The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-22
HE is A STAR BOARDER
Haaningham, With His Many Aliases,
Has Been In the Pen BefoFa
STORY OF HIS ADVENTURES
Served In Deer Lodge For offenses
Committed In Various Parts
OF the State-Wanted 20
Toll at Billings.

special Dispatch to the Standard.
BOHEMIAN. April 2l.-Sheriff Caldwell
returned from taking A. j. Be.ler and John
Manningham to Deer Lodge on Saturday,
and he is telling very interesting story
reganding Manningham now. When
Manningham was arrested here for pur-
Joining about 100 different articles from
Nelson Stoiy's residence, wnis b wers value
Mt 5000, q great many Bozenen people
thought him some half-witted tramp. 1t
seems to be the general opinion here that
no crook would be so simple as to come
to Bozeman. So when the police rounds up
some criminal. even upon so serious a
charge rs that against Manninsham, of
grand larceny, the whole thing is dropped
with some remark about "that fellow IL a
crazy fool or he would not have been
caught In that way" A few people APP
preciate the fact that acts Of violence
and petty thieving do not disturb the
quiet OF this city owing to the careful,
watchful way in which tho interests OF
the sleeping city are guarded. Those men
who wear a star on their breast draw a
salary for 90 doing but nevertheless every
hour is full of thousand dangers as they
watch and study every faco they meet,
quiet any disturbance and arrest those
guilty of any msdemeanor. Bozeman
has always paid her police force we'll
and kept a class Of men upon the force
who have saved many times their salaries
by keeping down lawlessness and Kidding
the city of tough, worthless and lawless
cases. U
When Manningham was in Jail here Il
was rumored that he had been at Deer
Lodge and it was advised that should the
county attorney get a picture of tho
prisoner and send to the warden of the
states prison he might learn something in
connection with the past life of Manning
ham, but this was never done. Had IL
been Manningham would have gone to
Deer Lodge for eight or ten years instead
of two.
When Frank Conley at the prison saw
the prisoner coming he sang out. "Well,
well, you d. fool, have you come back
here again 2" He knew Mannjngham as
far as he could see him as he has occupied
cell at Deer Lodge for the past eighf
years. His first sentence was served
under the name of Hale after which he
was out for less than four months when
he was again sent up from Great Falls.
There he gave his name as Mcintyre and
was jagged for completely in a shooting
affair at that place. He again found him,
self free man on Feb. 8 of this year, but
in few days was arrested at Anaconda.
being implicated in another shooting
affair there. He was turned loose owing
to lack of sufficient evidence upon
which to convict him and upon March
10, after one month of freedom he
was placed in the Bozeman cooler by OH
Ger Mckenzie. He was a very slippery
customer and showed no respect for Off,
I,K
shot AT him, when he cooled down and
went to Jail very quietly. He was so un-
ruly and ugly while at Deer Lodge that he
was only conquered by frequently placing
him In solitary confinement on bread aal
water, being Gagged in this manner at one
time for 30 days. Five days before he was
taken to Deer Lodge from here, upon the
evening of the day on which he was sem
fenced, a Llan to break jail was defeated
by Jailer Brewer, although ii came dam
gerously near to being carried out. When
the prisoners supper Is taken to them
they are locked into their cells. the jailer
coming in later after the soilcd dishes. |
ManninRham placed dummy in the bed
of A. j. Beller, who 10 in for shooting at
7. c. Ward with intent to kill, and Beller |
bid in a corridor until Jailer Brewer had |
locked the cells and gone out. The plot |
originated with Manningham and was FOR |
Beller to stand in the shadow near the |
door where Jailer Brewer enters the living |
room of the Jail before going to the cells, |
and when he came after the dishes in tho |
cells Beller was to stun him with a quick |
blow from some heavy article. of which |
there are many in the living room which |
would answer the purpose. Then Beller |
would have the keys and could let out tho |
other prisoners, lock the jailer in a cell |
and escape.
After going out Jailer Brewer was sit |
ting in his office when no thought he |
heard a noise, as IL someone stumbled |
over chair, in the living room of the |
Jail, which was directly under him. 1t at |
once struck him that only two of the |
three prisoners had entered their cells !
when he locked them in for the night and |
that IL was a dummy in Beller's cell in |
stead of tho prisoner. A few minutes |
later Beller was in his cell and had con-
fessed the whole plot. laying il to Man |
ningham. Manningham's every move |
after his arrest was carefully planned so /
ss to lessen his sentence, being capped by /
ms pleading guilty to grand larceny in
stead of standing trial. Then he made /
an earnest plea to be sent to Billings 1
he was q stone mason and /
Wished to work upon the new penitcntiary
being built there, instead OF serving his
sentence at Deer Lodge. where theIe
would be nothing to do. The real reason
Tor his pleading this way was owing to
his desire TO escape tho Identification
which would follow his arrival at his old
boarding house, the state prison ut Dee
solre.