The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1904, Page 35

el Pages 35t0 44 _— +————( —_— ] Pages 35t0 44| SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1904. FAIR KLEPTOMANIAC I BRAGGING REMARK SERVES THE GETSTHIRTY DAYS While Awaiting Examination on Charge of Stealing From Fiance She Repeats Offense s Her Nawe Plea He Ignore BY JAMES C. Kleptomania was pleaded in behalf of | Miss Kittie O'Brien, who stole a % gold plece from her flance, Fred Ahlquist of | 245 Steuart stveet, while she was await- ing trial on the charge of having robbed him of three coins of like de- nomination. The first larceny was per- | petrated while Fred was wooing Kittie et her place of domestic servitude, the Ferry Hotel, on East street, the money being ebstracted from e pocket of his vest and hidden in the pilferer’'s halr, which wes arranged {n a Maxine Elliott puff. She was arrested, arraigned and released ba and when Fred re- lented and went to com assurance that he did not prosecute her ehe fell upon his chest, ! of gratitude and surrepti- ¥ nsferred another golden disc m his vest pocket to her v.;mffure,‘; where it was found by the policeman to | whom Fred reported his second loss of | cash and confidence. ! “You evidently were determined to epend Christmas in jail” said Poliee | Judge Mogan to the defendant “’'Deed an’ I wasn’t,” she responded, | “for ma has invited me to eat| Chris'mus dinner with her, an’ I wouldn't disappoint ma for anything, an’ I'm sure Fred wouldn’t want to see me disappoint ma, for he knows ma thinks he's just lovely, dom’t you, Fred?™ » Mr. Ahlquist coldly ignored the query *and Miss O'Brien suddenly showed | slarm. | “I'm wure I don’t know why I took | Fred’s money,” she resumed, “for gra- | clous knows I knew he would give it to | me f T'd only esk for it, an’ I was sure | of a nice Chris'mas present from him, | snyway, an’ he knows that as well as | 't you, Fred? Now don't say | lacable demeanor provoked | e shower of tears from Miss O'Brien | and when the Judge sentenced her to | thirty days’ imprisonment she sobbing- | Iy averred that until that moment she | never would have believed Fred cap-| able of inflicting such cruelty on ma. - S Juége Fritz heard the complaint of | Malancthon Philip and wife against Joseph F. Donaldson, an attorney at hom they accuse of grand lar- trick and device. The Philips London h and breeding and, thelir story, Mr. Donaldson easy matter to deprive ut giving ma- | a newspaper advertise- ve partner in a legiti- be assured of a month, Mr. and soom afterward 117 Ripley who intro- | advertiser and mopey enter- Title Com- t in which he J i furnish as se- mised $75 a month | lots of valuable | put $500 in 1d took Mr. | that the deeds | given him just as soon as! ransfer wes recorded. Mr. Don- | falled to record the deeds and . Philip falled to recover his money ested and discovered thdt the “Se- | v Title Company” was incapable of vielding one seventy-fifth part of $75 | " & month. The case has gone over till next Sat- urday. Phi was street, explain Chris Burdick end George Rogers, | young fellows, were caught in the act of shooting at an arc light suspended over the doorway of a Market- plano store, thelr weapons being rub- ber catapults attached to index finger and thumb and their missiles marbles. Each time the exterior light was ex- tinguished by a marble seven interior lights on the same circuit were in- stently put out and the store plunged in darkness. The practical joke had | as reflected by several convictions for | that Mrs. Schomberg vociferously ex- | pressed her opinion of the police force | They had warned her to refrain from | by disturbing it. | relented | told Judge Conlan, | Market street Friday afternoon. CRAWFORD. been worked several times ere the store folk ascertained its authors, and then they had a policeman specially detailed to catch the marksmen, with the re- sult that Masters Burdick and Rogers were nabbed as they were peppering eway at the big white bulb. Judge Mogan pronounced Master Burdick gullty of malicious mischief and re- manded him for sentence, and Master Rogers’ bail of $10 was forfeited and a bench warrant issued for his capture. LS e Mrs. Mary Schomberg’s vituperative | volley at a couple of policemen was not | the sole cause of her being sentenced to four months’ imprisonment by Judge Mogan, for her previous bad character, disorderly conduct, was taken into con- sideration when the penalty was fixed. It was at Eighth and Howard streets within hearing of two of its members. disturbing the peace and she responded “D’ye think I care avout yez?” she demanded. “It's in th" pen yez ought | to be, an’ well yez knows it, instid of | orderin’ decent wimmin 'roun as if they wur dirt under yer feet. Yer so crooked, ev'ry one of yez, that yez can't lie straight in bed, and if a wire nail wur driven into yer it'd come out a corkscrew. Talk abcut a dog’s hind leg bein’ crooked—" Then they muzzied her. . . R. A. Hunter expressed reluctance to prosecute Charles M. Lavelle