The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-06
SHE is FROM THIS CITY.
The Adventures Of Mss Ella Walker OF
Anaconda In the City Of Butte.


SIssial tn the standard.
Butte, Nov. 5.-A genuine sensation
WAS uneartheh in police court Tonight.
'1'holiy'' Jones, tho young man employed
in Thompson Camphcll's law office. and
who was secretary of the rs.pnbliran
county central committee i'm the recent
election, and who IL also known To fame
as Bernard's a~ccon,pliss. in obtaining
aiIi,lavits for the republicans at the TIM
mel prccinct. was fortnight arrested by OF
nCpr Lehman ON % charge of iihdticting n
girl under III years of age for purposes of
prostitution. Jones arrest was brought
about in "A peculiar an.,cr
Mrs. Jennie Il. Walker, "a widow living
i'm Anaconda, came into the city clerks
Office about 3 o'clock this evening and
tcarfully told the officers that her daugii-
ter had bccu abducted 10y thu. proprietrs.ss
of a, hou~s. of ill-fanIe on Galcna street.
She snid that her daughter. Ella Martina
Walker. who tx not over III years old, had
been sent to school i'm Utah some. months
ago. and while in Ogden had been led
astray 10y some villain. Mrs. Walker
says she learned that her daughter
was i'm "a house of prostitution
in Butte. She immediately came tn Butte
the house of frankie Barnes, corner Of
Galena and Wyoming streets. Mrs.
since. then they have n..a.m living sSs,.ihsr
and daughter came to butte and went Ia
Elias clothes. Mrs. walker says When
sh. and her daughter went To the barnes
Mr.. Walker snsS found a.l. snn Mis. Harm R"rne s'I for
Elias clothes, and while they were
being procured the daughter was
Sassc To- another room. Thcre was some
difficulty between Miss Barnes and Mrs.
Walker about the girls clothes, which the
The girl did not return to her mother as
she promised and soon the agonixesl
mother found that her daughter had again
bs,en spirited away from her care. The
women i'm the house said they did not
know where the girl had gone. The mother
thai creature denied all knowledge
of her whcarabolts. After wait
time. Mrs. Walker says she was ordered
out of tn" house. She then left and went
tn the police court and sworc out "a war
rnut for the arrest of the Barnes woman.
Marshal Macarthur and Officer McLaR-
gan went at once. tn the house. and ar
rested Mrs. Barnes on IA charge of abtluc-
ton and creating ~ disturbance The
latter charge was dismissed for want of
evidence. In the case of the alleged alb
aaf.,"a of ofi nis rri.m ni NSiiHi ps ssrn ."r and and
entered IL plea OF not guilty. The Barnes
woman was then admitted To bail, fur
During the time the trial was in progress
the missing girl. whom the officers had
been searching for. walked into the court
room aud in "a loud manner Informed her
mother that she had been 'tloing the
town. The poor mother seemed to feei
very great sorrow over her unfortunate
daughters action, and so great was the
strain upon her nerves. that She tainted.
Her daughter expressed surprise. when she
found that Miss Barnes had been arrested
charged with her abduction. Tie afflicted
mother was carried into the city clerks
office after her fainting lit. A STANDARD
reporter went in to interview the way
ward girl who was sitting with her mother.
Miss Walker il "a fully developed woman
of very attractive appearance. Her feat
urs.s arr, regular and checks rcd aS roses.
Her manner is boisterous and her actions
l.All AlA...th s.nf a....r. H.. t...I WANNA ...s,.
for her mother. The reporter heard Miss
Walker say tn her mother "Wi,y, mamma.
S"'xing me away. If any one should be-
arrested il is the man who c"ax"d me To
leave yort.'
The reporter asked the girl what man
had induced her Ia leave and she replied,
mo one asked M to go away"
some man ",s,,t 10 he ,rr,s,.si. what man
did you mean - asked the reporter:
"oh. | was only joking replied Miss
in the other room b"forr Judge Sewkirk
Jones was defending his client. Miss
barnes: and VI. L,pp,nrot' and Ed. >.
thing occurred that lcd MIR. Lippiucott to
suspect that Jones' himself was not en-
tircly ignorant of the whereabouts of the
girl from the time she left her mother in
the. morning until her return to the police
court tonight. TIL" police officers also
kept their ears open and found thar there,
was SONS evidence to connect Jones with
the girls abduction. In fact. Jones is said
10 tktNf ssitttittti ~ ttitt u" az ~
good deal tn do with the girl giving her
mother the shake i'm the Barnes house this
morning.
\ STANDARD reporter saw Jones in the
Barnes woInau's house i'm the evening
when the proprictrs.-s was arrested and
Mrs. Walker says he was there i'm the
morning when her girl got away from her.
Mrs. Walker say that Jones tried Ia
frightcn her ont of trying to procure her
daughter after the girls light. Jones
told Al STANDARD reporter that he was in
the house purely on professional business,
having been sent for 10y Miss Barnes Ia
advise her as to the best curse to- pursue
i'm the event of her arrest. This could
certainly explain his presence i'm tn.
house i'm the afternoon. hut he must have
had some other than ~ professional
reason to take him To the house i'm the
mornin before the Walker girl game t.
the city. Jones' activity i'm the ease
which he evidently desires not tai push
led the police and prosecuting attorneys
To believe that he was not himself en-
tircly innocent IT the girls Disappearance
and upon instructions, Chief Smiti
omp made ont "a warrant for the ar
rest of Jones. and gave instructions Il
Officer Terry Lennon. Jone was on
rustiiug mp bonds for Miss Barnes re-.
lease. The officer found him i'm East Parl
street about $40 o'clock. aud toichin,
him on the shoulder. said: ~ want YOU
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