The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-15
ANACONDA news.
HAVE NOT BEEN FOUND
Bondsmen of Mr.. and Mrs. Lavelle
Feel q Little Worried.
BOND HAS BEEN FORFEITED
It Looks Very Much a. Though h Butte
sureties Will Have to Put Upa
Thousand Dollars for Their
Friendship.

Tnere was an article In yesterday
mornings Standard from Butte CON
veying the information that the bonds
men of william and Anna Lavelle were
in a stew. as the we principals could
not be found. That is understood to
be about the size of the ease and the
bondsmen are in a good way to put up
$1,000 for the friendship they displayed
In signing Mr.. and Mrs. Lavelle's bail
bond. 1t has been written, what
can a man do more h die for his
friend?' That does seem playing the
limit; still a person has a chanc left
by going bail for his friends, and when
his friends are of the description IF
the Lavelles he is not doing more-he
5s doing himself.
County Attorney Trippet, in speaking
of the Lavelle case last evening, said
they were abou as accomplished in
their peculiar line of business as any
couple he ever met. Still the Lavelles
stayed strictly within the lines 81
S%criptural injunction-they met strang-
ers and they Immediately started to
take them in. Last summer Mr.. and
Mrs. Lavelle were running the Ana
conda restaurant on Commercial ave-
nue.. They appeared to be doing a good
business. Two strangers, Mr.. and Mrs.
Bonenberger, arrived in Anaconda,
looking for a location. They fell IN
with Mr.. and Mrs. Lavelle. All hands
appear to nave been favorably i'm
pressed and when Mrs. Lavelle sug-
gested that the Bonenbergers should
be k in as partners in the restau-
rant business, the suggestion met with
hearty approval. The strangers were
shown over the restaurant and told
hat all the furniture, fixtures, dishes,
etc, belonged to the Lavelles, and that
the B~onenbergers could obtain a half
interest for $3.50 cash. The money was
paid and the next day the Lavelles had
business in Butte n the Bonenberg-
ers were intrenched to run the restau-
mi in the meantime n pay any such
bills as might come in. This Mr.. Bon
enberger did, until he had $500 in cash
invested in the restaurant and bills.
The continued absence of the Lavelles
cause him considerable uneasiness.
and finally Investigations were started.
with the result that the Lavelles were
arrested in Helena They had tickets
in their pockets for Seattle, which gave
their case a bad ook
They were brought back to Anaconda
and after some days secured bail. One
of the bondsmen was Sam Landrey.
All went well then for a while, until
Mr.. Landrey earned n day that the
Lavelles had left town and gone to
Butte. Then he refused to stay on the
bond any longer n had an officer go
to Butte and bring the Lavelles back
again. They were brought back and
placed in the county Jail. They only
stayed there a few days. however, It's
some of the gallant Butte gentlemen
came to their rescue. Judge Brantly
fixed the bond of eac of the Lavelles
at $500. Jerry Hore of Butte went on
both bonds and c.. d. w. Ostendorf of
the same place yer on one of the
bonds as surety, and another Butte man
made the third bondsman. So that Mr..
Hore had $500 worth of confidence in
both the Lavelles jointly and the other
gentlemen invested $3.50 apiece sever
ally.
This bond was for the appearance OF
the Lavelles at the commencement vt
hhe present term of court. They LETT
the country long before and when the
day of trial came no one knew where
they were. The sheriff called them
three times in court to appear, but they
did not show up. Then the bonds
mems names were called, with an in
vitation added to produce the bodies of
William and Anna Lavelle in court.
This they did not do and the bond
was declared forfeited. 1t has not,
however, been paid yet, but it is ex-
pected will be shortly.