The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 15, 1904, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL., FRIDAY. JANUARY 15, 1904. [NG CROOKS ARE EUNISHED CITIZENS MAY AKE p’o APPEAL —e Decision of Judge \\hnplur Jacob Silverman Sontonm-d? of Vermont Is Overthrow: to Serve Fifteen Years in| yv the Opinion of D2 Haven | Folsom on Robbery ('lmrge‘[ S 1 —_— , EXCLUSION ACT LIMITED| WISELY PLEADS GUILTY | Rl | O American Born Chinese Must E. Crothers, Clever Criminal, | Not Be Treated Differ -ntl_\“ Will Spend the Next Seven | From Whites of Same Birth! Years in Same Institution - L | f the pe ot | Judge Lawlor passed sentence on wr of eas | ¥ prisoners \Pfltfin"\\ : b lverman was sentenced to| e fifteen years in Folsom on a ge of robbery. He pleaded guilty. offense was committed in the ympic dance hall at 519 Pacific street | n the night of October 8. W. W. Eg: gleston, had been drinking in went to a rear :d by Silverman, revoiver against of the | ¢ a miner, hall and 1. He was followe hw placed a loaded his abdomen and ordered him to throw | up his hands. but one of his hands happened to drop and | dance Eggleston cothplied, s s Judge de Haven verman, shoving the muzzle of the! says | revolver i Eggleston’s mouth, « threatened to blow his head off. S verman then relieved Eggleston of hi gold watch and chain and ran from the dance hall, but was pursued and cap- { turea a young man and . t . upon him B said that he to a class of t guage of | young men who were respomsible for States ( t of Ap- | the many desperate ries that are o N Cir e of Gee | committed in this He declared Sing was need 3 iple and < their vouth should erfere with the punishment for ' ae crimes of such . and alarming frequency. | Crothers was sentenced to serve rs in F m on a charge of forged the name of Magk | ists, to an order which he a firm on Drumm street Kennedy & O'Keefe, gro- e streets, for $150. ral times for and there is another of forgery pending against him. ars of age and is regarded | seve N . 2 of the cleverest young erim- - v als city Since being ' con- i ned he C ail he has writ- g in contrite terms, | I g an on to reform if [ sther chance | g . King, the convict preacher, sentenced to serve twenty years E ten for burglary in The sentence will run | ith one imposed upon King, Thomas Barker usly. . : s i Hamilton maintained a = = - roost” at 835B Howard street kept the products of bur- 5 es in different lodging-houses. ving A ton and Barker are both ser SR = » t s of sixteen years. King and Bar- COURT GIVES MISS WILLS ! have taken appeals to the \.,rn:w RELIEF SHE PRAYS FOR Court Judge S o i e ge Sloss Annuls Ties Uniting Her WOLF SF RESTORATION to Ma 0 as - S o “"" Was In TO POLICE DEPARTMENT <ane e g e Lillian Wills Applies for Writ of Review of the [ & k K p Commissioners’ Acts on K er, 196 That They Were Prejud . ant of Police Reuben A : e e smissed from the po- s . accepting money from g oy took his case into court s g e of securing n for a wr S proceedings before the A= roick 0 Commissioners which b 1 his dismissal. Judge Ker- - foridgs e to Judge Sea- . 3 2+ M. Wolf from OB the . - atra . to appear before him A - m., to show cause ht agent of - N etition should not be s ged guilty of cc |t : Eebabt of it his petition on several . # - = He claims first that the pro- board were illegal be- arges against him had been ith the Civil Service Board the last named board did rize the Police Board to en- into any investigation, as the char- requires; second, that the Police were not qualified to try him because they had become pre- ed by reason of their frequent iltations with Chief Wittman in regard to the charges against him, and Comm ioners third, that he was not given a fair hearing because Commissioner Drink- house had conferred with George B. Simpson, the saloon-keeper whose | money he was accused of taking. l —_—— | Elcction by New Yorkers. The New Yorkers, a sociefy posed of. natives of New l“nh License for \0\\ Bank Board of E vesterday f he San Mateo at Redwood which is open its 1. Alfred n elected president com- York State, k titution wil ss Februar) Occidental The Hotel Wednesday evening. following new officers were elected: <o h-s J. V. Coleman and C. D. Benedict; sec- B o i Rice vice president | yotary, H. P. Bush; greasurer, P. Behrens secretary-treasurer | pigher. cashier. | During the evening Colonel Bush | was the recipient of a beautiful silver presented to him by the retiring sident of the society, Colonel C. POSTUM CEREAL. pr Mason Kinne, on behalf of the organi- | zation in recognition of the secretary's five years' faithful service. —_——— Booked for Burglary. | David Gaffney was booked at-the ! | City Prison yesterday by Detectives | | O'Dea and Mulcahy on a charge of Does tothe. . . . Liver ithard enough, save the remaining ’ f health. It may be but it will grow stead- arger if good, well-made | burglary. He is accused of having | ‘ broken into the grocery of Julius Levin, Bay City Market, on Christmas day | &nd stealing four cases of whisky, two | ’casss of eggs and two hams. He was lcauglu by one of the partners, but | [ broke away from him and escaped. The d detectives. Levin told them that his | store had been systematically robbed | employed in the market. ———— Accused of Being a Defaulter. Natale Andreotti, financial secretary J | cause the husband was a roisterer by | who bore him one child. {and a horde of eager attordeys ad- | be for her | Par ! in their clothes. | was no proof that this game of the | are divergent. held their fifth annual meeting at the | President, E. B. Read; vice presidents, | stolen property was recovered by the | for the last two years. Gaffney wu| Adjusted Between Young _Couple. Grandmother = Convicted of Cruelty One family, badly disjointed be-|tell the court all he knew of the oc- night, was reunited by Judge Mogan yesterday in the Police Court. The husband is a young fellow, Charles Parker by name, well appearing and | industrious. One year and a half ago he took for a wife a very pretty girl, Thereafter he fell in the way of temptation and his wife had him arrested on the mis- demeanor of failing to sup- port a min charge r child. There were other legal proceedings which she had contemplated. She wanted to get a divorce for one thing vised her that such procedure would benefit. When Judge Mo- gan got his Roentgen ray of justice fully operating on the case, he called the young couple up close to the bench and advised them: “You two young people Had better 80 into my chambers,” he said, “and talk this matter over. Evidently two es may be sundered that should be joined if you drift apart.” Bailift Jerome J. Hickey led the couple to the Judge's chambers and within tep min- utes they came out holding each other’s hand. They told the court that all differences had been settled. The young husband promised that hereafter he \\nJld not look upon the wine when it was red and glittering in the-cup and his wife was willing to take one more chance with him. s employed at the Union Iron Works and bore excellent references from his employers. Victorina Fersent, the grandmother who sat a baby on a hot stove in her home at 710 Grafton avenue, was con- victed yesterday by Judge Cabaniss on the charge of cruelty to a minor child. In addition to herself she had as a Wwitness for the defense a Korean med A. Takin, who claims to be a minister of the gospel. He has been living in the Grafton avenue home for several months. On the day the baby was burned he testified that he laid his hand on the stove and that it was not eptionally warm. The defend- gave testimony of similar acter. akin said he went to his room after testing the stove and was startled by eams from the baby. He rushed down to the kitchen and found Mrs. Fersent holding the child. He saw the burns on its body and ad- ministe; whatever remedies he could fi n the ho 3 Judge Cabaniss w unsparing in his words of censure on the heartless woman who put a baby on a hot stove for punishment. During the course of his lect the mother of the baby, who is the daughter of the defendant tarted a “rough house” in the court- room by abusing M. J. White, secre- tary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Somewhat narrowly she escaped a commitment for cont of court. Her mother was ord 0 custody and to-day Judge Caban will impose as severe a sentence on her as is compatible with the circumstanges. Six months is the maximum punishment and there are no mitigating circumstances. Twenty-seven Greeks, wise in the knowledge that the