Beth Winegarner

Robbed Her Benefactor.

Mrs. Mary McQuarrie, whose residence is at 324 O'Farrell street, swore to a complaint before Police Judge Joachimsen yesterday charging Alice Adams with petit larceny. Some time ago Mrs. McQuarrie took the Adams girl from the Magdalen Asylum, with the understanding that she would be provided with good home, and in return would make herself useful about the house. As a return for this kindness the girl ran away, taking with her $35 worth of her benefactor's clothes.

Name: Alma Adams
Sex: Female
Age: 17 years
Birth Date: June 1883
Birthplace: Massachusetts
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Canada
Mother's Birthplace: Canada
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Five Girls Arrested in a House of Ill-Fame.

A raid was made last night by Officers N. Hunter, Hooper, Christie and Adams on the bagnio of the notorious "Mag" Smith, at No. 128 Morton street, with decidedly satisfactory results. In the house were captured the proprietress herself, and five young girls, Nellie Howard, Nellie Allen, Katie Watson, Julia Adams and Mary Connell, the latter being but 14 years of age. Mrs. Smith was charged with admitting minors to a house of ill-tame and placed under a heavy bail. Of the girls but one, Nellie Howard, was over 18 years of age, and she was charged with being an inmate of a house of ill-fame. The others, with the exception of Mary Connell, ranged in years between 16 and 18 years, and were charged with visiting a place or bad repute. Mary Connell, on account of her youth and the unusual amount of depravity which she exhibited, was booked for the Magdalen Asylum. All took their arrest philosophically, and showed a tolerable familiarity with the interior of the prison.

Miss Adams Was Romancing.

Edward Lee, the young man who was arrested Sunday night on a charge of robbery for stealing a silver ring valued at $1 from Marie Adams, a girl 17 years of age, appeared before Judge Moran yesterday. After hearing the girl's story, who said she did not want to prosecute Lee, as he was her friend, the Judge dismissed the case. The girl's mother, who lives at 609 Post street, was in court and said her daughter was inclined to be wayward and tell romantic stories, and asked that she be sent to the Magdalen Asylum. The Judge ordered the girl into custody and will probably send her to the institution to-day.

A MISSION ROMANCE.

Arabella Allen Wants to Marry One of the Sheas.

A pathetic scene, replete with tears and wailing, was enacted behind the bars of the City Prison yesterday morning.

The participants in this lachrymose feast were James Allen, his wife and son and their wayward daughter, Arabella. The latter was encaged in a cell and was awaiting transfer to the Magdalen Asylum. The Allen home is at 125 Clinton street, and this is within the hunting-ground of the famous Shea gang, so notoriously known and feared by all residents of the Mission. It is a red-letter day when some one of this gang is not incarcerated behind the prison bars.

Paddy Shea is one of the leaders and has lately evinced a partiality for the blossom of the Allen family, little seventeen-year-old Arabella. The girl is pretty and just getting into long dresses—has those lovely, deep blue eyes, to be found nowhere save among the natives of that tight little emerald isle across the pond. She is spirited and blythe and winsome, and the tails [sic] of midnight raids and all night debauches poured into her eager ears by her bold lover have gained for him a spot in her warm little heart. She loves Pat Shea, the terror of the Mission, and yesterday sho was wrangling with her heartbroken parents for permission to marry him rather than be sent to the dreaded "mag."

"She is going the ways of those Sheas," said the weeping father to an EXAMINER reporter yesterday, "and we have lately discovered that when we were all abed Paddy Shea would wait under her window for her to throw him out some of her clothing, which the blackguard would sell and get drunk with the money. The girl's so infatuated that she would marry him tomorrow. but the scamp will not marry her if I can help it."

In answer to the reporter's questions Arabella would only say that she loved Paddy and wanted to marry him, and that he had always treated her "good."

Name: Louisa Allen
Sex: Female
Age: 16 years
Birth Year (Estimated): 1864
Birthplace: California, United States
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 4393182

A Wayward Daughter.

Edna Amerman, a girl 15 years old, was sent to the Magdalen Asylum yesterday by Police Judge Low on the request of the girl's mother, Mrs. S. M. Barnes of 804 Larkin street. The girl ran away from home several months ago and was married by contract to Amerman, who is now in prison. The mother works for a living, and when she is away from home her daughter runs off and associates with immoral people. Mrs. Barnes' only object in sending the girl to a reformatory is to save her if possible.

Name: Mary Avery
Sex: Female
Age: 14 years
Birth Year (Estimated): 1866
Birthplace: California, United States
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 4393182

The final crime that earned Mary Avery a spot in San Francisco newspapers happened in May 1879. On that occasion, Avery and a friend by the name of Marcella Columbia were arrested for drunkenness after being located on the roof of a Jessie Street building with a group of “small boys screaming and swearing at the top of their voices.” The boys got away, but Avery and Columbia weren’t fast enough. They didn’t help their own situation, spewing forth a series of curse words at their arresting officers. (“The round oaths which fell in a continuous stream from their lips were shocking in the extreme,” the Chronicle reported.)

This may be the precise moment that Avery’s luck ran out. She was swiftly incarcerated at San Francisco’s Magdalen Asylum.

Read the rest of the article, by Rae Alexandra, here: https://www.kqed.org/arts/13959986/notorious-san-francisco-criminal-mary-avery-12-gun-thief-gang-leader

VICTIMS OF MORPHINE.

An Unfortunate Woman Who Is a Slave to the Baneful Habit.

Agnes Baker, a woman twenty-three years of age, was yesterday, for the third time within the last eight months, before the Commissioners of Lunacy. She is a confirmed morphine fiend, and her dissipated looks show the terrible effects of her habit. She is a married woman, but her husband deserted her less than a year ago. Shortly afterward she became addicted to the opium habit and then commenced to use morphine. Her parents were unable to accomplish any reform, and they were compelled to take her before the Commissioners of Lunacy. After her examination and before she was committed she begged her mother to send her to the Magdalen Asylum, where she had been before, instead of to an insane asylum. Her request was granted, and she played a clever trick to evade her confinement. The officer who accompanied her to the Magdalen Asylum was unacquainted with her traits, and when she asked him to wait she asked for admittance he immediately acquiesced. She remained talking with the Sisters for an hour, and the officer, thinking that everything was all right, departed, She, however, had no intention of remaining at the institution, and after the lapse of an hour went home and made matters very lively there. She was then arrested and sent to the Napa Insane Asylum, where she remained two months and was discharged as cured.

After her discharge she used the drug again, and her parents took steps once more to have her confined to the insane asylum. She eluded the officers for two months, and yesterday she was brought before the Commissioners of Lunacy for for examination. She begged hard to be allowed to go on probation and her request was granted.

Name: Mary C Baker
Sex: Female
Age: 17 years
Birth Date: May 1883
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Missouri
Mother's Birthplace: California
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

TIRED OF CONFINEMENT.

Lilian Baldwin Escapes From the Hospital.

Lilian Baldwin, 17 years old, an inmate of the City and County Hospital, escaped from that institution last Sunday night about 8 o'clock. The girl was sent to the hospital from the industrial department of the Magdalen Asylum and was suffering from a skin disease. She escaped through one of the. windows of the bathroom connected with ward L, the one to which she was assigned, and must have climbed the wall surrounding the hospital grounds. The wall is a very high one, and for that reason the physicians in charge think she must have received assistance from the outside. Her disappearance was reported to the police.

WAS PRETTY BUT WAYWARD.

THE ARREST OF A MAGDALEN FUGITIVE.

Annie Banales Scales the Wall of the Institution, but Is Recaptured.

Annie Banales, alias Nettie Dowd, a pretty but wayward 15-year-old girl, who was recently committed to the Magdalen Asylum by Police Judge Campbell, escaped from that institution Monday night. Yesterday she was found in a lodging-house on Sixth street by Officers McMurray and Holbrook of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and returned to the asylum.

Notwithstanding her tender years the girl has frequently come under the notice of the police. A short time ago she went to San Jose and represented herself as Nettle Dowd, the daughter of a well- known banker of that name. She told a pitiful story of being cast adrift by her parent and compelled to seek the charity of strangers. Several women interested themselves in her behalf, and after supplying her with clothes, procured a situation for her in a private family. A few days later the girl stole a purse of money belonging to her employer. She immediately came to this city and was arrested in a lodging-house on Fourth street.

As the woman from whom she stole the purse refused to prosecute her it was decided to send the girl to the Magdalen Asylum.

Fannie Bashford Is Charged With Numerous Petty Thefts.

Several nights ago Detective Rogers took Fannie Bashford into custody be cause of several crooked transactions in which she played the principal part. The Bashford girl is only 19 years old, but she is as wayward as she is pretty. She was charged with petit larceny last evening, but many more serious charges can and may be placed against her..

The girl is a half-orphan. Her father is now an inmate of an insane asylum. For the last two years she has been supported by a wealthy man. Recently he tired of her and turned her adrift. Several kind-hearted ladies who became interested in the girl suffered for their kindness, for she stole from their houses.

The girl first came to the notice of the police about a year ago, when she was sent to the Magdalen Asylum. As soon as she got out she began operations as a thief. Among her victims is Mrs. Kingsland of 14184 Howard street, from whom she stole money and two gold lockets. She took the photographs of Mrs. Kingsland's two deceased babies from the lockets and hid the lockets in a closet until she could get away with the plunder. These were recovered alter the girl's arrest.

Mrs. Scott, who lives at 1416 Howard street, wanted to get her gold watch repaired and Miss Bashford offered to take it to a jeweler's. She took it to a pawnbroker instead and pawned it for $10. Mr. Potter of 6 Sutter street is poorer by which the girl took from his purse. Another victim is Thomas Ganey, a laundry-man, from whom she stole a diamond locket which she pawned for $12. Mrs. Hess, who lives on Kearny street, wanted to befriend the girl, and took her to her room. Miss Bashford found that Mrs. Hess had an account at a large dry goods house, and purchased $62 worth of goods on Mrs. Hess' account. Mrs. Hess pitied the girl's apparent distress and paid the bill.

These are only a few of the victims. The young woman takes the situation in which she is placed very coolly.

THE NEW MAGDALEN.

A Young Girl's Unhappy Lot—The Story of a Basket Foundling Told In the Police Court—An Engagement Ring Recalled.

Clara Beck, a young girl aged 16, was brought before the Police Judge yesterday on complaint of her adopted mother. An interesting history of the young girl and the circumstances attending her life was developed. It appeared that in January, 1859, on a cold morning, a man named Al G. Beck found on the doorstep of his house on Mission street a basket which contained a female infant. A slip of brown paper was pinned to the garments of the child, and contained the following words, written in a scrawling and almost illegible hand: "I have no father or mother take care of me. I am two weeks old." After some years of married life Beck and his wife were divorced on husband's complaint. The waif was given over to the care of the mother at her request, she having conceived an attachment and after having children of her own did not accord to the little waif as much of a mother's care as had previously been her lot to receive, and the young girl, not liking the treatment she received, left her home about two months since and sought her former foster-father, to whom she related her troubles. He clothed her anew and sent her back to her adopted mother. In a week she left again, however, and never returned. She was recovered by an officer the other night in a room on Ritch street. She begged not to be sent to the Magdalen Asylum, but her adopted mother was earnest in her desire to send her there. She asserted that the girl was only thirteen years of age, and in support of her assertion produced a slip of paper which she stated was the identical one found on the child in the basket. Mr. Beck, the adopted father, was brought into Court and declared that the piece of paper was a forgery. He did not desire to see the young girl committed to the Asylum, but thought she would be happier there than at her home.

A young man named McPherson testified that he had been engaged to the girl, but on learning that she was given to running around with bad boys and girls, recalled his engagement ring.

The girl, who is very pretty, has a vicious temper, looked up at the young man, remarking: "Umph, he wants a girl to stick to one feller. I aint that kind of a girl, I aint."

She was accordingly committed and left the Court-room assuring everybody that she would be "badder'n ever, now."

Name: Catherine Bergmann
Sex: Female
Age: 16 years
Birth Date: February 1884
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

SENT TO A REFORMATORY—Etta Bermingham, a seventeen-year-old servant girl, whose weakness for fine clothes has twice caused her arrest on charges of petty larceny, was given over by Police Judge Treadwell yesterday to the care of the Magdalen Asylum.

Name: Mary Birmingham
Sex: Female
Age: 15 years
Birth Year (Estimated): 1865
Birthplace: California, United States
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 4393182

No Talking Allowed.

On Saturday last Maggie Smith filed a petition in the Superior Court for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Mary Birmingham, and alleged in her petition that Mary was an adult person, being 19 years of ago, and unlawfully imprisoned at the Magdalen Asylum. She also set forth that Mary was committed in 1875, to remain there until she was legally discharged by the Police Judge, and that she reached the age of 19 in November, 1880. On the 5th day of May, 1881, an order was issued by the Board of Supervisors directing that Mary be discharged, but when the order was presented to the head person at the Asylum it was not obeyed, and Maggie was not allowed to talk to Mary, wherefor she prayed for Mary's release. The hearing of the case was set for 10 o'clock yesterday morning in Judge Hunt's Court, and it then appearing that Mary was not of legal age, and that her term was not yet concluded, the writ was dismissed, and Mary was sent back to the Asylum.

Blanche Blackwell is to be tried on numerous charges in the Juvenile Court. She will probably be sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

MAY GIVE ALL THE GIRLS THEIR LIBERTY.

A Writ Involving the Question of Whether the Magdalen Asylum Is the Industrial School.

Maud Bloodworth, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Enoch Bloodworth, was before the Supreme Court yesterday on the petition of the father that she be released from the Magdalen Asylum on habeas corpus. She was committed to the asylum last April by Judge Mogan on a charge of vagrancy to remain there until she was 15 years old. Her father aided by Lawyer Herman J. Custer, now seeks her release. The main points of contention appeared to be as to whether the Magdalen Asylum was the Industrial School under the terms of the new charter, and had the Mother Superior been appointed its superintendent by the Supervisors.

Matt J. Sullivan, who appeared for the asylum, held that the Industrial School, under the law. was a department and not a building, on the same lines as the School Department was not any particular building. He claimed that the application before the court was a part of a scheme to secure the wholesale release of the forty or fifty inmates.

Custer denied that such was his purpose and held that the Magdalen Asylum was not the Industrial School within the meaning of the law.

The lawyers were given five days to present law and evidence as to what Justice Beatty termed the "crucial point." whether the institution was recognized by the charter as the Industrial School, the charter having superseded all other municipal laws, and if it be the Industrial School, has the Mother Superior been appointed superintendent of it by the Supervisors.

Name: Maud Bloodworth
Sex: Female
Age: 16 years
Birth Date: March 1884
Birthplace: England
Arrival Date: 1888
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: England
Mother's Birthplace: England
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289
Line Number: 100
Sheet Letter: B
Sheet Number: 12
Affiliate Publication Number: T623
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

Maggie Bonner, aged seventeen years, who lived near the Arctic Oil Works, has been sent to the Magdalen Asylum. She was taken into custody by the Society for the Suppression of Vice. Her little brother was sent to the Boys and Girls' Aid Society. A younger sister will be cared for at St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum.

Name: Mary Boylan
Sex: Female
Age: 14 years
Birth Year (Estimated): 1866
Birthplace: California, United States
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 4393182

Name: Teresse Boyle
Sex: Female
Age: 15 years
Birth Year (Estimated): 1865
Birthplace: California, United States
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 4393182

Name: Leola Bradford
Sex: Female
Age: 16 years
Birth Date: May 1884
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Massachusetts
Mother's Birthplace: Massachusetts
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Wayward Annie Brady.

Annie Brady, a pretty girl 16 years of age, was sent to the Magdalen Asylum yesterday. She is the daughter of an ex-policemen, and left her home at 1310 Kearny street last Christmas. She was found in a lodging-house of doubtful character by the police, and was allowed to return to her home on promising to lead a proper life. It was not long before she left home again, and yesterday she was found by Officers McMurray and Holbrook, of the Society for the suppression of Vice, in a lodging house on Eleventh street.

YOUNG AND FAIR.

But Emma Brewer Has Been Keeping Bad Company.

Emma Brewer, aged 17, wayward and attractive to certain habitues of Howard and Third streets, was arrested by Officer Wells last night and taken to the new City Hall Prison. She was booked for some public institution and will probably be sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

Emma has been called in out of the cold world by police officers on several previous occasions, and each time she has been set at liberty on promise of better and more decorous behavior.

But her pledges have proved more brittle than those of the average candidate, and therefore it is now proposed by those interested in her future welfare to place her beyond the reach of the wiles of wicked men.

Name: Cresada Brown
Sex: Female
Age: 18 years
Birth Date: June 1882
Birthplace: Montana
Marital Status: Single
Race: Black
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Jane Brown, an idle and dissolute girl, has been arrested and will be transferred to the Magdalen Asylum.

Name: Mable Brown
Sex: Female
Age: 18 years
Birth Date: June 1882
Birthplace: Washington
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

A PORTLAND GIRL.

ARRESTED BY THE POLICE IN THIS CITY.

Ellen Bryan Sent by Her Parents to the Magdalen Asylum Here, But Nearly Escapes.

Ellen Bryan, a very pretty young girl from Portland, Or., was taken into custody by Officer Anthony yesterday afternoon, and late in the evening transferred from the city prison to the Magdalen Asylum. She was found in a room at the St. George Hotel on Kearny street, and was quite willing to accompany the police officer. She expected his arrival before, and asked him why he had not met her at the boat on her arrival in the city on August 4th.

"I was told an officer would meet me when I arrived," she said, "but I didn't see any one, and I went off by myself. I guess you must be great policemen, here."

An explanation of this remark was given by Officer Anthony, who said that the girl belonged to a good family of Portland. She is but 16 years old, and only a few months ago was led astray by Jim Ellis, a notorious character of Portland, who induced her to run away with him to Astoria, where he placed her in a house of prostitution conducted by Kate Burke, a former San Francisco landlady, who was known here as Maggie Ryan, She was recovered by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children of Portland, and returned to her home. The girl's shame was too much for her parents, and as she showed a disposition to continue her evil ways they obtained permission to send her to this city as an inmate of the Magdalen Asylum. The girl was sent by one of the coast steamers, but the Portland authorities neglected to notify the police in this city. She fully expected to meet a police officer on her arrival, but not doing so she went off with a young woman whose acquaintance she made on the boat. Needing some clothing, she wrote to her mother, stating that she was at the asylum, liked it very well, and asking for her trunk. The trunk was sent as requested. The mother wrote at the time to the police here asking them to look after the girl in case everything was not all right, and mentioning in the letter that the trunk had been sent to the St. George Hotel. Anthony found her about the time an expressman drove up with the trunk.

