The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1893-09-16
WANTED IN new YORK
1 Second Chapter in the Wall-Knovn
Case Of Dr.. Lon!Ck.
ANOTHER CASE OF FORGERY
A Requlsltion Granted for the High
Flying Doctor by Governor Rick
ards State News From the
Standards Correspondents.
pecial Dispatch TO tho Standard.

special Dispatch 10 this Standard.
HELENA, Sept. l5.-Governor Richards
to-day Mt the request Of Governor Flower
Of New York granted requisition papers
for DIR. Nathan L. Lonick, whose four-year
term in Deer Lodge prison for forgery will
expire on Sept. 20. Lonick is wanted at
Rochester, n. Y. on similar charge, and
officers armed with rcquisition papers will
camp outside the penitentiary walls until
Sept. 20. About threo and q half years
ago Lonick came here, representing him
self as q distinguished New York phys.-
clan aud cut wido swath In society. He
lived at the Broadwater hotel, gave elabo-
rate dinners aud was introduced around
generally. Among other western insiitu.
tions he made the acquaintance Of the
faro banks. Getting into a steep game
one night, he lost heavily and bought more
chips with checks for fifteen hundred dol
lars on a New York city bank. In another
way he worked of q check for u thousand
ON tho same hank, aud various smaller
ones on different people. All the checks
were returned rs forgcrics and worthless.
Lonick was convicted and got four-year
sentence, which, with good time, expires
Sept 20.
Tho crime in Rochester Immediately
preceded that here. He made the ac-
quaintance of n big tailor establishment
there, ordered three suits of clothes in
succession aud paid for them in advance.
Finally he ordered o $50 ovcrcoat. aud
rendered in payment n check for 1854 on
the Second National bank OF New York in
favor of DR.. Henry Hart. the name he was
travelling under mt the time, and signed
Reinhardt Bros. Tho tailors gave him
their check for S5it In change. He cashed
il and skipped out for Montana before his
check was found to bc forgery. Lonick
or Hart wrote an eloquent plea recently to
the tailors In Rochester, asking them To
drop tho prosecution, and promising to
pay them all he had swindled them out of.
The rcquisition and tle presence Of the
officer from Now York shows that this
plea was not regarded favorable. Lonick
is now an old man, considerably past 10.
Misssuia Matters.
Special Dispatch To the STANDARD
MIssoULA, Sept. 15.-The theme Of con.
versaiion here to-day has been the verdict
in tho Demmons case, rendered last night,
by which man unquestionably guilty OF
manslaughtcr, was set FREQ. The general
opinion is that the man deserved the
scverest punishment, and when the ver-
dict became known there was much indig-
nation expressed. Judge Woody gave tho
jury q most severe scoring for the un.
reasonabicness Of its verdict in the light
of tho evidence presented by the state.
The Jury for several hours stood seven for
manslaughter and Ave for acquittal, but
finally agreed to set Demmons free. Not
once in one hundred times would o man
be liberated under similar circumstances.
The case Of William McCartly for the
murder OF Zach Orm at Thompson Falls
Aug. l6, was called to-day, aud when court
adjourned this evening but II jurors had
been secured. and two special venires had
been issued. Some men were excused
because they could read and had read pa.
pers. aud two Frenchmen were challenged
because they could not read English. Nc
Curdy shot Orm in the night in an alleged
attempt to avcnge the honor of McCur-
dy's sister. There were no witnesses to
the deed except the sister. who has made
n statement that her brother made an un.
provoked assault on Orm and killed lin
In cold blood. The defense will attemp,
| to prove that McCurdy attempted to eject
Oru. and the latter fired shot from his
revolver; that McCurdy then groped In
.he dark for his Winchester, and found .,
Just as Orm seized II, and in tho struggle
| for tho weapon, IL was discharged and
Orm killed. This Is entirely different
from the story Of the sister, but she may
weaken on the stand.
Work will begin tomorrow OH the sewer
on Higgins avenue. The apparatus Of the
contractor was moved there to-day.
They Answer the >unmons