Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-02
SHE WANTED His GORE.
The Notorious Mrs. Godcheaux
Makes an Assault Upon
an Attorney
rye Haldorn the Victim OF
the Haradan's BeIicose
Disposition.

o6undays Daily.
Josephine Godcheaux and Attorney
3eorge Haldorn played q brilliant and az
:iting seance on the sidewalk in from oil
he city hall early yesterday afternoon.
The favored spectators watched the
combined war dance and prize fight with
! thrilling degree Of interest. Early in the
morning Mrs. Godcheaux had made q
.aid upon Marie Rigal, and left the frail
French girl q dismantled wreck. Her
raj dishevelled. her face
scratched and her feelings out
Realizing her inability to
win a fight in physical contest with the
redoubtable Amazon, Marie appealed to
the law and had Madame Godcheaux gath
BRED in. Mr.. Haldarn, as counsel for the
gentle Marie, appeared for the prosecution
and handled the case with such logic and
diplomacy that he scored q victory. Mrs.
was taxed $40 and costs,
which she donated from q fat purse and
vanished from the court room. MI. Hald.
arm, utterly ignorant OF her fell Intentions,
followed a moment later, and in company
with Officers Curran and Dryer
descended to the street. Madame
Godcheaux was found camped on the walk
below, evidently awaiting the arrival OF
some one. The moment she saw Mr..
Haldorn che assumed her most winning
smile and cal ed him to her.
Like a sheep going to the shambles he
went to his fate.
Downing his best grin and politely lifting
his dicer, Mr.. Haldorn approached and in
quired her pleasure.
"What for you was laugh at me on the
street," was her surly query.
my dear madam, l have not seen you
on the street since your return rom Cali
fornia. I did not know you were back
until yesterday when I saw you in the
court room," replied George, cautiously
edging away.
"You lie. You was laugh and grin at
me-"
Knowing the coarse and masculine char.
acter of the woman, and not particularly
desirous OF settling her imaginary grew
ances according to Marquis OF Queensbury
rules, Mr.. Haldorn started to turn and
walk away. With q quick motion she
grasped him by the lapel OF his coat and
began making hostile demonstra ions. The
two policeman, supposing that her wild
gesticulations were intended to impress
Mr.. Haldorn with the manner in which she
had walloped Marie, paid no attention.
George, realizi' z the seriousness of the
situation, cast an imploriDg glance
toward the officers for aid, and tried to
break away, Mrs. Godcheaux held on like
grim death to a deceased Senegambian,
and seeing her victim about to escape,
shot her right arm out in quick succession
and smote the embarrassed attorney frat
on one cheek and then on the other. Mean
time she kept ~ a wild and incoherent
chatter in French and screeched like a
frightened steam motor. At this ~juncture
the officers took a hand, and needless Of
jeopardy, rushed to the rescue. The
frenzied m chung to Mr..
Haldorn, and sawed the air like
q wind mill with her arms.
Her hold was Dor broken, and taking her
in charge, Jailer Dryer started to conduct
her to the Jail. Her language wal abso-
lutely revolving and her actions those OF an
enraged animal. Possessed OF a wonderful
vocabulary Of vile epithets she applied
them to the officers and struggled to free
herself. But big Jim was too many for
Lo., aud Opvsi.s ths jail IvOI ne nusCied
the virago down stairs and into a dark
cell. Then she burst into tears and
begged to be released. After remain
ing in confinement for a half
hour she was conducted before Judge New
kirk and arraighed on a charge Of assault
preferred by Mr.. Haldorn. She entered a
plea Of guilty and was assessed $25 and
costs, $35 in all.
Before leaving the court room after the
first trial Mrs. Godcheaux was observed to
hold q consultation with her husband. At
it's close she unclaspsd her diamond brace
let's and gave them to him. This act, in
the light Of subsequent events, was con-
strued to imply a deliberate intention on
her part to make the assault and trust to
the chivalrous nature of her victim
to escape injury. The woman is so evil.
visaged and masculine in her makeup as
to scarcely warrant the courtesies usually
accorded to q woman In an affair Of this
kind, ard in the opinion OF those who wit
messed the assault Mr.. Haldorn would
have been justified in chastising her. How
ever, to his credit, he ~refrained from a re-
sort to violence and permitted her to es-
cape without physical punishment.
The hatred of the Godcheauxs arises out
Of the suit brought by Noel Jubainville to
recover $4,000, which he charges God
chaeux and his wife with having stolen
the night following the robbery, in which
Marie Rigal played a leading part,
After the robbery the Godcheaux's took
their flight for California, where they prob
ably would have remained had not Jubain-
will. acting on the advice Of his attorneys,
Haldorn & Mcbride, secured an attach
ment against their Galena street property
to induce repayment of the stolen mouey.
The attachment compelled their return or
penalty Of the issuance OF a judgment by
default. They preferred to return and take
chances, and did return. During their
absence Marie Rigal had made a comics.
sion duplicating them in the robbery.
They had scarcely landed in town
| before they were cinched and held in
bonds Of $4,000 each. By givi & a
mortgage on their Galena street property
| they secured bonds, A. Pincus becoming
their surety. Marie Rigal had been re-
leased in the interim and returned t her
| dive at No. 26 Galena street. The house
occupied by Marie is owned by Blanche
Desjardins, also a French woman.
After Marie's release Blanche was ap.
preached by Mrs. Godchsaux, and told
that she had better get rid OF Marie
Rigal, as the house was liable
to be burned. Two or three
days after Blanche received
this warning, an attempt to fire Marie's
room was made by unknown parties, who
threw a book through the rear window at
a burning lamp which wal standing on the
kitchen table. The book struck the lamp
and knocked it to the floor where it broke
to pieces and the burning oil ignited the
carpet. The fire was extinguished without
having done any damage saveto the carpet
and the table cloth.
The Godcheauxs are suspected oil know
lug more about the attempted ineendiarism
than they care TO tell which it is believed
to be part OF a plot to drive the Rigal
woman out of town in order to preveRt
her from giving testimony against God
cheaux and wife in the case now pending
against them for completely in the Jubain.
vile robbery. That a plot Of that nature
is on foot the police know foil well and are
endeavoring to prevent it's successful cul.
mination, as they say they nave q dead
cinch,' on the Godtheauxs and propose to
see them punished.
IN ANOMALOUS PROCEEDING.