PRECOCIOUS MABEL CADY.

A Willful Young Miss Who Declines to Live With Her Parents.

A bright and rather pretty young girl was up before Police Judge Joachimsen yesterday to explain why she should not be committed to the Magdalen Asylum for a few years. She had been arrested by request of her mother, who said she had been disobedient and inclined to seek bad company.

"What is your name?" asked Prosecuting Attorney Long.

"Mabel Cady," answered the girl smiling and showing a double row of regular, white teeth.

"Why are you disobedient to your mother?" asked his Honor.

This started the girl on her story. She said that her mother, Elizabeth Marks, was given to drink, while her stepfather beat her. Her mother had on Monday night last said that she might go to the infernal regions for all she cared.

"I want to go to work and I don't want go home," she said, finally, the tears welling up in her eyes.

Mrs. Marks, the mother, being called Mrs. upon, proved to be a portly woman with a rather hard face.

She denied being given to inebriety and said her daughter was seeking bad company and would go astray unless she was placed in some institution.

"You do drink," interrupted the girl, "and I'm not bad. I would be willing to stay home, only you allow my father to strike me and then you abuse me yourself."

"I don't, Mabel."

"You do."

It appeared from the statement of the arresting officer, and an elderly gentleman who claimed to be a friend of the family, that Miss Mabel was associating with objectionable young men.

"How old are you, Mabel?" asked the Court.

"Fourteen years," put in the mother.

His Honor was in a quandary. To send the girl to the Magdalen Asylum would hardly better her condition, while to release her might mean the girl's ruin.

Miss Mabel finally suggested that she had a place awaiting her with a lady on Polk street, which she would accept if released. It was decided to lay the case over for one day. In the mean time the lady named will be communicated with. If she will receive the girl the case will be dismissed. If not Miss Mabel will go to the Boys and Girls' Aid Society.

Name: Charlotte Campbell
Sex: Female
Age: 18 years
Birth Date: December 1882
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Illinois
Mother's Birthplace: Illinois
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

A Runaway Girl Arrested.

Ada Carroil, alias Kitty Reagan, a young girl who recently left her home at 714 First street, Oakland, was arrested in a Fourth-street lodging house by Officer Anthony last night and locked up at the Central Station, to be sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

An Uncontrollable Girl.

Margaret Case, an eleven-year-old girl who cannot be controlled by her parents, has been sent to the Magdalen Asylum by Judge Lawler. Some time ago she ran away from the Orphan Asylum, where she had been sent by her parents.

Adelaide Cazueau tried to escape her fate, and yesterday a man, William A. Shade, obtained a marriage license for himself and her, Cupid Danforth requiring that the girl's father should appear and give his formal consent to the union, as she is only 15 years old. Judge Slack investigated her record and found that she had been committed to the Industrial School and recently escaped from the Magdalen Asylum. Since then she had been living with Shade. Altogether the court decided that the girl would have a better chance of reform at Whittier than as Shade's wife, and consequently the services of Rev. Dr. Spaulding, who was present to perform the marriage at once, were not required.

Three Girls in Custody.

Rosie Chilini, 15 years old, and Theresa Dollin, 16, who escaped about two weeks ago from the matron of the Girls' Training School while on the way to church, were recaptured yesterday morning in a room at 925 Howard street by Policemen M. Cooney and J. Conion. They had stocked the room with coal, flour and other supplies, in the evident hope of enjoying a prolonged season of liberty. Police Judge Conlan committed them yesterday to the Magdalen Asylum.

Kitty Conley [Connolley], 16 years old, who ran away from her home about a week ago, was taken into custody at 17 Stockton street by Officers McMurray and Coleman. She also was sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

NOTE: On Ancestry, I found a Rose Gatto (née Chelini) who lived in SF and died in 1945, buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma.

CORA CHRISTAL.

Experiences of a Seventeen-Year Old Girl.

Cora Christal, 17 Years old, pretty, though showing marks of dissipation and ill treatment, and poorly dressed, was brought to the City Prison yesterday morning by Officer McManus and locked up for vagrancy. A year ago she was arrested for the same offense—that being the only charge through which such cases as hers can be reached—but managed to keep out of the Magdalen Asylum by marrying a young man who called himself Peter Savage. This man supported her for a few months, after which he sought to have the position of provider for the family shifted to her shoulders. He took her to Oroville, where they remained several months. Since her return to this city the girl has been frequenting opium joints and other disreputable places in company with opium fiends and similar characters.

Name: Caroline Christen
Sex: Female
Age: 17 years
Birth Date: December 1883
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Switzerland
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Name: Pauline Christen
Sex: Female
Age: 18 years
Birth Date: August 1882
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Switzerland
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Lane Will Go Free.

Captain Peter F. Lane will not be punished for alleged complicity in assaults on little girls at North Beach. His trial for an alleged assault on Eva Quinasso resulted yesterday in an acquittal. The jury was instructed to return such a verdict after a showing had been made that Lane was incapable of committing the crime alleged.

The girl, Julia Christensen, who refused on Tuesday to testify, was not again called to the stand yesterday. It was recognized that a commitment for contempt would be of no avail, as the girl would rather be a prisoner in jail than continue an inmate of the Magdalen Asylum.

Several charges are still pending against Lane, but they will be dismissed.

Young Girls Detained.

Kitty Connolley, a sixteen-year-old girl, was taken into custody late Wednesday night from a lodging-house on Stockton street and will be sent to the Magdalen Asylum. The girl recently came under the notice of Policeman McMurray of the California Children's Society, and after considerable investigation decided to place her in the above institution, as she is without friends in this city.

Mamie Lenihan, also about sixteen years old, was found by the same officer last night in the Thalia and will be sent to the Magdalen Asylum. She resisted arrest and gave her age as nineteen, with the name "Maimie Creedie."

Name: Lorine Connors
Sex: Female
Age: 17 years
Birth Date: February 1883
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: California
Mother's Birthplace: Massachusetts
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Name: Margaret Corcoran
Sex: Female
Age: 16 years
Birth Date: May 1884
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Ireland
Mother's Birthplace: Ireland
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Nicholas Cotter made his third application to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children yesterday for the removal of his daughter Alice from the Magdalen Asylum. The application was made on the ground that he was able and willing to care for the girl, but it was again denied by the society.

A GIRL GONE WRONG.—Jessie Covens, a girl of sixteen years, was locked up early yesterday morning by Officers Crockett and Dillon and booked for the Magdalen Asylum. Jessie was found in a room with several male companions on Third street, near Folsom. She came here recently from Los Angeles with her sister, who belongs to the Salvation Army.

Lena Cramer, now at the Magdalen Asylum, obtained employment as a domestic with Mr. and Mrs. Stein at 940 Powell street. One day her employers went out for a walk, leaving $50 in a purse. When they came back Lena was gone and the purse contained but $20. That night the girl appeared at the Grove-street Theatre with a new gold watch in full view on her breast.

Given Her Own Choice.

Judge Colley yesterday ordered Maggie Cravens, the young woman whose parents applied to bave her sent to Napa, to be committed to the Magdalen Asylum pending a further and final disposition of her case.

The Commissioners of Lunacy were inclined to think the girl not insane, while Dr. Jewell, of the Home for the Inebriate, under whose care she has been for some time, insisted that she was, though having rational intervals.

Her parents were only anxious that she might be confined somewhere, in order to save her from a vicious life. Judge Colley finally told the girl to choose for herself as to the place of her restraint, committing her to the Magdalen Asylum until she shall finally make up her mind.

An Unknown Friend.

Emma Kennedy filed a petition in the Superior Court on Wednesday for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of Johannah Crenin imprisoned at the Magdalen Asylum, on the ground that Johannah was over age and entitled to her dismissal. The matter came up before Judge Evans yesterday morning, but the petitioner did not appear, and no one connected with the case knew who she was. It transpired that Johannah, at the age of 16, in 1879, was sent to the Magdalen Asylum by her father, because she had been led astray and was leading too wild a life. She became of age in February last, but her father did not apply for her release and so she remained at that institution. Yesterday when asked by the Judge whether she would stay at the asylum or go with her father, she replied that she would not go back if she could help it. The living was extremely poor and she had rather be in prison than there. Judge Evans told her that she was at liberty to go where she pleased and that she was of age and her own mistress.

Name: Catherine Crowley
Sex: Female
Age: 18 years
Birth Date: October 1882
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Ireland
Mother's Birthplace: Ireland
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

A girl named Maggie Cummings ran away from her parents yesterday, and was arrested in a low den on the "Barbary Coast." She will probably be sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

Name: Margaret Curran
Sex: Female
Age: 16 years
Birth Date: July 1884
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Ireland
Mother's Birthplace: Ireland
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

The Girl Hannah Curtin.

Efforts are being made to have Hannah Curtin released from the Magdalen Asylum, where she was committed at the time of the shooting of Johnson by her father. A petition has been presented to Judge Louderback, who has not acted upon it at present.

ALICE CURTIN.

Solicitous Friends Try to Have Her Leave the Magdalen Asylum.

Judge Maguire has dismissed a writ of habeas corpus issued at the request of C. A. Rogers and designed to secure the release of Alice Curtin, alias Alice Carr, who, it was alleged, was illegally imprisoned at the Magdalen Asylum. The writ was issued on Saturday and returned yesterday morning, when the Sister Superior brought the girl into court. It was claimed by Rogers that the girl had never been committed by any Court to the asylum and, as she was of good moral character, he did not think it right for her to be confined in such an institution.

The girl told Judge Maguire that both her parents were dead and Mrs. Carr had taken care of her for more than six years, although she had never adopted her. Recently Mrs. Carr went to Hollister and left her in charge of Sister Mary Brown, who teaches a day school at the Magdalen Asylum, where Alice is receiving instruction. Several female friends had had the writ of habeas corpus sued out, but the girl informed Judge Maguire that she was well taken care of and that she did not wish to leave the asylum, because if she did she did not know where she would go. The Court dismissed the writ and remanded the girl to the custody of the Sisters.

REFUSED A KISS.

Sad Scene Between a Mother and Daughter at the Southern Police Station.

A sad scene was witnessed in Captain Spillane's office at the Southern Police Station early yesterday morning.

Lena Cutting, a girl about 18 years of age, had been sent some days ago to Sister Julia's Sheltering Arms, on Harrison street, till her trouble was over, but she made so much disturbance that Sister Julia was compelled early yesterday morning to send for her mother, Mrs. Cutting, 1220 Pacific street, to take her away.

Sister Julia, Mrs. Cutting and the girl were driven in a hack to Captain Spillane's office, and the mother asked the captain's advice. The girl was flippant and defiant and so exasperated the captain that it required all his self-restraint to keep him from giving her a good shaking.

As Mrs. Cutting was leaving she went close up to the girl and said, "Kiss me, Lena."

"No, I won't," she snapped; "you've done me dirt."

As the mother went away crying the captain called an officer and told him to lock the girl up in prison. She will be sent to the Magdalen Asylum to-day.

IDA DAIGNEAU'S TROUBLES.

Misused in Her Mother's House She Goes to the Bad.

Ida Daigneau, a minor, was taken from a house at 828 Sacramento street yesterday afternoon by Officers Holbrook and Anthony, at the instance of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, as a candidate for the Magdalen Asylum. She is a pretty girl of about 16, and has been leading a life of shame for three weeks past where she was arrested. She says her father is dead and her mother takes no care of the children, and she asserts that she has on several occasions attempted to get a warrant for her mother's arrest for cruelty to the children.

A SADLY BETRAYED GIRL.

The Result of Running Away With a Soldier.

Annie Daly, a miss 15 years of age, living at 1425 Tonquin street, near the Presidio, ran away with a soldier three weeks ago. Before leaving the paternal roof she was induced to steal $65, a gold watch and chain and several articles of jewelry. The girl returned to this city yesterday saddened by her experience. She said that she and her soldier lover went to Stockton. His name is Walter J. St. Clair, but he is called Flagley. St. Clair had no money, but he squandered the stolen coin without stint, pawned the valuables and spent the proceeds, and then deserted the confiding girl. She had only money enough to get home. The girl was sent to the Magdalen Asylum by Judge Joachimsen. Her father swore out a warrant for the soldier's arrest for stealing the money and selling the jewelry. The girl states that St. Clair confessed to her that he had deserted three times from the army, twice in the East and once here.

The Betrayer of Lizzie Davis.

Harry Brooks was held in $2000 bonds by Judge Rix yesterday to answer a charge of felony, for enticing Lizzie Davis, a young girl, away from her home, at 923 Natoma Street, and placing her in a bagnio [brothel] to support him. The girl, who was recently committed to the Magdalen Asylum, testified against her betrayer, and told the story of her wrongs.

LOU DAVIS.—Judge Blake of the Municipal Criminal Court, this morning, ordered a bench warrant to be issued for the person of Lou Davis, an Indian girl, who was sent to the Magdalen Asylum for setting fire to Mr. Allen's house, on Greenwich street. She escaped from the Asylum a few days ago, and was recaptured at Stockton.

Name: Mabel Davis
Sex: Female
Age: 16 years
Birth Date: May 1884
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Tennessee
Mother's Birthplace: Ireland
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

A WAYWARD GIRL.

Leoni Davolles Sold Her Mother's Furniture to Get Money for Liquor.

Leoni Davolles, 16 years of age, was sent to the Magdalen Asylum yesterday by Judge Campbell. Leoni, although young, has developed an insatiable thirst for liquor, and to provide herself with funds she used to steal things from her mother's house at 33 Chenery street and sell them.

Monday afternoon her mother left home for a few hours, and during her absence Leoni got an expressman to convey all the furniture in the house to a second-hand store on Pacific street, where she sold it for a few dollars.

She was arrested by Corporal Shanahan, who turned her over to Secretary Kane of the Pacific Coast Society for the Suppression of Vice. The mother was in court yesterday and offered to take care of the girl, but the Judge thought that the Magdalen Alylum was the proper place for her.

YOUNG BUT SINFUL.

Three Wayward Girls From This City Arrested in San Jose.

Chief of Police Crowley last night received a dispatch from San Jose informing him that three runaway girls between the ages of twelve and fifteen years had been arrested in that city. They gave the names of Katie Menton of 32 Louisa street, Lizzie Defau, 421 Second street, and Kate Morrison, 81 Clementina street.

The parents of the truants were notified and last night the mothers of the Defau and Morrison girls called at the City Hall and requested that their daughters be brought to this city and sent to the Magdalen Asylum, from which institution Mrs. Defau said her girl had recently been released.

According to information received from San Jose, the girls arrived there last Saturday, and had until the time of their arrest been living in company with three unknown young men.

Name: Charlotte Dennison
Sex: Female
Age: 18 years
Birth Date: July 1882
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: California
Mother's Birthplace: California
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

A GIRL BETRAYED.

Henry Flynn's Arrest for Ruining Mary Derringer.

Henry Flynn, a young man who has been employed as a piano player in various underground resorts, was arrested by Officers Anthony and Hook yesterday and charged with felony.

The charge was preferred by the sister of Mary Derringer, who was taken out of a house of ill fame on Dupont street last Friday by Officer Hook and booked at the city prison for the Magdalen Asylum: It is claimed that after ruining the girl, who is under 18 years of age, Flynn persuaded her to become an inmate of the brothel where she was found, and was living from the wages of her sin when apprehended.

Flynn claims that he did not seduce the girl and that she entered the place of ill repute of her own free will. He was anxious to marry her, however, but Mary would not listen to the proposition, and intends upon gaining her liberty to make an honest living.

DESERVEDLY REWARDED.

A Rash Attempt to Take a Girl from the Magdalen Asylum.

On Friday morning George N. Webb, who claims to be an upholsterer, and recently from Oakland, appeared before Judge Murphy and swore out a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Margaret Dix, who, he claimed, was illegally restrained of her liberty in the Magdalen Asylum. He states that he desired her release so that he might marry her. The writ was granted. Yesterday morning Officer Burke brought the the young woman into Court. Webb, much to the surprise of everybody, was conspicuous by his absence. The girl testified that she was over 18 years of age, but was staying at the asylum of her own free will. She had no desire to go with Webb. These statements caused Judge Murphy to institute a search for the missing young man. He was found and brought into Court. He admitted that he did not know of his own knowledge that she was detained at the asylum. The Court suggested that he be arrested for perjury, which was accordingly done, and the rash youth was locked up below. The girl was then allowed to return to the asylum.

From admissions made by both parties It is ascertained that Webb is one of that class of loathsome creatures who desire to live off the earnings of fallen women. He originally placed the young woman in a house of ill fame from whence she was taken by her father and placed in the Magdalen Asylum.

YOUNG AND VICIOUS.

Sixteen-Year-Old Jessie Dixon Consorts With Low Characters.

A young girl of slight build, slovenly in her appearance, with a hang-dog air about her that saddened the heart of his Honor, who has a fatherly interest in all young criminals, appeared before Judge Rix yesterday for commitment to the Magdalen Asylum. Jessie Dixon was her name and sixteen years her age. It is only about six months ago that her mother, a respectable woman of San Diego, unable to control her wayward daughter, sent her to this city to the care of the Rescue Home, an institution for the reformation of such offenders, located on Liberty street.

For a few weeks Jessie submitted to the rules imposed by the Rev. Mr. Ellsworth, Superintendent of the Home, and then left, choosing her associates from among a gang of hoodlums that infests the Mission. Her conduct attracted the attention of the police and four months ago they arrested and booked her for the Industrial School. On the hearing of the case Mr. Ellsworth, counting on the girl's youth to wean her from her vicious habits, induced Judge Rix to give her another chance.

But the girl was beyond reformation, and took advantage of the first opportunity to escape. For months past she has been living in a disreputable lodging-house on Fourth street, and associating with women many years her senior and of disreputable life. Latterly she took up with Maggie Hammith, and in company with her has frequented nightly and often, until late in the morning, a resort on Mission street patronized exclusively by dissolute negroes. In this place the pair were found yesterday morning by Officers Crockett and Dillon and placed under arrest.

