The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 24, 1896, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1896. CORTIS CO WS | " FORCED T STEAL ‘A Boy Who Ran Away From His Home in Pueble, Colo. Qharges His Stepfather, James Morrow, With Cruelly . Treating Him. After Arriving Here He Fell Into the Hands of a Criminal aad Was Arrested. - Curtis Oox, a bright, innocent looking boy, 15 years of age, as a result of falling .into the hands of a criminal is now held in the City Prison on a charge of burglary. The boy on Sunday aiternoon went into the fruitstore of Bazbuke & Currie, 38 Mazket street. He told Currie that he was hungry and Currie gave him a nickel. About 6 o’clock that evening the boy re- turned to the store and stole $4 05 from the till. In afew minutes he again went back to the store and gave Bazbuke the buil by Judge Wall | leged orime w Quentin for one year, has been admitted to ce, the bond being fixed at 2000. The cgmparions of Waltz in the al- apply to be aiso admitted to bail. A SOCIETY TRAGEDY. Fashionable * Functions®’ Proved Dis- astrous to the Natural Jce Skating Rink. When the Natural Ice Skating Company opened 1ts entertainment at the Mechan- ics’ Pavilion two years ago there was & great rush of people who wished to enjoy the pieasure of gliding over the gl_nny surface. Natives of northern climes wished to renew the joys of their child- hood, and as a consequence of their per- sistent enthusiasm the venture gave promise of yielding satisfactory dividends for the stockholders. That this desirable condition did not long prevail is shown by a suit just filed by Crane & Co. against the Natural Ice Skating Company for $2324 43 balance due. The original projector of the scheme found that it cost a great deal to start the enterprise and was surprised ‘lo see the affair nipped by a killing frost, more frgid mr;rx)x zhe) pond over which his atrons were invited to ‘‘skim like swal- ows o’er the smooth lake’s brim.”” His explanation for the failure is unique and is an illnstration of one of the idiosyncra- sies of Pacitic Coast civilization. Failure of the novel entertainment, which at first promised so much and which flattened out so quickly, is attributed to a blunder of the manager of the affair, who was described as a *‘society duck’ by the leading capitalist who staked and lost his money. Just as the boom of prosperity appeared to be so high that nothing could stay its progress, the manager conceived the idea of making the skating rink a fashionable fad. He nad secured the patronage of the common people, and he CURTIS COX. money he had stolen. He told Bazbuke thata man had instigated him to steal the . money and he had repented. Bazbuke detained the boy and notified | Policeman C. Donoho=. The boy told the wasambitions to number the members of the local 400 among his clientele. With | that objec: in view he proclaimed that the rink should be the scene of a “society function’’ each Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, on which occasion admission fame story to the policeman and said that | should be by invitation only, and that the man had arranged to meet him at the | only the Nob Hill element would be ferry at 7 with the boy to the ferrv and waited for the man, but he did not turn up. and tie | the Harbor station, | boy was taken to 7 o'clock. The policeman went | deemed eligible for participation in those | revels of the gilded youth and fashion of | the City. For two weeks those ‘‘functions” were very successful, but society soon tires of where a charge of petty larceny was booked | anything, and so the attendance from the against him. Yesterday Curtis was taken before Judge Joachimsen, who, after hearing his story, held him to answer before the Superior Court in_$1000 burglary in the second degree, so that he could be sent 1o the Whittier r prove true. the criminal instinct © I belong to Puebl terday, “‘and September 5 g stepfather, Jim Morrow He has always treated me cru- He would thrash me and roll me in . a barrel and often fordays he would me nothing but bread and water for my food. 1 could not stand it any longer, so | 1ran away. | him. lo.,” be said yes- from e cruelty of my yonds on the charge of | give | | Western Addition fell out of sight. In the meantime some of the folks who slighted took to discussing the sub- ot _ “We won’t doa thing to that ice-skat- ing joint but just let it alone,” said a ormatory. | young man at a South-of-Market social 1t is possible that something else will | + .be done with the boy if his story should | Ha has apparently none of | serted by all except a few old gentlemen Teunion one evening. And =0 it turned out. The rink was de- who tried to ima.ine themselves as spry as they were in their youth, and the liome on | omnipresent small boy of the newspaper- selling guild. Thereiore, the doors were who works in a | quickly closed and s balance of $2324 43 is still due to the machinists who did the work., DIPHTHERIA GAINING, “‘I got on a passenger train and beat my | SIx More Cases Reported—A Special way to Sireator, For a few days 1| tried to get wo: ut failed, and again - Deat my way back on trains. I stopped | off at Foit Scott, Kans., for a aay and | Meeting of the Board of Health to Be Held To-Day. Diphtheria has made another bound for- then got as far as La Junta, where 1| ward in its devastating progress, and boarded a train going this way. far as Albuquerque, N. Mex., where 1 was | thrown off ihe train. ‘day or two and as I could get nothing to | eat I stole a toy watch from a man and | *“@old it for 2 cents to get food. I got as | should the present bad weather prevail the Board of Health is anticipating a still 1 stayed there for a | furtner increase in the number of cases. Six cases were reported at the Health | Office during the forty-eizht hours ending “I'got here about a month ago, and tried | 8t D o'clock last evening, making eight to. get work. -sionally at the Oakland racetrack. Five day go I goton a train to go to San Jose, but was thrown off at San Leandro, | There I met a man about 39 years of age. | He was short and stout and had a sandy | istache, znd to!d me to call him Jim. . “He wanted me 10 go with him und‘ steal, but I refused. 