for lar- ceny, 1gh he would not deny that | his pocket had been picked several | times by Mr. Lavelle while the twain were carousing in a Fourth-street saloon. Patrolman Murphy arrested Mr. Laveile by request of Mr. Hunter, but after thinking it over Mr. Hunter “Charles an’ me are old friends,” he ‘an’ even if he did keep on ‘dippin’’ after I told him to ;el"l'lp, he’s too good a fellow to go 40 ail.” As he could not be persuaded to abandon that attitude the case was | dismissed. s & ® Alice Morton, an angular spinster no the upper side of one score and ten, nervously fumbled her black-gloved hands and falteringly acknowledged the truth of the tale told Judge Cab- aniss by “the two police gentlemen” who arrested her for intoxication on She had no complaint to make of their reatment of her—indeed she desired to thank them for courtesy which her condition did not merit, much less in- vite—and she hoped the court would take into consideration her sincere re- gret and previous good character. Her inebriety was more accidental than willtul, anyway, for when she came from Oakland to purchase Christmas gifts and extend compliments of the season to some of her friends no in- clination to tipple possessed her. As she toured the stores and gradually e <+ % became laden with merchandise in va- rious-sized packages so did she un- consciously acquire the load that im- paired her gait and intellect. Every friend on whom she called insisted that she pledge in wine her assurance of undiminished esteem, and as the { | weather was chilly and much walking had fatigued her she did not require | so much coaxing to absorb stimulants as had always been her wont. But she rezlly did not realize how tipsy she was when arrested by Patrolmen Scott and Coff untll their testimony was ad- duced. True, she remembered that the sidewalk seemed to be more crowded than usual, that almost every person she met either collided with her or at- tempted to do so, and that she could not regain possession of a dropped bundle without relinquishing posses- sion of others; but she had no idea that her unsteadiness of carriage was =olely responsible for the personal col- lisions and the bundle-dropping. After thanking the court for her dismissal Miss Morton vouchsafed the POLICE WITH A THEORY. The Oakland police have in custody a man named Andrew Anderson whom they suspect of having knowledge of the murder of Policeman George W. Brown. When arrested by Po- liceman Sherry the prisoner remarked, «“We got one of you fellows the other night.” black mask ENGINEERS RECOMMEN NEW LEVEES Board Which Met at City in the Sacramento Valley ————— COST OF THE WORK TO BE $23,766,022 Declare That the Reclama-! tion of Three-Fourths of the Tmmense Yolo Basin| Is Entirely Practicable iy Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 24.—Governor Pardee to-day made pu the report of the board of engineers which re- cently met at Sioux City, Towa. It provides for ‘a plan for the reclama- tion of overflowed lands in the Sacra- mentg Valley and for the improve- ment of the navigable waterways therein. . The report is very lengthy and e Ssents_an enormous amount of details. It provides for confining the Sacra- mento River and its tributaries be- Sioux poWER NOT EXCEEDED| Presents Plans to| Reclaim Overofiwed Lands Right Is Upheld to Take Ap- TOWSER™S FATE A LEGAL STUDY Judge Troutt Rules in Fa-| vor of Humane Society and Against the Poundmaster | pointment of an Employe | J | Away From Mayor Schmitz A decision in favor of the Board of | Supervisors and incidentally of the So- | ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to | Animals was rendered yesterday by ! Judge Troutt in the case of H. O.| Irwin against George Alpers and others. The suit involved the validity | of the action of the Board of Super-; visors in placing the public pound in | charge of the humane society. Irwin, | who was Mayor Schmitz’s appointee as poundmaster, sued as a taxpayer and citizen to enjoin the payment of | the society’s demand for $470 70 for | its care of the pound in February. | Irwin claimed that the public pound | | was created by ordinance in 1900 with ! the provision that the Mayor should | | appo the poundmaster; he had been | ith legally appoinfed keeper and | {ee d that the ugéwf was an in- | truder. He &ontended, too, that the claim was for more than $200 and should have been presented to the | Mayor for approval, which was not done. { { i | tween lines of levees built sufficiently; The ordlnance wae stended ta 1901 | far apart to hold the flood .waters, |and again in January, 1904, at which | with the purpose in view of forcing|time, over the Mayor’s veto, it was | the contracted current to scour out a | provided that the appeintment should | sufficient depth to enable the Sacra-|DPe made by the Supervisors. There-| mento River to carry its own flood | upon the board turned the pound over | < to the Society for the Prevention of volume. The estimate of the cost as \ Crueity to Apfmals. Judge Troutt given in the