The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-24
A CHARMING WIDOWS WOE.


she Claims Wa Deceived by . Had
Man and Seeks Relief In Court.
BY the Standards special Wire.
BUTTE, May st Wa Q badly disap-
pointed crowd that marched out OF Judge
Newkirk's court shortly after z O'Clock
this evening. The word had passed around
that an unusually spicy case was to be
tried, aud long before the court convened
the room was almost filed with q lot Of
those men for whom nothing holds out
20 much pleasure rs q recital OF obscenity
and vulgarity, 10 matter In what
manner or place. Consequently when
Mr.. Lippincott, one Of the attorneys for
the prosecution, asked that the room be
cleared OF all persons excepting b press
representatives and those directly inter
ested In the case about 70 be tried a cry
loud murmur was heard all over the room.
in the motion and wanted II to include re-
porters also, saying that IL IL was the In
tention OF The counsel for the other
side to avoid giving publicity TO the facts
which would probably be brought out, the
reporters above all persons should be
To this Mr.. Lippincott replied that he
considered the representatives as gentle
men and as such they would not be guilty
Of publishing anything that could not be
introduced and read in the family circles
Of the land.
Judge Newkirk shared Mr.. Lippincott's
good opinion of the disseminators of
news and said that no harm could come
by allowing them to remain in the
court room during the progress OF the
trial he then ordered the room cleared
Of everybody not interested in the case
except the reporters n court officer and
said he was prepared to hear the trial OF
Joseph Kennedy, arrested for bastardy on
complaint of Amanda 4. Anderson.
The prosecuting witness, being a Swede
and unable to speak English sufficiently
well to understand and be understood, an
story was TO the effect that she was n
widow and the mother of two children.
She became acquainted with the defend
ant five or six months ago. Somewhere
between three and four months go,
while living with her father at South
Butte, the defendant visited her and pre-
vailed upon her to live with him, saying
he would treat her well and provide for
her and the two children and supple.
mented these promises with another OF
marriage.
She accepted the offer, and became q
wife to him In everything that the term
implies without the sanction bestowed by
the marriage ceremony. Recently she
discovered that she was IN q delicate con-
| dition, and she and the defendant separ-
ating subsequent to that discovery, she de-
cided to institute crimina. proceedings
against him, first. having brought civil
action for recovery of wages which vas
decided adversely to her. The woman
being I'm INDECENT circumstances, the
action was brought in the name of the
state TO compel the father of the child, IL
one should be born alive, to provide for
its maintenance I'm order that il might
not become q charge on the county.
The law under which this suit was in
stituted provides that IL action is brought
by an unmarried woman, IL the testimony
OF the woman is suc AS to satisfy the
court of the truth of the allegation, il
shall be the duty Of the court to compel
the accused TO give a bond for the sup
port of the child, SO that the county shall
not be put to the expense OF supporting ii.
In arguing for the defense, Mr.. Camp
bell held that the law contemplated only
women that had never been married and
not, as in the present case. widows, who
were supposed TO be beyond the iniiu-
nee n wiles of designing men.
This was combatted by Mr.. Cotter and
Mr.. Lippincott, who contended that nj
though a widow, the complainant was an
unmarried woman and regarded as such
under the statutes.
At the close Of the argument the court
announced that the decision would be re-
served until mex Monday afternoon at
o'clock. as the court seemed TO be i'm some
doubts about the testimony OF the woman
to have q medical examination in the
meantime, such expert testimony TO be
submitted to the court.