The Anaconda standard., 1895-11-07
HELD IN $4,000 BONDS
W. R. Benham Is Charged With
Having Stolen Cattle.
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BEFORE JUDGE HOLLAND
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The Same Evidence Will Apply to
the Case of Broderick. Who 10
Said to Be a Partner OF
the Defendant.
BEFORE JUDGE He

w. r. Benham, of the Union Meat
company. charged with having stolen
22 head of cattle valued at about $500
from w. NJ. Hughes OF Meadervilfe.
had a preliminary examination before
Judge Holland yesterday afternoon and
was held to the district court under
bonds of $4,000 to answer to THE charge
of cattle stealing. ~ lr'
Deputy County Attorney Booth con-
Quoted the prosecution and John w.
Cotter and George Haldorn appeared
for the defense. At the close OF the
states case against Benham Mr.. Booth
stated that the evidence would he the
same against Joseph Broderick, one of
Benham's partners, whose case was
to come UP this afternoon on
the same charge, and with the
consent of his attorneys, and he
was also bound over in the same
amount e. j. Crangle, the other de-
fendant, and the third partner In the
Union Meat company, was dismissed
on motion of Mr.. Booth. There was no
testimony against him.
In the case against Benham, William
NJ Hughes, the complaining witness,
testified that he lost about 22 head of
cattle from their pasturage In Elk
park about Sept. Is. They were all
branded with a horse shoe brand on
the right hip, and were valued at about
5000. He supposed at first that the cat
tie had strayed away and hired men
to ride around in the hills and search
for them, but they could not find them
Sam Jackson, a butcher for Louis
Kipp, testified that on about Sept 20
Benham brought 21 or 22 head of Gait
tie, all with horse shoe brands on the
right hip. to Kipp's slaughter house,
and killed them. Joseph Broderick was
present when the cattle were killed.
Benham was doing all of his butcher
ing at Kipp's slaughter house at that
time. -..t
Edwin Todd swore that he saw two
or three cattle branded with horse
shoe in the corral at Kipp's slaughter
house about Sept. %. ri
Louis Kipp testified that ne saw
some cattle with horse shoe brand on
their right hips in the corral at his
slaughter house on about Sept %.
'"They were brought there by Ben
ham," continued Mr.. Kipp, land had
a conversation with him about them.
He told me that anyone who would
swear that that was a horse shoe
brand instead of a G might as well be
dead, and that lhe would just as soon
go to the penitentiary for killing man
as for stealing cattle
bought some hides from the Union
Meat company in which Benham is one
of the partners, late in September, He
looked thep over in the warehouse In
which they were stored and found two
of them with a horse shoe brand on the
right hip.
John Warne. who bought the hides
fo- Weyerhorst, said that he also dis
covered two hides with a horse shoe
brand, among those that were bought
from the Union Meat company. On
cross-examination Mr.. Warne said that
he could not swear whether the horse
shoe brand was on the right or left hip.
This closed the states case and no
defense was put on. There were no ar
guments and the court stated that II
appeared that the offense charged In
the complaint had been committed and
that there was sufficient evidence to
cause the belief that the defendants,
Broderick and Benham, were guilty
He accordingly held them to the dis
tridt court in the sum of 1000 each.
Their present bonds of 81. 500 were con-
tinued until ! o'clock this afternoon, at
which time new bonds In the amount
stated must he filed.