mountains look on Marathon and Marathon looks on the but totally unversed in a law pro- hibiting gambling in the city and coun- t San Francisco, were gathered in nt Ward and four other po- officers Wednesday night on the charge of playing a percentage game. The game was being conducted in" a saloon at 785 Folsom street. On the table was more than $3000, and all of the prisoners had wads of greenbacks lice The prisoners appeared before Judxe Fritz yesterday. Prosecutor Ike Har- ris was clearly up against it. There Greeks was g percentage one, and in the absence of this it was necessary to dismiss the defendants. Harris went { back to Homer and hummed hexame- ters from the Iliad to the court in support of his contention that the game was an unlawful one, but Homer and the statutes of the State of California Nobody was willing to testify that the Greeks were taking any more percentage than they have always done throughout history, so they were allowed to go free and take their places with slot machines and other immunes. Judge Cabaniss wrestled with a bat- tery case yesterday. S. Riccomi runs a fruit stand at 4063 Eighteenth street. One of his neighbors is George Pol- | lock and both of them are fathers of \chndren The youngsters became in- volved in trouble and the elders took up the quarrel. As a result Riccomi landed a large, fast punch on his neighbor’s nose. Judge Cabaniss phil- osophized over the question in this fash- ion: | “Most all of the difficulties that come | before me among men are the result wo[ quarrels over women, children or ‘ dogs. In the case of women it is hope- less to try to adjust matters. As re- gards dogs the question is altogether too delicate for discussion except in specific cases, but with children I would | suggest that some of the excess en- | ergy wasted in ba(lery cases be ap-, plied to the young ones.” Under the Judge's advice, the two neighbors shock hands and promised hereafter to settle the differences be- tween their children by a more peace- ful method than fighting among them- | selves. Vera Costello resented the attentions which Mabel Wells was bestowing on the only man she had ever loved. When she met Mabel at the eerie hour of 5 o'clock yesterday morning on Kearny UDGE MOGAN REUNITES ONE DISSEVERED COUPLE 'Matters of a Marital | case. | violate the law and it was only her charity that had drawn her into the trouble. In Chicago and elsewhere po- Nature Are Easily- currence, but at the request of the defendant’s attorney the case was set over until January 19. Charles Wines, a railroad man from Cakland, who made the grievous mis- take of changing his name to Wilson, was on trial before Judge Fritz yester- day on the charge of throwing red pep- per into the eyes of a boy on Mission street. There was no desire to prose- cute the defendant. The complaining witness admitted that he had been bothering Wines in company with a crowd of other boys. He said he was not injured by the pepper and was| very glad to drop the prosecution. Judge Fritz was flooded with letters from prominent Oakland persons tes- | tifying to Wines' good character and | he was dismissed with a reprimand. | Maude Lawrence, charged with the forgery of the name of J. W. Lay- mance to a check for $100, was on| hearing before Judge Cabaniss yester- | day. Her defense is that the check| was genuine and the contention was heavily assisted by the testimony of Theodore Kytka, the handwriting ex- pert, who said that Laymance's signa- ture to the paper in question was un- doubtedly genuine. Prosecutor Hanley asked Kytka if he had examined the alleged spurious signature under a microscope. “I wouldn’t disgrace a microscope in that | way,” said Kytka. “Theré is no neces- sity for such an examination. The signature on this disputed check could not have been written except by the same man who signed the checks which are admitted to be genuine.” Miss Lawrence bore her usual con- fident air and does not seem to be much worried over the outcome of the In view of the testimony it looks as though trouble would never trouble her on ‘hi_s particular charge. Caroline Butter conducts a little no- | tion store out on Ninth avenue, betweer: M and N streets. She Jvas before Judge Fritz yesterday on the charge of seiling | liquor without