The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-15
THOUGHT TO Be CRAZY.
j. M. Mackley Brought Up From
Deer Lodge Wednesday.
CHARGED WITH INSANITY
He Is Suffering Fro the Blues and Is
Said to Have Been Discharged From
the P~enitentiary Saturday
Afternoon.

]. NJ. Mackley Is in the county Jail.
He is thought to be slightly unbalanced
in his mind and was brought up from
Deer Lodge Wednesday night by Dep
uty Sheriff Hardenbrook. He appears
TO be suffering from the blues n does
not see things in this world in a pleas
ant light. His trouble is what the doc
tors all melancholia. He is very re-
served and does not care to talk with
anyone but himself. though he is rather
a brilliant conversationalist when
alone. Talking to himself appears to
be his principal source of amusement.
He is about 2s years old n claims to
have come originally from Helena. IL
is not thought that he acquired the
habit of talking to himself in the Capt.
tai City through being unable to find
anyone to converse with over there. OF
course. generally speaking. people to
enjoy conversation with others, find
something in common to ave
about. still in Helena Mr.. Mackley
should have found plenty of compan-
ionable people.
Mr.. Mackley, as the interviewer says,
is very reticent. Mr.. Hardenbrook
looked into his case and learned some
facts concerning him. which the I'M
fortunate man in a moment of conf
dence on the train confirmed. He had
plenty of time on the train to tell the
entire history of his life, as it was de-
layed Wednesday night and did not
arrive in Anaconda until 2 o'clock yes
terday morning. Mr.. Mackley is en-
titled to feel melancholy, though he
ought to be pleased. He got out of the
penitentiary at 2 o'clock Saturday
afternoon. He was sent there from
Helena a year and a half ago after be-
ing found guilty of burglary. 1t is not
surprising that he should have felt de-
pressed, there being more lively places
than the state institution, but still the
fact that he was turned loose should.
1t would nave been thought, have
braced him w and made him feel that
life was worth living instead of giving
him a gloomy view of this existence. A
commission will sit on Mr.. Mackley
Saturday afternoon. 1t is not ascer-
tanned yet who will try his case, wheth-
err Judge Brantly of the district court
or Judge Walker, chairman of the
board of county commissioners. The
law prescribes that the chairman of
the board of commissioners can try
such cases when the judge is absent
from the county. Judge Brantly has
been in Butte this week trying cases in
the district court UP there for Judge
Lindsay. Should he, however, return
to his home at Deer Lodge Saturday
and enter within the limits of Deer
Lodge county, before the hour set for
the inquiring into the sanity of Mack
ley, then in that event it is believed
that Judge Walker would lose his juris-
diction and would have no legal right
to try an insanity case.
1t does not really appear to make
much difference except in law, who pre-
sides at such hearings, as the medical
men have to decide upon the sanity of
the person tried. Many people con-
slider Judge Walker fully as good an in
sane judge as Judge Brantly. This
general opinion is not a reflection upon
Judge Brantly's legal ability, but sim
ply that a layman can try insane cases
as successfully as a regularly consti-
tuted and legally educated judicial
officer.