The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27
A RUFF|AN
Or 4 GENTLEM MAN.
Police Commission Hears
Patrolman Arthur Sulli-
van Described as Both
MARIN COUNTY FEUD

Arthur Sullivan. policeman, has
missed his vocation That was appar-
ent-in fact it was the only apparent
thing-at yesterdays special session OF
the Police Commission. when Sullivan
was on trial for conduct unbecoming
a member of the San Francisco police
force. The young patrolman was in
tended by nature to be either a cherub
or an archangel, or something like
that, if you take the reputation given
him by his friends, or he was meant
for a hoodlum and barroom loafer. If
the testimony of Mr.. and Mrs. George
G. Gauld of 1928 Clay street is ac
credited. The police force is too good
or too bad for him.
The occurrences of August il and 10,
in which Sullivan is said to have fg
ured in Fosters Slough, Larkspur,
were on recital before the commission
According to Gauld, who has followed
the several professions of money lend
er, lottery magnate, blacksmith's help
er and carpenter, Sullivan threw mud
on Mrs Gauld while that lady was
swimming in the slough. When Gauld
went to demonstrate with the police
man he found him in his cups, wearing
a lighting jag" as the blacksmithss
helper put il, and used most profane
and vulgar language, all of which Mr..
Gauld glibly repeated while the Com
missioners blushed. Sullivan was re-
ported to have made references. both
proliX and nasty, to the august the
honorable Board of Police Commission
ers. which Gauld also took occasion to
recite AS to the incident of the mud
singing in the slough Mrs. Gauld sub
stantiated her husband
A SCHOLAR AND A GENTLEMAN.
Then followed a long series of wit
nesses. men, women and children, who
testified that in all their acquaintance
ship with sullivan they had never
once seen him fly the disorderly ban
ner of intemperance nor speak a word
which is not to be found in the Sab
bath-school library or young ladys
seminary. So fair was the name given
the model officer, so pure a character
did he exhibit through the mouths of
his witnesses. mat the Commissioners
meditated lest il should not be better
to remove him from the force before
he became contaminated by rude, un-
couth criminals whom he might have
10 arrest.
Gauld. the prosecuting witness in the
case is Mason of some elevation, and
in Sullivan's alleged TRADE against
Gauld and the commission he is re-
ported to have declared contempt for
the pull" which Gauld is said TO have
DOdStC0 OA ii6NlHS Win OOuiIHlSSlUlleI
Umbsen through mutual Masonic afil-
iations. It seemed the purpose of the
defense, through Attorney Maurice L.
Asher, after establishing the baking
powder reputation of Sullivan, to show
that Gauld had habit of Haunting his
friendship and brotherhood with Com
missioner Umbsen.
Mrs Sol Honigsberger of Larkspur
testified that on the day following
General p IT WarfaId's death CatlId
had told Sullivan that Commissioner
Umbsen was a friend of his and that
he (Gauld) would speak a good word
for Sullivan if the occasion should ever
arise That, of course, was before the
mud was thrown. Mrs. Daisy Sullivan,
wife of the policeman. testified to the
same effect. Both women positively
set the date of the promise as the day
following Warfeld's death.