From the girl's conduct when taken before Judge Rix yesterday morning it would appear that she is incapable of feeling the sensation of shame. His Honor talked to her in a way calculated to make her feel remorse for her conduct and manner of life, but all he got for his pains was a shrug of indifference. The only interest she manifested in the proceedings that were about to confine her until she should arrive at her majority was when the question of age arose. The officers testified that she was fourteen, but the girl insisted that she was two years older, and her word was taken. She remarked, as she went down into the jail, that it was only a matter of two years in the "Mag," and then she could live as she liked.

The Hammeth woman was sent to the House of Correction for three months for vagrancy.

A LITTLE GIRL PROUD TO BE BAD.

Eva Doherty, Thirteen Years Old, and a Criminal With a Long Record.

Boasts of the Fact That She Is the Toughest Girl in San Francisco.

LAUGHS AT WOULD BE REFORMERS.

A Juvenile Pilferer Who Boasts of the Circumstance of Her Precocious Criminality.

Within the walls of the City Prison is the toughest girl in San Francisco, the police say. Her name is Eva Doherty, her age is 13 years, and her record as a criminal would put to the blush that of many a man confined behind the bars at San Quentin or Folsom.

What is more, this precocious criminal is proud of her record, boasts of her prowess as a thief and laughs in the faces of the kindly-disposed people who seek to point out to her the error of her ways.

"They make me tired," she says. "It's a wonder they wouldn't get onto themselves and go talk to a church or something that's not next."

And then she unblushingly tells of some of her more daring exploits in the way of thievery, and with much gusto details the riotous manner in which she squanders her Ill-gotten wealth.

"I guess I am in for it this time," she said yesterday, "but then they can't send me up for more than five years, and when I get out you can bet your life I'll make things lively for a while. They've got to be pretty foxey to get me to prison. They're liable to lose me on the way."

The girl's last exploit, and the one for which she will have to answer in the Superior Court to-day, was the robbing of her employer, Mrs. A. Klinkner, of $200 worth of jewelry and $30 in money. She immediately left the city, made several short rail- road journeys, stopped at several good hotels, indulged to the full her passion for horseback riding and finally fell into he clutches of the authorities at Napa. She arrived in this city early yesterday morning in charge of Detective Anthony, and a few hours later was taken before Police Judge Joachimsen, who held her to answer to the Superior Court on a charge of grand lar ceny. To-day she will be committed to the Whittier Reform School until she attaine her majority.

"I'd rather go to the Mag." — meaning the Magdalen Asylum — "but if they say Whittler that goes. I'll never kick," was the way she expressed herself when informed of the fate in store for her.

The first notable chapter in the criminal history of this child occurred almost two years ago when she broke in the door of her mother's room with an axe, stole $24 in cash, and took the first train for the interior.

"It was this way" she said, when asked to relate the occurrence. "I got sick of staying at home, so I just broke into the old woman's room and took the stuff, and then skipped. Did I have a good time? Well, I guess yes. I went to Stockton, got a room in a lodging- house and blew myself for further orders. And, say, they never would a-ketched me either if I didn't fall off of a safety. I was doing the grand one afternoon a riding on a bicycle and was just coming back when I made a bobble and over I went. I was a brushing the dust offen myself when a cop come up and asked me did I hurt myself. I says 'no' and then he gives me a tough look an' says, 'What's your name?" I was on in minute, and so I tells him a string of lies that would kill you dead. I guess he was next, for he takes me to the prison and kept me there three days before they brought me back here. That safety was what queered me."

As a punishment for this Eva was sent to one of the Christian missions, where she stayed three months and then ran away. Later she was given employment by a family living in the Western Addition, but after staying a couple of weeks, she stole $12 and some valuables and ran away. From that time up to the date of her employment by Mrs. Klinkner she spent a portion of her time at home and at other places unknown to her family. She never failed to vary the monotony of daily existence by committing small thefts and engaging in all kinds of juvenile lawlessness. After robbing Mrs. Kilnkner she went to Berkeley.

"I went there," she explained, because the cops never look in those small towns for people they hunt for. I stayed at a bangup hotel every night, and in the day I would go horseback riding. I always went a-horseback because it's good fun, and I wanted to see the country, and besides if any cop got onto me I could give him the shake easy. I got tired of Berkeley after a while, so I thought I would go to Napa. Buy my own ticket? Well, I guess yes. That's dead easy. When I gets to Napa I goes to the Palace hotel, and there the cops pinches me. A woman that knowed me give me away and here I am."

"You know, of course, that it is wrong to steal?"

"Oh, come off. You talk like the Salvation Army. Do you think I'll enjoy myself at Whittler?"

With this she entered into a discussion of the respective merits of the prisons in Stockton, Napa and San Francisco, offering occasional suggestions for the betterment of each of the institutions named.

"That's the toughest girl in San Francisco," commented the Prison Keeper, as he turned the key in the cell door.

Delia Dunleavy, the precocious ten-year-old whose parents cannot keep her at home, has been sent to the Magdalen Asylum. She has been borrowing money in her mother's name.

PETITIONS FOR DISCHARGE.

A petition from J.R. Sharpstien, asking for the discharge of the boy Louis Hamiltien, that he may be sent to his relations in Wisconsin. Mr. Death said the boy had already been sent Overland a week ago last Wednesday; he therefore moved for his discharge. Adopted. Lizzie Dunn, who was discharged from the County Hospital, was ordered to be sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

Two Noisy Girls.

Camille Nichols and Annie Eagan were arrested yesterday and charged at the Seventeenth-street Police Station with disturbing a religious meeting. The former was also booked for the Industrial School. Both girls, who are of the chippy class, have served terms in the Magdalen Asylum. Yesterday they went out to the hills back of the asylum to catch site of some of the inmates, all of whom they know. They didn't see any of their friends and began yelling to them. The regular Sunday afternoon services were being held at the time and the girls were taken into custody.

Sent Back to the Asylum.

The wayward Augusta Extrom, aged 16 years, was returned yesterday to the Magdalen Asylum, from which institution she was released two weeks ago on approbation. Benjamin Jones, with whom the girl was living when she was arrested Wednesday night, and several of his friends, made strenuous exertions to have her set at liberty, but Police Judge Joachimsen said that a reformatory was the proper place for her.

Still in the Asylum.

Gussie. Eckstrom, the wayward young girl who was committed to the Magdalen Asylum, did not get away from that institution as reported. Joseph S. McGinn, the son of the deceased undertaker who got out a license to marry the girl on the consent of her mother, will not be able to marry her, the authorities refusing to allow her release.

[Editor's note: Augusta later married George R Grunwald, and died in 1946, at 71. To see a picture of her in later years, check out the gallery on the left.]

A Wayward Young Girl.

Maggie Edwards, a rather pretty blonde aged about sixteen years, was brought back from San Jose yesterday by Detectives Silvey and Anthony and booked for the Magdalen Asylum. She ran away from her parents' home on Scott street near Geary about three weeks ago and was traced to San Jose, where she was found in a private lodging-house. George Smith, who had Emma Connors arrested on Saturday night on a charge of stealing a diamond ring from him, is said to have taken the girl to San Jose.

The next case called was that of Theresa Ehrhardt, a girl of 16 years, who was charged with being idle and dissolute and of consorting with dissolute characters. Nathaniel Hunter of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children presented to the Court a letter from the mother of the girl, who now lives in San Jose, in which the mother tells of being beaten and bruised all winter long by this girl and finally forced to go to San Jose to another daughter, and states: "I am heartbroken on her account, and I beg of you to put her where she can be controlled. She is my daughter yet."

The Court was nonplused: "If I send her to jail," he said, "I ruin her for life. I think I'll send her to the Magdalen Asylum," which he did.

Name: Louisa Enright
Sex: Female
Age: 17 years
Birth Year (Estimated): 1863
Birthplace: California, United States
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 4393182

Name: Maggie Fagan
Sex: Female
Age: 16 years
Birth Year (Estimated): 1864
Birthplace: California, United States
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 4393182

Sent to Magdalen Asylum.

Sentence on Aggle Kelly, convicted of placing young Sophia Finegold in a disreputable house, was yesterday continued until December 7th, on motion of the woman's attorney, who will prepare a bill of exceptions on appeal. In the afternoon Judge Lawlor decided to send the Finegold girl to Magdalen Asylum, and she was formally committed.

Charged With a Felony.

George Sinclair, the variety actor, was booked at the City Prison yesterday by Detectives Gibson and Anthony on the felony charge of having his wife in a house of ill fame. Her maiden name was Alice Ferrin, and she is only 16 years of age. Sinclair married her in Los Angeles, where she lived with her parents, on July 27 last, three weeks after the death of his former wife, Lilley Staley, the actress. The girl-wife was booked for the Magdalen Asylum.

All six girls testified in court in a case against Mrs. Letitia Gilmour, Matron of the City Prison. Read the testimony and other details in "Tales Told By Wayward Girls."

HAS A RICH FRIEND.

What a Young and Wayward Girl Told a Policeman.

For the second time within a few months Mary Fitzgerald has been forced to occupy the bird cage cell in the City Prison. Mary is wayward and will be consigned to the Magdalen Asylum. Something like three months ago Detective Anthony found the girl in company with a lot of opium fiends and fast women in a resort on Mason street. Her parents, who reside on Filbert street, near Powell, found that they were unable to control Mary, who would remain away from home for days at a time. They finally notified the police, which the result stated. Mary behind the bars made them relent, and Judge Rix allowed her to go on probation. For a time she behaved herself, but it was for a short time only, and a few days ago Officer Anthony was requested to find the girl again.

This he succeeded in doing late Saturday night. The girl was in company with Lillie Cunningham, who is also wanted, but as soon as she saw the officer she broke and ran away, and Anthony had to content himself with capturing the Fitzgerald girl. The latter stated that she was all right and had a rich friend at the Palace Hotel, who would get her out. Who the rich friend is the girt declined to say.

CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

Two Wayward Girls Lead the Police a Lively Chase.

Agnes McCaffery and Nora Fitzgerald, wayward girls of 15 and 16 years, respectively, who have been playing hide and seek with the police during the past two weeks, were captured early yesterday morning in the Fallon House, corner of Mary and Folsom streets.

They ran away together from their home, 1358 Minna street, about a fortnight ago. On Tuesday last their asylum was discovered, but when a policeman accompanied Miss Fitzgerald's sister to the room they occupied, the runaways escaped in scanty attire by way of a second-story window.

Shortly after midnight yesterday morning Sergeant Donovan and a posse of patrolmen descended again on the hiding place of the two incorrigibles. The voices of the girls were heard in the room a moment before, but, when the officers forced the door only their clothes could be found. An hour later Policemen Nolting, Gibbons and Staples made another attempt to catch them. They first sent a citizen to the room to inquire about another woman. When one of the girls opened the door the three policemen dashed into the room.

Three men were stowed away under the bed and in a clothes closet. Nora Fitzgerald was halfway out of the front window and Agnes McCaffery had disappeared. Policeman Gibbons climbed through the window and on a porch outside, on to which she had dropped from the windowsill, he found Miss McCaffery shivering in negligee attire. Both girls were taken into custody and later in the day Judge Mogan committed them to the Magdalen Asylum. One of the three men In the room, who is alleged to have induced the girls to leave their homes, was arrested for vagrancy. He gave the name of John Wilson.

Name: Mary Flaherty
Sex: Female
Age: 16 years
Birth Date: June 1884
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Ireland
Mother's Birthplace: Ireland
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

MARY FORTIER MOURNS HER SAD PREDICAMENT.

Rather Unusual Conduct of Her Parents Toward Her Betrayer.

Mary Fortier, a heart-broken child, stands through many hours of the day looking out of the windows of the maternity ward of the City and County Hospital. She almost refuses a word with those about her and is brooding the hours away, overwhelmed by misfortune. On the 22d of May she will be 14 years old, but long before that time she will be a mother.

The case is one of the most pitiful ever reported to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The child of grief is the daughter of Charles Fortier, a farmer at Norman. She is one of a family of eight, a fairly well-grown, healthy, but plain-looking girl, in ankle-length frocks.

The story of the girl's downfall places the responsibility upon one Joseph Girard, a farm hand employed by her father. He is a French American, has been on the ranch seven years and was considered and treated as one of the family. His victim he has watched grow from a tot of 6 years.

A strange feature in the case and one which may play an important part in the prosecution which will be instituted is that the father and mother, after discovering their daughter's situation, paid Girard his accumulated earnings of seven years and permitted him to remain in his old position in the family.

When the father brought the child to the city to place her in the Magdalen Asylum, Girard drove the wagon that carried them to the depot.

NOTE: Mary and Joseph married in 1897, and their daughter, Celia, was born that year. They had seven more children and lived long lives. Joseph died in 1960 at 88; Mary died in 1968 at 85. They're buried together in Chico Cemetery.

LIZZIE FRANZ, the girl burglar of 1207 1/2 Stevenson street, was committed yesterday by Judge Mogan to the care of the sisters in charge of the Magdalen Asylum. There she will remain in the Institution until she comes of legal age, which gives her four years to work out her reformation.

In addition to the burglary she committed last Thursday in Henry Farley's residence at 1207 1/2 Stevenson street, another robbery was fastened yesterday on wayward Miss Franz. Reading in the newspapers of the girl burglar's arrest, Mrs. J. Hall, who resides at 15 Lapidge street, recollected that Lizzie Franz was seen hanging around her house when it was entered and robbed about four months ago. Mrs. Hail never dreamed of connecting Miss Franz with the robbery at the time it occurred, but the account of the Farley burglary aroused her suspicions, and on Sunday after- noon she acquainted Patrolman T. C. Cainan, who arrested Lizzie Franz, with them.

Cainan taxed Miss Franz yesterday morning with having robbed the Hall residence and the girl readily admitted her guilt. She then went with him to the beck yard of 1907 1/2 Stevenson street, where she dug out of the ground the fragments of a gold watch, the property of Mrs. Hall. In her efforts to destroy the evidence of the Farley burglary last Friday she had also chopped up the gold watch, which was valued at $75. rendering it worthless as a timepiece.

In Judge Mogan's court yesterday the father of Lizzie Franz represented that if she were released he would find her employment with a respectable family in the city. He admitted, however, that his daughter was beyond his control, so the Court refused to entertain his plea in her behalf.

When Judge Mogan asked her why she had robbed the Hall and Farley residences, the fourteen-year-old burglar said: "Because I was drunk each time. Father always keeps wine in our house, and whenever I drank too much of it I felt like going out and stealing something. I just didn't know what I was doing after I drank too much of that wine."

Name: Elsie Franz
Sex: Female
Age: 17 years
Birth Date: August 1883
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: Ireland
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

CASE OF GIRL BURGLAR.

Lizzie Frayme, the girl burglar, was sent back temporarily to the Girls' Aid Society yesterday by Judge Murasky, who will not finally pass upon her case until Tuesday. She will probably be finally committed to the Magdalen Asylum.

"NOW I HAVE DONE IT."

Alice C. Fuller Throws Herself Into the Bay.

Alice C. Fuller, a rather pretty girl of seventeen summers, was apparently in a very despondent mood when she left her mother's house at 84 1/2 Everett street yesterday afternoon and wandered toward the water front. Arriving at Hathaway's Wharf she threw off her cloak and sprang into the bay.

Several men, who were working on the Mail Dock, ran to her rescue and one threw a rope into the water, but the girl would not seize it or make any attempt to save her- self. Corporal Cockrill secured a boat and with the assistance of two boatmen, soon had the girl out of the water and on the wharf.

The patrol wagon conveyed her to the Receiving Hospital, where she was kindly treated by the matron and placed on a cot in the female ward. In the cloak which Alice left on the wharf the following letter addressed to her mother was found:

Dear Mama—By the time you receive this I hope to have succeeded in doing away with myself, as you told me to do while leaving the house this morning. Everybody seems to tell tales on me and you believe them all in preference to me. I have caused you lots of trouble, mama, but please God I will do so no more. You have told me a dozen times before to do this, and now I have done it. Sincerely hoping we will meet In the next world, I am your only child. —ALICE C. FULLER.

The unhappy maiden ran away from home some time ago with a worthless fellow named Matt Kelly. Both were arrested, and the girl was sent to the Magdalen Asylum, from which institution she was released three months ago. She held her head in her hands and moaned piteously when a CALL reporter stood beside her cot and asked why she had attempted to drown herself.

"I have tried my best to be a good girl," she sobbed, "ever since I was released from the asylum. My mother was tired of me, and kept constantly accusing me of things I was not guilty of. She often told me she wished I was out of the world. She received letters and anonymous notes about me, and I got a number myself. Every time I received one I showed it to her and told her I was innocent of the accusation. She believed everything she heard against my character, and this morning she told me to go away or kill myself. That is why I became so despondent and decided to commit suicide."

The girl further said that she had been working in a millinery-store, and went home promptly every night after work. She said that her mother works in a saloon as a waitress, and is very anxious to be rid of her. Those who heard the girl's story at the hospital promised to try and secure for her a home in some respectable family. 

ALICE GOES HOME.

She Will Again Try to Content Herself With Her Mother.

Alice C. Fuller, the young girl who attempted to end her life on Wednesday by jumping into the bay, is now in a penitent frame of mind. She made her escape from the Receiving Hospital under circumstances detailed in yesterday' issue of the EXAMINER, and was subsequently found in the California House. She then declared that she would not return to her mother, as she feared she would be abused if not sent to the Magdalen Asylum. She said she intended remaining where she was until she found a place to work.

Inquiry at the California house yesterday elicited information that the girl left there in the morning in company with her mother.

After a lengthy discussion she decided to return home and again seek peace and contentment there.

The EXAMINER is in receipt of telegrams from various points in the interior from charitable persons who will give Alice a home if she wants to leave the city and its allurements.

SCAPEGRACE ALICE.

The Fuller Girl Again Figures in Police Circles.

Alice Fuller, the sixteen-year-old girl who attempted suicide six weeks ago by jumping into the bay, was arrested yesterday morning and booked for the Magdalen Asylum. Two young men quarreled over her affections, and entered the fistic arena and had a twenty-round contest to settle the dispute. A few days ago Alice, in company with Eva Troy, attempted to collect money from the Hibernia Bank on her mother's bank book.

