The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-25
SHE MUST STAND TRIAL
Corinne Wilson Bound Over to
the District Court.
FOR ROLLING JOHN FUNK
She Helped Him Celebrate New Years
and Was Charged With Relieving
Him of His Money While
He Was Drunk.

Corinne Wilson, the woman who
helped Saloonkeeper John Funk to cell
citrate the coming of the new year, and
as a result of which she was accused of
stealing his money, his watch and dia-
mond locket, and charged with grand
larceny. was bound over to the district
court at the termination of her prelim-
mary hearing, which was concluded in
Justice Burns court yesterday after
noon.
When the hearing was resumed the
prosecuting officer. D'Gay Stivers, an
nounced that he did not now desire to
examine the Witness TO procure whose
attendance a continuance WAS asked
for on Friday, and that the state would
rest.
The. defense opened and Attorney
Wines called Rosario Levitre, the bar
tender at the Reception, as his first
witness. He was asked concerning the
complaining witness (Funk's) state
ment which intimated that he was given
knockout drops" The witness re-
membered hearing the testimony, but
he knew of nothing OF the kind being
done. He did not see Corinne do any
thing that looked like an attempt TO
rob Funk. Asked what condition they
were in, the witness replied:
They were both sinking drunk"
Corinne asked for some money and
Funk put his arm around her neck and
kissed her and said
Darling, you can have anything I've
got"
He gave Corinne 81 and she bought
the drinks. When Mrs. Funk arrived
at the Reception Corinne ran up stairs
upon seeing her coming, and Mrs. Funk
came in and started to fight with her
husband after Funk had been asleep
FIVE or ten minutes. The witness told
them they could not fight there, and
Uy,1..lr laft a far AfYS "a
her escort left.
On cross examination Levitre was
asked how long it was after Funk got
the knockout drink that he went to
sleep, and replied that he was Knocked
out when he came to the Reception. lie
did not take enough of the drink to
knock him out
The defendant, Corinne Wilson, took
the stand and told her story. She said
she and Funk started from town New
Years morning at about o'clock to go
to the SiN-Mile house to a dance. They
didn't find the party they expected to,
and turned and came back to the Re
ception. She did not go near Funk
after he got so drunk he was obliged
10 sit down, and she did not at any
time take any money or property from
Funks person. She was given money
by him, however which included 50
| bills and bills of smaller denomination.
| The money she had when arrested was
part of what he had given her. The
circumstance of taking Funk's locket at
| the Midway, the witness explained by
| saying she did ii in jest and In a public
/ way.
| Cross-examined, Corinne stated that
/ the witness Riley, examined at the last
session, msstated the facts in eonnec-
4 ton with the locket incident. She
/ knew of no reason why she should not
| tell the truth concerning the affair.
Funk gave her in all, So. two So bills
/ and 50 in small bills. The money she
gave Mrs. Butler in payment of her
room rent was part OF the money FUNK
/ gave her. The witness denied that she
said in the presence of Funk at the
county Jail that LeVitre had the jewel
ry On redirect examination Corinne
denied that she had held a conversation
with Mrs Butler. her landlady, the
night before going out with Funk in
which she said to Mrs. Butler that she
| knew Funk was married man, but
that he had money and she intended TO
/ get it.
| The defense closed and counsel arr
/ gued the case. Mr.. Stivers, in arguing
the point in relation to the admissibility
/ of the testimony of Chief of Police Null
/ holland and officer Dougherty in i'm
| parchment of the testimony of Mrs.
/ Butler and Mrs. Larsen, held that the
statutes provide for such Impeachment
when ii can be shown by other evil
/
made statements which were denied on
/ the stand, or which We're inconsistent
with present testimony.
/ Mr. Wines took the position that
while the state had shown that some
| S11 to SIS had been transferred from
/ Funk to Corinne, it had not been shown
/ that il had been stolen, and even If it
| had, it had not been shown that an
| amount had been taken sufficient to
| warrant charge of grand larceny.
| Mr.. Wines questioned seriously the
ability of a man to go out on spree
and be intoxicated for several hours
and then have as lively a recollection
/ of all that happened, as Funk appeared
/ to have. He thought that in the light
i of all the circumstances married
man going out on drunken spree with
/ a woman rot his wife, the lack of
! proof of wrong doing. etc, the defend
/ ant should be discharged.
/ Mr. Stiyers, in closing the argument,
reviewed the testimony pointing out the
/ DISCREPANCIES in the testimony of the
/ two witnesses for the defense as COM
pared with the statements of the states
/ witnesses and drew a comparison be-
/ tween the character of the witnesses of
| both sides as regarded which might be
/ considered the most disinterested.
Judge Burns ordered that the defend
/ ant be held to the district court and
/ fixed her bonds at $500. She was un-
/ at, 4iGl hnn1E commit