The San Francisco call., 1905-01-25

structed his trusty henchman, Billy
Dempsey, to sleep lightly, with fire
arms within easy reach. and to pepper
with buckshot the neither limbs of any
person, regardless of color or social
status. whom he might detect in the
act of pilfering the feathered property.
Shoot low and shoot straight, Bill,
was Mr. Bankers final command. and
keep on a-shootin' till somethin' drops"
Mr.. Dempsey's acceptance of the
trust was cheerful. Placing a loaded
shooting iron where he could instantly
lay his hand upon it in the dark, he
inaugurated policy of wakefulness
that was debilitating, but he bravely
stuck to it until night before last his
patience was rewarded by the capture
Of a chicken-lifter with the goods in
his possession. Wonted sounds were
suddenly overshadowed by a clucking
and fiuttering that emanated from the
henhouse, and Mr.. Dempsey leaped
from his cot, grasped his weapon and
intrepidly hastened to the scene of
commotion. AS he ran he stumbled
over sawhorse or wheelbarrow or
something, and when he had olsen
tangled himself from it's legs or shafts
or whatever they were the clucking
and fluttering had ceased and all that
assailed his ears was a gentle rustling
amid bunch of bushes near by. Level
shouted in stern tone, Come out a.
there an come quick." To his intense
qualification there came the response,
Please, don't shoot-Im a-camin,
and from the brush there emerged
man with broiler suspended by one
of it's legs from one of his hands.
Drop the bird an throw up yer
mitts.'' yelled Mr.. Dempsey, and the
mandate was obeyed with prompti-
tude that made the rest of his task
sinecure.
The chicken thief was registered as
Michael Boltes and the police desig-
mated him a hobo. Judge Fritz scoffed
at his plea that he happened to catch
sthe chicken as 1t was escaping from
Mr.. Blanken's yard and was conveying
it back to where it properly belonged
when Mr.. Dempsey's gunplay thwarted
his purpose. Now he is serving a ten
days sentence.
LAS we haven't whipping post for
the disciplining of such fellows as
YOU" said Judge Mogan to John
Harvey Robinson. insulter of unpro-
tected women, II will instruct the
Sheriff to see to it that your
six months imprisonment involves
daily toll on the rockpile. Unfortu>
nately the law restricts me to limiting
your term to six months, for it would
you to the penitentiary for ten years.
Il have letters to prove that I'm a
gentleman" muttered Robinson.
All the letters ever written or that
could be written would not make you
a gentleman rejoined his Honor.
You're a low-minded, cowardly fell
low else you would not make prac-
tice OF thrusting your attentions upon
women and girls to whom they are obs
noxious.''-
. Robinson was arrested at $50
o'clock Monday evening on complaint
of a respectable matron and her young
daughter, whom he had followed
along Bush street until they sought
refuge in the Hotel Sevenoaks, when
he stood at the door and hurled foul
epithets after them. Patrolman
Lanckman proved that the fellow was
arrested several months ago for in>
sulting women in Golden Gate Hail.
H. C. Rees. the New York club
man, whose alcoholic vagaries landed
him in Department No. l on the
charge of. threatening to kill a Mr..
Gignoux at the Hotel Princeton, has
been sent to sanitarium at Belmont
by his relatives, and the charge has
been dismissed by Judge Mogan.
Dorothy McCabe, accused of obtain.
ing goods under false pretense from
the Emporium and the City of Paris,
will have another hearing next Friday
before Judge Mogan. Dispositions from
the officers of the San Bernardino
bank in which she claimed to have
funds on deposit have been sent for.
So shocked was Max Copper by the
inartistic arrangement Of the stock
and fixtures of Martin Meyers grocery,
lat Silver street, that he not only
schided Mr.. Meyer for displaying poor
taste, but also undertook to remedy
the defects. If he had been perfectly
sober his recostructive endeavor
might not have resulted in the wrecks
Ing of much of Mr.. Meyers property