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7 BUTTE, Oct. l6.-Frank Ingersoll. tho |
man under arrest charged with setting |
nro 20 tho buildings i'm tho rear of Sol |
Levy's Sideboa ri saloon ON the afternoon
OF October 7th, WINS to-day arraiRned for
trial before Judge Newkirk. OwinR to the
fact that Ingersoll's record, presented
IN the people of Butte. was not bright
one, and tn the prejudice In the mind Of
the general public against any one sup
pOsed to be In any way connected with the
recent incendiary fires i'm this city, IL was
thought best not to take tho prisoner out
Of the court house, and he was
accortlingly tried i'm tho county
court room, Though the fact that
not made public and an effort was made
to keep the affair quiet possible, a
large crowd assembled to hear the trial.
Ineereolfs wife wa: not in court, mo-.
for hi. liberty. The prosecution had s,,Ii,-
che defense were few. few minutes at
ter o'clock the prisoner, clean shaven,
neatly dressed and smiling. was led from
Chief smith aud Officer. Daun,, Murray
and Leyden. Chas. O'Donnell, counsel
psnicd @ ' the ''' prisoner. % Insersoil
did not - appear to feel At all all uncomfors-
able; He glanced , around the the ,ss S"Irt % room
ing well satisfied with the outlook he
picked up an old copy of tho STANDARD
gan to read his history published there.
In few moments he began to smile I'm an
the table to the STANDARD reporter and
, asked il he was the reporter who wrote
the article. The reporter nodded assent
when the prisoner shook his head, whis-
perod ..it's WRONG" and added good.
naturedly. ''you'll catch IL for that piece"
the % prisonsr % when % first arr"isneG M % two days M
ago, threw up Mp the case and Chas. O'Don; ;
nell took his place. Ed. >; booth and
n. L. Wines appeared for the prosecu-
sion.
! The first witness for the prosecution
he was q private watch;nan IN the pay of
the city ON the day Of 9TH October last.
His duties were 70 watch the prisoner who
buildings previous to this. All day on
4 7th the Witness was i'm and around ,he
there too, from . in the morning un-
nl n few minutes to five in the even
followed him and saw him enter
sh. alley PrI 5nIning Rr"nJn,v north and and
west of Main. The prisoner went down
this alley until he cau,e To the rear of the
left and entered the alley running parallel
saloon ON Broadway from the rear. He
witness lost sight of him for about five
minutes: When he saw him again he was
% .SidsGoorsi" i p saloon. % % The I alarm % Of Il fire. %
was given few minutes later and i'm ten
the sa s Peic, wss Drins
soil that Individual seemed TO he very
suspicious manner. The Witness kept out
of sight. Counsel for the defence did not
Mrs. Ollie johnson said she saw the
alley in the rear ef the ''sisleboartl'' s.s-
loon about one hour before the fire. He
lu-.. -.,sAI n. sx.H<s xxH
sne aA saloon. k The They ' ~ere % Standing d a few
feet from whore the fire started. She did
NOT sse % them ass,n Smith Una, swn SS tina, she saw
the prisoner enter the alley in tho rear oi
the saloon OH the afternoon i'm ques
\ tion. He entered the Elite saloon from
the rear, and seemed to he watching foI
some one. He was very nervous. The
then came out again, looked around the
alley aud scanned the windows of the
adjacent houses and then went into ths
saloon again. Shc did not nee him again
May Lindsay said she had rooms i'm the
saloon. On the day in question she saw
Ingersoll between aud o'clock i'm the
sSsns sx inx.rsal a coe aS Sut the 1 aiiey fnaer
soil " hen entering the space between ths
buildings whore the tire occurred, chancet
was and seeing her he became. she thought
very nervous. He shuffied around u few
alley passing her house on his way. II
less than hve minutes the alarm OF mr.
was given.
All the time this evidence was beinl
given Mr.. O'Donnell behalf OF th'
prisoner was busy making objections. HI
obiecte<ll to almost everything that WA
said or tlk,ne and some Sharp cross-ftrinl
was indulged i'm between the counsel. II
almost every case the court over~rule<i Mr
O'Donnells objections but a great deal q
time was consumed i'm the STUMBLING. A
this stage OF the proceedings a diagram o
tho buildings surrounding the plnce of TIN
fire was presented by council for the pros
ecution.- .O'Donnell objected and anothe
half hour was consumed before the word
war was ended by the court once NOR
over-ruliug the objection.
Sol Levy, proprietor OF the "Side
board'' saloon, described the Location
of the fire. He said he and Ingersoll ha'
stood near that spot an hour before tn
fire and conversed for few minutes. Al
day of the 1th Ingersoll had been i'm tn
saloon playing cards with some othc
men. The Witness had been warned
look out for Ingersoll and had done &C
Towards evening the prisoner becans
. very restless and walked i'm and out tn
saloon several times. Half an hour Ia
fore the fire prisoner left and did not N
turn. He went out tho front door. Th
witness did not remember seeing any on
pass through the saloon and out the bac
hat inns. n