The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-08
WHISKEY'S CONQUEST
The Complete Capture Of Man and a
$4,000 Fortune.
BOB SWITZER'S DOWNFALL
a LuridIy Brilliant Career Brought
to a Close soon After the Boy
Started on His Trip to
See theWorld.

Great Falls, Feb. robert SwitZer
was up before Judge Hawkins this
morning to answer a charge of being
drunk and disorderly. He was gath
cred in last night while seeking repose
in a stable on the west side. The
stamping of horses in an adjoining
stall disturbed his slumbers and he
sought to quiet The animals with
pitchfork handle. The trouble that
followed attracted the attention of
policeman who visited the barn to in
vestigate Switzer was hauled out and
dumped in Jail. This morning he was
fined for the offense and in default of
the necessary currency was given
five days sentence. Switzer is a we'll
read, thoroughly educated man whom
whiskey has dragged to the gutter
and then tossed him in its slime. n
few years ago he was a clever young
man with apparently a promising fu-
ture, and to-day he is a mental and
physical wreck whose cravings for
liquor would drive him to crime to Sc
cure it, In 1856 he inherited a fortune
of $l50,000 and left his native town to
see the outside world and what it
contained in the way of amusement
He saw the world and found the
amusement. His investments in fun
paid rosy dividends, but the requisite
assessments ate up every dollar of the
vast fortune left him, and tonight he
is a pauper inmate of the city Jail
without friends, influence or even SYM
pathy His career was luridly brilliant
while his checks were honored, but
when the money was gone his associ-
ates deserted him and he was given the
cold shoulder on every side. SwitZer's
career during the last few years is
temperance lecture complete in itself.
Eighteen months in the penitentiary
was the sentence imposed upon Will
lam Gibson to-day when araigned be-
fore Judge Benton. The youth of the
accused, no doubt, had something TO
do with his sentence. for the crime
was a serious one, he having been
caught in the act of rifling the cash
drawer at the Milwaukee hotel where,
for a time, he had worked. Wednes-
days Standard told how cleverly the
young man had been captured the
evening before in a trap set by the
city detective, John Germ. He pleaded
guilty both at his preliminary hearing
and later in the district court. The
county was saved the expense of q
trial-an important item nowadays,
when Cascade county furnishes more
than its quota of the criminal news OF
the state. County Attorney Freeman's
duties have increased to such an ex-
tent that the commissioners voted to-
day to allow him an assistant at $50
per month.
The defendant filed an answer to-day
i'm the suit of John Martin VS. the
City of Great Falls for alleged back
pay as a policeman, alleging among
other reasons why plaintiff had been
discharged that he was of ''prohigaue
and immoral character" Martin was
removed by Mayor Webster several
months ago and he brought suit for
1925, claiming that as the city council
failed to confirm the nomination of his
successor, he CMartin) had legal
right to the pay.
William Avery is under arrest at
Benton charged with being an accom-
plice of Thorbon and Cowan. now in
Jail, in stock stealing operations on
Marias range When arrested by
Stock Inspector Lund Avery was
working in a coal mine near HaVre.
The county commissioners have let
the contract for rebuilding the bridge
between Cascade and st. Clair to l..
ID. Askew of Cascade. and the work
will he pushed to completion at once.
O. :. Warden, business manager Of
the Tribune. is receiving the congrat-
ulations Of friends over the advent of
a son and heir. Doc is modest and
nervous and bushes like a school girl
when the subject is referred to.
Justice Ban Of Sand Coulee is in
town and states that there were yet a
dozen cases Of diphtheria in the VIII
lage. The schools are closed and strict
quarantine rules enforced but nol-
withstanding these precautions it is
hard to stamp out the disease
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