The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-01-16
HANDsOMEsT man
BADLY BOTTLE RED
BY PRETTY MAID
Telephone Calls From Miss
Freed to Walter Speyer
Run Nine to Nineteen
During Day
DESPERATE VICTIM
APPEALS TO COURTS
Warrant Issues for Stenog-
rapher, Who Gives Bond
for Her Appearance

ldpilCl, WIZ 0lVCS DOIlQ
for Her Appearance
Because she thinks Walter S. Speyer,
bachelor, general manager of the New
Zealand Insurance company, is the
"handsomest man in town. Miss Mollie
Freed. a pretty and efficient stenogra-
pher, has formed the habit of telephon-
ing her idol from 9 to 10 times each
day. with the result that the object of
her affections has caused a warrant to
be issued which charges her with dis
turbing the peace.
Miss Freed. who lives with her sister
in the apartment hotel at 1914 California
street. does not mind her arrest little
bit Now maybe I'll get a chance to
talk to him in court" she said. A short
time later her attorney, Elliot NJ Ep-
steen. who had advised her to surrender
to the authorities. arranged for her bail
and bond. which were $40 and 500, re-
spectively.
"HANDSOME WALTER"
Already Mr.. Speyer is known to his
business associates in the insurance
district as Handsome Waiter" and he
has the good grace to blush behind his
spectacles and Jack Barrymore. mus
tache every time he hears 1t.
Now. listen" he said yesterday as he
led a couple of reporters out of hearing
OF his employers IN the N.w Zealand of
fees at 334 California street There is
nothing to this Joy ride stuff. never
took this girl out in my life. Honest.
She has been calling me up for months
and months. Gets me out of bed long
after midnight Saturday we kept count
of her calls. and in the forenoon alone
there were 13 OF 'em. i tried to get the
telephone company to do something. but
1t was making too many nickels out
of her and refused to interfere, saying
my only recourse would be to throw
brick at her. The company refused me
permission to swear at her over the
telephone
Mr.. Speyer appealed to the young
womans most recent employers the
British Bank of North America, with
the result that she finally was sdis-
charged
MISS FREED LAUGHS
II should worry" laughed Miss Freed
There are lots of jobs; but, really and
truly. don't you think he Is handsome?
now. We became acquainted about two
years after the fire. At that time I
was working for the Providence Wash
ington Insurance company at 300 Cali
fornia street J. f. ID. Curtis, the man
ager, and Mr.. Speyer are great friends,
and that is how we met. He used to
telephone me, but / never realized /
cared for him until we quarreled over
the telephone some months ago, and
since then have been unable to get
him to talk to me-"
Last week Speyer appealed to the
police. big" Fogarty of the bank dis
trict detail was assigned to help him
straighten out the affair The police
man called on Miss Freed. who readily
admitted that she had been telephon-
ing Mr.. Speyer.
But l didn't know he considered 1t
an annoyance she said.
SILENT FIVE LONG DAYS
During the period of the next five.
days, Mr.. Speyer was almost happy.
There were no telephone calls from
his admirer. Just as he was congratu-
lating himself that his troubles were
over, she began again. She increased
the number of calls from every half
hour to one every ten minutes. Monday
Mr.. Speyer went to the hall of justice
and demanded a warrant. What he
got was a citation for Miss Freed's
appearance in court. She came willing
ly enough, for wasn't Mr.. Speyer to
be there? He was, but he was care
fully guarded by big" Fogarty.
AlLOIUcy LlpSlCCIi SCSuACu d week
grace for his client on her promise
that she wouldn't telephone Mr.. Speyer
any more. but she just couldn't resist
calling him and yesterday she began
again. This time Mr.. Speyer's appeal
was answered and Judge ShortaIl is
sued the warrant charging the young
woman with disturbing the peace.
Although Mr.. Speyer has put a tenn
porary damper on Miss Freed's tele-
phoning, that instrument still is caus-
ing him a lot Of bother. About every
S minutes he hears the voice or his
business associates saying:
..oh, you handsome Walter. Naughty
naughty" and That's all right, we
were young ourselves. once" and other
things Of the sort
Mr.. Speyer is rapidly exhausting his
vocabulary Of intense and burning
words.