An Incorrigible Girl.

Mabel Gaffer, a girl 15 years of age, was sent to the Magdalen Asylum yesterday by Judge Conlan. She is an incorrigible girl and wants to be bad. When her parents died she was adopted by Mrs. M. Montenegro, 309 Fulton street, but for the past six months she has been behaving in a most shocking manner. A few nights ago she cut off her long hair and told Mrs. Montenegro that she intended to sell it so that she and her lover could leave the city. She declined to say who was her young lover. She declared that she wanted to lead a bad life and nothing could stop her. She was taken to Secretary Kane's office by Mrs. Montenegro, and when left alone for a few minutes broke everything she could lay her hands on.

Name: Lizzie Gallagher
Sex: Female
Age: 15 years
Birth Year (Estimated): 1865
Birthplace: California, United States
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 4393182

Name: Mabel Gaffey
Sex: Female
Age: 17 years
Birth Date: August 1883
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Name: Agnes Gaffney
Sex: Female
Age: 16 years
Birth Year (Estimated): 1864
Birthplace: California, United States
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 4393182

Name: Helen Gannon
Sex: Female
Age: 18 years
Birth Date: June 1882
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Connecticut
Mother's Birthplace: Connecticut
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Name: Louise Garcia
Sex: Female
Age: 18 years
Birth Date: October 1882
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: California
Mother's Birthplace: California
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

RECRUITING BAGNIOS.

THE PROSELYTING DONE BY A PROCURESS.

May Hayward Enlisting Girls for Central American Sporting Resorts.

May Hayward, a woman of mature years, and the alleged procuress for a disreputable resort in Guatemala, and May Gardner, a seventeen-year-old girl, were arrested yesterday on the steamer City of New York and taken to the city prison. The Hayward woman was charged with enticing minors to Guatemala for immoral purposes, and her companion will be sent to the Magdalen Asylum. May Hayward has been engaged in this city for some time past inducing young and attractive girls to go to Guatemala to earn the wages of shame in that country. She held out glittering prospects and present inducements to those who would enlist in her service. Her movements were closely watched by the detectives, and yesterday when the City of New York steamed down the bay it had on board Officers Anthony Lane and Hanly, who, after searching the vessel for girls the woman might have secreted on board, arrested the procuress and one of her victims. The girl was locked up in a stateroom on the lower deck.

The officers, after assuring themselves that there were no more girls on the vessel being chaperoned by May Hayward, returned with their prisoners on a tug. May Gardner, the young girl, was recently discharged from the Magdalen Asylum.

END OF A WORTHLESS LIFE.

The Decomposed Remains of Annie Gately Found in the Bay.

The decomposed remains of a woman were fished up from the bay, off Fisherman's wharf, yesterday morning, and were taken to the Morgue. The body had evidently been in the water a long time.

Charles Schaefer, known as " Dutch Charley," recognized the remains as those of Mrs. Annie Gately, also known as Annie Kelly, with whom he used to play the concertina around saloons. She was about 42 years of age. Her husband, from whom she was separated, lives at the Potrero. She has four children, two of whom are in the Magdalen Asylum. A married daughter lives at St. Helena.

Mrs. Gately had no fixed home. She was addicted to drink, and it is thought that she committed suicide while crazed by liquor.

Name: Katie Gibney
Sex: Female
Age: 16 years
Birth Year (Estimated): 1864
Birthplace: California, United States
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 4393182

Alice Glenn is a bad girl, and some time ago was sent to the Boys and Girls' Aid Society. She was so obstreperous there that she was taken before Judge Lawler yesterday and sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

Name: Mary Godecke
Sex: Female
Age: 15 years
Birth Date: June 1885
Birthplace: Hawaiian Is.
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Shameless Young Girls.

Officers Anthony and Comstock visited a lodging-house on Taylor street, near Turk, last night about 9:30 o'clock, and found in one of the rooms Grace Goodman, Carrie Parker and Lilly O'Neill, three rather prepossessing girls, all under 17 years of age, in the company of the son of a well-known local millionaire. The girls, who are the children of very respectable parents in this city, were taken to the City Prison, and will be booked for the Magdalen Asylum to-day, where two of them previously spent some time, until taken out by their parents on their promises to reform. In the possession of one of the girls was found a picture in the nude of herself and one of her arrested companions, taken by a Third-street photographer.

Name: June Gordon
Sex: Female
Age: 16 years
Birth Date: April 1884
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Massachusetts
Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Sent to the Magdalen.

Lillie Gruenhoefer, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Hattie Wilson, a local actress, was sent to the Magdalen Asylum yesterday by Judge Conlan at the request of her mother, to save her from evil influences. Lillie had run away to Stockton with the Darrell Vinton Theatrical Company, as she was stage struck. She was found in a hotel in Stockton in the company of Charles Bates, an actor, who was brought into prominence by the murder of Effie King, at 33 1/2 O'Farrell Street, two or three months ago, who was to have eloped with him the day she was murdered by her jealous lover.

A WAYWARD GIRL—Eva Guinasso, a thirteen-year-old girl who was one of the alleged victims of Captain Lane, the old man arrested about two years ago on a charge of assault, was committed to the Magdalen Asylum yesterday as an incurable kleptomaniac. She had been out to the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society for some time, and had been sent from there to work in different families. She stole money and jewelry at every place where she was employed and also at the Aid Society's home, and it was finally determined to place her where she could be more closely watched.

NOTE: Eva later married Frank Maraglia and lived on Chestnut Street in 1910. She died April 20, 1958 and is buried in the Italian Cemetery in Colma.

Name: Eva Guiness
Sex: Female
Age: 16 years
Birth Date: October 1884
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Italy
Mother's Birthplace: Italy
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Name: Josephine Hughes
Sex: Female
Age: 18 years
Birth Date: August 1882
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: New Jersey
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

A YOUNG GIRL'S DEPRAVITY.

BEAT HER MOTHER AND LEFT HER HOME.

Fourteen-Year-Old Louise Hahn's Waywardness Causes Her Arrest.

The most aggravated case of youthful depravity with which the authorities have had to deal with for many months was brought to the attention of Police Judge Joachimsen yesterday morning. Fourteen-year-old Louise Hahn was the subject, and after hearing the details of her misdeeds the Judge ordered her confined in the Magdalen Asylum until she attains her majority.

The parents of the girl are respectable. the father being head janitor of the Spreckels building on Market street. Both are past middle age, and their present trouble bears heavily upon them. Mrs. Hahn told the Judge that for a long time Louise had been Incorrigible. Three weeks ago she ran away from, home and did not return for several days. When she did return the mother admonished her, and in return was severely beaten by the girl. Louise again left the house only to return a week later for the purpose of demanding some money from her mother. When Mrs. Hahn refused the request the girl seized a baseball bat and beat her mother to the point of insensibility.

The father, fearful lest the girl should either kill her mother or one of her younger brothers or sisters, reported the facts to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and Policeman McMurry and Special Policeman Holbrook were detailed to place Louise under arrest. After a long search they found her in the Blanco House on Fourth street, a notorious resort for a certain class of disreputable women and men. When arrested she cursed her parents and swore to have her revenge upon them when she regained her liberty.

Mrs. Hahn presented a pitiful spectacle when she stood up in court to tell the Judge the story of her wayward daughter's misdeeds. Her face still retains the marks of the blows she received and she is very lame from the same cause. The policemen testified that the girl had been associating with disreputable men and women.

"I am sorry to learn," said the Judge, "that one so young in years should be so lost to all the feelings of filial affection and parental respect that should be hers. It does not seem possible that a girl of such tender age should have so soon become acquainted with the vice of the slums. Yet it is so, and I see no other course to pursue save to confine her in some public institution until she attains her majority. It is a consolation to know that such cases as this are extremely rare."

Name: Mary Hannon
Sex: Female
Age: 17 years
Birth Date: December 1883
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: California
Mother's Birthplace: California
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Belle Hara, a wayward 16-year old-niece of Gripman Harding E. Robinson of 1328 California street, ran away with a soldier of the Presidio, but was caught and sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

WAYWARD GIRLS.

They Are Taken From Their Dissolute Life by Policemen.

Two young girls, May Hurley and Maggie Harrington, the latter not quite 16 years of age, were locked up yesterday in the City Prison to be committed to the Magdalen Asylum.

Maggie's home is in South San Francisco, but she has been to the Magdalen Asylum and regained her freedom. This time she was traced by Oflicer Shea to 1 Eddy street, where she was found in a room with five young hoodlums. While the officer was trying to force in the door Maggie made good her escape through a window and found her way to the roof, where she was captured.

May Hurley was her companion. She came from Livermore recently — strayed away from her home —to live in a lodging-house on Sixth street with hoodlums, where she was found by Officers Harris and Fay yesterday morning.

Mamie Hart and Mamie Pearson, two wayward girls, each under 18 years of age, were arrested by the officers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children yesterday and booked at the city prison for the Magdalen Asylum. The girls were found in houses of ill fame, where they had been living for some time.

Annie Hatwell, a seventeen-year-old girl, was acquitted yesterday by Police Judge Rix as her father, who had her arrested for committal to the Magdalen Asylum, did not appear against her. The girl stated in court that her stepmother drove her from home, and her father, who drives a hack on Mission street, beat her repeatedly and without just cause. James Roach, an employee of a Market-street coffee-house, promised to marry her if her father consents to the union. Annie had left home and was earning her own living.

Mollie Hendry Convicted.

Mollie Hendry was found guilty of vagrancy in Judge Webb's Court yesterday. Mollie is the young girl who, it is charged, was seduced and placed in a house of prostitution by Daniel Sullivan, the opium fiend. Since her arrest in Sacramento she has been confined in the Magdalen Asylum to prevent any overtures being made to her by the friends of Sullivan to effect her testimony, which will be given on the trial of Sullivan for felony.

Name: Teattie Hennessy
Sex: Female
Age: 14 years
Birth Year (Estimated): 1866
Birthplace: California, United States
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 4393182

Name: Stella Herman
Sex: Female
Age: 17 years
Birth Date: March 1883
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: California
Mother's Birthplace: California
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Hazel Herring's New Year Morning's Exploit.

Hazel Herring, a pretty but wayward girl scarcely sixteen years of age, spent her New Year's day in the city prison. She was arrested early in the morning by Sergeant Sarter and posse on a charge of burglary. The crime consisted in the stealing of a lot of handkerchiefs and several other articles from Silverman's dry goods store, on Polk street, between Pine and California. She saw the things in the show window, and in order to get at them took off one of her shoes and broke a pane of glass. The fair prisoner was only released from the Magdalen Asylum about two months ago.

Missing Girls Found.

Policemen Holbrook and McMurray of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children succeded yesterday morning in arresting Henrietta Wohlleben, aged seventeen, and Augie Hoffman, aged sixteen, two girls who disappeared from 20 Sheridan street two weeks ago. They were found in a Powell-street resort and taken to the Central Police Station, where they were booked for the Magdalen Asylum.

GOING TO KANSAS CITY—Judge Rix yesterday released Ellen Hoffman, 13 years of age, from the Magdalen Asylum, whither she was sent a month ago. The girl's mother intends to take her wayward daughter to Kansas City.

Girl Changes Her Mind.

Emma Holz, the young girl from Fruitvale who astounded Judge Mogan Thursday by calmly swearing that she lied when she accused Rafael Torres, her dancing master, of a criminal offense, was brought into court yesterday and admitted that her accusation was true. She gave as a reason for her testifying falsely Thursday that she was scared. The Judge ordered her committed to the Magdalen Asylum and continued Torres' case till proof of the date of the girl's birth could be obtained.

Father and Daughter In Court.

Kittie Howard, alias Ernst, a seventeen-year-old vagrant, was sentenced to the Magdalen Asylum yesterday by Police Judge Mogan. H. A. Ernst, the girl's father, was also in court as a prisoner, having refused to obey a subpoena. He promised to show a proper respect in future when confronted by a legal summons and was released from custody.

NOTE: A year later, Kittie was living in a lodging-house near Market and 7th, and working as a milliner, according to the 1900 census. She remained in SF into the 1930s at least, working as a bookkeeper (1920) and a maid (1935).

Name: Lillian Howard
Sex: Female
Age: 18 years
Birth Date: August 1882
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Ireland
Mother's Birthplace: California
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Wayward Girls.

Louise Paille and Edna Huntington, both 17 years of age, ran away from their home recently. On Saturday, Edna's mother, who lives at 244 Chenery street, found them in the Glenbrook rooming-house, 116 Sixth street. While she went for a policeman the girls made their escape. Yesterday afternoon Louise was arrested by Officers Holbrook and Murray of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, and Edna went home. She was taken to the City Prison and both girls will be sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

INCORRIGIBLE GIRL CREATES SCENE IN COURT

Defies Judge, Fears Physician's Threat of Chloroform, but Renews Tantrums at Hospital and Bites the Nurse's Finger.

Ivy Jasperson, only ten years old, but apparently Incorrigible, was the center of two scenes of excitement at the City Hall yesterday. Utterly unmanageable by her parents, the little girl has already, at various times, been an inmate of three different reformatory institutions, from all of which she has managed to effect her escape. Yesterday morning she was taken before Judge Murasky, of the Juvenile Court, who, regarding her case as one requiring a desperate remedy, ordered her committed to the Magdalen Asylum. Then the trouble began.

"I won't go there," said the girl, defiantly. "I've been there once and I won't go again!"

Judge Murasky smiled faintly, and directed the probation officers to remove the child. They endeavored to do so, and Immediately was witnessed one of the most lively scenes of kicking and scratching, to the accompaniment of wild shrieks, seldom known in a court of justice anywhere else. Assistant Surgeon Herzog, of the Central Emergency Hospital, had finally to be called on to quiet the child, which he succeeded in doing. in a measure, at least, by making a "bluffing" threat to chloroform her. She was then taken down to the Central Emergency Hospital, as she seemed to be inclined to be hysterical, and there the performance was resumed. She shrieked at the top of her voice, kicked and struck everyone about her, and when Head Nurse Grace Cannon made a kindly effort to soothe her Ivy rewarded her by savagely biting her finger. Mrs. Cannon then prepared to leave the field to the child and the, masculine attaches of the hospital, but this didn't suit Miss Ivy. either. "I won't have you leave me!" she shouted. "Just you dare go away, and I'll break every window here; I will- sure!"

The girl had finally to be locked up in a cell until she could be removed to the Magdalen Asylum.

The aged father of 17-year-old Belle Jones wept as he told of his motherless girl's waywardness and his inability to control her. His employment keeps him away from home all day, and during his absence the lass did much as she pleased, and her pleasure was to form bad acquaintanceships, Finally she ran away from home, and several days afterward a policeman found her in a disreputable lodging-house.

The girl displayed no feeling whatever while her parent recounted her conduct, although every one else in Judge Mogan's courtroom was more or less affected by his emotion. And when the bench ordered that she be taken to St. Catherine's Home and Training School—which is the new title of the old Magdalen Home—she maintained her stoicism and looked not once at the heart-broken man who was trying to save her from herself.

A Very Wayward Girl.

Mollie Joseph, who has on several occasions run away from her home in Vallejo, was found in a Market-street lodging-house early yesterday morning by Policeman Anthony. She was brought before Judge Rix yesterday afternoon and committed to the Magdalen Asylum. John Ring, an apprentice boy who ran off from a British vessel, was found in her company, and he was committed to the care of the Boys and Girls' Aid Society until a vessel can be found to send him on to his home in Australia.

Vagrants.

Yesterday morning, shortly after 12 o'clock, officers R.D. Marshall and Meehan discovered a quartet of vagabonds under a house adjoining the House of Blazes on Baldwin court, Tar Flat. There were three young hoodlums, Thomas Keevan, alias Miller, an escape from the Industrial School; John Blanchfield, the son of the proprietor of the House of Blazes, and John Hines, and one fallen girl named Agnes Kane, alias Wilson. The quartet had a milk-can full of beer and were enjoying themselves in an uproarious manner when their haunt was discovered. The four were charged with vagrancy. Agnes was up before Judge Rix on Monday morning for vagrancy, but the case was dismissed. She was for some time an inmate of the Magdalen Asylum, but was released a short time since on account of her mother's death. Since that time she has been very "naughty" and seldom out of the company of the vilest of the vile.

Name: Mary Kehoe
Sex: Female
Age: 15 years
Birth Year (Estimated): 1865
Birthplace: California, United States
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 4393182

Name: Anastasia Kelliher
Sex: Female
Age: 35 years
Birth Date: September 1865
Birthplace: Ireland
Arrival Date: 1885
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Ireland
Mother's Birthplace: Ireland
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Superintendent Weaver of the Almshouse reported that there were 712 inmates in that institution. During the month fifty-six were discharged, nine ran away and seven died. Mr. Weaver called attention to a young woman named Emma Kelly who was sent from the Magdalen Asylum to the Almshouse. He declared that the sisters sent her away because she was beyond control and had assaulted one of them. She has an ungovernable temper and is very violent at times, having upon one occasion pulled a handful of hair from another woman's head. The Superintendent considers the woman too dangerous to be at large. It was decided to send her before the Commissioners of Insanity for examination.

Taken to the Magdalen Asylum.

Lizzie Kelly, a sixteen-year-old servant girl in the employ of Mrs. Donahue of 815 Eddy street, was committed to the Magdalen Asylum yesterday. She was of a flirtatious nature, and struck up an acquaintance with William Cameron, a coachman. To the jehu she attributes her present condition, and having no friends in the city to care for her, Mrs. Donahue considered it best that she be cared for in the institution named.

PRETTY BUT WAYWARD.

Nellie Kelly, Aged Seventeen, Arrested on Complaint of Her Mother.

She Refused to Keep the Promise Given Her Lover, Who Is Now in the East.

Nellie Kelly, a rather pretty girl of 17 years, was arrested last night by Detective Anthony and was booked for some public institution. The girl lives at 1723 O'Farrell street. Some time ago she fell in love with J. G. Evans, a piano player in a saloon on Eddy street. He seemed to reciprocate her affection and it was understood that they were to be married as soon as the girl reached the age of 18 years.

