The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-02
A TEMPER OUT OF TUNE
Came Near Costing a Lazy Hus-
band His Life.
PURSUED BY OFFICERS
A Woman Accused Her Husband of
Robbing Her and When He Was
in Jail Tired vainly to
Get Him Out.

Perhaps IL Fred h.. Allen was not lazy
his wife would not nave an irascible
temper. and an occurrence OF yester-
day about which there were numerous
complications. some serious. others
~ludicrous. and all exciting. might not
have transpired, for Mrs. Allen told the
police she and her husband would get
along smicably enough IL he would only
work. but there ppears no doubt the
husband is not anxious to toll any
harder than he has to. and the wife did
not deny that her temper is frequently
out of tune as a consequence. and the
two facts coIliding while the two were
on the street yesterday afternoon was
responsible for a melodramatic chain
of incidents. which began with an eX-
citing scene OF a string of officers chas-
ing a fugitive through the streets.
whom they supposed to he a robbie
came near costing the tired husband
his life and eliminated in his being
landed i'm Jail on "A cnarge OF robbery
and being compelled to remain there
over night to pay for the trouble he and
his wife caused the officers. Mrs. Allen
was formerly a Mrs. Wolf. but she and
her mate did not get along well together
and when he went away on a long jour
ney. some say to the klondike. others
to the war. she sought and procured "A
divorce and subsequently married Fred
Il. Allen. Yesterdays AFFAIR would seem
TO indicate that she only transferred
herself from the frying pan to the fire.
The curtain went up on the little
drama as a matinee performance about
3 O'Clock Yesterday afternoon. At that
hour Detective Murphy and Special Of
ficer Ray were walking up Main street
between Park and Galena, when an
unearthly scream smote their ears. The
voice was that of "A woman, and. turn
ing quickly. they saw a man running
away from the woman from whom the
piercing shrek had emanated and
heard the woman still screaming and
saying she had been robbed. without
waiting to ask questions. but taking II
for granted the fellow had snachcd the
woman's purse to rob her. the officers
started i'm hot pursuit of the runner.
officer D~ougherty had also been near
and likewise hearing and seeing as the
other officers had done, Joined in the
chase. The fugitive led the officers out
Galena and down through Chinatown.
refusing to obey their To
halt until Officer D~ougherty drew ms
gun and was about to fire, when his foot
slipped n he zen to the ground. The
fail doubtless saved Allen a .grievous
wound and possibly his life. for officer
Dougnerty is a good shot and belieN-
ing he pursued a robber would not
have hesitated between shooting
straight and letting the fugitive get
away. The fan turned out "A lucky one
all around, Therefore. and the other OF
fcers following ON captured their man
where he hid under a sidewalk down ON
Dakota street.
The ludicrous part of the PERFORM
ance came i'm by the woman following
i'm the wake of the officers, screaming
and shouting Historically till she
slipped and fell.
Allen was eventually landed I'm jail
and booked for robbery, for the wife
had old the officers the man had
grabbed her purse. and they not know
ing him To he her and sup
posing ne had really attempted to rob
her. charged him accordingly. The
wife got all over her fury when she saw
the predicament in which she had
placed her husband and Immediately
began trying to extricate him, but she
found il was one thing TO accuse a man
of robbery and another to take IL back.
In explaining the cause of the trouble
she said her usban was lazy and
would not work and she was upbraiding
him for his slothfulness as they were
going down the street. They were not
i'm a good humor when Allen demanded
a pawn ticket the wife had in her pos
session. She refused TO give ii To him
and he snatched her purse and, taking
the ticket, threw the purse away. ber
anger at his action knew no bounds
and she yelled robber. The purse con-
tanned 81 and was picked up by a by
stander and returned to the wife. the
officers thought the woman's expland-
ton a rather poor one for all .he trouble
she had put them to, N whe they
remembered how near one OF their
number believing himself justified. had
come To shooting Allen. they concluded
TO teach the pair a lesson and decided
To allow him to remain I'm jail over
night. The wife pleaded earnestly Tor
her husbands release. but a deaf ear
was turned to her appeals and Alien
spent the night i'm the county jail. He
will probably he released to-day.