The San Francisco call., 1909-12-26
FOOTPADS GET $500
FROM POULTRYMAN
Merchant Held Up at His Home
Doorway and Robbed of
Entire Weeks Receipts
PickpOckets Find Profitable Har-
vest on the Crowded Street
cars of the City


Footpads were particularly active
Christmas eve. many holdups having
been reported to the police The heav-
lest loser was Max Winer who lives at
20 Bourbon place. When he reached
his home shortly after midnight yes
terday morning two men sprang out
from under the stairs, each armed with
a revolver.
They compelled him to go into an
alleyway running alongside his house.
where they took from him about $3.50,
the entire weeks receipts of his vege-
table and poultry store at Eddy and
Steiner streets. Then they locked the
door of the slleyway and disappeared.
They must have known of winer's
custom Of taking his weeks receipts
home with him.
Michael Hegarty, 312 Sixth avenue
south, was beaten and robbed by three
men al Twenty and Mission
streets of s2f.5O. He had to be taken
to the Mission emergency hospital.
Patrick Dempsey, 16 Guy place. was
attacked by two men in Harrison street |
and robbed of a silver watch and chain
and SO.
Modesto Flores. sailor on the steamer I
San Jose. was beaten and robbed by /
three men at Second and King streets.
They took from him 81, new pair of +
shoes. hat. watch and knife.
George Roffier, quartermaster Of the I
steamer Rose City, was badly beaten !
and robbed of So by a young man whom
he had befriended, in a room in the /
Central hotel. 574 Third street He I
was hit on the head with the butt end /
of a revolver and had TO be taken to
he sarla0r hos fa1
TWO FOOTPADs CAUGHT
George Hammond of the White Horse
hotel Seventh and Harrison streets, |
was attacked by three men at Pacific |
and Trenton streets and shouted for /
help when they knocked him down.
Policeman Kalmbach heard his cries
and saw the trio running away. He
chased them and fired a shot over their |
heads. Two of them stopped and We're
placed under arrest on charge of /
attempted robbery They gave the I
names of Henry Freeman and Horace
Gormfey.
Fred Brooks, 14s Silver street. was
held up by two men in Golden Gate
park near the Sixth avenue entrance
and robbed of S24.
Pickpockets robbed James Ryan of
the Golden Eagle hotel, Third street, OF
a gold watch and chain and two bag
gage checks while he was on kearny
street car; Adolph' Olsen, Seventeenth [
and Valencia streets, of a purse con-
tanning SI7 on a Valencia street car;
Lewis Nathan, S7T Shotwell street, of
purse and $3.50 on a Valencia street
car: Charles Adler, 351 Alvarado street,
of SIS on a Market street car; +. G.
LAWN, Eddy street near Mason. Of
diamond stickpin and a gold watch and
fob on a Fillmore street car; s. G.
Johnson, Flood building, and W. c.
Hoshng. Monadnock building, each of
a gold watch in Market street. and
Mrs. Gertrude Kelly, Southern hotel,
32s Third street, of a gold seal ring in
the Emporium drug store.
BURGLARS ARE ACTIVE
Burglars broke into the residence of
Mrs. y Pinello, 1850 Union street Fri
day evening and stole jewelry valued at
$40 Miss Nanette LodWig's room in
the Oregon hotel 32O Valencia street.
was entered and jewelry and coin val
ued at s74 stolen. Miss z. Azuarez's
room at 3407 Sacramento street was
entered and iewelry and coin valued al
s54 stolen. r. c. Smiths room at SO
Eddy street was entered while he was
asleep and SI3 taken from the pockets
Of his trousers. All Hongs room at SIS
Washington street was entered and $50
Mexican dollars stolen. S. Campo gna's /
dance hall at 43O Seventh street was
entered and cigars, liquor and an over
coat stolen.
Mrs. A. Possesi. 1890 San Jose ave-
nue., put $40 for safe keeping under the
sink in the kitchen and Friday night
the coin had disappeared. Thieves stole
two boxes of butter valued at s41 from
a wagon in front of Charles Stoffer's
grocery. 573 Valencia street.
a woman purchased goods to the
value of s35 from NJ. Hart 154S Fill
more street Friday, and gave him in
payment a worthless check on the
Riverside bank A man bought goods
los California street and gave them
worthless check for $36 receiving
$24 change.
Four men entered the restaurant of
Peter Leclair. Al Yalepeia street. early
yesterday morning and after partak-
ing Of meal refused to pay for it.
One Of them struck Leclair in the face
quartet opened the cash register and !
took 81. Then they walked out,
STOLE LIVE TURKEYS
Thieves entered the cellar of stephen
Judnich's saloon at 1000 Seventeenth /
street, Friday night and stole nine
live turkeys valued at s27.
While mounted policemen Phillips I
and Mccullough were riding along the
north main drive late Friday night 1
Nl4Is SOW a At'ehA SN0hNAHS lCdA Tie
shrubbery. They dismounted and
searched him, finding loaded revolver
and a razor in his pockets. He said
his name was Henry Raymon and that
he worked on dredgers lar Sacra-
mento until recently, but was now out
Of job. He had gone to the park with
the intention Of holding up somebody.
His name was registered on the deti-
nue. book at the city prison.
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