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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1904 WOMAN RELUCTANT TO PROSECUTE MAN WHO ATTACKS AND ROBS HER He Alienates Her Affscti and Breaks Up Her Home---She Relents After Having Him Arrested on Charge of Larceny Elizabeth Fritag was dwelling ty with her husband, Michael, a saloon-keeper at Fresno, when Stone- Akers, a cement worker, entered as a boarder and alienated ons. The husband soon as- tuation and philosophic- best of it. Instead r shooting, he disposed gave his wife $1000 and red. With the money | r Mrs, Fritag came to | and the couple were at \ Hotel last Thursday | was arrested on the| of aint that he had robbed rs worth $350 and | ant of $44 40. f Judge Fritz yesterd ght that Mrs. Fritag had ted to Akers her #esire that he ob- ent and earn apit €. . Instead ¢ on In the considerate | prompted it, Akers vio- the woman, grabbed room in- e of her loss, and a few ¥ found Akers in her parently most h her. In one of his! olen purse, and only the c had been He Woman's rgiven his offense, the infatuated accept- | was taken into protest and 1at the e case contir prosecuting attor- ued | £ a4 pretty woman .’;h.‘wu[‘ 3 d Akers Is a big, When asked if he breaking of her home Fritag smiled wu.m Well, 1 guess he did t seem to be much wor- nt tag n of the shed many ‘tears. CLARKE'S GIFTS AREENUMERATED ons From Her Husband talist Only Gave Her a Few Things of Any Value g ‘ was clogged with opium tumes when| BROWNS AGAIN IN COURT he entered the Suey Keh restaurant, —_— in Bartlett alley, and picked up four | small china dishes which his distorted | Increase in Alimony Asked fancy had transformed into golden, z y double eagles. Whistles were blown, h} Former Wife of Man of course, and the responding police- \ e 2 man found the four little dishes in Who Was Left Inheritance Robert’s possession. ——— “I took them for a josh,” sald Robert| Ay umbrella worth $22, a wedding $9. niks Mbaan. ring worth $6, two dresses worth $100, Which proves that your mind is in Z e need of renovation,” retorted the Judge. | @ Mirror worth 314 and about $140 In To-morrow I'll prescribe the rest cure | Money constitute the giftc made by it { Edward K. Clarke, the capitalist, to Rosalind H. Bower-Clarke, the “sweet | pea” girl, during the days just prior to their hast¥ marriage at Alameda. least such is the claim of Mrs. Clarke {in an affidavit filed by her yesterday |in Judge Seawgll's court during -the hearing of her motion for alimony pending in Clarke's suit to amnul his marriage. The court took the matter under advisement. Lavina G. Brown, who secured a di- vorce from Frederick H. Brown in March, 1903, wants the alimony awerd- e Ford and May Johnson treated arrest for vagrancy as a joke Judge Conlan sentenced them to :umh<' imprisonment. Then Kit- eamed and swooned and May ser The women gave bail for their ap- | pearance in court yesterday, and while waiting there they chatted and laughed and occasionally retired for liguid re- ! freshments. They were on one of these | excursions when their case was called :‘_’:’n"""“l‘_;‘fl‘(‘:‘.'\‘if' ';:]“‘;:f‘f’)r‘“‘:‘e“'e" }:;"“";:: {ed her at that tUme increased to 3300 had happened during their absence ,© Month. She says that Brown recently t resumed thelr seats among the inherited $100,000 from his father and can well afford to pay the amount. spectators and were giggling at each ' _ > other, when the eye of the court lighted :“‘r‘; “Z“x_' further that she needs that upon them and they were called to | > the front. It. was the apparent con- tempt in which they held the law and tribunal that probably prompted th Judge to hand them such a heavy pun- | ishment. Miss Ford’s swoon was succeeded by | an exhibition of hysterics that had not | to her custody in the decree. | Decrees of divorce were granted to Ernestine Spunn from Isidore Spunn | for cruelty and Clara Maud Evans i from Edwin W. Evans for neglect. A suit for the annulment of marriage -luded when she entered the eleva- | Was filed by John Clark against Lucy and was hoisted to the “tanks.” | Clark. He claims that when he mar- Miss Johnson’s grief, although less ;ried her at Spokane in April, 1902, she | demonstrative was undoubtedly as | Was insane. Thomas Butler, the contractor who is deep seated as that of Miss Ford | PR Veing sued for maintenance by his wife, Medora Ford, of tan complexion, is |réreived