The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-03-03
CHARGED WITH PERJURY.
Mark Tuck Makes Inf0rmatiOns
Against Adam Munske and Chris
tOpher Peterson.
The Hearings Will Take Place This
Afternoon Before Justice
Race.

swearing falsely in their aliidavlts about
the sewers and certain indecencies at
Tuck's boarding house. Warrants were
issued Immediately by the justice and
placed in the hands of an officer who
soon had the two men behind the bars
of the city jail. They only remained IN
prison a short time when they were
bailed out.
The hearing Of the case was set for
o'clock yesterday afternoon. There was
a large crowd a the Justices office, and
when the court called time the charges
were read TO the accused and they en-
tered pleas OF not guilty. County At.
torney Freeman and w. G. Downing
counsel for the plaintiff, asked the court
to continue the cases until > o'clock to-
day as the state was not prepared to &C
t. trial at that time. There being nc
objection on the part of the defendants
counsel. j. A. Largent, the cases were
continued as requested. The accused
were each placed under $3.50 bonds for
their appearance today with a. W. Paul
and A. Il. Kyle, Jr., as bondsmen.
The following is a copy of the affidavit
| of Adam Munski, read before the city
council meeting last Monday night, and
upon which Mark Tuck bases his charge
of perjury:
STATE OF MONTANA, =,
County of Cascade, ! So
Adam Munske, being first duly sworn,
deposes and says as follows:
l. That he is working for Mark Tuck
in excavating and tunnelipg for lateral
sewers in the city of Great Falls at 81
per day, and was compelled to board at
a bo;sterous and ill-famed boarding
house run by said Tuck or lose his EN-,
plo, ment.
>. That while SAID Tuck's men and
himself were tunneling for eve pipes
inst IN front of the Catholic church, IN
the city Of Great Falls, they were tun,
neling through a knoll or hill from an
easterly to a westerly direction. That
said tunnels were run in The wrong di-
rection and they failed to connect or
meet in a straight line by six feet or
more, and that said sewer pipes were
laid with that abrupt jog therein and
that on same ditch or sewer there were
two other joys or abrupts caused by the
careless manner in which the tunnels
were made by Tuck, and that many OF
the sewer pipes were laid in said sewer
without being cemented or sealed in any
manner whatever.
(Signed.) ADAM MUNsKE.
His y mark.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this the 10Th day of February, 1893.
j. A. LARGENT,
Notary Public.
The fol owing is a o p of the informa.
ton made by Mark Tuck before Justice
Race, charging Adam Munske with per
jury:
State of Montana VS.. Adam Munske
Personally appeared before me this
day Mark Tuck, who first being duly
sworn, complains and says: That one
Adam Munske did, on or about the 18th
day of February, A. ID. 1893, at Great
Falls, Cascade county, state OF Montana,
with force and arms, wilfully and know.
ingly made oath to a statement that a
certain tunnel. in a sewer in the city of
Great Falls, was six feet out of direct
lIIt. NDth III lulh anu VI liJt Euitl tui
mel was not SO out of line, and the said
Munske well knew at the time he swore
to said statement that was wholly false
and untrue. MARX TICK.
Subscribed and sworn 10 before mt
this 23d day Of February. 1893.
w. III. RACE. j. p.
The affidavit of Christopher Peterson
read before the city council on Monday
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skis affidavit, and in order that the pub.
lie may have all the facts a copy Of the
affidavit is here given;
State Of Montana,
County of Cascade,
Christopher Peterson. being first duly
sworn, deposes and says upon oath as
follows:
l. That he was employed TO work in
eXcavating on the lateral sewers, on
sewer contract let by the city of Great
Falls to one Mark Tuck, by n Ed Huel-
ster, foreman for SAID Tuck.
=. That his work was excavating at s.
per day, and that he was compelled to
board or eat at the place of Mark Tuck
at s. per week, and that he worked hree
and one-half days in Feb uary at 81 per
day and received forty cents in payment.
3. That Mark Tuck, the contractor OF
said sewer, kept a boisterous and lire
puted boarding house on Third avenue
south in Great Falls, and hat he Tuck
compelled all the men laboring on said
sewer to board at said house or be dis
charged from work or employment on
said sewer cont. act.
4. That at said boarding house said
Tuck ran a saloon and kept lewd women
present at all time soliciting drinks from
the boarders of SAID house, and that
Tuck had indecent relations with said
women IN the presence Of said boarders.
and that said boarders were swindlrd
out of their money by Tuck and his lewd
women.
(Signed.) C~HRIsToPHER PETERSON.
Signed and sworn to before me this
the 18th day of February, 1883.
J. a. LARGENT,
Notary Public.
To this affidavit Mark Tuck also took
exceptions and made the following in
formation against Christopher Peterson
charging him also with perjury;
State of Montana VS.. Christopher Peter
son.