The Peanut Stand and the Disorderly House

The head of the Zetler family—the reputed husband of Rose—was convicted in Judge Humes' court yesterday as a disorderly person. He gave notice of a motion for a new trial, and similar motions in the convictions of the rest of the family will be heard and argued next Friday.

The feature of the case was the testimony of Officers Philbrick and Hart, Officer Powers and Chief Rogers, to the effect that when Zetler's wife would leave her peanut stand and go to her room with a man, her husband would come across the street to the second-hand store and tend the stand until her return. Hedberg testified that she had made indecent propositions to him and that Zetler knew it.

Defendant Zetler made a personal statement, gave a pathetic account of his domestic felicity, and produced a marriage license to prove his marriage in Denver, Colo., the ceremony to be performed by a county judge. However, the license did not mention the county in which he was married and bears no certificate or seal, dated February 5, 1891. His wife he called a little short of an angel and a true and loving wife. Wife Rose also insisted that she was a respectable woman and always had been, but the family admitted that she said to Detective Philbrick when she was arrested: "Don't convict me, because you didn't catch me with de man. Why didn't you catch me with de man?"

Zetler was allowed his freedom on recognizance pending the hearing of the motion for a new trial next Friday.