The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-26
DIMES AND NICKLES
DOnnelly Had Lot of Them the
Night After the HOld-Up
HIS ACTIONS IN ANACONDA
Strong Evidence That He Was the
Highwayman Who Robbed / on
duotor Hines on the ~ eader-
Vile Garfield In $1,000.

JdnieS DOiineliy was yesterday pound
over to the district court in the sum
of $4,000 on the charge of highway rob-
berry in holding up a Meaderville street
car at 1920 O'Clock on the morning of
Feb. is last The evidence against
Donnelly was quite conclusive. The
identification by Conductor Hines was
positive.
Donnelly is hard looking character.
His face bears a desperate, hardened
look, and those who watched him
yesterday were pretty well satisfied
that If he didn't hold up that Meader-
Vile car, he wouldn't have any consci-
entious scruple against doing such a
thing If there was anything in II.
Manager Wharton of the street rail-
road company, listened to the evidence
and after the case was over he said
that at first he had not thought Dom
nelly the right man. but after listen
ing to the evidence he was pretty we'll
satisfied that no mistake had been
made.
Donnelly watched the witnesses
closely and kept looking them square
in the face while they described him.
Donnelly has a face that most people
would well remember after seeing it.
The first witness was William T.
Hines, conductor of the car. Mr.. Hines
said at the time OF the hold-up he was
ashes out of the stove. The motorman
was on the front end. A man came in
the car and held a revolver up to
Hines ear. Hines grabbed the revolt
yer by the barrel and they had a scuf-
fie. The gun was discharged and the
bullet went by the head of the witness
and through the front door, shooting
the motorman in the leg. Hines finally
got away from the highwayman and
In ~ oh
jumped after him and caught him, held
the gun up to his head again and told
him to throw up his hands. Hines
obeyed and gave up about all the
money he had, some $50. He thought
all this money was in silver and Sc or
81 of it was in nickels and dimes, and a
great deal of the rest of II was in
quarters and halves. He asked Hines
IL he had any bills and Hines said no.
Then he said: You can go, then"
The hold-up took place between Silver
Bow shaft No. 2 and the trestle of the
Northern Pacific.
Hines saw Donnelly in Helena in the
county Jail, where he was serving a
term for vagrancy, and was positive he
was the same man who held him up
He picked him out from a number of
prisoners. At the time of the hold-up.
Donnelly had a black silk handkerchief
or mask over the lower part of his face.
He wore a light colored SLOUGH hat
with a wide rim.
Oscar ]. Rheim, the motorman said
he saw the highwayman come down
the hill from the mine and he slowed
up to let him get on the car. He then
saw the highwayman come in the car,
holding a revolver and with a mask
over the lower part of his face. There
was a struggle, the revolver was dis
charged, and struck the witness in the
thigh. The witness lost his balance
and toppled over on the ground. The
car stopped about a length from where
he fell and he saw the highwayman
chase Hines, level the revolver at him,
make him throw up his hands, and de-
liver over his money.
Rheim was not positive that Donnelly
was the man who held up the car. In
general appearance he was the same.
The man who held up the car had a
small black mustache, while the pris-
oner has no mustache. He had on a
dirty white SLOUGH hat and wore no
overcoat
F. S. OBrien, assistant chief of po-
lice of Anaconda, said he had known
the defendant a year and a half as a
vag and suspicious character. He had
been run out of Anaconda several
times and once was made to leave Ana
conda about two weeks before the hold
UP in Butte. The night after the hold
up he saw Donnelly in Anaconda and
remarked that he Tailed with the de-
scription of the man as given in the
morning Standard. He was spending
nickels and dimes in McLean's saloon
pretty freely. There was a half dozen
in the party and Donnelly would take
out a handful of small change, lay IL
on the bar, and let the bartender take
out the price of the drinks. Then he
would put the rest back in his pocket.
He spent probably SO in nickels and
dimes in the saloon. The next night
the police of Anaconda arrested Dom
nelly and foated him. At that time
Donnelly wore a small black mustache.
He had on a black cutaway coat, a
black felt hat and gray pants.
officer w. ]. Stevens of Anaconda,
corroborated Chief O'Brien in regard
to Donnelly's spending a lot of small
change in the saloon. the night after
the hold-up. Donnelly had a small
dark mustache at that time.
The attorneys for Donnelly offered
no defense, but from their questioning
of the Anaconda witnesses IL seems
likely that they will try to prove that
Donnelly was in Anaconda at the time
of the hold-up.
Judge Turner bound Donnelly over
under bonds of $1,000.