The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-12-13
From Saturdays, Daily.
TONERY, THE THIEF.
The Way lie Played it on a Poor
/ Woman.

There are many people in Butte who re-
tain lively but unpleasant recollectioDs of
Ed. emery, whose exploits in this
ity last summer left a lasting impression.
This Tollery borrowed some eight or nine
hundred dollars from his friends and ac-
qaaintances in Butte, on false pretenses, and
then skipped the country leaving his credit
ors in mourning.
Last July Tonery represented to the en-
ployes of the Dexter mill, where he had
been working for about a year, that he was
about to be married TO a Miss Belle Verdi,
who was to come from Colorado for that pur-
pose. On tie sire ngth of these representa-
lions he borrowed large sum of money from
his fellow employees, and from several Prom
inent citizens of Butte. No one had any
reason to DOUBT his word or his integrity. 10
some others. he said that his family, brothers
and sisters, we're Oh their way to Butte, and
had been 1eeced or robbed in Chicago of
their available funds, which he wished to re-
place to enable them to join him here.
In reality Tonery was all the time prac-
ticiDg a course of persistent lying and rob-
berry. He was never married, although he
inserted a marriage notice in Butte papers,
but fed the country as soon as he had VIC
t'mized his unsuspecting friends and ac-
quaintances.
Ionery is quite young in years, though old
in vice, being only some twenty-five years
ot sua Wa ranthjiu1r frnSn n Sorantnn Do
paper the following extract which shows the
the extreme Injustice done to a most estima-
BILE lady, whose sons are employed in the
Alice mill. The lady alluded to as Mrs.
Flynn, known here as Mrs. Cusick, is high
ly esteemed and was evidently treated by
Tonery and his Eastern dupes in a most in
iquitous manner. We can only say that
all hel charges can be proven to be true, and
that there is yet n day Of reckoning in stole
fer the emery Tonery. The extract is as fol,
lows:
This case, which attracted considerable
attention in that portion of the city in which
the parties live, Oh account OF the respe ctable
connection Of the young man Tonery, was
disposed of yesterday by a filtration. The
arbitrators were Aessrs. L. NJ. Bunnell,
Paul +. Weitzel and A. b. Baker. The mall
ner in which the case was disposed Of will
undoubtedly prove a lesson to the defendant
and all example to all ether malicious-mind-
ed persons who are swift to plunge the mnr
derous and deadly knife of scandal into the
reputation of their neighbors. 1t will teach
them that in a country where the freedom of
speech as received its highest constitutions
guaranty, every person will be held strictly
responsible for the abuse of that privilege.
The facts were these, that the plaintiff, who
had recently returned from Montana, was a
young man Of good character and reputation,
but against whom Mrs. Flynn had some
grudge and i'll will. Immediately upon his
return, therefore, thinking he was powerless
to defend himself, she spread Among his neigh
bors the report that Mr.. Tonery had stolen
money and jewelry toa large amount from
some man in Montana. Thereupon the suit
was brought. When all parties were called
for trial the defendant "took water y in other
words threw herself III the mercy Of the
| plaintiff, rendered him a Judgment Of siXtr
dollars, made a public retractiOn of all her
charges against him, and acknowledged thaI
they were alse frem beginning to end.