The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-09-12
DR.. P. BRUGUIERE
AND WIFE FIGHT
MAN IN Street
Millionaire Physician Uses
Fists on Stranger Who
Uttered Insult
HELPS HER HUSBAND
Helpneet Of Doctor Rushes
in and Tugs at Hair of
the Opponent
CROWD SEES BATTLE
Attorney Reed Separates the
Belligerents and Then
Unknown Flees

Two men battling msdly With their
dsts. a woman rushing to the rescue
Of one and with her fingers eIutchinE
--iI6Iv af The hair of the other, the
srrearns of other women and the rush
Ing af men toward the scene of the
couaict-this wss the spectacle that
confronted the matinee crowds passing
fhe corner OF Van Ness avenue and
Eddy street late yesterday afternoon.
II was not the ordinary street corner
bravsI. for one of the cOmbatanfs was
no other than DR.. Pedar Bruguiere,
millionaire physician and hero of three
marriages. while the woman who 6g-
ured as the amaxon Of the battle was
his wife.
There was wild rush of people
toward the corner when the noise of
the ARRAY echoed up and down the
avenue. and those who reached the
spot before the fighters could be sepa-
rated saw Dr. Bruguiere with his nose
bleeding profusely. slugsing valiantIy
Bruguiere. with her fingers tugging
al the hair Of the latter, was doing all
in her power to aid her husband.
Then Attorney Charles Wesley Reed
broke through the crowd. separated
the fighters, and q minute later the
principals had been spirited away and
the crowd dispersed, wondering what
IL was all about
The trouble was the outcome OF q
chance meeting and what DR..
Bruguiere claims was an insult Of
fered him by we'll dressed stranger,
who was standing on the corner as he
passed the place in company with his
wife. the lstter's sister. Miss King. and
z little boy. The four were walking z
northward when Bruguiere stopped a
moment TO speak to John Hammer
smith. the 5eweler, at the door of the
latteTs place OF business. Frank
O'Kane was standing close at hand
and by his side was the stranger. who
turned toward Bruguiere and muttered
something IN his ear. It was an in
suit which Bruguiere declared that he
could not overlook He turned and
walked away a few steps with his
wife and Miss King, and then, leaving
them. turned back and spoke TO the
man who had addressed him.
What followed came with a rapidity
that almost took away the breath OF
the witnesses. The stranger drew of
as though TO strike DR.. Bruguiere and
the latter lunged forward and planted
g hard blow on the mans face. There
was a clinch and an exchange of
heavy blows, and then Mrs. Bruguiere.
rushing screaming to the scene. threw
herself on her husbands opponent
dragging at his hair with her hands.
For q moment the melee presented a
confused picture OF waving arms and
swaying bodies. Then Attorney Reed
lunged forward between the fighters
and the affair came 10 an end.
Both Bruguiere and Reed declared
that they did not know the identity of
the man who uttered the alleged in
suit. Bruguiere said that he never
had seen the man before and that he
believed that the fellow was slightly
Under the influence of liquor. but that
the words he uttered were not such as
could be passed over AS soon as the
display OF belligerence was ended
B-uguieres opponent fed and there
was no one among the crowd Of on
lockers who could identify him.