The San Francisco call., 1907-06-15
JUROR CUDWORTH
TELLSASTRAN
STORY IN COURT
Says Fire Commissioner
Bollo Tried to See
Him at Hotel
IMPoRTUNEs BIGGY
Visitor Wanted to Carry
Message to Wife,
He Declares
ALLEGES CRUELTY
Prisoner Claims He Was
Mistreated After His
Arrest
ALLEGES CRUELTY

Arrest
Smarting under sense of the
indignities to which he says he
was subjected by the police after
his arrest late Thursday night on
a charge of threatening to kill his
wife, Royal w. Cudworth, one of
the jurors in the Schnaitz case,
gave expression to his feelings
yesterday morning and incident
ally made a serious accusation
against Fire Commissioner Mario
Bollo. He complained that he had
been put into a cell at the Bush
street station and remained there
all night incon1unicado, without
a blanket to cover him. When
brought to the city prison he had
trouble in getting a messenger
boy TO send word to his friends. When
he did get one the boy failed to re-
turn.
Although he was not charged with
being drunk. he was placed in cell
with eight men arrested for drunken
ness. When taken 10 Police Judge
ShortalTs court the baiiiff allowed him
to sit at the attorneys table. A few
arrested him. ]. II. Colen. told the
baiIiff that Chief Dinan had given or
ders that no courtesies be extended to
Cudwcrth and to place him in the dock
with the other prisoners. He was put
back in the dock and remained there
until the judge took his seat on the
bench, when the judge instructed the
bailiff to give him a seat at the at
torneys table.
District Attorney Langdon, Francis
]. Heney and Special Agent Burns came
into court after the case had been dis
posed of. Langdon said they had heard
that Cudworth had been unjustly
treated by the police department and
they wanted to know what had been
done. The judge told them all that he
knew and what disposition had been
made of the case. They went away and
the district attorney said he would
make further inquiry into the mattec
He added that everything would be
done to protect the Schmitz jurors from
police persecution.
CUDwORTH TELLS STORY
Speaking of the trouble with his
wife, Cudworth said that while the
Schmitz jury was at the st. Francis
hotel Fire Commissioner Mario BolIo
called at the hotel and importuned
Elfsor Biggy to see him, as he desired
to take message home to Cudworth's
wife. Biggy asked Cudworth if he de-
sired to send a message to his wife by
Bollo and he replied in the negative,
as he did not know Bollo well enough
to send message by him. Cudworth
said he observed Bollo in court sew
eral times. Bollo always kept staring
at him and made him highly nervous,
SO much so that when Judge Dunno
was delivering his charge to the jury
he hardly heard a word that the judge
was saying
When I got home late last night.
continued cudworth, Il asked my wife
If she had seen Bolio in our apart
ments- She refused to answer me and
took hold of her arm. She screamed
and struggled to get away from my
grasp and in the struggle her eye was
hurt and became discolored. She finally
broke from my grasp and ran down
stairs, screaming, to the apartments
occupied by Horace Perazzi. who owns
the house l went down stairs after
her and found in Perazzrs apartments
a brother of Supervisor Phillips.
In the presence OF Perazzi and Phil
lips l told my wife had something
important to say to her and she begged
me not to say it to her there. re-
piled that l would respect her wishes
and would return to our apartments
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