The San Francisco call., 1906-04-10

been thinking of when it cast such a
ternal character" exclaimed the court.
''Oh. nonsense" Uttered Miss Tame
hill, whose ingenue days lapsed some
years ago.
In private life she is Mrs. Earl Nc
Quaide and It was to obtain warrant
for her husbands arrest on battery
charge that she overcame her repug-
nance to notoriety and stood within the
fierce light that beats upon a police
MAGISTRATES bench.
Il live at the Langham," she said,
"but it was in front of the Tivoli that
nv husband from whom am separat-
ed. you know, committed the offense
of which l now complain. We met
there about Z o'clock last evening, and
/ was passing him by without recog-
milton when he said. Stop: l must talk
to YOU ] refused to stop, and ne
grabbed my coat and tore it..
His Honor signed the complaint and
the lady thanked him with charming
fervor.
DIR. Victor Stearns, accused by his
wife of having forcibly elected her from
his office. 8 Van Ness avenue. applied
for and was granted a continuance un-
til next Thursday, by which time, he
informed Judge Mogan, he will have
ample testimony to prove that prior to
his alleged expulsion OF the complain
ant he had sent for policemen to per-
form that service for him. he being
unable to endure her rude aRd-disorder-
ly behavior.
Mrs. Stearns denied the doctors al
legation that she endeavored to clean
out the place." i. e., smash the furrf-
sture, and. announced her intention to
prove that she was battered because
she had refused to give her spouse some
title deeds and thus relinauish posses
sion of property. which was hers ex-
clusively.
| Judge Mogan expressed disapproval OF
| Theodore Garabay's business methods by
sentencing him to fifteen months impris-
| onment for having obtained goods by false
pretense.
The defendant, who is youthful and OF
| Castilian blood, procured merchandise on
credit from various produce merchants by
! representing to them that he had estab-
lished a restaurant at 535 Broadway,
which representation was found to be alb
solutely false. He pleaded that his intent
was not dishonest, inasmuch as he pro-
posed to open a restaurant just as soon
as he had accumulated suffieient mer-
chandise to stock it.
/
OF the eighteen male prisoners awaiting
| trial before Judge Conlan not one present-
| ed a countenance unscarred, and when his
Honor asked how all the blackened eyes
| and swollen jaws and bruised noses had
! been received he was told that last Sat
urday was monthly pay day at one of the
large iron works. Due allowance for the
fact was made in disposal of the cases.
none of which was more serious than mis-
demeanor.
The worst battered faces of the lot were
exhibited by John Roach, Eugene A. Led
dy and William w. Wright. who were en-
gagged in a three-cornered fistic argument
when Patrolman Mcdonald arrested them
at Sixth and Stevenson streets. They
claimed to be firm friends and disclaimed
knowledge of why they fought, SO they
were dismissed.
Charles Woods was paying friend
ly visit to John Smith at the latter
gentleman's home, on Folsom street,
between Third and Fourth, when their
conversation drifted around to pugil-
ism and pugilists. and the outcome was
a fight in room to which Mr. Smith
had invited his guest for that purpose.
Both were severely pounded ere Pa
trolman Nolan forced entrance and ar
rested them, and they were visibly
sore of visage and evidently sore of
body when they stood before the
magistrate, who dismissed them with
the customary reprimand.
Koon Ping was putting up the shutters
of his general merchandise store, ia Du-
pont street, last Saturday evening when
his left jaw received wallop that pro-
jected him and wooden shutter down a
cellar stairway. His assailant was Harry
It. Allen, about 80 years of age and en-
ployed at the Union Iron Works, who
stood and heartily laughed at Koon Ping S
endeavor to dissociate himself from the
shutter until he was surrounded by a
throng of Chinese that had witnessed his
act and were only restrained by fear of
arrest from promptlygavenging it.
The Chinese chartered loudly and jostled
Master Allen, however, and there is no
telling what they might have done If