a scoring at the hands of held in Judge Mogan's court for con- |Judge Hebbard yesterday, the court ducting an opium den at 26 Hinckley | telling him that unless he refrained | a and Leopold Campus, of muddy | from violating the order ~preventing him from calling upon eor bothering Mrs. Butler he would be sent to jail. Butler promised he would be good and ge, stands accused of being an in- mate of the place. Police Corporal Fryer and Officer Morton testified that they led the house, and that Me- weet Pea” Girl Says Capi-| At also promised to pay his wife $100 to| [CHIEF ENGINEER the care and maintenance of | | | herself and the two children awarded | | | i BUFFALO BILL MMB?EQS?JOJ&NLV SUES HIS WIFE &l T { Commences Action to Secure | Divorce, Charging Cruelty | and Attenipted Poisoning | | 'HIS FRIENDS SNUBBED PN Mrs. Cody Denies All the Allegations of Complaint and Will Contest the Suit | DENVER, March 1L.—A petition’ for idivorce filed in the District Court of | Big Horn County, Wyoming, January |9 last by Colonel W. F. Cody (“Buffalo Bill”) has just been made public. The »complnint chflrgew cruelty and alleges i that on December 26, 1800, Mrs. Cody , attempted to poison the plaintiff. An- ther ground on which the plaintiff sks a decree is that the marital rela- { ' tion has been made intclerable 'to him | by his wife's refusal to entertain his | friends at his former home in North | | Piatte, Neb. | | Mrs. Cody, who is at North Platte, denied her husband’s charges, and will | contest the suit. Colonel and Mrs. Cody l\ure marricd at St. Louls March 6, OF OAHU PRISON IS AN ISSUE! HONE)LI'LI', March 5.—An appeal ihns been taken by the Attorney Gen- | eral’s Department frcm a decision ren- I dered by Judge Gear that Oahu Prison is a penitentiary. This appeal is im-: portant in order to settle whether it is necessary to keep the Grand Jury in | continuous session throughout terms of the Circuit Court for the indictment of iall sorts of petty offenders. Judge | Gear held that imprisonment in Oahu { Jail is an infamous punishment and [ that indictments are therefore re- | quired in all cases where the defend- | ants are liable to such imprisonment. |This decision was on a petition for ! writ of habeas corpus, which the Su- { preme Court has held to he appealable | by the Territory. i | CHIEF ENGINEER, REVENUE C ER SERVICE, WHO | | DIED AT CORONADO. | Officer of Revenue Cutter; Service Is Victim of Heart Disease. o S B e ABSOLUTE SEGURITY Genuing CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS must bear Fac-simile Signature_of M’:{ BV assonutety Cure BILIOUSNESS. .| sick HEADACHE. TORPID LIVER. FURRED TONGUE. INDIGESTION | } consTiPaTiON DIZZINESS. SALLOW SKIN nToucH w LIVER Genuine Wrapper Printed on RED PAPER BLACK LETTERS Look for the Signature Small Pil. 8mall Dose Small Price. Ay AMUSEIINT S. INGLESIDE GuursmgPark 96-DOG OPEN STAKE. Saturday and Sunday March 12 and 13. 0 Saturday and AIUPEHENTS. LYRIC HALL THIS (SAT.) AFTERNOON AT 3 Homer Davenport LAST TALK WITH SKETCHES |“THE POWER OF A CARTOON"| 20 Skeiches Distributed Among the Audience. Seats §1. 75c and 50c. at Sherman. Clay & Cc “Newlealand” untry Four Chats on This Interesting C By KATE JANISCH ‘With Moving Pictures and Colored Views Next Monday, Wednesday, Friday Nights. Mar 14, 16, 18. Matinee Friday, 1Sth. Seats 50c, 70c, $1. Box Office Sherman, Clay & ( HAROLD BAUER| NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT will begin at I 1% NEXT WEDNESDAY MAT. gy ENTIRELY NE | TOTAL PRlZES e ot Seats Now Ready at § 5\ Al M ransfer to Guerrero rmc, Evenings. $1 50 | cars, which i I Matinee.. 5130 To-Morrow(Sun.)Aft ncert Jameg Augustine Doyle, chief ?n-‘ ADVEBTIBEIENTL ‘ gineer in the United States revenue service, died at Coronado last Tuesday, i them at bay by keeping the | defray the cost of her living expenses|a victim of heart disease. | dorz THIS WEEK. CALIFORNIA » & charge of b K Lucas, door shut until several white women K pending the determination of the suit.| “For the last few years Doyle had _ ple escaped through the rear windows.