1 tried to get away -irom him, but Le always found me out. | *He would be away atnights, and I slept | in a farmer’s barn, but In the mornings, | when 1 tried to leave San Leandro, he al- | . ways turned up. He showed me things that he said he had stolen. *‘Sunday he made me come to the City with him, and he pointed out the fruit- | siore to me. He told me to rob the till, and he would meet me at the ferry at 7 | o’clock and get the money from me. I| didn’t want to steal, but I was afraid of him. After I stole the money I saw him | " going down the street, so I turned back and gave it to the fruit man. “I'hope they won’t send me to the re- | form school. I would like to zet work here, but if they want to send me back I | hope they will send me to my married «ister, who has a ranch in Garden City, Kans: 1 would not live with my step- father again.” G Tne following regarding the lad ap- peared in last night’s Oakiand Inquirer: Curtis Cox, the young boy who Jdeclared that he was going to tramp to his home in Coloraao, but who was picked up by the police at Seventh and Brordway some days after- . ward, was beiriended by & Mrs. Smith, re- *iding in the vicinity of East Sixteenth and . Tenth avenue, but the lady nas now reported “that the boy has run away. A Contra Costa farmer by the name of Rutherford cailed at tue police station to-day and also offered to take the boy and give him a home and educa- tion. The youngster, however, evidenily likes a roaming life better than a comfortable ‘home. He huas probably left the ecity this time. Captain Robinson will to-day communi- cate ~with Superintendent Carman of the Newsboys’ Home on Taglor street so that he can have a talk with him and probably take charge of him. \: = Waitz Admitted to Bail. Willlam Waltz, one of the striking lathers accused of causing the death of & noo-union Wworkman, ana who was sentenced to San 1 pot something to do occa- | ¥ ince the first of the month. They were located as follows: 1875 Fifteenth street, 10 Beaver street, 4214 Nineteenth street, 215 Eunreka street, 22 San Carlos avenue and 1519 Buchanan street. There is some doubt about the latter | case being one of genuine diphtheria, but the doctor in atiendance reported it as such, The Beaver-street case is the second that has occurred in the same ‘house. The board will discuss the closing of the schools that were investigated on Satar- day last in special session to-day, and there is every likelihood that two or more of them will be closed. YOUNG BUT WOULD WED. Only an Official Investigation Could COheck iefebvre’s Matrimonial Pluns. Little Mamie Kelly, who lives some- where out in the Mission, has narrowly escaped being a bride at the tender age of 16 yesrs., The girl is bhardly out of short dress s, but she fell violently in love with Dillon Lefebvre. The possible groom is only a boy, barely 19 years old. He deter- mined to marry the giri and set about it systematicaily. The girl’s mother vio- lently opposed the proposed match. The girl’s fnlger was in Los Angeles. Le- febyre having been repulsed by the mother, appealed to the father, who tele- graphed as follows: Dillon Lefebvre, 978 Howard street: Telegraph 815 to-day. Got job in Oaklaud. What you asked me for is 0. K, About this time Frank J. Kane became interested in the case, which was brought to his notice by the girl’s mother. He succeeded in getting the dispatch which the father had sent from Los Angeles from Lefebvre, and it appeared to him that the §$15 mentioned was a consideration. Le- jeovre said that he was working, but Mr. Kane found out that this was not true. Then there was a scene, in which the boy was told that the wedding would not come off. The marriage license has not been taken out. Lefebvre not long ago at- tempted suicide on account of Mamie Kelly. e —————— The population of the world averages 109 women to every 100 men. POLICE RAIDING THE POCLROOMS Three of the Police Judges Are Not Backing Them Up. Cases Are Always Dismissed as Soon as Brought Into Court. Prosecuting Attorn:y Dare Raises a New Point Which Judge Joachim- sen Will Decide To-Day. ‘ The poolroom ordinance formed the subject of able arguments ! in Judge Joachimsen’s court yesterday afternoon and cansed a sharp interchange of words between the Judge and Prosecuting At- torney Dare. There are a number of cases on the calendar in this court against the pro- prietors of poolrooms for violating the ordinance, and yesierday afternoon was set for the trial of the first on the list. The police have been raiaing the pool- rooms since they opened concurrent with the opening of the racetrack last month, but every case that has been taken pefore Judges Low, Campbell or Conlan has been dismissed on the ground that the poolroom proprietors were simply acting