a license. A recently | appointed policeman named Burg in- vaded the notion store Tuesday morn- ing in civilian clothes and asked the| »ld lady for a drink. She refused to| sell it to him, but offered to give him a nip, because the fog was chill and | she really believed he needed it. Then he laid down some money in payment | and afterward arrested her for selling licuor without a license. Judge Fritz listened to her simple story and dis- missed her without a word of censure. It was plain she had nor attemnted to | licemen that try to lure people to com- mit crimes have received severe repri- mands from Judges. —_— | ‘William H. Atkins was held by Judge Mogan yesterday without bail on the charge of murder. - He shot and killed Muldoon McDonald on Christmas day. McDonald was a negro prizefighter, somewhat amusing in the ring, but de- cidedly uninteresting outside of it. His passing will not be vigorously regretted by the colored coiony, among whom he was rated as a “bully” and a thief. Atkins killed the fighter on Christmas day because he had stolen $1 65 from¥ a poker game in which he had no in- terest. The defendant pursued and shot the robber. Self-defense will be the plea. A gentleman from Georgia named Ed Brown was ordered into custody by Judge Fritz vesterday afternoon be- cause the Judge thought he was not telling the truth in regard to certain occurrences he witnessed in connection with a charge against George Curry for making an assault with a deadly weap- on on Gus Lindenstadt. Both Curry and Brown are street car men and the latter was trying so hard to shield the defendant that Judge Fritz became properly indignant. “There is entirely too much lying go- ing on in the Police Courts,” said the Judge, ““and I shall do whatever I can to stop it.” Late in the evening he had a conference with District Attor- ney Byington and a charge of perjury was preferred against Brown, with his bail set at $2000. { Judge Cabaniss yesterday for driving ADVERTISEMENTS. INE WHITE HOUSE JANUARY 18th. Monday IMPORTANT SALE OF Decorative Art Objects Strictly One Price. No Discount. Tl Yl d G S DOCTOR ERITZ IS INNOCENT (,’ommissxoncr Heacoek Rules That the ‘Letter About the’ Second Wife Was Not so Bad e | DEFENDANT TO REMARRY Aceused Man Becomes Recon- . ciled to Former Spouse and She Takes Children to Court —_— y | Dr. J. A. Fritz, whos: ‘roubles | through the divorce suit brought by his second wife have accupied consid- | erable srace in the newspapers recent- | iy, appeared yesterday morning before United States Court Commissioner . Heacock for trial on a charge of hav- ing mailed®an obscene letter addressed to George Marshall, uncl. f the second Mrs. Fritz. i With Fritz appeared his first wife | and his four children, and as they sat | in a row they occupied one side of the | i small courtroom. Fritz was confident, | A.\l“l/sfi\’fl':‘\"!'-sfi N | AT the divorced Mrs. Fritz was smiling | B and happy and the little Fritzes snick- SAN FRANCISCO'S | ered and giggled at untimely intervals. LEADIRG THEATSE | His attorney, Bert Schlesinger, confi- e dentially informed a f w friends that o o Mar. Tcalia y Nights, Dr. Fritz and his former wife had be- come recopciled, and that they were In Percy Fendall's Modern Comedy, about to be remarried as soon as he | “MRS. DEERING'S DIVORCE.” | should obtain a divorce from the wom- | n to whom he referred in the letter to | Frizay. Saturday Nights and Satur- Matines of Ne | _AMUSEMENTS. arshall as “‘Sandhill Jennie.” The defense admitted having mailed and written the jetter, but denied that | it was obscene in the legal sense of the term as laid down by United States District Judge de Haven in a recent g e R apinion. In the indelicate epistle Dr. | Fritz recited what purported to be the “* The Degenerates history of his relations with his second | wife in the most vulgar Anglo-Saxon |As Fresented by Mre Langtry in Lendon and phrase, but Judge Heacock decided | Parformances. that it did not come within the prohi- | January 24—German Pe bition of the statute and dismissed the | 5 _ICH -WIEDERK case. ’ 1 | N CHINATOWN..Y THE DIN Thursday, day l.r\nl) s ,)‘ Eelasco & \]a\.!. 3[1 ™ l‘.‘.