The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05
CHARACTER WITNESSES"
TALK IN WOMAN'S BEHALF
HEIR TESTIMONY Bellies HER CONDUCT
r Aged Spouse COnfuses Prosecuting Attorney BY Refusing
to Start Story at Point Alluded to in Complaint
BY JAMES c. CRAWFORD.

ployed 'as a hotel waitress, and she
hoped TO resume that vocation when
opportunity afforded.
Case dismissed, with a suggestion to
Miss Eckhart that She patisTli 81 - 8 pear
her personal discomferts Until a re-
sumption of the demand for mattresses
restores her to Industry. if not TO I'M
munity from temptation TO tipple,
David Moses of AZ Ninth avenue
sullenly acknowledge that he had
slapped the comely. face of his wife:
Flora D.. and Judge Cabaniss informed
him that there was more than one
reason why he should feel ashamed OF
his conduct
For" said his Honor lin addition
to earning the ignominy that properly
is awarded the assailant OF a woman
you have brought disrepute upon two
long-honored names.
I'D like to know" quoth the lady
with show of resentment, how he has
injured my name.
did not imply that your name has
been injured" was the response. My
allusion was entirely TO the two names
borne by himself-David and Moses
both illustrious in scripture. To con-
meet one of them with Wife beating
is almost akin TO sacrilege, and; TO
couple both of them with that most
reprehensible -offense is a-a-well,-is
twice as sinful as coupling esof them
with it Now what do YOU want me
to do with David Bfoses2
She wanted to have him sternly
warned not tosslap her face again; and
that's what was done with him.
Judge Mogan continued the hearing
,l,~ of sa--of ofa1 writ n
intent to commit murder.
John Diamond who. shot r. Wendt
last Sunday morning at a tent near
Rhode Island and Fifteenth streets, ap-
peared in court with his head band
aged and informed the Judge that he
did not shoot until Wendt struck him
with a brick. The bullet lodged in
Wendt's groin and has not yet been
extracted. Dispute over an alleged in
debtedness of 75 cents resulted in the
probable fatality
William Bell; who plunged a pick
ak into Edward KiIchines side while
they were quarreling at Columbia
square, will be given further examina-
ton on June S. George w Williams,
a private of the Eleventh United
States Infantry. witnessed the deed,
and told the Judge that Bell struck
the complainant but once with the
pickax-
Kilchine was in court and seemed to
be very feeble.
A. Brick. who is furnishing innocu
Gus amusement by keeping a billiard
room at 473 Haight street, accused 19
year-old Eugene Sarnquit of having
been one of a crowd of boys who
amused themselves by hurting raw po-
tatoes at the -wielders as they
punched the ivories. thus impairing the
accuracy of their shots. to say nothing
of mussing up the green baize table
covers.
Master Sarnquit apparently regarded
the complaint in the light of a joke
until the Judge pronounced him guilty
OF peace disturbance. remanded him
for sentence today and intimated in
tention TO imprison him for three
months. Then saucy defiance gave way
TO puerile blubbering and earnest ex-
pressions of repentance and pledges
never to do it again. Nor was tho big
boys despair lessened as he left the
courtroom, for the Judge showed no
symptom of relenting.