The San Francisco call., 1906-07-12
k|L|AN DENIES He.
WAS UMGALLANT.
Swears That He Did Not
Strike Mrs. Brown in
the Flour Line Fight
Says She Called Him a
LiarWhen HeAccused
Her of Repeating

Her or Repeating
1t was womans day on Tuesday at
the trial before Police Judge Conlan
Of Captain ]. n. Kilian, superintendent
of the supply depot at the Moulder
School. charged with battering Mrs.
A. H. Brown. a refugee in Jefferson
square. last Friday afternoon. but yes
terday the sterner sex had the case all
to itself. The testimony of the men
did not fatter the women.
Mrs. Brown was again accompanied
to court by Miss Marie Pico and other
friends, male and female. At times 1t
looked as If they would give noisy vent
to their feelings while the opposing
witnesses were testifying, but the
threat the Judge made on Tuesday to
clear the room had a restraining effect.
Every witness for the defense as
Moulder School Friday morning and
had already received her rations of
-four before she appeared again in the
afternoon. This she denied under
oath on Tuesday. Just before adjourn
ment yesterday the Judge pointedly
asked. her If she was not at the school
that morning, and she replied:
w GIL, QQ6C, pdSS0O Tie SClOOl Oc-
tween and 9 o'clock that morning
with my husband and Miss Pico. on
my way from breakfast"
The reply brought smiles to the faces
of Kilian and his friends.
Four witnesses for the defense and
the defendant were examined yester-
day. Assistant District Attorney Flood
said he had four or five witnesses in
rebuttal, and the Judge continued the
case till this morning. The witnesses
called were e. D.. Rasheld, the man
with the checkered suit" who is ra-
tion clerk at the Moulder School; James
]. Mcbride. a stereotyper; L. A. Taylor.
check clerk at the Moulder School; J..
c. Code, laborer at the school, and the
defendant.
SAYS WOMEN REPEATED.
Rasfeld testified that he first saw
Mrs. Brown at the school on Friday
morning about o'clock. Miss Pico
and a man were with her. He again
saw Mrs. Brown and Miss Pico in line
at / o'clock that afternoon. He heard
Captain Kilian say to Mrs. Brown that
she had been there in the morning and
ask her to step out of the line, where
upon Mrs. Brown called him a liar. The
captain placed his hand on Mrs. Browns s
back and requested the policeman to
take her out of the line. which was
her arms. but he did not know If she
attempted to strike the captain.
Mcbride testified that he saw Mrs
Brown. at the school in the morning,
but he fixed the time at 10 o'clock. In
the afternoon he was present during
the conversation between Captain
Kilian and Mrs. Brown, and heard Mrs
Brown call the officer a liar. Miss Pico
was "egging Mrs. Brown on Mrs.
Brown was excited, and called the re-
lief people thieves and robbers. When
Mrs. Brown threw up her arms as if
to strike. the captain took hold of her
by the wrists and asked the policeman
to take her out of the line.
The controversy lasted five or six
minutes, said the witness. and all that
time Mrs. Brown was blocking the way.
He did not see the captain strike Mrs
Brown or attempt to strike her. He
did not hear any one threaten TO turn
the hose on the women. They were
raising Cain" Mcbride explained, and
one of them threw bag of flour at a
newspaper photographer.
CALLED CAPTAIN A LIAR.
Taylor also saw Mrs. Brown at the
school in the morning. fixing the time
at a quarter to eleven o'clock. He
heard Mrs. Brown call the captain a
liar in the afternoon. He did not see
the captain place a hand upon her. but
he saw the policeman pull her out of
the line She was calling the relief
authorities thieves and robbers.
While being cross examined Taylor
said to Flood, Young man If you got
as many cuts on your face as 1 got
that day from the women, you would
remember all about it,
Code testified that he saw Mrs
Brown at the school in the morning be-
g QnA~q o'clnCE with Miss
He knew nothing about what occurred
In the afternoon.
The defendant was inclined to be
verbose on the stand He was indig-
nant over the aspersions cast upon him
self and other relief officials, and said
that the people imagined that from
President Roosevelt down all were rob-
bing them. He recited what took place
on Friday afternoon. He recognized
Mrs. Brown in the afternoon flour line
as having been there In the morning
and asked her to step aside. She then
called him a liar.
She was leaning against the door and
he walked up to her and told her to go
away. She refused and he asked the
policeman to remove her. He denied
that he struck her. He might have put
his hand on her back or shoulder. Miss
Pico was the main cause of all the
trouble. She encouraged Mrs. Brown
in the hostilities and kept pulling her
back. If Mrs. Brown was hurt Miss
Pico was to blame. Mrs. Brown was
furiously angry and the witness never
before saw such a woman.
This closed the testimony for the de-
fense. Flood said he had four or five
witnesses in rebutta1 and the Judge
continued the case till this morning
Now I want to. ask Mrs. Brown -
said the Judge just before adjournment,
IF she was. at the Moulder School last
Friday morning"
We'll. Judge" she replied, Il passed
the school between eight and nine
o'clock that morning with my husband
and Miss Pico on my way from break