Several weeks ago Evans received a dispatch from the East, announcing that his uncle had died, leaving him a large sum of money. He was directed to leave for the East at once to lay claim to his portion of the estate.

Amid tearful protestations of love Evans bade the prospective bride an affectionate farewell, after promising to return as soon as his uncle's estate was settled up and make her his wife.

Since leaving this city Evans has written several letters to his sweetheart, filled with endearing expressions and begging her to be "good and true" until he returns. Evidently tiring of waiting for him the girl, her mother says, has recently on several occasions abandoned the parental roof and sought the company of various men. Failing to convince her of the error of her way her mother, as the last resort, informed the police, with the result that the misguided girl was taken into custody. Today an effort will be made to have her sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

Mary Ann Lader, an incorrigible fifteen-year-old girl, was sentenced to four years at the Whittier Reform School by Justice J. J. Allen, sitting as Judge of the Oakland Police Court. The girl has been in the Magdalen Asylum and is very hard to do anything with. She was much affected by the sentence and cried for some time after being put in a cell.

Name: Francis Laffey
Sex: Female
Age: 16 years
Birth Date: January 1884
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: California
Mother's Birthplace: California
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

TWO BAD GIRLS.

Both Are Sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

Bertha Moreton and Josephine Lauter, two girls of the "chippy"' class, were sent to the Magdalen Asylum yesterday by Judge Joachimsen. While in court there was much wailing and they made so much disturbance that they bad to be removed. The mother of one of the girls, who is herself a notorious woman, almost went into hysterics over her daughter. The exhibition of sentiment was not lasting, however, for when the girls took the van for the asylum they were as chipper as could be imagined.

One Married, the Other Not.

Lottie Leisson, 16 years of age, who was arrested on Friday by Secretary Christie of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, was sent to the Magdalen Asylum for two years by Judge Joachimsen yesterday. Maude M. Miller, 19 years of age, who was arrested with Lottie, was married yesterday to Elmer C. Owens, a ticket collector at one of the theaters, by a Justice of the Peace, and the vagrancy charge against her will be dismissed.

NOTE: Lottie was the daughter of German immigrant Gerhard Leison and Mary Dubois. She married Charles O'Connor in 1912, and they had a son, Toby, in 1916. Lottie died in Nov. 1969 in Los Angeles. Charles in 1960, Toby in 1991.

MARY LENIHAN'S SCHEME.

Endeavored to Secure Her Release From the Magdalen Asylum.

Mary Lenihan. a fifteen-year-old girl whose parents live at 110 Noe street, was arrested on the night of October 2d by Sergeant Perrin and Policemen O'Connor and Farrell and booked for a public institution. Her younger sister, who was with her, was also taken in, but discharged the next day.

Mary was committed to the Magdalen Asylum by Judge Conlan. The officers testified that at the time of her arrest the girl used the vilest kind of language, and was around the streets carousing at nights. Some days after her commitment her father secured the services of Attorney P. J. Mogan, who secured the reopening of the case, which was set for yesterday morning.

While detained in the Magdalen Asylum the girl wrote a letter, which was intercepted, in which she gave explicit in directions as to how her mother was to secure her release. She was directed to go to Bailiff Kelly of Judge Conlan's court and "Tom Wallace of Low's court" and they would intercede with the Judge for her discharge. Then she could get a place and after a few days skip out, the letter continued.

When the letter was read to Judge Conlan he at once recommitted her. The girl left the courtroom with Policemen McMurray and Coleman, and as soon as the corridor was reached her father and mother endeavored to take her from the officers. They failed, however, and the girl was placed on a car and hurried back to the asylum.

Two sixteen-year-old girls, Mary Lopez and Florence Fernandez, were sent to St. Catherine's Home by Judge Fritz, to whom their parents had complained of their waywardness.

Name: Orena Louk
Sex: Female
Age: 17 years
Birth Date: October 1883
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Holland
Mother's Birthplace: Scotland
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

SENT HIM TO JAIL.

Judge Campbell Did Not Heed John Christian's "Pull."

John Christian, who wears good clothes, but who, so the police say, does not work, was sentenced yesterday to six months' imprisonment in the County Jail by Police Judge Campbell notwithstanding his "pull." He had many friends using their influence for him.

The charge against Christian was vagrancy, but the testimony was that he had enticed Julia Lyons, the 18-year-old daughter of a barber residing at 1509 1/2 Geary street. away from home.

At the Humane Society Officer Holbrook said that Christian had frequently allured the girl into questionable places. She took carbolic acid in an Eddy-street house about a year ago. The police drove them out of both Sacramento and Stockton.

The girl was at the Magdalen Asylum for a while, Judge Campbell sentenced her to thirty days' imprisonment, but allowed her to go on her own recognizance, and her mother took her home yesterday, promising to remove her from the City.

ELLEN MAGEE FOUND.—In yesterday's issue of the EXAMINER we gave the facts of a case in which a mother applied for and obtained a habeas corpus to recover possession of her child, Ellen Magee, a girl of fourteen years of age, who had entered upon a life of infamy. The writ was not able to be served by the sheriff, as the girl could not be found at the house of the woman with whom she was known to reside, but yesterday afternoon she was met in the street by an officer who knew her, and he at once arrested and delivered her into the custody of the Sheriff. She was taken before Judge Cowles in chambers, and after a long course of persuasion by His Honor and her mother, she at length, half reluctantly, consented to go to the Magdalen Asylum, at least for a time. It is horrible to think of, but this young child had become so enamored of a life of prostitution, as to require the strongest arguments and the most persuasive eloquence, to induce her to renounce it for a purer career.

An Abandoned magdalen.

Kate Malaney, a girl of about 16, was arrested last night in the bagnio at 411 1/2 Dupont street, by Officer Anthony, to be returned to the Magdalen Asylum as an escape. Kate was committed to the asylum on the 14th of last May for leading an idle and dissolute life. A fortnight after her committal she feigned illness and was transferred to the City and County Hospital, from which she took French leave two weeks later. She was arrested thereafter for some misdemeanor and was married by Justice of the Peace Pennie to a young man named Kearny for no other purpose than to save her from the asylum. She lived with her husband just one day and bloomed out as a public woman.

Young, But Troublesome.

Although less than 16 years old Adelaide Martin has caused her parents much trouble by her wayward conduct. She was booked for the Magdalen Asylum yesterday, having already served a term in that institution, though released at the request of her father. She has failed to keep her promise to reform and recently stole clothing and jewelry from Mrs. Gates of 21 Silver street, with whom she was living.

Name: Clara Martin
Sex: Female
Age: 16 years
Birth Date: December 1884
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

DIMMED A RISING STAR.

The Law Gives Miss McAteer's Histrionic Ambition a Death Blow.

The Young Dramatic Aspirant Sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

The artistic dreams of Mary Jane McAteer, a pretty girl of 17 years, who resided with her aunt, Mrs. O'Sullivan, at 735 Linden avenue, have been rudely dispelled. Instead of fulfilling her ambition to shine as a star before the footlights, Mary is now at the Magdalen Asylum, where, in all probability, she will remain until she has attained her majority.

The story of Miss McAteer's career is full of sentiment and romance. She is of studious habits, and while attending the public schools here conducted herself properly on all occasions. She had a decided fondness for the drama, and early manifested a desire to go upon the stage.

Miss McAteer made her debut in a farce played at Mission Opera Hall some three years ago by an amateur troupe. She did not consider herself adapted to farcical rotes, and, like most feminine aspirants for histrionic fame, she decided to study the part of Juliet. After some months of study, she announced that she would appear in that character, but her plan was spoiled, as among her limited acquaintances there was none who would or could play Romeo to her Juliet.

The young girl once appeared as a vestal virgin in a tableau at the Pavilion. On that occasion she met a young man named Smith, who complimented her upon her excellent portrayal of the character essayed by her. He told her to place her future in his hands, and having won a good record on several barn-storming tours over the coast he thought himself qualified to give her counsel that might aid her in carrying out her plans for the future.

The girl's aunt, Mrs. O'Sullivan, pro- tested in vain against all this. One day Miss McAteer disappeared and Mrs. O'Sullivan related her story to Secretary McComb. The girl was found without difficulty and taken to her home. A few weeks ago she disappeared again, and another complaint having been filed the girl was found at 520 Bush street, where she lived in proximity to Smith and a dive actor. She was promptly arrested, but her promises to do better in the future fell upon stony ears. When the facts of her case were related to Police Judge Low he decided that the Magdalen Asylum was the best place for her, as in its quiet retreat she could resume the study of the drama, which her acquaintance with Smith had for brief period interrupted.

Name: Loretta McCabe
Sex: Female
Age: 16 years
Birth Date: October 1884
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Canada
Mother's Birthplace: Canada
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Name: Loretta McCaffrey
Sex: Female
Age: 16 years
Birth Date: August 1884
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Rhode Is.
Mother's Birthplace: Rhode Is.
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Name: Mary McCormick
Sex: Female
Age: 18 years
Birth Year (Estimated): 1862
Birthplace: California, United States
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 4393182

J. J. JONES CHARGED WITH A FELONY.

Hard-Hearted Mrs. McCue Will Not Accept Him for a Son- in-Law.

Several days ago J. J. Jones considered himself a master in diplomacy. Mrs. McCue had refused peremptorily to become his mother-in- law; but Jones was going to marry her seventeen-year-old daughter Gracie, notwithstanding her mother's objections. The couple planned an elopement, and as Jones gleefully pictured in his mind's eye the complete discomfiture of Mrs. McCue he imbibed freely. He became maudlin, and was locked up in a cell on a charge of drunkenness. He was held at the city prison until yesterday, when his prospects of liberty took a long leap into futurity through a felony charge that Mrs. McCue preferred against him. Grace McCue, the girl to whom his sorrows may be attributed, was also arrested and booked for the Magdalen Asylum.

Jones declares that he is infatuated with the girl and anxious to marry her.

"I am not guilty of a crime," said he, with an oratorical flourish. "It is only the Garden of Eden affair re-enact- ed. I am like the pitcher that went to the well too often—well, not exactly that. for I am not broke yet."

Miss Gracie is not so anxious to marry as at first. She said yesterday that she had reconsidered her determination after a long talk with her mother, who is opposed to the match.

Jones quaked a little when he heard of his loved one's change of heart. "My! my!" sighed the love-sick swain of 38 years, "what am I to do? Here I am. I offer myself to the girl in marriage. I want to make full reparation, and I am spurned. No law and no court of justice will tolerate that." 

Failed to Marry Her.

A young fellow named Bond Hyden recently induced Mattie McDuff, aged 16 years, to leave her home and go with him to Sacramento. Last week they returned to this city and he procured for her a situation as a waitress in a "Barbary Coast" saloon. Officer Anthony arrested them both yesterday. Hyden was charged with seduction and Mattie was booked for the Magdalen Asylum. She says she ran away with Hyden because he promised to marry her, but he failed to keep his word.

Name: Frances McGrath
Sex: Female
Age: 17 years
Birth Date: June 1883
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: California
Mother's Birthplace: California
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

SMITH REJECTS A TURKEY.

Ex-Supervisor Will Not Touch the Bird His Servant Stole.

A tag on a turkey that Mary McIsaacs, a girl of 16. generously contributed Wednesday afternoon to the larder of her employer, ex-Supervisor Smith, caused the girl's committal yesterday by Judge Conlan to the Magdalen Asylum. Her story in court shows that Miss McIsaacs knows as little of her birth as she does about the difference between meum and tuum. When Judge Conlan asked where her parents were Miss McIsaacs said: If I ever had a father or mother I don't know It."

The white Topsy entered Into ex-Supervisor Smith's employ about a month ago. Wednesday she was out shopping and upon her return she presented Smith with a fine turkey. The ex-Supervisor looked his gift turkey in the neck and saw dangling from that portion of the bird's carcass a tag bearing the name of a downtown poulterer.

"Where did you get the turkey, Mamle?" he asked.

"Picked it up on the street, sir," replied Miss McIsaacs.

"If a purchaser dropped it there would be no tag," philozophized Smith, and then he turned Mary McIsaacs over to Secretary Kane of the Pacific Coast Society for the Suppression of Vice. That official discovered that Mary McIsaacs had pilfered the turkey from the wagon of a man named Kinney, and the result was Miss McIsaacs' transfer to the city prison.

KEEFE RAPE CASE.

The Complaining Witness Impeached and and the Defendant Discharged—Why the Charge Was Made

THE CRIME OF RAPE

It is seldom that a crime so heinous in its nature and so ruinous in its results comes to the surface even in the most demoralized communities. It is an accusation easily made, hard to prove and harder for the accused to defend. Courts and juries are too often carried away in their judgment, justice is lost sight of as the loathing crime looms up before them, and the unsupported testimony of the victim alone has doomed men to lasting shame and disgrace. In some countries it is punishable with death, but generally by imprisonment. To constitute the crime, overpowering, force, fear or duress must be proved. The victim must immediately discover to some one the outrage alleged to have been committed. If the charge is malicious and fabricated, as is often the case, the same evidence is demanded as where the felony actually exists. The character of the victim has no weight in law, for from the most virtuous to the vilest strumpet the law throws around them the shield protection. The rape of the Roman wife, Lucretia, by the infamous Tarquin caused the banishment and extermination of every wretch who bore that name. Such is the aversion in which men hold the perpetrator of this crime that often the law is taken into their own hands and the unnatural monster summarily disposed of; but to the credit of the American people and the justness of the law, the accused is granted a fair and impartial trial by a a jury of his countrymen.

OFFICER KEEFE AND HIS ACCUSER.

As has been already stated in the CHRONICLE, and no other paper, officer Keefe was discharged from the police force for an alleged outrage perpetrated upon a young girl about one month ago. The accused is a man of middle age, with a frank, open countenance, tall, of dark complexion and fine figure.

HIS ACCUSER, ELLEN M'KEAN, Is a girl said to be sixteen years of age, and possessed of none of these charms that lure the lustful on to their own destruction. When taken to the Asylum her hair was cropped off as close as it could be without shaving her head. She has a small, inexpressive, gray eye, low forehead, flat on top and wide behind the ears; a nose inclined upward, large hands and feet; a large mouth, filled with projecting teeth; thick lips and fair complexion. She is evidently possessed of a common-school education, but her voice is harsh and her expression wicked. Several times she retorted in a low-bred manner to questions propounded to her by the counsel, Mr. Murphy. and as she left the witness stand muttered out something, ground her teeth and clenched har fists in useless rage at the contradictions she was forced to make.

CONCLUSION OF THE TESTIMONY AND DISMISSAL OF THE CASE

Officer Keefe sworn—I was an officer on the 28th of July, when a warrant was placed in my hands for execution; it was for the arrest of Ellen McKean—charged with being idle and dissolute, I think it was; it was about ten o'clock when I got the warrant; it was placed in hands for service by Officer Cummings; I asked who made the complaint, and the officer told me that Mr. Devins had, but didn't want to be known in the matter; I spoke to Captain Douglass, and he told me to go and bring the girl to the City Hall; I went to the house and found the girl, and all the women that were on the stand here were then present; the girl did not want go: told her she was going to go to school, and she could come home every day; at that she appeared more willing to go; we went out and got into the car; I rode on the outside; when we got here I showed the warrant to Judge Provines, and he said it was all right; I got a coupee [sic] and told the driver to drive to the Magdalen Asylum and back as quick as he could, for I had other business to attend to; on the way out I asked the girl what they sent her to the Asylum for, and she said, "Because I had money and they did not know how I got it;" she said, "My uncle, Mr. Devine, gave it to me;" I asked her if it was for anything and she said, "Yes; they say I go with conductors;" that was all the conversation I had with her; the curtains of the carriage were up all time and the windows closed; I had nothing to do with her in any manner—never kissed her, never took her on my lap, never made any insulting propositions to her at any time; I have forced this examination, for I wanted an investigation; her statement is absolutely and unqualifiedly false in every particular; there were two men on the seat outside all the time; I had a letter from some one to the Sisters; when I got the warrant I did not know that she was to be taken out to to the Asylum that day thought she would she would have been examined in court; I have seen the girl before, on Third and Tehama streets.

Cross-examined—The curtains were all up; I never pulled them down; we were one hour going out and back.

Ellen McKean, recalled by the defense: Q—Do you know a baker shop on Third street? A.—I do know the place.

Q—Do you know the owner of it? A—I do not know his name.

Q—Did you ever visit at that place A—never went there often, only when I was sent; I got pies and cakes there when I paid for them; I was never in the back room—no, never; my father did take me out of there once; my mother sent me; I went after bread, so I did; I never wanted to go unless my father went with me; when he came he said, "What keeps you so long?" I told him I was buying bread; it about seven o'clock; we had been to supper, but I wanted the bread for breakfast; he did not whip me; I was never on Dupont street; no, sir, I know no house there; I do not; I never was out late unless my father and mother were with me; I saw Carrie at her house yesterday; my mother went with me; we went to see Carrie; she is a witness for Keefe; we went to see Mrs Mason, too; she lives there; we want to see if Carrie was I going to say anything bad about me; Mrs. Mason could never say anything bad about me; Carrie says I never showed her any money.

Mr. Shorten sworn—I drove the coupe; I know Mr. Keefe by sight; I was standing on the corner of Kearny and Clay streets when he hailed me, and he and the girl got in; he told me to drive out to the Magdalen Asylum and back as quick as I could; a friend on the seat with me; the side curtains were up all the time; if there had been tapping at the window or any scuffling or crying I would have heard it; when we got there the girl and Keefe got out; she bid me good by; I saw nothing wrong with the girl.

Cross-examination—Those curtains were up all the time; they cannot be pulled down from the inside, for the springs are out of order and they are tied up with strings; if if there had been any noise or moving about in the carriage I I would have heard of it; when she got out she was smiling and looked the same as when she got in.

Mr. Denning sworn—I went out with Shorten the day that he drove officer Keefe and the girl out to the Asylum; the curtains of the coupes were up all the time; I never saw officer Keefe before; there was no noise or crying in the carriage; we could have heard if there had been; we could hear them talking but paid no attention to what they said; I did not hear the girl say good-bye to Shorten; I was on the seat and he was on the ground helping them out.

Cross-examined—We heard no noise or crying; the curtains were up all the time; Shorten drove pretty fast all the way out and back; the road was level; I did not notice the girl at any time.

