The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-06
TW0PRETTY TOUGH MEN
kalll MCGinniSS and Pete Hansen Be.
hind the Bars.
ROBBERS ROOsT IS CLOSED
Something Droppsd In Beer Hall
Circles Yesterday and II Struck
These Two Worthless as 1t
Feil-The Fight Is On.

BUTTE, March 5.--The STANDARD this
morning stated that something was about
TO drop in beer hall circles. 1t has
dropped, and Neil McGinniss and Peter
Hansen, proprietors of the notorious rob-
bers' roost on Last Park street, known as
the Palace, found themselves behind the
bars OF the county Jail at an early hour
TINS morning. County Attorney Wines
nled an Information against the two men
before Judge Speer of tho district court.
The information accuses Neil McGin-
nlssand Peter Hansen 'of the crime OF
keeping, maintaining and conducting
certain room or hall where spurious, malt
and vinous liquors are sold and disposed
or, and where women are employed or al
lowed to assemble for tho purpose of the
business therein carried on, committed by
them, the said defendants, as follows, TO
vita. That at the county of Silver Bow, In
the state of Montana, on or about the -
day OF February, 1895, and before the fill
ing of this information, the above named
defendants did keep, maintain, conduct
and carry on the business of selling and
disposing of spurious, vinous and malt
liquors in that certain room and hall COM
monty known as No. IL East Park street,
in tho city of Butte. and did then and there
wilfully and unlawfully sell and dispose
OF spurious, vinous and malt liquors to
one John OHara and to divers and sun
dry other persons and did then and there
unlawfully allow one Belle Clark and
divers and sundry other women to assem-
BILE in the aforesaid room or hall for the
purpose of selling and disposing of malt,
spurious and vinous liquors, she, the said
Belle Clark, and other women. then and
there being i'll the employ of the said de-
PENDANT for the purpose of selling and dis
posing of said liquors, contrary to the
form of the statute in such cases made
and provided and against the peace and
dignity of the state of Montana"
Judge Speer ordered bench warrant
to be issued for the two men, and Deputy
Sheriffs Hooking and Llewellyn arrested
them at their homes and took them to the
county jail. Their bonds were fixed at
500 each and their arraignment set for
tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
With characteristic brazenness McGin-
nissand Hansen pleaded that they have
been conducting their dive in manner
that was not covered by the law, as the
bar of the place Is under a separate roof
from that covering the concert hall in
which the women congregate. The state,
however, has sure thing against them,
as II Is a fact known to every person that
has ever ventured into the Palace that
the liquor is brought into the alleged con-
cert hall and is there paid for by those
ordering 1t, no matter If the liquor is
brought a mile or 20 miles.
The two fellows will, however, have the
benefit of the technically claimed by
them and their case will be made q test IN
the courts. 1t they are convicted other
arrests will follow, and if the technicaiity
pleaded is sufficient to protect that class
of criminals then, so far as the county
prosecutors are concerned, the beer hall
business NAV run wide omen.
There are at least five other places of
the kind running, several of which do not
even make the fiImsy pretense of having
the bar and women under separate roofs.
The Coliseum, few doors east of the
Palace, is run by man named Mason.
The Clipper Shades, on Park street, and
the Spread Eagle, on Wyoming, are run
by j. w. Kenney.' The Newport, at IA
South Wyoming. by a fellow named Nc
Donald; the Richelieu, on Mercury, pre-
sided over by Lille Reed. and the Castle.
ut the corner of Wyoming and
Galena, by Mrs. White. 1t is proba- |
BILE that all these will be arrested |
If the case against Hansen and McGin- |
Mss can be made TO stick. In the prose- |
cutfon OF the beer hall proprietors some |
of the people who are again in business |
were let off with a light fine upon plead |
ing guilty, but on a second arrest they will |
undoubtedly be given the limit. 1t had |
been hoped that after Judge Speer had |
SiosSu up .he uisrepu'doIe places tue city |
officials would see that they were kept |
closed. But they didn't and the district |
court was compelled to go after them |
again. |
O'Hara, the man mentioned in the in |
formation against McCiinniss and Han |
sen, is the Anaconda man who was robbed |
in the Palace few weeks ago by Lulu |
Allen, who has been convicted of the rob- |
berry.
McCiinnis and Hansen were still in Jail |
ct z late hour tonight with no prospects |
&C securing bail. Under instructions from |
them their bartender opened up the |
saloon at the usual hour this evening, but |
it was almost Immediately closed up on |
an attachment from the Butte Liquor COM |
pany, and the chances are that it will |
stay closed.