The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-17
NOTES FROM DEERLODGE
What II Has Cost the County 10 Attempt
to Punish Horse Thieves.
Cases Against Two Other D~efsndants
Dropped by the Prosecution-Other
Cases I'm the District C0upt-
Changing the Code.

Special correspondence OF the standard.
DEER LODGE, Jan. 16.-As was antici-
pated n nolie prosecute was entered this
morning i'm the cases against Matthew
Graha and Frank Abbott, indicted for
horse stealing. and they were DISCHARGED.
They have been I'm Jail since last July.
George Edwards, indicted with them, was
not i'm Jail long as he was able tn give
hail. The mountain has labored and
brought forth u mouse. Here is the story.
Last summer II Juror was raised about
some cayuses being stolen from upper
Deer Lodge valley. The officers and
to requisition and Edwards, Graham and
Abbott were arrested with the
horses, or part of them in
Missoula county. and brought to Deer
Lodge and placed i'm jail. Preliminary
before the probate Judge, and a large
number of witnesses subpHnaed each
time from long distances, with the result
that the defendants finally waived exami-
nations and were committed. Indict-
ments were afterwards returned mt the
October term and the cases brought to
trial during the present month. Here is
the conclusion of the whole mat
ter. Edwards skips after the Begin
ming of the trial ON the first indictment,
and is still ut large, leaving his
sureties tn pay the bail, which is only
$1,000 i'm the five cases. He was convicted
in one case, but il not sentenced, and
Graham and Abbott are acquitted. The
Witnesses fees alone on the trial of one
Indictment. the trial of which has just
been concluded. foots up to the magnifi-
cent sum of 81 ,911.2O. Life is too short to
hunt up the figures, but il we take
the costs of he witnesses before
the probate judge, the fees and mileage of
the officers i'm hunting for the prisoners,
in s~ubpCPnaing witnesses for the prelimi-
nary trials, in subpUnaing witnesses be-
fore the grand jury and ON the subsequent
stages of the. cl~eS. the kesninN of the
prisoners and the pay of the jurors sitting
in the trials and other necessary items of
expenditure, these cases could not have
cost the county much less than 5000.
This morning Hon. j.. e.. Robinson.
the court to prepare rules for The court,
made his report. The report, after being
read. was placed on file for examination
by the bar. and after the same has been
the court.
The court to-day has been occupied with
the trial of the state against Cornelius ID.
Subway, charged with an assault
murder him. The assault happened
about two years ago. and although an i'm
dictment was found mt the time. the case
was not tried for nearly n year afterward,
when a variance between the evidence
and the Indictment on the name OF the
party assaulted was discovered, resulting
i'm the acquittal of the defendant. Sulli-
van was ~re-indicted for the same ofYense
ON which indictment the present trial is
Your correspondent learns with pleas
ure that the code commission will make
some valuable changes in the law regu-
lating the su~InnioninE OF witnesses in
A large number of people left Deer
Lodge this morning ON the free excursion
to Butte.