The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-31
BOTH BOYS BOUND OVER
Weymire and Hill Held to the
District Court,
ADMITTED TAKING THE SAG
Offered to Plead Guilty to Petit Larceny
The Peculiar Uses Weymire Made
of the OVERWHELMINGLY
Examination

Claude Weymire and Frank Hill, the
self-confessed robbers of the Yukon
restaurant, were bound over to the dis
frict court yesterday by Judge Dom
oghue after a preliminary hearing.
which took up the greater part of the
afternoon in that court. The defend
ants again offered to plead guilty to
petit larceny, but the state would not
agree to this and at the conclusion of
their preliminary examination both
were bound over to the next term of
the district court to answer to a charge
of grand larceny in the sum of $500
each.
The hearing was begun at o'clock
yesterday afternoon. Assistant County
attorney Goodman prosecuted and J..
H Duffy appeared for the defense The
first witness called by the state was
Walter Webbing, who testified that he
was the owner and proprietor of the
Yukon restaurant on Main street in
Anaconda; that he knew the defendant
Weymire who had worked for him on
Christmas day and the day following:
that on the evening of Dec. 26, just be-
fore going off shift, he, Webbing. count
ed the cash in the cash box and found
that it amounted to $3.50, which he
gave to his wife as she came on DUTY.
The money belonged to him.
Mrs Webbing, wife of the previous
witness, was then called. She testified
that on the evening in question she
came on duty at about o'clock; that
she counted the money in the cash box
which amounted to $47.50; that she took
the box containing the money and
placed 1t on a shelf in the kitchen,
where she made the pastries; that when
Charles Martin, waiter at the house,
came ON duty, she gave him S4 in
change, which she had in her apron:
that during the evening between and
II o'clock she changed a IS bill for
Martin, taking the change out of
sugar bowl in which she kept change;
that she placed the S. bill in the money
box, which sum added to that already
in the box, made a total of $52 so in the
cash box. She testified that at that time
the defendant Weymire was in the
Kitchen peeling potatoes and saw her
place the money in the box; that about
l O'Clock on the morning of the 9th
while she was taking a cake into the
dining room from the kitchen, the
money box disappeared. Venue being
admitted by the defense, the state
rested.
The two defendants We're put upon
the stand in their own behalf. Wey-
mire testified that he took the box and
That he and Hill went out behind the
restaurant and examined the box and
its contents: that they found it to con-
tain $46, of which sum he. Weymire re-
tanned S25 and gave to Hill SCI that he
had received a message from his home
at Livingston, conveying the intelli-
gence of his mothers illness; that he
wished to go to her; that he was Is
years of age He said that with the
money he had stolen he bought, in
Butte, a suit of clothes, pair of shoes,
81 worth of candy, some pecans, two
pocket books, 81 worth of beer and vari-
Gus other articles, too numerous to
mention. He had walked from Ana
conda TO Butte, taking the B., A. q p.
railway tracks. He said that when he
was preparing to leave Butte he found
himself dead broke.
Frank HILL the other defendant, testi-
fled that they counted the money in the
box and found that there was $46 that
of this sum he received $21; that the
two went to Butte and drank consider
ably; that on the night of the 9th he
paid for bed for himself and Wey-
mire. as Weymire was then broke and
drunk. that Hill had $3.50.
Mr. Duffy. for the defendants, admit
ted that both were guilty of petit lar
ceny. and made an offer for them to
plead guilty to charge of that nature.
This plea the prosecution refused to ac-
cep1, and the case was submitted to the
court without argument Judge Dom
oghue promptly held both of the
bonds of $500 each, which they We're UNI
able to furnish
The peculiar uses that Weymire put
his money to in Butte in buying great
quantities of candy, nuts and other
things equally unnecessary, would go
to show that he is not exactly hard
ened criminal. and that he has still
many of the likings that are peculiar to
boys Nothing concerning his infatua-
ton for a girl at Woodville which was
referred to at the time of his arrest.
was brought out at the trial