as commission-men by sending the money to the track, in accordance with the re- cent decision of Judge Wallace. Still the police kept arresting them, to be followed by another dismissal. The case that came before Judge Joachimsen yesterday afternoon was that of George F. Tuttle, 20 Leidesdorff street. Policeman Francis, who made the arrest, testified in effect that on October 28 he purchased a pool ticket for 25cents from Tuttle, playing Caliente for a place. No mention was made of any commission. The pool ticket was submitted, and there the case rested. The aefense was represented by Attor- neys Joseph J. Dunne and S. H. Begens- bureer. Attorney Dunne moved for a dismissal of the case on the ground that the defendant, by sending the money to the track to be wagered, was simply act- ing as a common_ carrier, for which he could not be punished under the ordi- nance. Prosecuting Attorney Dare, in a long and able ar:ument, contended that the ordinance covered tbe case in point. It had been prepared by a learned ex-Judge and revised by some of the leading law- yers in the City, and its preamble showed how essential it was for the protection of | boys and young men. He contended that they had proved their case, inasmuch as subdivision 2 of section 1 says: No person upon any trial or contest of skill, speed or power of endurance between horses, except within the inclosure of a racetrack where such trial or contest is to take plac shalsell, issue or dispose of any ticket, certifi- cate or other evidence of payment on which | shall be inscribed, written or priuted any number, name, word or mark or anything to designate the choice selected, received or ac- cepted by any other person to entitle or enable the said person hoiding the said ticket, ceraifi- cate or other evidence of payment to gaifi or lose on any contingent issue. He contended that it did not matter whether or not the poolseller sent the money to the racetrack or what became of it. They had the evidence of the pool ticket end that was sufficient. The Judge said that the other three Judges had dismissed similar cases and | they would not have done so unless on good grounds. “‘Simply because the other Judges have done a certain thing is no reason why you should follow their example without ak- ing into consideration the law and the evidence,” said Prosecuting Attorney Dare. The Judge, with some asperity, retorted that he did not require to be instructed as to his duty. He said he would render his decision on the motion for dismissal on Saturday. Prosecuting Attorney Dare objected strongly to such a long delay. The police would continue to arrest people and the calendar was already clogged. He saw no reason why an earlier decision should not be given. The Judge insisted upon Saturday and | asked Attorney Dunne if he had any evi- dence to offer. “‘None,” replied the attorney. “In that case,” szid the Judge, “I will give my decision in two minntes.” Attorney Regensburger said he wounld have some evidence to offer, which angerea Attorney Dunne, and he said he wouid have nothing further to do with the case. Finally the Judge advised Regensburger and Dunne to settle their differences be- fore this morning, when he would give his decision. The other cases were continued till Saturdav, DIVES AND SO0O0IAL EVILS. Police Commissioners and Chief of Po- lice to Be Heard by the Grand Jury. The Grand Jury will hold a special meeting to-morrow to consider some im- portant business touching the unrestrained and open methods employed by the keep- ers of dives in this City. The committee on dives and social evils is composed of E. B. Cutter, M. Spiro and Harry Dur- brow. The committes on gambling, opium dens ana lotteries consists of C. C. Burr, Harry W. Goodall and A. E. Drucker. These committees have presented their views to the Grand Jury, and it has been decided to invite the Police Commission- ers and the Chief of Police to meet the ury. ! The Grand Jury to-morrow may take np the question of the purchase of land for the High School at the Mission. On this point some expert testimony as to the actual value of the lot may be heard. The committes on Fire Department, Fire Alarm and Fire Marshal, consisting of E. P. Farnsworth, W. L. Ashe and D. B. Faktor, recently made inquiry regard- ing the inadequate equipment of the fire- boats. Statements made to members of the Grand Jury are to the effect that Harbor Commissioner Chadbourne fancied that the fireboats ought not to respond to alarms from certain boxes, and so he marked out quite a number of boxes on the list. This order led to a reduction of the force manning the boats, as the Cbief of the Fire Department deemed a full force unnecessary if the alarms were not to be responded to. —————— How Nails Are Named. Two accounts are given of the origin of the terms “sixpenny,” “eightpenny,” ten- venny and so on, as applied to the vari- ous sizes of nails. According to one state- ment, when nails were made by hand, the penny was taken asa standard of weight and sit were made to equal the weight of a copper penny. This explanation is open to criticism on account of the very small size of the nails, of which six were needed to balance even the large-sized old-fashioned copper vpenny, others are much more probsable, One ~explanation holds that tenpenny nails originally sold for tenpence a hun- dred, sixpenny nails for sixpence a hun- dred and so on, the smaller nails seiling for the lower price. 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