| Anna von Staden, who secured a di- | becn an invalid from heart trouble and MATINEE TO-DATY. A BIG EW SHOW! > n they finally obtained entrance ! vo: from George von Staden Thurs-| had gone south to live, thinking that DAN]EL SULLY e < ¢ they fcund only Mr. Campus, who was | da} vesterday declared by Judge | the change of climate might restore his Barrows-Lancaster Company: Poet- v Miss t her while n, and € with ough his adc ra- epistles m- \ solemn These failed to ap- not disclc that at the ed gown-mutilati 7 « Presidio; that he re- tire his bunk at 10 o'clock p ar until reveille, « s been of g me a soldier were Lieutenant t R P s comrades. ued till to-day, probably will ‘be in Coe 1 good little boys A ha Street Wwere nNumerou the court of Cabaniss, McCarthy, Roy Griggs litt »v. name unknown, the last asting an anich and name not disclosed, | returning from ssing the doctrinal which they had been re- it relatives of the ) present as guar- was positive that the and woefully bespat- jacket, but he could sly say that he saw He and the other rere so deeply en- jion of the sermon of the egg came as| shock, and when they cover the source of its saw Harry McCarthy and Griggs and the unknown little | sitting in a buggy and laughing heartily at them. So they concluded that the egg had been hurled from the | buggy, but from whose band it had| flown they could not exactly determine. | The defendants earnestly and af- frightedly pleaded not guilty, and the urt averted an avalanche of “char- ht the 0y oy ter testimony” by continuing the | ase for a month. SRS e remnant of Robert Lane’s brain | GRAPE-NUTS. “The Road to Wellville” a book for the people. Over 16 million coples in circulation. Miniature copy in each pkg, of Grape-Nuts and Postum | | said the Judge to the woman. too heavily laden with dope to effect Murasky to bé the owner of bank de- a rapid retreat. The internal atmos- posits amounting to $28,000 that were phere was almost stifing, the police- | claimed by Von Staden. The money men said, and a complete opium smok- | has been the subject of numerous suits | | ing layout was found and ed. Me- ht by various members of the and Leopold will be sentenced to- aden family. A suit for the annulment of the s A & marriage of Hugo Fuchs to Mary John Muir proved pc Fuchs was filed yesterday by Fuchs. He | unreliable memory wher alleges that in 1884, when they were fied before Judge Mogan. He could | married, the defendant had a husband | not remember anything about having 'jjving, from whom she had never been | eaten and refused to pay for a meal givorced a Fourth-street restaurant, nor had Suits for divorce were filed by James any recollection whatever of h: D. Rowland against Gertrude M. Row- med a blow at the restaurateur's | janq for desertion; Annie E. Addison se and smashed a window instead; | ggainst Emsley Addison for desertion: his mind was perfectly clear On | pppje L. Knight against Alonzo S. nt that when arrested he had gpnient for neglect, and Charles A. n his pocket, whereas only $4 75 Swaeggert against Barbara Swaeggert sred to his credit on the City = i = for cruelt, Pr gister. At the conclusion of his recital of what he had remembered Chariig Béad Nacannta. to forget, or had forgotten to remem- | (poi peod an emplove o ber, John Muir dramatically pomnted |mpoyiell. ‘Soda Water Works, aiea the {ndex finger of his right hand at | "iho German Hospital vesterday of Police Officer Flood, who had run him | g, 0rane caused by an injury received in, and exclaimed, “Where i MY oy pim last Tuesday in an accident at John, your case is continued until | 'D® WOrks: ou can get some of the Kinks out of | ¥ RGN your tangled memory,” said the court. | battery, fast driving and neglecting to . equip his peddler's wagon with a num- Judge Mogan decided that August | ber to indicate that the vehicle was duly Hansen and his wife Lizzie disturbed licensed To all of them Barney pleadéd the peace of Welch street last Sunday | not guiity, and in exvlanation of the and alsc assaulted and battered Po- | latter one he stated that his wagon had licemen Foley and Brown, as alleged , been inscribed with a number until the by those officers, and postponed sen- | rainstorm of Wednesday night obliter- tence till to-day. Whereupon Attorney | ated it. The Court pronounced him Walter Gallagher entered vigorous pro- | ullty of each offense and he will be sentenced to-day. . test, hinting that the defendants had not been given opportunity to produce | witnesses to substantiate their denial | cf the charges, and expressing regret that he had not moved for a jury trial. “Well, I will suspend proceedings and allow you to have a jury trial,” said the Judge, “or, if you prefer, I will al- | the so-called