Carrie McGrury sworn—I know Ellen McKean; I knew her about a month before she went out to w the Asylum; I used to go with her; we went to North Beach twice in the cars; we want just for a ride; she borrowed my shawl; once she was at our house and said she wanted to go and see Dr. Tyler, on Second street; she said she wanted to get money out of him; she said she could get $10 for doing something bad; she asked me to go out to Eighth street, near Folsom street, to a grocery store; and the man was going to give her money for the same thing; I know of her going to see a baker on Third street; she said she had staid [sic] with him; I have seen her have money; she told me she staid with Dr. Tyler and he gave her only six bits, but promised her $10; she used to un with car-conductors; she wanted me to do tho same thing; she said I could make money; she was down to my house yesterday, and told me not to tell about Dr. Tyler or the other men; I do not know Mr. Keefe.

Officer Miles sworn—I am a police officer; I have tried to find the grocery man on the corner of Eighth and Folsom streets; I know the witness last on the stand; I subpoenaed Doctor Tyler, but he is not here.

Officer Irons sworn—I have seen Ellen McKean; I have seen her on Dupont street; I saw her coming out of the Baron House once in the night-time; the house has a bad reputation; once I found her and a young man behind an old boiler in a vacant lot on the corner of Beale and Mission streets; it was about ten o' 'clock at night; I am positive this is the same girl.

Mr. Duzhury sworn—I am a conductor of Car No. 2 on the Howard-street line; I don't know the girl; I may have seen her.

Mr. Hyde sworn—I am a conductor on the Omnibus line; I have seen this girl ride often; she acted as though she would like to get acquainted with any one; was very familiar with me; she was anything but a modest girl; I did not want to get acquainted with her very bad; sometimes she paid in money and at other times in tickets; she has left nuts and candies in my car.

Mr. Whipple sworn—I know the girl; I am conductor on the Omnibus line; the girl lives in the the same house with the lady that keeps the house where I room; she used to tend the baby; I never paid any attention to her.

Ellen McKean (recalled by the prosecution)—I know Carrie McGrury; I never borrowed or wore her shawl; I never told her that I was going to see a Doctor Tyler to get money; I went once to see Carrie at her house; I don't know how long I staid there; ain't that answer enough I don't know anything about Doctor Tyler; my mother was with me yesterday when I went to see Carrie.

Q—Did you leave any candy and nuts with a car conductor? A—That's my business, and none of yours, and I won't answer your questions.

Q—Did you or did you not? A—Well, if I wanted to I would; I did not want to be a hog; did give him some; I went to South Park to get my dress cut; I never left any candy in the car.

This closed the testimony, and without argument it was submitted to the Court, and the Judge ordered the "case dismissed and the defendant discharged."

Minnie McNamee, 13 years of age, was sent to the Magdalen Asylum yesterday. She was the consort of hoodlums on Mission street after running away from her home at Bernal Heights.

POVERTY AND DRINK.

Mrs. McNamara Arrested for Cruelty to Children.

Mrs. Kate McNamara, 41 West Mission street, was arrested yesterday by Officers Holbrook and McMurray of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children on the charge of cruelty to her children. Recently her husband, James McNamara, a painter, fell off a scaffolding and his leg was so badly injured that it had to be amputated. Since then he has not been able to support the family, and they have been living in filth and squalor, while the mother was in a constant state of inebriety.

There are four children, Mary, 16 years of age, John 11, Katie 7 and Annie 5. Mary ran away from home about a week ago, and yesterday the officers found her in the house of Mrs. Smith, 213 Twelfth street. There are only two beds in the house and Mrs. Smith, her three grown-up daughters, the girl McNamara and a man named Gorman, who claims to be Mrs. Smith's husband, occupied them.

Mary McNamara was booked at the City Prison for the Magdalen Asylum and Mary Smith, 17 years of age, one of Mrs. Smith's daughters, was booked for vagrancy. The three other McNamara children were sent to the Youths' Directory.

Name: Mary Meager
Sex: Female
Age: 14 years
Birth Date: June 1886
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Ireland
Mother's Birthplace: Ireland
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Name: Mary Meehan
Sex: Female
Age: 13 years
Birth Year (Estimated): 1867
Birthplace: California, United States
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 4393182

VAGRANCY THE CHARGE.—Amelia Mendoza, a sixteen-year-old girl, was taken from a notorious house by Policeman T. J. Coleman yesterday at the instance of her parents, and booked at the City Prison on a charge of vagrancy. The parents want her sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

Consorted With Hoodlums.

Martha Meyer, aged 16 years, was taken from a Fifth-street lodging-house last night and booked for the Magdalen Asylum. She is an orphan, who came from the East some time ago and worked as a servant in families, until started on the downward path by bad associates. In the house where arrested she consorted with three hoodlums. Isabella Fernandez, her companion, was arrested on Friday night.

ON THE DOWNWARD PATH.

Three Wayward Girls Who Have Chosen to Go Wrong.

Lillian Smith, a pert young blonde, was in Police Judge Conlan's court yesterday to answer to a charge of vagrancy. Although Lillian is but 16 years of age, she has seen more of the seamy side of life than is good for her moral welfare. Her parents live at 231 Eighth street, and they allowed her to go as a vender of boutonnieres at the Midwinter Fair. She there met male company who induced her to lead a fast life, and she forsook the exposition and went to live down town with a young man named Vessel, a waiter in a beer hall, to whom she was afterward married. She left him, though, and has been living a loose life until she was arrested in a lodging-house at 203 Powell street, by Detectives Anthony and Holbrook. She was sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

Another 16-year-old girl, named May Meyers, who came from Sacramento and undertook to lead a sporting career under the name of Ruby Stone, was also sent to the Magdalen Asylum. She was arrested in a saloon at 19 Fourth street. Her case was brought to the attention of the police by her sister.

Fought Over a Woman.

Again the notorious Shea family came to the front yesterday. Patrick Shea, a fish-peddler, encountered George Miller at the corner of Third and Howard streets about noon and the subject of dispute between them was a female named Arabella, Miller, with whom Shea has been living for some time. During the encounter Shea struck Miller in the face and in return received a stab in the right thigh. After having his wound stitched up at the Receiving Hospital Shea was locked up for battery and Miller was arrested on a charge of an assault with a deadly weapon. Lizzie Miller, a sister of Arabella, was recently sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

ABDUCTING A WIFE.

Serious Charge Against Arthur Warren, a Candy-Maker.

Arthur Warren, a candy-maker, who Iives on Russ street, between Sixth and Seventh, was arrested last night by officer C.C. Wells of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children on a warrant charging him with abduction for the purpose of prostitution, which is a felony. The complaining witness is Frank D. Mullin, who says that Warren alienated his young wife's affections from him and put her in a house of ill fame on Geary street. She is only between 15 and 16 years of age. The keeper of the house was arrested on Wednesday for keeping a minor in a house of prostitution and Mrs. Mullin was taken to the Magdalen Asylum.

Rescuing Young Girls.

A case of young girls frequenting a questionable house, at 64 Jessie street, has been brought to the attention of the police by the Humane Society, and Judge Conlan yesterday sent one of them, a 17-year-old girl, named Maggie Murphy, whose home is at 74 Jessie street, to the Magdalen Asylum.

ROSE WANTS TO MARRY HER

Secretary McComb, However, Declines His Consent to the Union.

A Barber's Effort to Wed an Inmate of the Magdalen Asylum.

Samuel Rose, a barber, is in distress. He wishes to marry Miss Patricia Murphy, an inmate of the Magdalen Asylum, and Secretary McComb of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children says he will not agree to the union. Hence the trouble.

Miss Murphy is a pretty girl about 16 years, who, until her incarceration in the asylum, lived with her stepfather, A. E. Gould of 1063 1/2 Mission street. The girl showed a wayward disposition at an early age and was with great difficulty restrained. One day she met Rose, with whom she became intimate. The couple announced their intention of marrying, but at this juncture Secretary McComb stepped in and caused her removal to the Magdalen Asylum for safe keeping.

Since that time Rose has been exerting every effort to communicate with the girl, but without success. He called upon Mr. Gould and finally secured his consent to the marriage, provided he could get the girl out. He called upon Mayor Sutro, who declined to act until he had communicated with Secretary McComb.

That official informed the Mayor yesterday that he would object to the release of the girl for the purpose of marrying Rose. He gave as his reason for this that the marriage would result in mutual unhappiness to the ill-assorted couple, and that Miss Murphy's life at the asylum was quite satisfactory in a moral sense.

Rose is not satisfied. He says he will marry Miss Murphy despite Secretary McComb, but how he will accomplish it remains to be seen.

She ls Given a Chance, but Degrades Herself Again.

Ella Myers was sent to the Magdalen Asylum some four years ago by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. About ten months ago she was released at the instance of that society and went to work with a family in Alameda. Last Saturday she was arrested at 1506 Eighth street, Oakland, where she was living with a colored family. She acknowledged having been intimate with a negro named Mercier, but said she was going to marry him. She has been sent back to the Magdalen Asylum.

Name: Martha Myers
Sex: Female
Age: 17 years
Birth Date: 1883
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: Black
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

AIDED THEIR ESCAPE.

Martha Nackle, an inmate of the Callfornia Girls' Training Home, was taken to the City Prison last night and will be tried in the Police Court today with the purpose of committing her to the Magdalen Asylum. Martha, several days ago, assisted three of her companions to escape from the training home by means of a rope made of knotted sheets. The girls were captured after their escape, but refused to reveal the name of the one who helped them in their escape from the institution.

HORRIBLE IF TRUE.

Mrs. Emma Bryant's Treatment of Little Minnie Norton.

Emma Bryant, the keeper of a lodging-house on Sixth street, was arrested early yesterday morning on a charge of keeping a minor, one Minnie Norton, aged 15, in her house for immoral purposes. Officer Anthony made the arrest and took the Bryant woman and the girl to the Central Station. Minnie, who is in a bad state of health, refused to say much about the matter until she was informed that the Bryant woman had been released on bail and had left the prison. Then she stated that her mother died about a year ago and had left her in Mrs. Bryant's care. Two months ago they moved to 118 Sixth street. The house had eighty-five rooms, and they were rented to all kinds of people. Her (Minnie's) business was to sell wine and beer to gentlemen visitors. When business was dull she and another girl were sent out by Mrs. Bryant to hunt up customers on the streets.

The Norton girl is the second one that the police have taken away from Mrs. Bryant. It is the intention of the police to send the girl to the Magdalen Asylum and to prosecute the woman to the utmost limit of the law.

Katie O'Brien and Mamie Bush, each 12 years of age, were found on Market street at a late hour Saturday night and were taken to the City Prison. Yesterday morning they appeared before Judge Low. Their parents were in court and asked that the girls be allowed to go home. Both refused, and Katie was particularly bold and offensive in her manner and language. The Judge sent them to the Magdalen Asylum.

Name: Alice O'Connell
Sex: Female
Age: 15 years
Birth Year (Estimated): 1865
Birthplace: California, United States
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 4393182

A Brand from the Burning.

William O'Dea, uncle to Margaret O'Dea, a girl of sixteen years of age, applied to Judge Louderback yesterday to have his niece sent to the Magdalen Asylum. An examination in chambers was began at once to see if the girl was really a fit subject for that institution, and that such was really the case was shown by Officers Devitt and Rodgers. They testified that they had noticed her in company with low character, and on Monday night they found her in a low saloon on the Barbary Coast drinking and carousing with a number of abandoned creatures. The girl, upon being questioned, stated that her parents died some time ago, and, being left penniless she was obliged to work her own way through life. For a while she served as a domestic in a private family. She felt a want of companionship, and in trying to make friends she fell in with some girls who soon inducted her into living the degraded life which she had been living for the past three months. She begged hard not to be sent to the Asylum, and promised reformation. The Judge wisely turned a deaf ear to her entreaties, and the gates closed behind her yesterday afternoon.

Incorrigible Girl With a Record Sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

Judge Graham yesterday committed Annie O'Hara, a girl of 16, to the Magdalen Asylum until she comes of legal age. Miss O'Hara received her sentence with an outburst of tears and screams. She was removed to the City Prison in a condition of violent hysterics. Annie O'Hara has a record in police circles for incorrigibility. After repeatedly running away from her parents' home she was committed on June 11th of last year to the California Girls Training School. She left the institution on August 10th, and took refuge with Mrs. La Grave, her sister, who resides in South San Francisco. Two weeks later she ran away again, and Mrs. La Grave set the police on her track.

Early in December Secretary Wadham of the Eureka Society, Special Policeman Woods and a regular policeman traced Miss O'Hara one night to a skating rink at Hayes and Polk streets. Wadham and Woods captured the girl and held her in the rink while the other officer went to summon a patrol wagon. During his absence Miss O'Hara called on her male acquaintances in the rink to assist her. About twenty young hoodlums went to the rescue. Woods was beaten into unconsciousness. Wadham fared but little better, and when the regular policeman arrived Annie O'Hara and her army of gallants had gone. Nothing more was seen of her by the police until she was arrested last Thursday in a room at First and Minna streets.

ON THE DOWNWARD PATH.

Bella Oliver, a Girl Who ls Determined to Be Bad.

Bella Oliver is a pretty little Innocent-looking blonde of 16 years, but she is not as innocent as she looks. She has for the last year been associating with the lowest characters, running around beer saloons and dives and leading a most dissolute life. She was determined to continue her career on the downward path, so she told Judge Lawler when she appeared to be sentenced to the Magdalen Asylum yesterday. It did not take the Judge long to see that there was no redemption as far as she was concerned, and he ordered her committed to the Magdalen Asylum.

"When I get out l'll be the biggest prostitute in this town," were her parting words as she went down the stairs leading to the city prison.

Ida Olsen, the sixteen-year-old girl who was arrested on Wednesday and charged with setting fire to a number of houses, was committed to the Magdalen Asylum by Judge Rix yesterday.

IDA GOES TO JAIL.

The Young Girl Incendiary Lectured by Judge Rix.

A little group of half a dozen persons, of which Ida Olsen, the youthful firebug, was the center and the attraction, assembled at Judge Rix's elbow Friday morning on the opening of the Police Court. Fire Marshal Towe was of the number, and represented to his Honor the circumstances of the case substantially as they were related in the EXAMINER of yesterday.

"Don't you know it's wrong," said the Judge in a voice in which an assumed gruffness was making a bold play to overcome a natural feeling of kindliness toward the young and wayward girl, "to set people's houses on fire that way!"

No answer came from the lips, which might be called coral. Ida had a little smoking hat pinned jauntily on her head, and she looked particularly interesting when she reddened at the Judge's question and hung her head as if ashamed of her past conduct.

"Why did you do it?"

"I don't know, sir," she answered, plaintively, and the Judge gave her a good, long lecture in his fiercest style on the heinousness of her offenses and sent her below. He committed her to the Magdalen Asylum until she comes of age or is otherwise legally discharged.

Persons who have seen the girl in jail and those who knew her before she came by her late notoriety all say there is nothing vicious about her.

Ida Olsen is a full orphan, both her father and her mother having died years ago. It is her stepfather from whom she ran away and to whose unkind treatment she ascribes her present difficulties. The fact that she is at a critical stage of life may account for her conduct.

Name: Emily O'Rourke
Sex: Female
Age: 14 years
Birth Year (Estimated): 1866
Birthplace: California, United States
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 4393182

SHE LOVED THE PLUMBER.

A Young Girl Evades the Magdalen Asylum by Marriage.

A Police Judge performed the ceremony of marriage yesterday at the old City Hall, the bride being a girl of 17 years, named Mamie Partridge, and the groom, Charles Ford, a young plumber of this city. The marriage saved Mamie from the Magdalen Asylum, and as she got the man of her choice she left the gloomy building perfectly happy.

A few days ago Mamie left her home in Berkeley and became a waitress in a low saloon on Montgomery avenue. When her parents, who are respectable people, heard of the girl's whereabouts they had her arrested, with a hope of prevailing upon her to return.

She declined to go home and declared her preference for the young plumber.

Mrs. Margaret Paul was sent to the House of Correction for sixty days by Judge Joachimsen yesterday. Her daughter Dora was committed at the same time to the Magdalen Asylum.

A THIEVING DOMESTIC.

Ida Pelton Arrested and Admits Stealing Money From Different Houses.

For nearly a month detectives have been searching for Ida Pelton, a young girl who has been making it a practice to rob her employers.

Ida is only 19 years of age, but she graduated from the Magdalen Asylum recently and started out on a life of thievery. Between two and three months ago she procured employment in the family of John O'Dea, 720 Fourteenth street. She remained about six weeks, and one day departed suddenly, taking with her $260 in coin and some trinkets.

The case was reported to the police, and Captain Bohen set his detectives to work to find the girl and arrest her. No trace of her could be found. Sunday night Policeman Frank Riley learned that Ida was wanted, and last night he arrested her in a house on Mission street.

She was taken before Captain Bohen and acknowledged stealing the money and trinkets. She also acknowledged stealing $12.50 from Mrs. Simon, Leavenworth street, and $8 from Mrs. Silverton, Lyon street, where she had been employed for a few days.

She was locked up in the "tanks" pending further investigation.

Another Unfortunate.

Desideria Peroy, a 19-year-old girl who for some time past has been an inmate of the Magdalen Asylum, became suddenly insane last evening. She became so violent that her removal was necessary, and she was taken to the Home of the Inebriates to await examination by the Lunacy Commission.

Mary Queen, the young girl rescued from a house of ill-fame by the police, has been sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

This Will Be Her Third Time.

Although under 18 years of age, Mamie Quegan has been twice in the Magdalen Asylum and the probabilities are that she will serve a third. She has been taken from a house of bad repute and locked up.

RUNAWAY GIRL TRIES TO SWALLOW POISON

Annie Leslie Reid, a pretty girl, 15 years of age, who ran away from home last June was found in a lodging-house at 18 Mason street yesterday by Policeman Hutchings in company with Roy Ballou, a sailor on the training ship Pensacola. As soon as she saw the officer she seized a box containing poison. Divining her intention, the officer wrenched it from her.

The girl was taken to the City Prison and her mother, who lives at 1020 Howard street, was notified of her arrest. The girl's father is a miner in Trinity County. When asked why she wanted to swallow poison she replied that she would prefer to die rather than be sent to the Magdalen Asylum. She declared that nothing would make her stay at home and if she were sent to the asylum she would kill herself.

