by an unknown assailant and was pros
trate and unconscious when Mr.. Eng
| lish summoned Hackman F. Meyers
and in that persons conveyance ac-
companied the injured man to the
! Emergency Hospital, where he is under
treatment for skull fracture. Meyers
demanded that English pay the car
riage hire, but English declined to do