The San Francisco call., 1906-06-15

Madge Howe, for whom Mr.. Brown
worked as bartender in her saloon at
Stanyan and Waller streets until all
such establishments were closed by
mayoral ukase. Thus bereft of occu-
patton, Mr.. Brown went to San Mateo
and there resided until last Monday,
when, accompanied by a burden of
inebriety. he returned and said or did
something that provoked Mrs. Howe to
go to the park police station and re-
quest that she be furnished with pro-
lection from him. Corporal Rainsbury
gallantly responded and went back
with her TO the saloon, where Mr..
Brown ignored counsel and defed ar
rest Then the corporal laid hands
upon Mr.. Brown, and that's where the
dog came in.
Corporal Rainsbury first became cog
infant of the animals presence when
il fastened its teeth in one of his knee
caps and tugged and pulled until 1t
lacerated his flesh and tore his trou-
sers. He kicked the brute aside and
bravely held on to his struggling pris-
oner until he landed him in the station.
Mr.. Brown violently objected to being
searched, and again the dog came in.
Lieutenant Kelly, who was assisting
in the search. saw the animal, with
jaws distended and eyes blazing wrath,
rush at Corporal Rainsbury's uninJured
limb with evident intent to mutilate it
also, and quick as a flash he drew his
revolver and fired pointblank at the
oncoming fury. The shot had no de-
terrent effect, for not until the dog
had snapped viciously at the corporal's
leg. missing it by a mere hairsbreadth.
did II turn tail and fee. Piqued by his
palpably poor craftsmanship, Lieuten-
ant Kelly gave chase and wasted two
more bullets ere the canine terror es-
capped through hole in high wooden
fence.
It was not so much against Mr..
Brown as against Mrs. Howe's dog that
both Corporal Rainsbury and Lieuten-
ant Kelly were incensed, which may
have been accountable for the mildness
with which they prosecuted the drunk
enness charge.
But if either of them ever encounters
the dog
No less uncalled for and imprudent
than her avowal that she had $40 sewed
in the hem of her skirt was Mrs Alice
Johnson's offer to pay $5 fine, for
there was nobody in Judge Cabaniss'
/ court to press the accusation of peace
disturbance entered by the policeman
who had arrested her the previous day
at South San Francisco. Indeed. her
| discharge was about to be ordered
when the avowal and the offer were
made, and his Honor-ever eager TO
aid the crippled city treasury-prompt-
/ ly accepted the latter and directed
Bailiff Ring to escort her TO seclusion,
where she could detach So from the $40
and return to the tribunal and deposit
! the smaller sum as the price of her lib
Grafton.
1t was not really the bailiff's fault
| that the municipality was deprived of
the IS, for he stood guard without the
| door of the first-fieor chamber to which
! he had led Mrs. johnson until her pro-
tracted absence reused his suspicion,
which was confirmed when he looked
in and saw that she had made her exit
via a window So when, after futile
search for the deceiyer, he returned to
court and reported her flight, the case
was marked, Dismissed for want of
prosecution"
In further Justice to the bailiff it
sons physical makeup had not belied
her ability to chamber through the
window he would have taken proper
precautions to prevent that feat. She
was neither youthful nor agile. and ere
she entered the room he would have
cheerfully laid two to-one odds against
the possibility of her leaving it as she
did.
"Prevus teh de disastah dat laid low
ouah belubbed CITY," said William
Scott (colored) to Judge Mogan, "Ah
wuz a stiddy chu'ch membah en- nebbah