The San Francisco call., 1906-05-29

BY applying for the arrest of Mrs.
Probst, with whom she dwelt as a lodger
at 626 Golden Gate avenue during the re-
cent turbulence, Mrs. c. j. Mulkey routed
a sweet illusion from the mind of Police
Judge Mogan.
Am / to understand" he sorrowfully
inquired, that you and this person whom
you now accuse of battery were close to-
gether and equally menaced while the
city quaked and blazed?'
Yes, do. replied Mrs Mulkey, petite
and palpably possessed of wire edged
nerves.
And that the danger and dread through
which you mutually passed did not tend
to bring you still closer together in
anity?"
well, she started the trouble was
the snappily delivered response. What
right did she have to dun me. for rent
when she knew she would get it just as
soon as my husband. employed at Oak
land by the Standard Oil Company, could
draw his salary and come over here?"
Maybe she needed the money" his
Honor ventured.
reason why she should say wasn't a nice
woman"
mo. it wasn't. But didn't you say or do
something to provoke that statement"
Certainly not. I'm too much of a lady
TO start fight with any one. The little 1
did say to her in anger was uttered after
she accused me of not being nice
And the little you did say was"
That / never entertained buns in my
parlor while my husband was absent
Then she jumped at me and twisted my
arm out of joint and it has been asleep
ever since. After that she locked the
doors of my rooms and I couldn't get in
till my husband came and paid the money
Do you blame me for wanting to get her
arrested?"
Its not for me TO blame, but to re-
gret," said the court; 'for l had fondly-
but foolishly, it now seems-cherished a
hope that all survivors of. the catastrophe
would be bound by tie of friendship that
no ordinary jar could sever. And even
now 1 would suggest that you reconsider
your determination TO prosecute this
woman with whom you stood side by side
so to speak. through a dreadful expert
ence. and extend to her the olive branch
instead of the mailed hand"
We'll, if l don't get the warrant my
family will be broken up said Mrs. Null
key, for my son said this morning that
he will not live in the house with me until
l have had the law on that woman
Then to avert an even more distress
ing contention suppose it is best to COM
ply with your demand" sighed the Judge.
and he issued an order for the desired
warrant.
James McGrath. accused of drunken
ness, asked Judge Conlan what he would
do If an old friend whom he had not seen
since before the quake and had come to
regard as forever gone, were to meet him
on the street, draw a bottle of whisky
from his pocket and invite. him to cele-
brate the reunion by drinking therefrom.
His Honor sidestepped the query by in
qulr1ng If that was how Mr., McGrath ac-
quired his inebriety.
Sure" )" was the reply. when my friend
stepped up to me l was so glad to find
him alive-for had heard he was killed
that took the bottle from his hand and
swallowed a swig of the contents without
thinking that l hadn't tasted whisky for
five years.
Just one swig?''
zone was enough to do the business
for me. Haven't 1 just said it was the
first had tasted for five years?''
IF you promise that you won't take
another swig for ten years I'll let you 60"
You may make it twenty years if you
like, was Mr.. McGrath's generous offer
But he accepted the ten and went forth.
longtime friends and fefnw.victims of
the great disaster, Charles ]. Tucker.
house painter, now of 1918 Lyon street,
and Charles w. Lenz brewer, whose pres
-ent abode is at Geary and Baker streets,
found themselves with a surplus of ma
terial possessions which they could dis
-pense and lacking other things which they
could not live comfortably without So
they decided to compare their stores of
-necessaries and swap" such articles as
would contribute to their mutual con-
venience
Mr. Tucker was long on bedding and
short on wearing apparel, while Mr.
Lenz was equipped vice versa. and it was
agreed that those two commodities should
be equalized between them. But after he
got his ratio of the attire Mr.. Tucker is
alleged to have "welched' on delivery of
its equivalent in bed coverings, and when
Mr.. Lenz complained thereat Mr.. Tucker
not only demanded more raiment but
tried 70 enforce said demand at pistol
point. That is how he comes to be ac-
cused of committing an assault with
deadly weapon.
Judge Mogan will give the case an in
ming next Friday.
IF the bottle had contained whisky. l
would send you to the brick pile. said
Judge Shortall to Walter McAllister. "b1t
was your first, I'll let you go with the
customary warning
Mr. McAllister, who dwells under can
vas at the water front. pleaded that
when he saw the bottle OF milk he thought
1t was astray. inasmuch as it stood upon
the doorstep of a house which was ten
antless.
Frank Brown. teamster. said he really
lost money by hauling H S. Grifin's
trunk. beyond the danger line while the
big fre ragged, because he undertook to do
the Job for $40 when bids of $50 to 500
for similar service were flying thick and
fast
But l had given my word" said Mr..
Griffin, and stuck TO it until the. trunk
was deposited in cemetery. where the
names could not reach II. Then l went to
rescue more stuff for other people, and
when L returned to the cemetery found
the trunk broken open and this man de-
claring that it had been plundered and
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