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Show DEPUTY SHERIFF SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS IN JAIL San Francisco, April 16. "If a nigger nig-ger hit me, I would kill him. too." For this remark to W. H. Doiid. a juror ju-ror in tho trial of Joseph Gardiner, son of a prominent Kentucky family, who was acquitted several days ago lof the charge of murder for having killed Joseph Cardoza, on a whaling vessel in Arctic waters, Charles F. Schu, a deputy sheriff of Alameda county, will spend four months in Jail. Cardoza was a negro. Schu went into Doud's furniture store to make some purchases for prisoners, and declared he made the remark without knowing that the man to whom he was speaking was a juror in the ease. United States Circuit Judge Van Fleet, however, found him guilty of contempt and Imposed a heavy senteuce upon him. |