The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-29
TO Be INVESTIGATED
Employment Agent Wilson Will Be
Asked Many Questions.
THE EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM
second-Hand Dealers Methods
VIII Be Considered by the IL
cense Committee of the City
Council This Afternoon.

Alderman Knowlton and the other
members of the license committee ex-
pect lively time this afternoon in the
meeting to be held to consider whether
they should revoke the licenses OF
Messrs. Wilson and jackson, employ
ment agents. 1t is likely that Mr.
jackson will be discharged without
further investigation, as Chief of Po-
lice Tebo says he is not DESTROYS OF
pushing the case against him. The
case against Wilson was aired at the
last council meeting and was then re-
ferred to the license committee.
Mr. Wilson was around to Mr.. Knowl-
ton yesterday to try to find out what
the specific charges against him are
He was informed that the charge is
that he has obtained money under
raise pretenses, but he says that he
cannot find out what specific case is
referred to.
If l knew what special case they
intended to try me on" he said, II
would have my witnesses up there
But not knowing what the case is, how
can l have my witnesses there?"
1t is supposed that the cases on which
evidence will be presented against Mr..
Wilson to-day will be the same cases
council meeting. In these cases IL Is
claimed that fees were taken where
there was little If any chance of a man
getting work Mr.. knowlton said yes
terday that Information had also been
received that Mr.. Wilson had endeav-
ored to make an arrangement with a
foreman of mine to discharge 20 men
who worked for him every month, and
Mr.. Wilson would supply 20 men in
IL
miners $40 for getting a job for them
of which he would keep IS and give the
foreman IS. This proposition was not
accepted, but IL is said that this case
Will be one of those brought up against
the employment agent.
The license committee will have other
business before IL besides the trial OF
MIR. Wilson. 1t will consider the mat
ter OF regulating more rigidly the con-
duct or the second hand stores. The
STANDARD yesterday published the or
dinance on this subject which REQUIRES
second hand dealers to furnish a list
or all articles pawned, the same as is
done by the pawnbrokers. This ordi-
nance has been rigidly enforced by the
police so far as IL pertains to the pawn
shops, but has been neglected In re-
gard to the second hand stores. Con-
sequently the thieves go TO the second
hahu SUITES instead or TO the pawn
shops. The police will enforce this or
dinance hereafter, but the members OF
the license committee are considering
the matter of revising the ordinance
so as TO make IL even more rigid They
propose to make the second. hand deal
ers responsible for all stolen articles
pawned there. and oblige them to re-
turn stolen goods and be punished the
same as though they stole them them
selves. That would stop the purchas-
Ing of stolen goods at once, and would
stop, in the opinion Of the committee,
70 per cent. of the petty thieving now
going on in town. The thieves who
steal clothing, shoes, articles of all
sorts and take them at once to the sec
ond hand stores for anything they could
get would stop stealing because they
could not sell what they did steal An
other plan is instantly to revoke the
license Of a second hand dealer found
With stolen goods in his possession.
rhe dealers would then be much more
careful and would not accept broad
cloth suits brought TO them by profess
;ional thieves. Many boys are enlisted
n this petty thleving business and
many people have an idea that they
ire encouraged in becoming criminals
by some OF the second hand dealers