The San Francisco call., 1906-04-01

| Naw," was the reply.
And you say she bit you with her
mouth?'
! Nav; she bit me with her teeth"
Mrs. Martin said she is a housemaid In
Oakland, but her garb was no more me-
NAL than her spirit. A fawless-ftting
&, tailor-made suit set off the graces of a
figure as perfect as any woman of 40 could
reasonably desire to possess. and her
picture hat surmounted a countenance
! that many woman Of fewer years might
! envy.
Percy j. Leach, house painter, and A.
M Sutherland, carpenter, were dwellers
/ in The Industrial Home 14s Natoma
street. until Judge Conlan transferred
Percy's residence to the County Jail for
period Of six consecutive months. Mr..
sutherland remains at the old stand.
1t was for stealingra suit of Mr.. >Suther-
lands clothes that Mr.. Leach was given
the half-year's imprisonment. The suit
was Of light check pattern and spring
style, and Mr.. Sutherland attached espe-
clal value to 1t because of its perfect fit.
He kept its shape carefully preserved
while 1t was off duty, and neither moth
nor dust speck was permitted to invade
| the wardrobe in which 1t was suspended
on wires.
! What was his horror, therefore. when
| he saw his priced apparel hanging upon
the unsymmetrical figure of Mr.. Leach
as that gentleman strutted Natoma street
| last Friday evening!
Mr.. Sutherland was returning from his
daily toll and wearing his working garb
| when the horrifying sight burst on him,
and when he accosted Mr.. Leach with
demand to know how that person became
possessed of the ill-ftting raiment he was
treated with the lofty hauteur that a
Brummel would bestow upon a beggar.
How dare you, sir, question me as to
where purchase my clothing?" said Per-
| cy, and so saying he resumed his strut
and maintained it until the policeman
summoned by Mr.. Sutherland arrested
him.
| Mr.. Sutherland was gratifed to learn
that the knee-bagging and shoulder-sag-
ging to which his clothing was subjected
while on Mr.. Leach's person could be
remedied by means of hot-iron pressure.
/
BY signing a pact to forever abstain
from keeping dodgers Mr.. and Mrs. John
Sieber induced Judge Mogan to dismiss
the charge of reckless shooting on which
| Mr.. Sieber was arrested. His alleged tar
gets were two adult male boarders in his
home. LII Campbell avenue, and the al
legged provocation was their unnecessary
attentions to Mrs. Sieber.
When young and handsome Mr. Rogers,
the Assistant District Attorney attached
| to Judge Cabaniss' court, undertook to
question the equally youthful and even
| more beautiful Miss Laura McCabe. ac-
| cused of vagrancy, his Honor intervened.
| II positively refuse to permit you, SIR
| to prosecute this case in behalf Of the peo-
pie of the State of California he said,
because of the severe test to which 1t
/ -.tA t~x<r% t11 Dntva
| young man, you are doubtless susceptible
! AS are all young men-to the charms of
| feminine beauty, especially when such
beauty is in distress, and 1t Is possible
that as you look at this fair defendant
you are unconsciously moved by the
words of the poet
II to her lot some female errors fall,
Look but upon her face and you'll forgive
them all.
at, however, being much older than you.
sir, can trust myself to hear this case as
I would hear any other and be not at all
Influenced by the personality of the par
ties. Let the testimony proceed"
Mr.. Rogers bowed in humility and
Miss McCabe gazed pensively at the
ceiling while a policeman testified that
he had met her alone and at unseemly
hours on public thoroughfares, and then
the judicial st. Anthony. with unfiinch-
ing stare at the beauty to which he
had so eloquently alluded, sternly de-
clared that IL its possessor ever came
before him again on similar charge
he would incarcerate her for half
year.
AZ the reproved damsel swept from
the court q great sigh Of relief pursued
her.
Tho Grifhth sisters. Emma and Mabel,
putative colored vocalists and charac-
ter artists, jointly announced their In
tention to fight to the bitter end the
them by Patrolman Percy Smith, who
arrested them In the tenderloin section
of Mason street.
Not long ago the Crifiith sisters were
complainants against Billy Pratt,
whom they accused OF having roughly
elected them from his cafe, and they
aver that their arrest is the outcome of
their intrepidity on that occasion. Pa
trolman Smith, however. AYERS that he
has evidence sufficient to -"cinch" them
for vagrancy q hundred times over.
The hearing has been set for April 2
before Judge Mogan, and the defend
ants are at large on s25 bail apiece.
For selling smoked sturgeon at his
delicatessen, 2G4 Third street, Peter A.
Ellis was fined $40 by Judge Cabaniss.
and similar penalty for like offense was
visited by the same magistrate on
Adolph Newman, whose shop is 1919
Market street. Both cases were prose-
cuted by Fish Commissioners Bishop.
Two days after his wife had pre-
sented him with twins, in New York
City, Herman Cohen abandoned his
family and came to this city, assumed a
pseudonym and obtained employment
as tinsmith on Howard street. Mrs
Cohen discovered his whereabouts, and
now he is in Judge Shortall's court on
a charge of having taken with him on
his westward flight a sum of $275 be-
longing to his better half The hear
ing Is set for next Tuesday.
.Your excuse is Ingenious said
Judge Mogan to James McFadden. ac-
cused of driving away a. horse and bug
gy without their owners knowledge or
consent, but 1t is also reflective of an
opinion on your part that this court is
credulous to the point of idiocy. I'll
sentence you next Monday"
Mr.. McFadden drove the rig from