report is $20,674,802. To | y5)45 that in so doing the board had this 15 per cent, or $3,101,220, is not exceeded its authority. He held added for administration and contin- | that the poundmaster was not an offi- | gencies, making the total cost $23,- 766,022, The estimate is given by the engin- eers as the maximum cost and they point out that if less dredging is re- quired the expense will be consider- ably reduced.' The engineers do not discuss the ways by which t! money to carry on the work shall be raised, leaving that to be determined by the Legislature and the Federal Govern- ment. NEW SYSTEM OF LEVEES. The great levee system which the plans provide for is to have a crown width of ten feet, with slopes three horizontal feet to one vertical foot *- < information that mever again should she permit hersdlf, no matter how se- vere the pressure might be, to imbibe spirituous liquors on this side the bay. * s e In their endeavor to suppress pool- selling the police sometimes permit zeal to over-ride discretion, as in the case of H. W. Gross, barber, at 1405 Polk street. Patrolman Cornelius arrested Mr. Gross for pool-selling, and by way of testimony said he saw the defendant attach bits of paper to a string which dangled from a windéw above the bar- ber shop, said string being then hauled up and into the house by his wife. When the tonsor testified that the pieces of paper alluded to were let- ters for his betterhalf which - had ar- rived by mail, and which he could not conveniently leave his business to con- bvey upstairs, the case was dismissed. The policeman, however, retained his opinion that the paper-hoisting was re- moval of evidence of pool-selling. 82O o Four young men similarly charged ‘were also restored to freedom by Judge Mogan, who remarked that Patrolmen| Nolan and Thompson had insufficient evidence to convict and should have known it. The quartet was arrested in the rear room of a cigar store on Fifth street, and in the room were found blank cards such as bets are reg- istered on, but there was nothing to show that any bets had been made by the prisoners or any one else. o VW E Joe Dennis (colored) slashed the neck of Frank Jackson (also ebony hued) with a razor in the latter's home at 203 Post street, and the cut was so deep and dangerous that Mr. Jackson's retention in the Receiving Hospital prevented his appearance before Judge Mogan to prosecute his assaflant. The hearing was continued till next Wednesday. —_———— Generous Donors Thanked. ‘The Mount Zion Hospital acknowl- edges with thanks the receipt of a do- pation of $1000 from Edith, Joel K., Elias M. and Adelheid Hecht for the endowment of a “memorial bed” in memory of their deceased parents, Abraham E. and Amelia K. Hecht. - cer within the meaning of the charter, | but merely an employe, and concurs |in Judge Sloss' opinion in the Health | Board cases making a distinction be- | tween officer and employe. | As to whether or not the claim should have been presented to the Mayor for approval, Judge Troutt tules in the affirmative, but says it is I not for him to now determine if an action would lie against the city if the Mayor disapproves the demand. o « edntain e .- . RECLAIMING YOLO BASIN. The distance between existing levees along the front of the city of Sacra- mento and the town of Washington is declared to be so insufficient that the levee on the west side is to be moved back to*Second street, In the town of ‘Washington, and the property between that street and the river bank is to be appropriated for levee purposes. The commission has not taken cogni- zance of the levees inclosing the rich islands in the lower Sacramento and San Joaquin -valleys. The commission holds that these are in the nature .of private enterprises, but expresses the opinion that the confinement of the floods to the rivers must simplify the ‘problem and lighten the burden of maintaining levees around the islands. The report declares that the complete reclamation of three-fourths of the im- mense Yolo Basin is entirely practica- ‘ble even without the proposed work on the Saeramento River proper. A sys- ‘tem of canals is provided for to accom- plish speedy reclamation of all over- flowed Jands pending the flushing of the river channel to . an extent as 1 and Taylor; and a revolver were found in the possession of Anderson when searched. e A — Andrew Anderson, Arrested on Suspicion of Murder of Policeman Brown, Says He Was Prepared to Do Crime. FMRG TR e T BOLD, UG WHO WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY MORNING IN OAKLAND BY PATROLMAN JACK SHERRY AND WHOSE STFUL REMARK AT THE TIME OF HIS CAPTURE LEADS TO.THE BELIEF THAT HE KNOWS THE IDENTITY OF POLICEMAN' GEORGE BROWN'S MURDERER. e BOARD ORDERS FOUR MINOR THEATERS TO BE CLOSED | | Licenses Are Disapproved Because of | Adverse Report of City Architect. President Schmitz of the Board of | Works yesterday sent the following ' letter relative to the licenses of minor | theaters, four of which are disap-| proved and. ordered closed: - | “SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 24, 1904.