The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-14
GRE EAT FALLS GOSSIP.

GREAT FALLS, March 13.-C. B. Denzel.
proprietor of a store IN the Cory block,
late last night reported to the police that
some shoes had been taken from his store.
His suspicious were directed against a
couple of strangers who came into the
store during the evening. One had a
package under his arm and when they left
without making any purchases DEM, |
said he noticed particularly that the pack
age in question was all they carried. He
remembered that one engaged his atten-
ton while the other, who carried the
package, stood pretty close to the counter
upon which the shoes are piled. He thinks
the package had a false bottom in which
the stolen articles were inserted while his
back was turned.
Such in brief was the story he told
Marshal Pontet and Detective Germ
when they took hold of the case this MORN
ing. He also gave them a very fair de-
scription of the men.
The two officers started to work on the
case about 10 o'clock with bits of evidence
In their possession. and by 3 o'clock this
afternoon they had a couple of men ar
rested on whom they think they have n
cinch. 1t seems that the officers, after
making extensive inquiries, learned that
one of the men in question had left
package in Scollard's saloon, where one
of them had borrowed an overcoat from
the bartender. The latter claims to have
met one of them in the Occur d'Alenes.
officer Curry was placed on guard in the
saloon with orders to arrest the men il
they returned. Meanwhile Pontet and
Germ went over the river to hunt for
them. After a fruitless search they came
back just as Officer Curry was arresting
the man wh0 sura anouuh had ,~ut =,
appearance. At the city Jail they gave
their names as William Davis and Joe
Devine.
Three pairs of shoes were found at the
pawn shop, where the men had soaked
them. Strange to relate, the investiga-
ton showed that these shoes were stolen
from Kenkefs store, and not Denzel's,
very much to the surprise of the first
named, as he knew nothing about their |
loss until shown the stolen articles. The
box with a false bottom and Denzers |
shoes have not as yet been located. The |
police think they have nailed a couple of |
very smooth thieves.
John Benjamin, prisoner in the county |
Jail, who was arrested while in the act of |
jumping from the wagon bridge into the
river, presumably in a drunken condition,
created a sensation in the city bastIle last
~ ~ us ShAohsO TIC DutIGu
his head against the iron bars in a fright
full manner and otherwise tried to do him
self bodily injury. The efforts of Jaler
Yates to pacIfy the man made him all the
worse. DR.. Brady was called. He said he
thought he was derauged mentally instead
Of being drunk. He administered some
opiates and to prevent Benjamin doing
further injury to himself he was hand
,uffed and rolled in a blanket. He was
to the county Jail to-day. He will
De examined as to his sanity. Nothing is
known of the fellows antecedenis, except
hat he worked for a ranchman in this
Ticinity for a while.
The county ATTORNEY to-day filed an in
ormation against George B. Seifred of
Belt charging him with incest. Tho &C.
FUSED was arraigned in the district court
o plead. He pleaded not guilty. He will
probably be tried about the middle of the
veek; meanwhile he will be out on bail.
The state VS.. Frank Murray is set for
The state VS.. Pilgram comes
p next Monday.
Judson A. Adams, through his attorneys, '
made application to Judge Benton to-day s
or a writ of habeas corpus 10 conpel I
lice Adams, his wife, to turn over to him
heir daughter. Ethel. He alleges that
is wife left him March IL, taking the {
hid, and he has every reason TO believe {
he woman is not fit person TO look af- |
n the little one. He also alleges she Is a
bout to leave the city with the child. The 5
rit was granted returnable next Thurs I;
ay at : o'clock p. m. Z
No pains or expense will be spared in :
for the first ball of the Irish I
merican club, the pioneer affair of the
md in the history of that organization.
hch Is TO be given in honor of s.. Pat
ck's day. As that important event in K
e history of the Emerald Isle falls this h
ar on Sunday, the ball and other OBJ b
rvlnce of the day VIII be held Monday 4
-enins, March Is. 1t will be held IN Re- d