The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-26
She HAS MANY NOTES
Mrs. Shsehsng and Her Sister Have
Had Several Transactions. 2
AN EFFORT TO FIX THEM UP
A Hot Race In Which Creditors
Run as Fast as the Rest OF EN-
The Humm Divorce Case
-. Started it. - q

Judge Speer and a jury yesterday
attempted TO straighten out a tangled
mess growing out of the Humm divorce
case which was settled nearly q year
ago I'm the other department of the dis
trict court. The case on trial yester-
day was a damage suit OF Mrs. Paul
A. Sheehang against Sheriff Reynolds
for attaching a hot of household furni-
ture, of which she claimed to be the
owner, to satisfy a claim against her
sister, Mrs. Margaret Humm. The lat
ter. who was at that time Mrs. Klech-
ner. was boarding house keeper on
Gran5te street before she met Charles
Humm. He became one of her board
ers, and, according to her story, he
was good for nothing else so she mar
utied him and soon repented of it and
sued him for a divorce, and. on a
claim for alimony, attached lot of
money In tine bank. Afterwards she
had him arrested and placed under
bonds for threatening to do her vio-
1ence. Their lawyers finally got to-
getiher and succeeded In settling their
troubles out of court, and under the ar
Management Humm got possession of the
money under attachment and Mrs.
Humm got her divorce and the furni-
ture of the boarding house. valued at
about $1,000. WF e.
On the 18th of last April Judge Nc
Hatton ordered the decree of divorce,
giving Mrs. Humm possession OF the
furniture and also restoring her to her
former name of Margaret Klechner,
but the decree was not signed until
three days latter, and that added to the
complications which the court is now
trying to straaghten out. Mrs. Hunm
had many creditors, and the instant
that the court decreed her TO be the
owner of the property she handed over
to Mrs. Sheehang a ehattei mortgage
for 5000 on THE stuff as security for the
amount of money she at various times
had borrowed from Mrs. Sheehang.
The mortgage was made out in the
name OF Mrs. Klechner and as Mrs.
Humm did not become Mrs. Klechner
until tlnre days later the two women
saw that something had to be done and
they started for a lawyers office, and
on the way met a friend to whom, they
unfolded their difficulties, and he sug-
gested q bill of sale and the party re-
turned ITO the court house, and In rev
minutes later bill of sale from Mrs.
Humm to Mrs. Sheehang Was ale.
Whdle the two sisters were struggling
over the mortgage and sale question,
z. E. Congdon and William Luxton,-
two of Mrs. Humm's creditors, were
breaking their necks to get out an at
tachment, and II was a race between
the sheriff and Mrs. Sheehang as VINO
got possession of the boarding house
first. Mrs. Sheehang claims to have
won by an hour or more, but Mrs.
Humm's creditors claim that the sheriff
was first by a good lead and HJw the
jury will have to referee fter OPP
the evidence presented 10 tffcffi. Mrs.
Sheehang says the keys were delivered
to her about O'Clock ON April Is and
saf
Uses and locked up the house. About
8 O'Clock she returned and found that a
sheriff's officer had climbed in at a
window and was i'm possession of the
layout. Subsequently the attachment
was released on Mrs. SheahaHg giving
a bond amid then she brought sun
against THE sheriff for 81 500 or the re-
covery of the suit and for 500 damages.
The defense to her suit Is that the
alleged transfer was a fraudulent one
for the purpose of defrauding Mrs.
Humms creditors and that Mrs. Shee-
hang was never in possession Of the
To mix matters up a little
more, when the bill of sale had been
given and Mrs. Humm had been legally
restored to the name OF Margaret
Klechner, Mrs. Sheehang, to make her
securely douIbly sure. also took chat
tel mortgage for the same property
and to cover the same indebtedness.
<fI bitN yC6NCA ICY NIB oAAS--A1Al5
testsfied that she had loaned her sis-
ter various sums of money and had
paved bills for her. Four notes, dated
as follows We're offered in evidence:
Nov. 80, 1892, for. 500; Feb 20, 1893, for
$500; March, 80. 1895, for s6s.50; April 2,
1895, for $31.75.
Did you ever have any other notes
from your sister than these fou-?v
asked Attorney Yancey on cross-ex-
Mrs. Sheehang hesatated for a long
time before answering and Mr.. Yancey
smiled.
you don't need to laugh" snapped
Mrs. Sheehang.
mo. this not laughing matter"
asserted MIR. Yancey. ''It makes me
feel sad TO see a woman like you testi-
flying as YOU are" -ti1J
Ut Is a rather sad thing for the de-
fense," putt i'm Mr.. Haldorn, one of Mrs.
Sheehang's attorneys.
THE jury will be the judges as to
that" said Mr.. Yancey, and then ne
produced a. chattel mortgage given by
Mrs. Hprngn to Mrs, Sheehang as ee,I-
rity for a $500 note. but Mrs. Sheenany
explained that by saying that she had
surrendered tn" four notes and taken
for them one note of $500 and surren-
dered the latter when she got the bill
of sale for the mortgaged property.
The triad of the case had not been cor-
cluded when court adjourned for the
day.