Name: Pearl Rhodes
Sex: Female
Age: 17 years
Birth Date: April 1883
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: England
Mother's Birthplace: England
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Lemuel Campbell Assaults Edward Barron, a Colored Youth, in the City Hall Corridor.

There was an exciting scene for a few minutes in the corridor outside of Judge Conlan's courtroom yesterday morning. Lemuel Campbell, a young man, struck Edward Barron, a colored youth, twice on the face, closing one of his eyes.

Campbell's half-sister, Lottie Robb, a pretty girl not yet 17 years of age, was arrested Saturday, together with Thomas Sadler and Julia Kennedy, both colored, at 34 Turk street. The girl had been living with Jack Bost, a colored barber, in Oakland, and he had taken her to the house on Turk street. The charge of vagrancy against Sadler and the Kennedy woman was dismissed by Judge Conlan for lack of evidence, and as they left the courtroom in company with Barron, who was witness for the defense, Campbell a followed them and assaulted Barron. He was arrested by Policeman Rainsbury on the charge of battery, but the Judge assumed the responsibility of releasing him till this morning, and expressed his regret that Campbell did not use a club instead of his fists. Barron was the claimant in the contest over the estate of the late Alexander Barron, millionaire, and lives at 9 Sherwood place.

The girl was sent to the Magdalen Asylum and a warrant was issued for the arrest of Bost on the felony charge of enticing a young girl from her home for immoral purposes. He was arrested in Oakland and brought to the City Prison by Officers McMurray and Coleman of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. Campbell declared he would use a club on Bost at the first opportunity.

THE WRIT DENIED.

Why Katie Robinson Remains in the Magdalen Asylum.

Judge Ferral denied yesterday the writ of habeas corpus sued out by Patrick F. Robinson to secure the release of his daughter Katie from the Magdalen Asylum. It was made apparent at the hearing that Robinson and his wife separated on account of marital troubles and that there are now pending in the Superior Court proceedings by the wife, who seeks the separate control of the children on account of the father's alleged intemperate and abusive character. The girl, Katie, was imprisoned in the Asylum in October last by the father for leading a wild and dissolute life and also at the written request of Supervisor Sullivan. On Sunday last the father sought to have her released and obtained a written request to that effect from the same Supervisor, who, however, told him that he had no right to meddle. It appeared, furthermore, that Supervisor Lewis, the Chairman of the Industrial School Committee, had refused the release of the spirited Magdalen because she had made herself amenable to the regulations of the institution, being under punishment as one of the ringleaders in the riot that broke out among the girls a few Sundays ago. Considering all these facts, Judge Ferral refused to meddle in the matter.

Name: Mary Rohan
Sex: Female
Age: 17 years
Birth Year (Estimated): 1863
Birthplace: California, United States
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 4393182

Ryan and His Bad Daughter.

Daniel Ryan, the father of Julia Ryan, who was taken from a disreputable lodging-house on California street and booked for the Magdalen Asylum, caused the arrest of Thomas Brady on a charge of abduction.

Name: Sabina Sanders
Sex: Female
Age: 14 years
Birth Year (Estimated): 1866
Birthplace: California, United States
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 4393182

Brought From San Jose.

Detective Anthony brought three prisoners from San Jose last night and locked them up in the City Prison. W. J. C. Hudson is accused by Joseph Sanders of stealing $20 worth of clothes from him. Harold A. Phillips has a charge of misdemeanor embezzlement against him. He is accused by the proprietor of the Sporting World of misappropriating small sums of money. He was released on his own recognizance by Judge Joachimsen. Sophia Sauber, 17 years of age, is booked for the Magdalen Asylum. She ran away from her home here and went to San Jose.

An Unnatural Parent.

Annie Savage was examined before Judge Rix yesterday, at the request of her father, who desired to have her committed to the Magdalen Asylum. Savage claimed that his daughter remained out late at night and consorted with idle characters. The girl, however, proved to the satisfaction of the Court that her father only desired to be spared the expense of providing for her, and she was discharged from custody.

Mrs. Clara Schimpf, widow of a policeman who was killed while discharging his duty, has been sent to the Magdalen Asylum and will be detained there six months. Then, if she does not amend her general conduct, a jail term will be prescribed for her.

Friends of the woman and her children suggested her incarceration, as she seems to be an incurable inebriate. She squandered in dissipation the $2000 insurance on her husband's life, and the widow's pension of $50 a month awarded her by the Police Department has also been spent in riotous living, while she has neglected her two young and pretty children. She is a member of an old and respectable family in this city and was a very pretty girl when she married.

SACRAMENTO'S CONTRIBUTION

A Young Man From Up the River Arrested for Perjury.

Frank Dolan, a young man twenty-four years of age, who formerly kept a restaurant in Sacramento, has been arrested in this city and will be charged with perjury. The arresting officers allege that Dolan induced Katle Sheridan, a sixteen-year-old girl, to desert her parents in the Capital city and come to this city; that on the 8th of December he took her before Justice of the Peace Stafford, at the Old City Hall, and swore that his name was David Dolan and he was twenty two years of age. To induce the Justice to perform the marriage ceremony he also made oath that Miss Sheridan was eighteen years old. Mr. Dolan also gave his residence as 125 Stockton street. There is no such number.

The police claim that the day following the marriage the groom placed his bride in a house of ill repute.

Miss Sheridan admits all the facts alleged except her age, and stoutly maintains that every step was taken without advice from Mr. Dolan.

Married Until Further Orders.

Judge Troutt decided the Kitty Dolan case yesterday by releasing her from custody in the Magdalen Asylum. Kitty is not yet of age. but a few months ago D. F. Dolan obtained a license to marry her without her parents' consent and made oath that she was of the proper age. Dolan was arrested for perjury and Kitty was sent to the asylum. Judge Troutt says that although the marriage is voidable, still she is married until the court annuls the marriage, hence she cannot be restrained of her liberty.

Katie Sheridan lies in a cot in the City Prison hospital in a dying condition. She has respectable parents, who live in Sacramento. Several months ago she ran away from home and married Frank Dolan, who was afterward sent to San Quentin for abducting her. After his arrest she was sent to the Magdalen Asylum, but obtained her release on a writ of habeas corpus, because a married woman. Then she returned to her parents, but recently came back to this city and associated again with her former dissolute companions. It is said that she is dying from the effects of her life of dissipation.

NOTE: Fortunately, this story has a happier ending. According to public records, she survived her illness, and in 1895, at the age of 21, married Frank Magorty. They had two children, Alice and William, and she lived to the age of 70. She's buried in Colma's Holy Cross Cemetery.

Name: Annie Siche
Sex: Female
Age: 18 years
Birth Date: December 1882
Birthplace: Germany
Arrival Date: 1887
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Lydia Prescott, Secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, has taken up the case of Lizzie Silver, aged fourteen years, who was committed to the Stockton Insane Asylum. The charge was made that the child was railroaded to the institution. Mrs. Prescott found that the girl was discharged from the asylum in a few days. Her relatives there had her taken to San Francisco, where she was arrested for vagrancy and is now in the Magdalen Asylum.

FROM HER HOME TO A MADHOUSE

Remarkable Career of Lizzie Silva, Now in a Hospital.

After Being Sent to Stockton Dr. Clark Declared That She Is Quite Sane.

Her Father, Who Is a Rancher, Threatened to Kill Her, and the Young Schoolgirl. Ran Away.

A little girl, not yet 15 years of age, who wears short dresses and who until recently was a regular attendant at the public school near Dimond Canyon, is seriously ill at the City and County Hospital, San Francisco. The circumstances leading up to her misery are as remarkable as any ever experienced by a girl of her age.

Within the past two weeks her father has threatened to kill her; she has been confined in the Oakland City Prison; she has been examined as to her sanity and sent to Stockton asylum; she has been discharged from there on Dr. Clark's certificate that her mind never was affected; she has been committed to the Magdalen Asylum in San Francisco, although there are many of her acquaintances who believe she is the victim of false representations; and now she is in a hospital.

Lizzie Silva, the young girl in question, is the daughter of a rancher living in a little house beyond Dimond Canyon. Her father has been in this country forty-one years, and has resided in his present abode just a quarter of a century. He can neither read nor write, and he said to-day that he had only been six times to San Francisco in all these years, and had never been farther from his home than Haywards. He is very set in his opinions, and has very rigid ideas of morals. When informed a few weeks ago that his daughter had been misbehaving he was so angry that he threatened to kill her, and when told that his threats rendered him liable to prosecution he did not deny them, but promised to protect his daughter.

Lizzie's father, on account of her conduct, could not bear her near him, and it was decided to send her to her sister in Sacramento. The arrangements were made by her brother-in-law, who has taken a great interest in the girl, and to whom her father has shown a willingness to entrust the affairs that properly belong to the girl's parents.

Frightened by her father's threats, the young girl one morning was missing. It was presumed that she had left home to join her sister in Sacramento. This theory proved to be correct, for she was found on the train, from which she was taken and sent to the City Prison. Her family was notified, and her brother-in-law, Reichart, procured apartments for her in this City, where she stayed with her sister for a few days.

To the surprise of her friends, little Lizzie was then taken to court and declared insane, partly on the testimony of her sister. She was then committed to Stockton. A short time later Dr. Clark wrote to her family informing them that he had carefully examined the girl, and that there was nothing whatever wrong with her mentally. He further stated that she could not be kept at the asylum, and he would send her home. As she could not be kept in the asylum, it was decided to put her in a reformatory, and she was on the testimony of relatives and others sent to the Magdalen Asylum, where she became so ill that it was necessary to remove her to the County Hospital, where she now languishes. After all her sufferings, mental and physical, all parties concerned have concluded that in the first place she should have been placed in the care of Mrs. Prescott of the Oakland Children's Society, by which means all her unhappiness might have been avoided.

A "Prize Beauty's" Plaint.

Ida Smith, who formerly exhibited herself as a California " prize beauty" in a Market-street dime museum, and who was committed to the Magdalen Asylum last Friday. now poses as a good girl, seduced from the path of virtue by one Harry Rice. Her story is that she met Rice about nine months ago, and he, by his winning ways and a promise of marriage, worked her ruin and took her away from her mother's home on Eddy street. After he accomplished his end he cast her away, and she has since been spending her time in disreputable haunts. She says that while she was at the museum a woman living in the Baldwin Hotel wanted to take her in charge and fairly place her on the downward path. A warrant was issued for the arrest of Rice yesterday afternoon and given to Officers Burke and Price to serve. The girl is the complainant. The officers found Rice in Jenny Stewart's house, on the corner of Cemetery avenue [now Presidio Avenue] and Sutter street, where he was employed as a barkeeper. He denies having seduced the girl and says that she was ruined when she met him. He was charged with felony.

A FURIOUS FATHER.

WANTS TO KILL THE DESPOILER OF HIS HOME.

A Vagrant Who Seeks Victims So That He May Live a Life of Ease.

George Reeves, alias Jack Reed, a well-known Barbary Coast rounder and vagrant, was arrested last night by Officer Conway and charged with vagrancy. He was found in the Montana saloon, one of the worst dives along “the coast,” and with him was found Lucilla Smith, a fifteen-year-old girl, who was selling beer to support Reeves in a life of idleness. She was also arrested and booked for the Magdalen Asylum. Reeves has for some time been the evil genius of the Smith family, who at 22 1/2 Bluxome street. About three years ago he became acquainted with the oldest girl, and after an acquaintance of a few months he had her on the streets, a confirmed opium-smoker and a rounder of the worst character. She was his slave for months, and gave him all her earnings. Occasionally he would allow her enough for “dope,” but not always, and on one occasion when he refused to give her money she stole it from him and was terribly beaten. He was sent to jail for that, and before he finished his sentence she had wandered off.

Not satisfied with the wrong he had already done the Smith family, he went after Lucilla and finally induced her to away with him. She was captured by Officer Anthony after about two weeks and sent to the Magdalen Asylum, and two months later Reeves was arrested for an assault and sentenced to a year in the House of Correction. Then Mr. Smith took his daughter from the Asylum, and she behaved herself until about two weeks ago, when Reeves was released from prison and went after her again.

Regardless of her promises and heedless of the example furnished by her sister, she went to work to support Reeves. When Mr. Smith saw Reeves in a saloon last night he had to be restrained by the police officers, as he had threatened to kill Reeves on sight.

Reeves has no more respect for his own family than he has for others, as he compels two of his sisters to act as waitresses in dives, so that he may live without work.

Runaway Girls Arrested.

Josie Stanley and Lizzie Whalen, two young girls who disappeared from home two weeks ago under suspicious circumstances, have been found by Officers Holbrook and McMurray of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

The girls were found in a lodging-house on O'Farrell street, between Powell and Mason, where they had sought shelter from the officers. When arrested the girls were in a room with a number of male companions, and were preparing for a good time, as there was a liberal amount of cigarettes and beer in the room. Both girls were taken to the City Prison and their parents notified. Josie Stanley will be sent to the Magdalen Asylum while her companion will be permitted to marry.

Josie can offer no explanation for her disappearance. Lizzie, however, says she left home because her parents are opposed to her ambition to become an actress. Josie is seventeen and Lizzie sixteen years of age.

Found on the Street.

Rose: Stanley, a fourteen-year-old girl who ran away from her parents, residing at 308 1/2 Eighth street, was picked up Monday night by Detective Anthony. The girl refused to say where she had been during the two months of her freedom. She has been sent to the Magdalen Asylum before. and will be confined there again, as her parents can do nothing with her.

DRIVEN ASTRAY.

A Father's Taunts and Threats Induce a Girl to Go Wrong.

Annie Stanton, a pretty little girl of 15 years, was arrested yesterday morning in a Third-street lodging-house by Officers Harris and Gilfoy and booked for the Industrial School. She says that her father, who works in a box factory, is to blame for her conduct, as, according to her story, he has been threatening to send her to the Magdalen Asylum for years whenever he would get angry.

She also says he frequently accused her of being a bad girl, which she denied till last night, when the never-ending threats and accusations of her father made her reckless. She was compelled to earn her own living by working in families, and claims, on that account, her father has no right to taunt her and make life miserable, as he would not support her at home.

At last she informed a cousin about her intentions, and yesterday morning her father and the officers found her.

DESPERATE CHILDREN.

They Leave Home and Wander Around in the Rain.

Officer Conboy arrested Jessie and George Steinman, aged respectively 13 and 8 years, last night and booked them for the Industrial Sebool. The children left home two days ago and have since been wandering around in the rain. When at home they reside with their stepmother, and an elder sister, who hunted them up, informed the officer that it was owing to the cruel treatment of the stepmother that the young ones left their home. Jessie made a break once before and was sent to the Magdalen Asylum, from which place she succeeded in escaping.

Lena Stepan, a rather pretty young girl, who ran away from her home in Oakland a few days ago, was arrested by Secretary Holbrook yesterday and booked for the Magdalen Asylum.

Name: Hattie Steuins
Sex: Female
Age: 17 years
Birth Year (Estimated): 1863
Birthplace: California, United States
Marital Status: Single
Race: Black
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 4393182

Nora Sullivan, the young girl who wan away from her home in Oakland to join a local women's football team, was sent to the Magdalen Asylum yesterday by Judge Conlan. Her mother was inc ourt, and told the Judge that the girl was incorrigible.

Several weeks ago Annie Terence disappeared from her home in the Mission. Her parents searched for her in vain. Detective Anthony found her in the County Hospital yesterday. She will be sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

Name: Julia Terrill
Sex: Female
Age: 17 years
Birth Date: 1883
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: California
Mother's Birthplace: California
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

A GIRL BURGLAR.

Amelia Tierney Admits Breaking Into a House to Get Money for Her Lovers.

The preliminary examination of Andrew Costello, an ex-convict, on the charge of burglary for breaking into the house of Mrs. Jessie McLeod, 1414 Kearny street, was held before Acting Police Judge Barry yesterday, and an extraordinary state of affairs was disclosed.

Mrs. Margaret Tierney and her daughter Amelia, 14 years of age, were also arrested on the same charge, and the girl admitted on the stand yesterday that she alone committed the burglary. Costello and a companion, Victor Marchand, were her lovers, and on the day of the burglary Costello said to her, "Say, go and get me some money." She knew that Mrs. McLeod was not at home, so she went to a rear window, broke the glass and crawled through the window. She went to Mrs. McLeod's bedroom and stole $20, a watch, three rings, a bracelet and other articles. After committing the burglary she gave Costello $5 and Marchand $4, and also gave each one of the rings she had stolen. Neither Costello nor Marchand knew where she had got the money and rings.

The girl's mother testified that Marchand gave her the ring which was found in her room. Marchand and Costello both denied that they knew anything about the burglary, and the Judge came to the conclusion that the charge of burglary against Costello could not stand. He remanded the two boys into custody until to-morrow, to see if they could be held for receiving stolen property, and released Mrs. Tierney on her own recognizance. Amelia was sent back to the Magdalen Asylum.

NOTE: In 1936, a 54-year-old housewife named Amelia Mohr (maiden name Tierney) was booked in San Quentin for manslaughter. Her previous record included one count of shoplifting in 1926. See her booking photo in the gallery, left.

Further research reveals that Amelia was running an "illegal operation" that killed Clara Gottschalk. Amelia was sentenced to 10 years in Tehachapi women's prison. She ultimately died in 1961.

Name: Amelia Tierney
Sex: Female
Age: 16 years
Birth Date: May 1884
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: England
Mother's Birthplace: California
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Lizzie Tierney surrendered herself into custody yesterday afternoon. She says her father, Patrick Tierney of 825 Brannan street, wants to have her sent to the Magdalen Asylum, and she surrendered herself to defraud him of the satisfaction of seeing her taken through the streets by a policeman.

Name: Jane Tosney
Sex: Female
Age: 18 years
Birth Date: July 1882
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Ireland
Mother's Birthplace: Ireland
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

ATTEMPTS TO COMMIT SUICIDE WITH HATPIN

Mary Tracey of Ocean View Prefers Death to Confinement in the Magdalen Asylum.

Mary Tracey, a seventeen-year-old girl of Ocean View, attempted to commit suicide in the offices of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Monday evening with a hatpin. A thick coat, a button and the prompt action of Secretary White prevented her from injuring herself.

