The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-14
It's Said to Have Been No Good,
but Hinton Got $50 on It.
AND TROUBLE FOLLOWED
Messrs. Deering and Ryan. Who Bought
Ticket. Take the Money and Hinton
Charges Them With Robbery.
Some Tout Methods.


berry. which VAS held before Justice of
the Peace Laurandeau yesterday after
noon. Deering and Ryan are the two
men arrested last Saturday evening by
a tout named Harry Hinton, who ac-
cused them of robbing him. and who
was i'm turn arrested on complaint of
those he accused. Deering and Ryan
got bonds and were released Sunday
pending their hearing, but Hinton was
locked up at the county fail. He was
given his liberty yesterday after the
case against Deering and Ryan had
been dismissed
The story of the circumstances lead
ing up to the charge of robbery n the
triple arrest reveals some interesting
tricks of the touts who follow the rae
ing game. and shows how a couple of
the sharpers were worked at their own
game. The trouble arose over the last
race of last Friday, which was won by
Oman Wood, a horse that sold at a
cheap figure i'm the pools and at one
time was included in the field. Deer
ing, the night clerk at the Southern
hotel, and Ryan, a blacksmith, who
lives at the hotel. bought a field ticket.
for which they paid IS. and which
called for $50. They claim the horse
was in the field in that pool, but the
pun tlitIs q dllltft1lNs \ All tNtIlSs
Deering n Ryan were near the scalp
er's box after the race and Hinton no
ticing their ticket, proposed getting IL
cashed. He took the ticket and an
other, abou which there was no ques-
ton as to its being good. and which
his side partner. Hector Mclean. had
secured, and went to the auction box
and asked to have the good ticket q. KID
so he could get 1t cashed before leaving
the grounds. as it is not the practice
to cash pools on the last race at the
track, except as a matter of courtesy.
the tickets on the last race being
cashed up town. One of the pool SELL
ers saw hat the ticket shown him was
all right and told Hinton to go to the
scalper's box. a few feet away. and he
would nod to the cashier, Jack Thorn
ton, that the ticket was all right. He
did so and the sign was passed to
Thornton, but Hinton switched the
tickets and handed up the one that was
no good and got the money on IL. Then
he tried to stand off Deering and Ryan
and keep the money, but they insisted
on his turning over the funds, and he
did so. Subsequently he and Mclean
tried to make Deering and Ryan cut
the money up, but they declined. and
Hinton then claimed they a taken
the money from him by force and had
them arrested for robbery. They retail
lated by having him arrested on the
same sort of n charge.
A complaint was filed against Deer
ing and Ryan, charging that they had
committed the crime of by
forcibly taking the money from Hinton.
When the hearing came up yesterday
there was nothing in the evidence to
prove the charge of robbery, and in
fact the testimony was all at variance
with what was said to be the actual
facts. The defendants both swore that
Oman Mood was in the Gala .ha.- Ia
purchased, and the court preferred To
believe their testimony as against the
word OF the touts and dismissed the
case. Deputy County Attorney Yancey
appeared for the state and Attorney
r.. l.. Clinton for the defense. Al the
opening OF the hearing, Mclean took
the stand and identified the field ticket
on the race in question. which called
for $50, and for which 81 been maid.
as the one Hinton had taken from
Deering to cash. This ticket, il sub
sequently developed, was not a win
ming ticket.
Harry Hinton. the man who cashed
the ticket, said he had never met the
defendants till the day of the trouble
After the last race they approached the
witness and asked him to cash a ticket
Nothing was said about the ticket
being good or bad. and witness was not
to get any part of the money, and mere
- 'biiSthltu 10 CASH the tlcket. Witt
ness had a ticket Of his own beside the
one given him by the defendants. Jack
Thornton ash the worthless ticket
and the witness handed the money 70
the defendants. AS he did so one of
them aid We're pretty lucky to get
a bad ticket cashed." The
disappeared and witness returned 10
Thornton and asked him II h ticket
he had cashed was bad. Thornton
SAID no mi witness fhnI1ohV - xx~a-
and hunted up the defendants and tried
TO make them return the money. but
they would not. Next day at the track
the witness again saw Thornton, who
then said the ticket was no good, and
witness pointed the defendants out to
an officer, who arrested all three.
ON cross-eXamination, the witness de-
MED he was a tout. but was a pool buy
err, and frequently cashed tickets for
persons for whom he buys. He was
cashing a ticket for Hector Mclean
when Deering handed up a ticket and
asked him to cash that also. He cashed
the ticket as requested. He. denied he
had demanded that the defendants cut
up the money with him or there would
be trouble. He also denied he ever
either demanded or accepted anything
for cashing tickets. Asked who's fault
Ii was that the ticket was cashed OBJ
jected to and sustained. and Mr.. Gin
ten asked how it happened the ticket
was cashed. The witness replied he
had asked A~uctioneer Fitch TO O. h.
McLean's ticket so he could get II
cashed at the track. as pools are not
paid on the last race at the track ex-
cept in a few instances. as a special
courtesy. Mr.. Fitch told the witness
to go TO the s~calper's box and he would
nod to Mr.. Thornton, which he did, and
Thornton cashed a ticket, but it trans
pired IL was not the one ne had Fitch
O. X. but the bum one instead.
Jack Thornton, cashier in the scalp
er's box. testified that Hinton handed
up the ticket. and Fitch nodded to in
dictate ii was all right. and as the wit
ness knew Hinton, he cashed the tick
ct readily. Witness then saw Hinton
hand the money over 10 the defend
ants. Witness saw Deering hand Him.
ton the ticket. Witness did not know
the ticket was not good till he checked