club, ig held on the charge low you to call your witnesses now.” | of conducting a gaming house. The The attorney said he would defer | raid was made night before last by Po- calling witnesses until to-day. when he | lice Captain Duke and a posse. will present them to obtain mitigation - . of sentence. | For assaulting Coroner Leland on a Mrs. Hansen was severely scored by | Haight street car Thursday evening, the Judge for her flat denial of every | L. C. Kefter, gripman, was before allegation made by the complaining | Judge Fritz yesterday. His case was policemen. She swore that she had | continued one week. never tasted intoxicating liquors in her | Wt Fifty-three men charged with play- ing poker at the Tahoe Club, 104 O'Farrell street, are held to plead be- fore Judge Cabaniss next Monday. Adolph Franzini, alleged proprietor of glana L. Beebee, mother of Mrs. Henry | Butters of this city and Mrs. Geor- | giana L. Schell of San Francisco, died heaith. . He was chief engineer for thirty-six years, a large part of which time was spent on the Pacific Coast. Seven vears ago he was assigned to spec in this city, which position he held until December last, when he resigned and left for the south. The body will be incinerated at Los Angeles, after which Mrs. Doyle and ker daughter will return to San Fran- cisco. Walter Baker S - Succumbs to Pneumonia. | OAKLAND, March 11.—Mrs. Geor- this afternoon at the Butters resi- dence in Piedmont. Mrs. Beebee was born in New York | in 1820, and she would have been 84/ vears old on March 24 She was a daughter of Samucl Weoodworth, au- thor of “The Old Oaken Bucket.” Mrs. Beebee came to California in 1861 re- siding In San Francisco until ten years ago. | Funeral services will be held to- | § morrow morning at 10 o'clock at the Butters residence, thence to the chapel | at St. Mary's Cemetery. The Rev. | Thomas McSweeney, bpastor of St Frances de Sales Church, will offictate. TR | Death of Contractor. | OAKLAND, March 1l.—Lawrence | Kehoe, a well-known street con- tractor, died at his home, 859 ' Twentieth street, this morning at the age of 51 years. He leaves a widow and four children—Mary B.,' Louise M., Christopher C. and Mar- | garet E. Kehoe. The funeral will take place on Monday from St. Francis de | Sales Church. The FINEST in the Worid costs Lnss than Ona Cent a Waltr Baker&cu.ltd. Established 1780 Dorchester, Mass. —_——— | Mexico to Have Humune Society. | Senor Lic. Ignacio Sepulveda, a| prominent Mexican lawyer, has asked ! the local Humane Society to furnish | him with information in regard to its | methods of work, to the end that he may establish « similar organization in the City of Mexico. Secretary Hol- brook has complied with the request and has arranged to give such addi- tional help as is possible.from time | to time. life, that she had not interfered with | the officers when they arrested her husband, and that one of them had wantonly knocked her down. When shown a blue coat ripped from collar to tail she swore that she had not torn it, although the policemen swore as positively that she did. | I don’t believe your testimony,” | “In fact | 1 believe that you have deliberately | committed perjury. Your husband | seems to have been less to blame for | resisting the officers than you were, for when he showed a willingness to yield vou urged him to fight.” Hansen appeared with his head swathed in bandages. He is a diminu- tive Scandinavian sailor, and Foley and Brown are strapping big fellows, yet they confessed they could only sub- due the pugnacious little chap by club- | bing his cranium.. Mrs. Hansen show- | ed no physical evidence of the rough | usage to which she alleged the police- | men had subjected her. ) e Judge Mogan increased to $4000 the bond of John Hamilton, charged with baving fired two pistol bullets through the glass door of John Larsen's dwell- ing, 3684 Eighteenth street, on the evening of March 7. Hamilton's wife had left him and gone to live at the home of Larsen, who is her brother-in- law, and Hamilton followed her while he was intoxicated. After heing eject- | ed from the house by Larsen, Hamil- r ton fired the shots. The amount of his | bond was increased because, since his arrest. he threatens to kill his wife = as soon as he can find. opportunity to do so. Testimony for the defense wlll be heard next l(ondn! 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