The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-03-07
IN The FAMILY
NJ. Coyns Says Mrs. Coyle Is a Lunatic
and She Says He Is q Brute.
The Woman Tells a Strange Story
OF Suffering and Destitutiop
She VIII Apply for
n Divorce.

By the standards special wir-.
BUTTE, March eff the story of Mrs.
Anthony Coync il to be believed her hus-
hand. Anthony Coync, can justly claim, tn
he one of the biggest scoundlrcds in Butte.
Coync is ~ bar tender i'm Moorhousc 4
Albcrts"n's gambling saloon and has
lived in this city some months. He has
had some difficulty with his wife and some
ugly stories have been floating around
2 city for some weeks past relative tn
Coyne. who is rathcr popular in sporting
circles WAS rsEardesi as a greatly abused
man. He has often complained
al ms wifc's actions and upon several oc-
casions has had her arrested for sirunken-
mess and insanity. Matters culminatesi
sS"r x" "n When Sefo ~SS judge as"i Se %sd I "" "Tars.
ing Mrs. Coync with insanity. The war
rant was placed in sheriff S%ullivam's
notified that the woman was wanted, and
s~bfticcr killiham arrested her and took
gave such clear evidence of sanity as Il
excite the suspicions of Sheriff Sullivan
and the police officers present. Sheriff
Sullivan doubt.sl IL such "a warrant
could bc legally ISSUED by Judge Newkirk,
and after consulting pm that point with
judge McHatton, released the woman
she was being prosecuted ny her husband
and that he was anxious tn get rid of
her. Hearing this. ~ reporter
sought ont Mrs. Coync who told the fol-
lowing remarkable story:
were married i'm ST. Louis in May.
made a burden by his treatment. Coyn.
has been i'm almost every city i'm the
United States: He had to- skip ont of Ar
Angeles and opened - saloon. In
three months he skipped and
"moun, " of s,.d Sh'n Hc n hm lief, to %e u iGs
only 50 and took with him n young woman
named Lizzie Doian. I pawned "a seal
low him to Salt Lake. There I found
TRUNK and %%rraw:S S and S%"s !" Deny %S
kane Falls, where 1 found him living with
the Doian woman. | went To their room
IN Spokane with a revolver in my hand,
recognize me-. He had me arrested and !
also had him arrested; He swore
! was addicted to drink. From Spokane
he canic here tn Butte and he finally con-
scented To live with me again and ! forgavc
him. We rented rooms at No. Ii6 Dakota
street. at Sol L,key's: Iherc il becam.
me-. He continually ilI-treatcd me. He
beat me and tried to- make mc drink liquor
drunkenness. Finally he told me that IL
l did not leave he would have me arrested
and put in an insane asylum for life. He
mittcd to jail for insanity but hc failed.
though he did have me ARRESTED,
for I was without friends or advisers, and
l know he was "a thoroughly wicked and
unscrtlpuious man. So about three, weeks
ago ] left Butte at his urgent solicitation
and went tn my people in Kansas. On
February ~ i got II letter from him in
which he made most bcastly charges
against me and said III I ever came back
tn Butte again he would have me commit
ted to the Warm Springs asylum. But ]
Doian woman tn him and I knew hc was
going tai join her In Spokane, So I immc-
diatcly came back tai Butte and arrived here
at = o'clock. No sooner had ] arrived here
than he fulfilled his threat and sworc out
q warrant charging me with insanity.
God knows that u IL not his fault that ! ann
not crazy, as he has hcapcd enough atftic-
insane"
clearly indicated that she was in full pos
sion OF her senses. and she certainly did
not look or act like a person who should
be committed to am insane asylum. She
frequently wcpt during the recital Of
her strange STORY. u showed the
should she return. She also produced
Coyne. One Of these letters, d"se.i from
Spokane, was written i'm q jss.ring man
ner, expressing the writer's pleasure that
hands of the proper Mrs. Coync land
that there had bccn q happy reunion i'm
s .ss SGs"s .M d.mi Hi,,ic ras,e. l s1isr N Ts-
Allan. alias Mrs. G.. w. Love- 1t tauuts
Coync with having been silly enough to
return To his legal wife.
Mrs. Coync say. her husband earns si5O
per month. Shc says lac has considerable
money. but that she IL almost destitute.
Anthony Coyne is a brother Of the noiori-
ois Mike Coync of kansos City. who has
an uneuviablc reputation. Mrs. Coyu"
will apply for IA divorce.
a Point In Law.
BUrI.E. March G.-An interesting law
point was raised i'm Judge Newkirk's court
thi-a f~ternoon-the point whether the city
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