The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-11
WILL Be SENTENCED
Steve Leyden Will Know More About
1t Next Friday.
HE MAY BE GIVEN 10 YEARS
Guilty of Manslaughter Is the Yer
dict. and Not a Muscle Moved
When He Was Apprised of
the Fact by the Jury.

Great Falls March 10.-Not a muscle
twitched in Steve Leyden's face when
last night at a. little after IL o'clock, he
stood up before the jury and listened to
its decision of manslaughter as an
nounced in the Standard this morning
The jury retired at o'clock Monday
afternoon. 1t was the general impress
sion that they would soon arrive at
verdict, and many people waited TO
hear IL. The defendant remained in
the court room in company with his
young brother. At $3.50 o'clock there
was a knock at the jury room door.
Then, for the first time during all this
long, wearisome trial. Steve Leyden
weakened and the magnificent nerve he
had displayed from the beginning de-
serted him. At the sound. he half rose
from the chair with a nervous start;
the blood rushed to his cheeks and his
hands frightened on the arms of the
chair. In a moment he regained COM
mand of himself. But II was a false
alarm, the jury was not ready to re-
port AS time passed, the crowd thinned
away, leaving only the officers OF the
court, the reporters and the defendant.
Judge Benton came in at o'clock, but
still the jury hung fire and the judge
waited for them. The prisoner was
taken back to the Jail and as it neared
IL o'clock, Judge Benton said that IL
would probably be necessary to lock the
jury up for the night.
few minutes later the jury sent
out word that it had arrived at a de-
cision. Judge Benton, the attorneys
interested in the case and the clerk OF
the court were sent for, after which
court was convened. The scene was as
impressive to the spectators as IL must
have been to the man who keenly eyed
the jury. scrutinizing each face as III
trying to read therein whether he was
a free man or not. The foreman passed
the sealed verdict to the judge. and
while he was reading 1t the prisoners
eyes never left Judge Benton's face.
The Judge handed IL to the clerk, who
then read it to the defendant.
Guilty of manslaughter." For a sec
ond Leyden's head dropped and the
case was ended.
1t was announced to-day that Judge
Benton would pronounce sentence on
Leyden Friday morning at 10 o'clock
AS in several other cases of manslaugh-
ter, Judge Benton has imposed the
maximum sentence of 10 years, II is ex-
pected that Leyden will receive the fun
penalty.
William Terry, charged with burglary
from Major Fields stables at Sand
Coulee Oct. 5, 1895, was tried to-day,
found guilty and sentenced to one year
at Deer Lodge.
The next case is that OF the state
against Lewis Henry for assault and
battery. Henry was accused by Larkin
| of being an A. p. A, and Henry re-
| scented II to the extent OF laying Lar
kin's head open with a piece of iron.
In district court the default OF the
] defendant has been entered in the suit
| of Mary Pierce against the Great Falls
& Canada railway for personal injuries
! alleged to have been sustained in
wreck near Shelby Junction last De-
| cember Another suit, instituted by
James Pierce against the same defend
ant for S512.50, the alleged value of
goods destroyed in the same wreck,
| also resulted in default being entered
against the company. In the suits of
| the children belonging to Mr.. and Mrs.
| James Pierce to recover damages in
the sum of SAC, 900 against the same rail-
road company for personal injuries al
| legged to have been received In the same
i wreck, the time in which the plaintiffs
were ordered by the court to Tile secur-
ity for costs of suits expired last night
without security having been given.