The Anaconda standard., 1895-12-29
HIS SHEER LEFT HIM
Walter Lowe Ras Lost All Desire to
Smirk and Grin.
HE'S BOUND OVER IN $4,000
Bessie Davis Is Held Under Bonds
as a Witness-Their Shameful
Conduct VIII Be Investi-
gated In District Court

Walter loves sarcastic smile grew
fainter and fainter during the progress
OF his trial for abduction before Justice
Turner yesterday morning. There
wasn't much OF II left when Bessie
Davis was recalled and denied emphat-
ically what he had sworn to positively,
and the last trace Of q sneer disap-
peared when the judge bound him over
to the district court under bonds of
5000.
The court room was again crowded
and the officers cleared II OF all who
| could not find seats. The prosecution
had rested the day previous and the
case for the defense was now present
ed. The first witness for the defense
was w. H. Miller. q waiter and the
roommate of Lowe. He said that
about midnight on Sunday the two
girls and Lowe entered the room and
played cards for a while. Lowe then
told the girls to go into another room,
but they refused to do so. the witness
said. A pallet was made on the, floor,
and the girls slept there while he and
Lowe laid on the bed. Lowe went to
work early in the morning and the
girls left about 1880. The witness said
that Lowe wanted the girls to go home
early in the evening, but Bessie said
she didn't want to wake her mother up
and would not go. Miller said he was
not In the room the second night.
On cross-ex animation Miller denied
that Lowe came for him when there
were two girls In the room and that he
accommodatingly stayed out when
Lowe was there alone with Bessie. He
did not give any explanation of how
he happened to be in the room Sunday
night and was not there Monday night
He said that Edith Bailey was mistak-
en- in saying Lowe took his pants off
that night. 2" .arAsc
]. p. Rowan. a cook at Bakers res
taurant. said he saw all the parties in
room 36 on Monday morning, He went
there to get the girls to go home and
they left after some coaxing. Later
In the day Bessie came to the restaur-
ant and said she must see Lowe
Richard Rodgers, another cook, testi-
fed that both girls came to- the res
taurant to see Lowe, Edith once and
Bessie several times. tEtftt
The defendant was next placed on the
stand. He gave his full name as Wal
ter Raleigh Lowe. 10 years old and
dish washer at Bakers restaurant. He
told about calling for Bessie Davis and
not taking her to church, and about
going to Edith Bailey's house and get.
ting her to go up town with them
Lowe said 1T was late when they start
ed home and he told them they could
both go to his room II they wanted to-
He said they told him 1t would not be
the first time they had been to a mans
room. He had insisted, he said on 1
both girls going home. but they refused
to do so.
There were no indecent exposures In
the room," he said, but Bessie and I
kids"
Lowe gave the same particulars of
the night that Miller had given. He
met Bessie on the street next day and
they had supper together. He then
tried to get her to go home. but she in
sisted on going to his room. He finally
left her and when he went to his room
he found her waiting there. He said he
did not want her to go to his room
Monday night because he knew her
mother was looking for her and that
the police might arrest them both.
Lowe had a pretty hard time on
cross-examination. He admitted he had
taken the girls to a beer saloon and
filled them up with beer when he had
promised to take them to. church. He
admitted that he took Bessie to his
room. because she Insisted on II. Mr..
Wines asked IL he meant that he was
seduced by the child. to which Lowe |
did not reply He admitted that he |
knew 1t was wrong to take a child to |
his room for immoral purposes, and |
tndt ne would get a terrible roasting IL |
II got out The defendant denied that |
he had criminal intercourse with the |
girl.
The defense rested there and County |
Attorney Wines recalled Edith Bailey. |
She said that Lowe begged them to |
come to his room, and said. "Come on |
TO my room, Edith. Don't be afraid; / |
will stand your mother off,"
Bessie Davis was then recalled and /
made a sensational statement Lowe |
had said positively that he had had /
no criminal intercourse with Bessie. |
She said positively that she knew what |
the question meant and that she had |
been criminally intimate with him on |
Monday night Lowe was evidently
shocked and lost his sneering air.
The case was argued at length Mr..
Wines made a scathing denunciation |
OF Lowe, characterizing him as a con-
fessed libertine. roue and confessed
perjurer. -.
Judge Turner did not wait a minute.
but held the prisoner to the district
court under bonds of $1,000. and held
the girl under bonds of $500 as a wit
ness.
A certificate of the marriage of the
girls mother was produced In court af-
ter the case was over. At the bottom
of the certificate was an endorsement
showing that the girl was born at A