The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-16
HARLOW CETSAY YEAR
Jefferson County's Embedding Clerk
Now a Guest at the Pen.
SNUBBED A DEVOTED WIFE
1t Was Perry Irvine, Late of Butte.
Who Discovered Harlow's
Dishonesty-Othe Cos
sip of Montana.

Boulder Age: Sunday morning Sher-
If Gillian arrived from Arizona with
the man he went after-Frank Harlow.
On reaching Prescott the sheriff recog-
nized Harlow, and learned that he had
not been arrested and held, as was ex-
pected. but was at large and working
as a bartender. In the apprehension
1t Is considered fortunate that he was
not arrested, as he certainly would
have succeeded in getting released on
writ of habeas corpus. When Mr..
Gillian had spotted Harlow he had the
local sheriff go TO him and tell him
that there was a man from Montana
that he wanted him to identify. Har-
low came along unsuspectingly and our
sheriff said, Hello, Frank" But
Frank unfiinchingly disclaimed all
knowledge of the big Montana sheriff,
and said ne had never seen him before.
There were others who could identify
him, however, and on a proper requi-
sitiOn he was brought back.
He was at once placed in Jail and
received many calls from his old-time
friends, and 1t was reported around
town that there were offers to bail him
out, but II was not done.
Monday afternoon, court being in ses-
sion, the case of the state against
u
oDer brought into court. The old in
dictment of the grand jury was read
by Clerk Rickerts and stated substan-
TALLY that Harlow was clerk of the
cour. for Jefferson county from Jan. 1,
1892 to Jan. 2, 1898. While such officer
he did wilfully, unlawfully, feloniously
and fraudulently embezzle. secrete,
steal. take and carry away and convert
TO his own use SS11.20 belonging to JEFF
ferSon county.
After the reading of the indictment
Judge Showers asked the defendant IL
he acknowledged that Frank Harlow
was his true name, and he answered
yes; asked II ne plead guilty or not
guilty, he answered guilty" and he
also waived the time he was entitled to
for pleading or before passing sentence,
so the judge Immediately passed SEN
tence, that the prisoner be confined in
the state prison at hard labor for the
period of one year. He was remandei
10 the custody of the sheriff to be taxi
en- to Deer Lodge.
OF course, il seems very much like
pryfug into private affairs, but there
is much Indignation here over the &C
ton of Harlow in refusing to see his
wife. The common understanding is
that when he became a defaulter and
fugitive she gave up her homestead TO
help make good the loss and also paid
some of his private debts with money
she earned, made a trip to New Mexi-
co to find him, and has lately been sup
porting herself at Missoula, coming
there from Boulder to see him. And Ii
seems like hard-heartedness on his
part to refuse to see her. While here
yesterday she had many calls from her
old friends, and several of the ladies
went TO the depot with her last evening
when she returned to Missoula.
Another peculiar feature of the Hair
Ohiaf
against him who. examined the books
to find the amount embezzled and re-
ported TO the grand jury was Perrine
Irvine. who is now a fugitive from JUS
tice for the same crime, committed
while clerk of the city of Butte.