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Triangular Section of San Francisco Clay Banks, Mud and Rats in 1849 Streets at That Time Desperate Characters Gambling Houses Thirst for Gold Saloons and Sirens The Bella Union The Leaven of the Church Robbers' Dens and Justice in Mining Camps The Vigilance Committee and What It Did San Francisco Well Governed Now Highway Robbers and the Courts Chief of Police Wittman and His Men A Visit to Police Headquarters The Cells A Murderer A Chinese Woman in Tears A Hardened Offender.
The judge on his bench is an image of the Judge who weighs human life in His balances. There is of course crime in San Francisco as in all other cities. Indeed crime is universal, whether in the Orient or the Occident. The Chief of Police Wittman accounts for highway robbery, to the extent in which it prevails, from the fact that San Francisco is a garrison city.
The stingaree swam slowly through the warm waters of Chesapeake Bay. Geography meant nothing to the ray, whose sole interest in life was food, but his position had he known it was in the channel that runs between Poplar Island and the town of Wittman on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
The editor of this book received equal encouragement, and met with no less sympathy in his labours, from the late Bishop of Ratisbonne, Mgr. Wittman. 'These things have not been communicated to you for nothing, would he often say; 'God had his views in all.
"Just like the others," the Professor replied, "just like Lieutenant Woodhouse, like Captain Deligne, like Major Russell, like Colonel von Wittman, like the forty-seven of yesterday and all those of to-morrow." "Of what did they die?" Morhange demanded imperatively in his turn. The Professor looked at Morhange. I saw my comrade grow pale. "Of what did they die, sir? They died of love."
It has been prepared for the press under the superintendence of the two late Bishops of Ratisbonne, Sailer and Wittman. These names are but little known in France; but in Germany they are identical with learning, piety, ardent charity, and a life wholly devoted to the maintenance and propagation of the Catholic faith.
"Colonel von Wittman, born at Jena in 1855. Died at Ahaggar, May 1, 1896.... Colonel Wittman, the explorer of Kanem, who disappeared off Agadès." "Exactly," said M. Le Mesge again. "Number 50," I read in my turn, steadying myself against the wall, so as not to fall. "Marquis Alonzo d'Oliveira, born at Cadiz, February 21, 1868. Died at Ahaggar, February 1, 1896. Oliveira, who was going to Araouan."
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