Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-13
'CH0LLY' Is INDICATED
A Faulty Law Makes His vindl-
cation a Task Easily
Accomplished.
Miss frankie Is also vindIcates
But Afterward Cinched on
Another Charge.
From Saturdays Daily.

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ply, opaque shadow cast upon 1t by his CIR.
rest for completely in the abduction OF a
silly and foolish girl for immoral purposes.
OF that charge he now stands free and can
huri the vile calumny into the frontt teeth oi
craven ~calumniator that dare utter it.
He can admit that he rented q room and
secreted the girl there for the purpose OF
coneealing her from her sorrowing and
heart-broken mother, and still walk the
Streets a free man, for he is indicated.
His vindication is not clothed in that com.
pleteness which q disproval OF the charge
would constitute, but he is indicated Just
the same. His vindication 10 not even that
shallow film which a mere denial OF the OF.
tense might constitute, but still he is win.
dictated, and az he demanded" that the
"maligning newspapers" publish how that
vindicatiun was brought about, TIE MINER
will comply with the high.toned young gen.
tleman's demand, not because it is a de.
mand made by him, but simply to let it's
readers see how complete that vindication
is in. all OF it's entirety.
"Cholly" and his bleached blonde client
were on hand at the police court yesterday
afterno IN; he in the dual role of defendant
and attorney for the bedizend miss
Frankie" He was arrayed in full "Prince
Michael costume which displayed the
Symmetrical outlines ofhis Appolonian figure
in all OF their chaste and classic beauty.
She in q black silk dress and heavy fur
Victoria" her fingers covered with rings
from which flashed innumerable diamonds
and as each ray from every individual
stone shone forth itssemed to be q tangible
OF the wall Of some poor,
soul sounding from the depths
iniamy and shame to which she helped
drag it. She, too, is indicated and in the
same manner as 'Cholly" INDICATED him
self, and therefore nots word disparagingt to
her character should be uttered. Probably
Il any OF the drove OF lady boarders'
who were with her had been arrested for
completely in the Same heinous crime, they, |
would nov be indicated and By the |
same process as "Cholly" and "Miss
frankie, for vindication o. cheap and
TO be had in quantities to suit. When his
honor, Judge Newkirk, announced that he
was ready to proceed with the trial of the
two defendants, M. L. Wines, assistant
prosecutor moved to dismiss the Case. The /
motion was based upon legal grounds, for
the territorial statutes con-
tain no provisions covering such cases as
The one then at bar. The law provided in
;ases is unlike that in q meiority OF the
other states and territories. Under the
avs Of Montana the charge OF abduction
be sustained when it is proven that
5he female whom it il sought to conceal is
over the age Of ten, aud that she gives her
to such concealment. As the girl
announced that she would testify that she
miss Frankie's'' dye OF her own
rec will and accord, and said further that
she would also testify that she submitted
willingly to her concealment by Jones, the
could not do otherwise than to
move for a dismissal. In other states and
territories q specific law exists which makes
t q felony for any person to conceal q
minor female for immoral purposes regard-
ess of the fact that, such female may be
Wiling that sue concealment should take
place.
Even "Cholly," little as he may know
about Jaw, wal aware that neither he nor
his client could be punished for attempingl
10 conceal Emma Walker for immol al puf.
poses, because OF q defective statute and
consequently he demanded 'that he be
;ried in order that he be given an oppor.
unity to vindicate himself" He had been
legally arrested, be said, Through thel
ma chinations Of enemies. He was "as
innocent as an unborn babe" and after
considerable more such buster, turned his
attention to the newspapers who bad
'arraigned him before the bar OF public1
opinion" It was then he madei
,he ''demand' which will make him
amous as long as time shall exist and man
continue to write history. He ''deEnand-l
ID" that those vile and impndent institn-1
ions, the newspapers, should publish that
was vindicated because the laws OF Nom
Jana contained no3provi sions to punish q
being who was guilty Of conniving and in.
to work the moral ruin and dam.
nation OF q girl still a minor, simply be-
,ause she was over 10 years of, age. This
has been complied with and The
MINER hopes that the intrigant derives all
;he comfort possible out Of that compli-
ance. - ~.'7- /
The motion to dismiss wal granted and
ZONES and "Miss frankie" stood "vindi-l
and no. tales Of other sinful and
acivious doings at, Helena or elsewhere
an injure either of them. "F 81 i
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