It had been reported to the society officials that the girl and her sister Katie had left their home and were frequenting disreputable resorts about town. Officer McMurray found them and took them to the society's offices for the purpose of investigating the story. Their mother was communicated with by telephone and she declared that she did not care what became of them. McMurray then suggested that they be sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

The elder girl, screamed at the mention of the refuge and drawing her hatpin attempted to drive it into her heart. The weapon struck a button and was turned into a thick coat which proved an effective foil. The girl was then disarmed by White. She became very docile afterward and amid a flood of tears promised to behave herself for the rest of her life. The sisters were allowed to depart on the strength of their alleged repentance.

Name: Bridget Tracy
Sex: Female
Age: 16 years
Birth Date: January 1884
Birthplace: Hawaiian Is.
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: California
Mother's Birthplace: California
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

TRACY'S TUMBLINGS.

A Young Woman's Circus Among the Magdalens.

Mary Ellen Tracy, a remarkably handsome and demure-looking young woman, was before Judge Rosenbaum yesterday morning on a charge of misdemeanor preferred by one of the Sisters in charge of the Magdalen Asylum. Mary Ellen has friends in that reformatory institution, it seems, and Sunday on being denied access to them, she went on the hill above the asylum and waited until the girls were marshaled out into the yard for prayers. For some time she waited patiently unobserved, but finally began a circus performance seldom equaled by amateurs. She waved her handkerchief, kicked up her heels, turned cartwheels, and in a short time had all the inmates' eyes centered upon her. The Sisters vainly endeavored to continue their prayers and religious teachings; a passing officer was hailed and Mary's graceless actions called attention to, Mary was then taken into custody, but when the officer reached the station he was in considerable doubt as to what ordinance had been violated by his prisoner's erratic evolutions. Finally he booked her for disturbing a religious meeting, and to this charge she pleaded guilty and was fined $5.

Name: Mary Travers
Sex: Female
Age: 18 years
Birth Date: October 1882
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: Ireland
Mother's Birthplace: Ireland
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Fall of an Indian Princess.

A seventeen-year old girl, named Kate Trimmer, was convicted in the Police Court of larceny, for having stolen a watch and chain from Mrs. R. Weveley. The girl is a half-breed, and daughter of an Indian woman who was the wife of a sub-Chief of the Piute Indians. Upon the death of the mother she was adopted by Mrs. S. J. Tedford, who brought her to this city. She deserted her home two years ago to lead an idle and dissolute life, and since then has been an inmate of the County Jail and Magdalen Asylum.

To Annul a Marriage.

Margeret Troy has commenced a suit in the Superior Court to have the marriage ceremony performed between her daughter Katie Troy, who is only fifteen years of age, and Edward Gonzales, annulled. Mrs. Troy states that Gonzaies knew he was committing perjury when he other day that her husband was an opium fiend and had taught her the same accomplishment. She was sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

Brought Back by Her Mother.

Kate Troy, a wayward girl who ran away to Astoria six weeks ago, came back on yesterday's steamer in charge of her mother, Mrs. John Connors, who keeps a saloon at 130 Pacific street. The girl worked in the place as a waitress prior to her disappearance. She says that the reason she ran away was that her stepfather beat her. She was working in an Astoria dance hall when Mrs. Connors had her arrested. She will be sent to the Magdalen Asylum. Although only sixteen years of age, Katie has served a term in the County Jail and has been a ward of the Boys and Girls' Aid Society.

A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD VAGRANT.

EDNA TRUEWORTHY'S QUEER MANIA.

A KLEPTOMANIAC SINCE HER BIRTH.

She Bobs a Fellow-Prisoner Before Being Fifteen Minutes in Jail.

A twelve-year-old girl who is known to be a confirmed and incurable kleptomaniac was arrested at 2 o'clock yesterday morning by Policemen Wollwebber and Hayden and taken to the City Prison, where she was booked on a charge of vagrancy.

Though of tender years, the child's face was not unfamiliar to the prison-keeper, and her name, Edna Trueworthy, had once before been inscribed on the pages of the big register that adorns the sergeant's desk.

The records of the Police Department show that the girl was arrested for theft as far back as 1893 and that she served a term of one year in the Magdalen Asylum. On that occasion she stole a sum of money and some jewelry from the landlady of a house on Mission street, where she had gone to visit her sister. When taken into court the sister and mother of the girl swore that she had been a confirmed thief from the time she was old enough to walk. and that their efforts to control her larcenous propensities had failed.

The mother, who is a poor woman. went from this city to Napa about six months ago, leaving Edna with a family in Oakland. The girl was given every advantage, but was constantly bringing shame to her protectors. She was expelled from school because she persisted in stealing from the other children, and if she were allowed to enter the house of a neighbor she would carry away any article of value in sight. About three weeks ago she ran away from Oakland, and since that time has been living with a Mrs. McDonald on Tehama street. When arrested she refused to explain why she was on the street at such a late and unusual hour. Before she had been in the City Prison fifteen minutes. Edna gave an exhibition of her thieving tendencies. She was placed in the matron's department, where is confined a woman charged with murder. This woman had ocсаsion to send a letter outside the prison. and while awaiting the arrival of a messenger boy she laid the letter, together with 35 cents in small change, on a table in the room. When the boy arrived the money was missing. She complained to the prison-keeper, and after a short search the money was found in Edna's shoe.

The girl is pretty, and in her tan shoes and stockings. neat dress and cape and a jaunty sailor hat that surmounts her curly blond hair she looks anything but a thief and a vagrant. An effort will be made to send her to the Beulah Home, as her relatives refuse to have anything to do with her.

KATIE WALSH'S CASE.

Mrs. Clara Foltz Suggests Visiting the Sins on the Parents.

When the case of Katie Walsh, the fourteen-year-old girl arrested for visiting a house of prostitution, was called yesterday morning, Mrs. Clara Foltz stated that the Magdalen Asylum would receive and care for the girl. The court dismissed the charges against the girl and directed her to be taken into the custody of the asylum.

Mrs. Foltz thought the girl was not altogether to blame for her condition, and said:

"The Penal Code provides a punishment for failure of a parent to provide food, clothing, shelter or medicine for a child. The law does not go far enough. The care of children is a sacred trust, and every parent ought to be made largely responsible for the conduct of a child, especially where vicious conduct results from parental negligence. The law should be amended so that every parent or guardian shall be guilty of a misdemeanor who sets vicious examples before his children, becomes intoxicated, drinks intoxicating liquors, or does any lewd or licentious act in their presence. Mothers who let their children run with vicious companions ought to be made criminally responsible and they should be punished instead of sending the poor little waifs to reform schools and houses of correction. The reform should begin at the source of the evil—with the fathers and mothers who neglect their children. At the next session of the Legislature I shall see that a bill is introduced amending the law to that end."

Judge Joachimsen announced that such a measure would receive his hearty approval, and Mr. Cabaniss, the prosecuting attorney, declared that he would heartily join Mrs. Foltz in urging the passage of such a law.

Wayward May Walsh.

May Walsh is less than 16 years of age, yet she is incorrigible, having run away from her home on Mission street half a dozen times. She returned yesterday from Sacramento, whither she had flown with a young hoodlum named George Becker, and was arrested by Officer Anthony and booked for the Magdalen Asylum.

A search revealed the fact that Hazel Ward, a twelve-year-old girl, was living with Mrs. Tull, who, although white, has a colored man for a husband. The girl alleged that she was employed by Mrs. Tull, but the officers did not believe her story and placed her under arrest for vagrancy. She will probably be taken to the Magdalen Asylum.

Two Girls Gone Astray.

Judge Lawler yesterday sent Josie Grimes, a thirteen-year-old girl, to the care of the Boys and Girls' Aid Society, as she has been running around wild and living at the Erie House. Her sister was taken from a house of prostitution on Sacramento street and is now in the Magdalen Asylum.

Mamie Ward, her companion, who is several years older, was sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

A Wayward Girl.

Some time ago fifteen-year-old Bertha Ware was committed to the Magdalen Asylum on account of her wayward ways. Her mother consented, but now wants her child released, and accordingly Justice Patterson of the Supreme Court issued a writ of habeas corpus, returnable before Judge Green. The writ recites that Bertha was sentenced to the Industrial School, but was placed in the Magdalen Asylum, and that the authorities had no right to change she place of imprisonment. This raises a fine legal point, which will be decided soon. In the meantime Bertha is out on bail at the order of Justice Patterson.

Name: Daisy Warner
Sex: Female
Age: 18 years
Birth Date: July 1882
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Student
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Birthplace: California
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 289

Name: Annie Welsh
Sex: Female
Age: 13 years
Birth Year (Estimated): 1867
Birthplace: California, United States
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Household Identifier: 4393182

DETECTIVE FINDS A MISSING GIRL

Says She Was Enticed to a Lodging-House by Two Women.

The young girl missing since Monday and reported to the police under the name of Bertha Kleine, whose real name is Whitehead, was found last evening by Detective Anthony at 103 Geary street, a lodging-house. The girl, who is barely sixteen years of age, although much older in appearance, was taken to the Hall of Justice, where she was placed under the matron's care pending removal to the Magdalen Asylum. The letter written to her aunt, Mrs. Kleine, at 22 Lapidge street, in which it was stated that a rich lawyer had enticed the writer from home was merely a means to allay suspicion. She says she was enticed to the house by two women she met in a saloon.

The young woman's mother died when she was an infant, and her father resides in Pittsburg. Since a child Bertha has been reared by her aunt, Mrs. Kleine.

A Ruined Girl.

Bertha Willey, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a respectable Alameda citizen, was placed in the City Prison yesterday by Officers Anthony and Holbrook. The girl left her home about a month ago at the solicitation of a worthless young man whose acquaintance she had made in Oakland, and wound up with a short turn a few days later in a disreputable house on Grant avenue. The girl will be sent to the Magdalen Asylum, and the young man, if he can be found, will be prosecuted for felony.

A candidate for the Magdalen Asylum, on the nomination of her parents was yesterday brought before Judge Sawyer, in the person of a young colored girl, named Ellen Williams, aged 16. She has run away from her parents on several occasions, and acted at such times in a manner unbecoming a little colored lady. She was ordered to the Asylum.

THREE GRACELESS CIRLS.

They Escape from the Boys and Giris' Aid Society.

Kate Williamson, Annie Blaney and Emma Kramer, very young girls who had been consigned to the care of the Boys and Girls' Aid Society a short time ago, escaped from the Clementina-street institution about 8 o'clock last Wednesday night by climbing out of a top window and making their descent by means of a fire-escape ladder. They passed their time afterward in the company of hoodlums. On Thursday night they went to the Bush-street Theater, and intended amusing themselves in a like manner last night, but their capture prevented them from doing so. Officer Boyd saw them on Market street, where their manners were attracting attention, and took them to the Central Station. They were booked for the Magdalen Asylum, to which each of them has a strong desire to go, thinking that without such a novitiate they would not be fitted for the life they intend to lead. They seem impressed with the idea, through their intercourse with graduates of the "Mag.," that a female cannot be looked upon as a real out-and-out hoodlum unless she has been there. To that place they will be taken today.

ANOTHER MAGDALEN.

One More Pretty Girl Put Away from Temptation.

Minnie Williamson, rebellious and sulky, was up before Judge Hornblower yesterday. For the sixth time she had run away from her home, and her adopted father, Martin Williamson, despairing of ever getting her to behave, had asked the Court to commit her to the Magdalen Asylum. The old man cried as he told the story of his daughter's degradation, and the hard look on the girl's otherwise pretty face gradually left it and she began to cry also. She did not beg for another chance, and when His Honor ordered her to be committed to the Magdalen Asylum she stopped crying and tossed her head defiantly. She is not yet 16 years old.

J. R. Walker, proprietor of a barber-shop on Mission street, denies the published statement that she visited his shop prior to her last escapade.

Says She Was Assaulted.

Peter Mayntzer and Charles Gillard were instructed and arraigned in Judge Conlan's court yesterday on a charge of criminal assault upon Hattle Witbeck, a girl 15 years of age, living at 730 Valencia street, and the case was continued till April 10. The girl was a companion of Kate Kulvenbach, the runaway girl who stole jewelry from Weinstock, Lubin & Co. and was sent to the Magdalen Asylum last Tuesday.

Order of Arrest Issued.

The officials of the Magdalen Asylum became involved yesterday in trouble with Judge Cook. A writ of habeas corpus was issued in court of Mary Wyckoff, a young girl. When the case was called yesterday no return was made by the asylum. Judge Cook promptly issued an order for the arrest of the asylum manager and fixed hearing of the matter for 10 o'clock this morning.

Runaway Girl.

A few days since a young Swiss girl suddenly left her friends, and was not seen again. Officer Devitt traced the girl to a house on Dupont street, and took her into custody. She will be sent to the Magdalen Asylum. The girl is about sixteen years of age, is well educated, and speaks several languages fluently. While Mr. Devitt was searching for her, he discovered that a number of such girls were in the house and he arrested one of them, who will also be sent to the Asylum.

RESCUED.—Officer Sullivan, on Wednesday night, rescued a girl about seventeen years of age from a house of ill-repute in Dupont street. She is the daughter of a Federal office-holder, and has been sent to the Magdalen Asylum.

A CASE OF PERSECUTION.

Result of the Investigation on the Part of Friends.

A few days ago we made mention in the EXAMINER, of a case of persecution and hardship in which a young girl, who had been sent to the Magdalen Asylum was the victim. It appeared that the girl was living in a gentleman's family, in the capacity of nurse girl, and was behaving herself, and giving no cause whatever for blame. Her mother, for some cause unknown, made complaint against the parties with whom her daughter was living, and had her returned to the Asylum. We commented on the case, at the time, as a high-handed outrage, and the parties that were interested, investigated the matter to the fullest extent. They ascertained that the woman calling herself the mother of this girl was in fact but her step-mother; that she had taken the girl's clothes since her removal to the Asylum, and that the officer whom she had got to make the arrest acted without authority. These facts were represented to the officials at the Asylum, and the girl was given in charge of the gentleman in whose family she had formerly resided, and where she now remains.

LED ASTRAY.

The Folly of a Rash and Perverse Girl.

A sorrowing widow and mother came before Judge Louderback on Tuesday afternoon, complaining that her daughter, a beautiful though perverse young woman, was going astray and begging that she might be sent to the Magdalen Asylum. It appears that a few days since the girl, out of pure recklessness, went to a house of ill-fame on Sacramento street and became an inmate. An officer took her from the place by request of the mother, who met him on the street and informed him of her daughter's absence from home, and the suspicions she had of her conduct. After her arrest she was taken to the City Prison, where she remained for a few hours. Here she displayed much emotion, sitting with her face buried in her hands her eyes suffused with tears. She appeared to feel keenly the degradation of her position. When she was taken before the Judge, she still sat, with hidden face, sobbing pitifully. It was ascertained on examination that she is eighteen years old, and the case was dismissed, as there is on jurisdiction over her. The mother and daughter left together, the latter promising to return to her home and reform. It is said, however, that she declares her determination to go back to the house from whence she was [blank space]. The mother is a widow and has done everything for her child that limited means would allow. It appears that some young man has led her astray and conducted her to the establishment mentioned.

Snatched from the Brink.

Officer Devitt rescued a young girl from a house of ill-fame in Waverly Place yesterday. She had been enticed to the place by the proprietress, who had been an inmate of the City and County Hospital at the same time that the girl was there. The latter had been removed to the Hospital from the Magdalen Asylum on account of sickness some weeks before. Judge Louderback recommitted her yesterday to the Asylum, in company with another young girl, arrested in Sacramento while on her way to White Pine in the company of an old hag who had represented that she was taking her to work there.

A THIEF AT 10 YEARS.

A Little Girl Who Has Been Thrice Arrested for Stealing.

A Mere Baby Who Talks About Pilfering As Calmly as if She Was Telling a Santa Claus Story — Fond of Society Drama.

The little ten-year-old girl who was sent out to the Magdalen Asylum for stealing day before yesterday spent most of her time making doll's clothes. She is dead in love with a dear little blonde of a doll which one of the gentle Sisters there gave her, and she is making a wardrobe for that doll that would put Flora McFlimsey to shame. She is rather a good-looking mite herself if it were not for her eyes.

Her eyes are large and brown and bright, as bright as polished metal — but they are thieves' eyes, hard and bold and defiant. She stole a purse of $15 Monday, and it is said that this is the third time she has been arrested for theft.

"I was playing on the street," she said yesterday. "I saw a door open and I walked into a house. It was a lodging-house. I found a purse lying on a stand and I took it. I bought two dolls with the money, awful pretty dolls, and some candy, and then I went to the theatre. I went to the Baldwin, Stockwell's and the Tivoli. I went to the Baldwin twice. I liked the play. There was no shooting in it. I don't like shooting plays. The name of it was Lady somebody's Fan. It was fine. I went alone in the gallery. I'da gone to Morosco's, too, only they wouldn't let me in alone, and I'm afraid of shooting plays anyway.

"I had a good time with the money. Then the policeman came and took me into the matron's room at the jail."

"Weren't you afraid?"

"No, not a bit."

"What made you take the purse?"

"It had money in it."

"Didn't you know it was wrong to take it? Weren't you afraid some one would catch you?"

The child shrugged her shoulders coolly. "Yes, I knew it was wrong," she said carelessly. "I didn't think I'd be caught."

The sweet-faced Mother Superior spoke gently. "Perhaps you don't understand, my child," she said. "You wouldn't do such a wicked thing if you knew how wrong it was!"

The mite of ten years laughed satirically and said, "Maybe not. I like it here," she said. "It's pleasant. There's lots of girls and there's a yard, and they let me make dolls' clothes. I'm going to be allowed to play the piano at recreation to-night."

A piano stood in the next room and the child stood up and jingled off "After the Ball" in a rattling concert hall pace.

"When is your mother coming to see you?" someone asked the child.

"I don't know," she said, shrugging her shoulders. "She was crying so hard when I came away I couldn't understand what she said. If you should see her," and for the first time in the interview the bold eyes softened a little, "you can tell her I'm well and I wish she'd come and see me some time."

The child is as intelligent as the average child of fourteen, but she talks as calmly about stealing as a man who has been in San Quentin for a dozen crimes.