— | Hon. E. J. Smith, Tax Collector, City and County of San Francisco—Dear Sir: On behalf of this department I| wish to notify you that upon the ad- | verse report of the City Architect the | applications for licenses are hereby | disapproved in the cases’of the Novelty | Theater, Powell street, near Ellis; the; Unique, Market street, between Mason | the Lyceum, Seventh ! street, between Market and Mission, | and the Cineograph, Market street, be-, tween Third and Fourth. | “In regard to the application of the | Alcazar Theater for a license I am re- liably informed that the alterations recommended by this department have been made and I would therefore re- quest that you suspend action in this particular case until a further inspec- tion can be made by the Board of Pub- lice Works. : *“Your attention is further respect. fully called to section 1 of ordinance | No. 88, which makes the approval, in | sriting, of the Boarmd of Public Works requisite for the issuance of a theatri- cal license, and, in view of the fact that said necessary. approval is here- by denigd by this department, I would -respectfully recommend that the ap- be rejected and that you take immediate steps to close the places of amusement herein mentioned a3 being disapproved of kby the Board ‘of Public Works.” i 1 ' for | day. OAKLAND, Dec. 24—Armed with a big revolver and provided with a black mask such as are used by footpads and burglars, Andrew Anderson, thought by the police to be the slayer of Police- man George W. Brown, was arrested at the foot of Broadway this morning. by Policeman Jack Sherry. While at the callbox awaiting arrival of the patrol wagon the prisoner said: “Well, we got one of you fellows the other night any way,” and this remark has made the police doubly suspicious of Anderson. Policeman Sherry’'s attention was at- tracted to Anderson, who was waiting to take the creek route boat to San Francisco, by his suspicious actions. After watching the man for a few mements Sherry covered Anderson with his revolver, and ordered him to keep his hands away from his pockets. For a moment Anderson - hesitated, but Sherry’s pistol proved an effective ar- gument and he, submitted with bad grace. When searched by Sherry a 44-caliber revolver and a black mask were found in his pockets. Satisfled that he had captured a dangerous crook, Sherry handcuffed his prisoner and took him to the lockup. While waiting *for the arrival of the patrol wagon, the prisoner made the remark quoted heretofore. Anderson is not unknown to the Oak- land police. He was arrested by Police- man W. I. Hodgkins, in company with “Cuptil” Clement and Nick Jim for vio- ating the sleeping-out ordinance. The three were arrested on December 14. Both were released on the following Two days later, on the evening of December 17, Policeman Brown was ty-sixth streets. In his statement to the police Ander- son said: “I live In San Francisco and am a sailor and longshoreman by oc- cupation. I have been out of work re- cently, and had the mask and pistol with which to commit a robbery. I .made up my mind that I would take a chance if I met any one who had * | money. The only reason that I did not SAYS CONDUCTOR BOASTS OF THOSE HE HAS KILLED | Mrs. Taylor's Tale of Crueity—One Man Has Been Legally Separated From Four Wives. That her husband has boasted of killing two men, of kicking the life out of passengers on his train and be- | ing entirely willing to kick the life [®ut of her are listed in the allega- tions of inhumanity charged by Nettie J. Taylor against Marvin L. Taylor, a | Southern Pacific conductor. They were married in 1896 at St. Louis. Other suits for divorce were flied by Gertrude H. Brown agginst Fred W. Brown, intemperance and crueity, and Hedwig Scholz against Frank Scholz, intemperance and neglect. Four wives of Harry A. Clark, who | is supposed to be at Astoria, Or., have successively rid themselves of an un- desirable mate—two by divorce and two by annullment of the marriage contract. As Clark is only 44 years old he may yet succeed in augment- } ing the number of disillusioned better | haives. The last of the quartet, Lillian | M. Clark. married him in November, 11900, and yesterday Judge Kérrigan { annulled the union. | Judge Kerrigan granted a divorce |to May Cline from Philip Cline, a member of the Fire Department. They were married in 1902 and he has treated her cruelly. —p | hold any one up is that I did not come across any one.” { Policeman Sherry said that for sev- | eral days he had seen the man going 1 shot and killed at Broadway and Twen- | to San Francisco in the morning and iremrn!n‘ at night, and this morning | Anderson’s actions became so suspi- | clous that he, decided to arrest him. The records of the Police Department show that Anderson was arrested in this city about nine years ago. It was then suspected that he had a hand in a series of hold-ups which were com- mitted at that time, but proof was lack- ing and he was |