The San Francisco call., 1906-06-29

to make you drunk" declared the
bench and l am surprised that two
drinks of it did not incapacitate you to
do anything else but slumber.
Maybe you're right" Mr.. ONeil con-
ceded: but l don't claim to be an ex
pert Judge OF whisky"
Nor do t. was the rejoinder: but
/ am qualified TO discuss the effects of
drug store whisky by what / have seen
and heard of them in this court"
That closed the conversation anent
whisky, and then David w. Krause of
2275 Post street swore that Mr.. O'Neil
after polSing the legs of the bedstead
into various parts of his person. called
him vile names because he did not
tamely submit to the persecution. The
car conductor and several other folk
testified in similar vein, so a pro-
nouncement of guilty was uttered and
passing of sentence deferred until to-
day
While employed at the Union Iron
Works In the capacity of laborer
Frank Garcia undertook to increase
his pecuniary income by pilfering
brass and other metals and disposing
of them to junk dealers. How much
plumber he got away with has not been
disclosed. but the lack of caution dis
played by him in the theft for which
he was arrested indicated long immun-
ity from detection.
According to the story narrated in
Judge Mogans court Mr.. Garcia
planted" his stealings in the stable
at the iron works. and was perceived
so doing by one Mr.. Weeda, who hap
pened to be in the loft overhead and
was attracted by the unusual noise be-
low. Peering through a knothole in
the floor Mr.. Weeda saw Mr. Garcia
conceal a brass flange and several
other castings, and so astonished was
he by the sight that he remained at his
viewpoint until Mr.. Garcia went away
and returned soon afterward with an
other load of loot. which he hid in
similar manner. Then and not until
then did Mr.. Weeda regain sufficient
equanimity to enable him to report the
theft and the identity of It's author
Mr.. Garcia's defense is not yet com
pleted. but he assured the Judge that
1t win carry conviction-not of him.
self. but of its own truth.
Judge Mogan. an assistant district
attorney and an official stenographer
will visit the City and County Hospital
this afternoon and take the sworn tes-
timony of Isabelle Felix, who has been
confined to that institution since Feb
ruary IL with fractured ankle, while
George H. Smoot, who inflicted the in
jury by knocking her down, has spent
similar period in the County Jail,
awaiting trial on a robbery charge. The
healing of the woman's damaged limb
has been so slow, probably because of
her generally debilitated condition, that
justice has tired of waiting. especially
as her assailant is accused only of rob-
berry and has already spent more than
four months in durance.
Miss Felix was a dance-hall artist
with many masculine admirers and nu-
merous feminine rivals when she Tilted
Mr. Smoot, who waylaid her one night
on Montgomery avenue and demanded
that she return to him the only love
token he had ever given her, a stick
PIN valued at 81. She declined to give
up the bauble, not as she explained to
him, because of its intrinsic worth nor
that she desired to retain remembrance
of its donor, but simply because she
wouldn't give 1t UP. He met that truly
womanly argument by employing the
unmanly tactic of attempting to take
| the pin by force, and when she resisted