‘ ro-nan—m WEEK ONLY. MATINEES ro-lomv and SUNDAY ormance, —_—— GREAT HIT OF “Passes Fictitlous Check. Clyde Pitcn’s Mrs. Naomi Morgan, who has a lodg- I"E MOTH Strongest Play ing-house at 402 Mason street, secured O a warrant from Police Judge Cabaniss | and The Children’s Cestume 10-Big Acts-10 THE T FI.AME = | Howard Thursluu Walino and Mari- | ==——————————= ° ot "lhlmbll edd nette; Asra; White and Simmons and Orpheum Motion Pictures. Last | vesterday for the arrest of W. E. Gates lon a charge of passing a fictitious! check. She said that Gates had paid | her $5 room rent and had given her & check on the Germania Savings Bank signed “E. J. Berry” for $20, receiving 315 change. When the check was pre- | times of Hallen and Fuller; Dumi- sented at the bank it was found that| trescu, Van Auken and Vannerson: | no one of the name of E. J. Berry had | the Sa-Vans; Charlotte Gayer an account there. George and the Tobins. 1 —_————— { Regular Matinees Every Wednesday, Thurs- ’tu‘Sc' S c v - ¥. Saturday and Sunday. Prices 10e. 25¢ Seek to Prevent Cruelty. — W T $5 Harmon was fined by | | Market OPERA | near h st., Phone wum 338, a horse unfit for use. The case of Wil- TO-NIGHET—ALL THIS WEEK. TIVOL “ v = MATINEES TO-MORROW AND SUNDAY, | iam Churchman, another driver ac-| HOUSE ¢ A « | First Time Here of the i cused of cruefty to his horse, was oy i T Due & the. Botrn. Sumen, continued by Judge Cabaniss until | PRAISED BY PUBLIC! 'Th : Saturday. Officers Unger and McCur- | Jwifi:&‘r . s c Oons lncrs rie of the Humane Society killed a | 7y A comedy drama of the Virginia Mountatns glandered horse at the docks yester-| Thriiling ing' Sensational! day. The animal was to be sent m‘ e y Fl'*;;rrv‘u am' in this city of Petaluma to be used for chicken feed. c M he new comedtan of the Central Stock Chme Gets No Damages. nmss g . PIICES Matinecs. e, Toe oo Alec Fries had his hand injured bY{ , yy.ry spectacuiar Comic Opers by a saw in the factory of the American | islaus Stange and Julian Edward: Lead Pencil Company about two years Martial M Picturesque Scenery! Week of 18T January an- | : BOWERY GIRL. i i Soldists abd Soathern Sweanasrisl ago and immediately brought a suit -_n | for damages against his employers. g;:‘},;::‘“_‘“_’““‘ '_’5"’“"“" 73¢ | ‘fl‘_ The lower court decided-that the com- pany should compensate the young man for his losses, but the Supreme | Court reverses that judgment. The case was sent back to the Superior| Court yesterday for a new trial. F AP N BEFITRRES AR Convicted of Assault to Rob. Joseph Davis was convicted by a jury | MI.SS VlVlan Prescott in Judge Dunne's court yesterday on | In the Pastoral Southern Melodrama, a charge of assault to commit rob- lN CoNvlc’l‘ STRlPES bery. He will be sentenced on Janu- ary 23. On the morning of October 4 he led Henry Gohringer into a door- | A Story of Life in the Hills of South Carolina. way on Mission street, near Third. and NEXT SUNDAY MATINEE was going through his pockets, when . | Policeman Tillman made nis appear- OINNE NIGHT in JUNE ance and placed him under arrest. A Play for the People. e USUAL POPULAR PRICES. Dispatches from Paris' are to the effect | that the European powers are seeking | #n opportunity to intervene in the threatened war between Russia and Ja- pan, so possibly there will be no war after all. This does not prevent your buying a gas range from the S. F. Gls! and Electric Co., 415 Post street. DA OPERA G RA N HOUSE MATINEE TO-MORROW. LAST TWO NIGHTS | | DEAVES' MERRY MANIK And a Great Show Every Afternoon aad | Bvening in the Heated Theater. A CHINESE BABY IN THE INFANT INCU- CUBATOR. Visit the Mystic Mirror Maze. Tale a Trip Down the Flume. uum DE u MORT.” Children. 3 Th \dmds!un. When Phonin That a | will Good Show | Draw Is Evidenced by the Tremendous Crowds That ¥our In to See 4 WASHINGTON Robinson _Introduced a bill for the admission of Oklahoma Territory into the Union as t lahoma epresentative ay providing d the Indian State of Ok- ADVERTISEMENTS. MCCLUREFE’ MAGAZINE begins the with an edition of the January Number of 15000 To make sure of getting this Notary Public and Attorney-at-Law. Tenth Floor, Room 1015, Claus Spreckels bidg, Telephone Main 983 | Restdence. 821 below Poweil. Residence Telephone James 1301 THE BEAUTY SHOP Fascinating in ‘the Extreme. Handsomely Staged and Costumed. 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