The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-10
n THE DISTRICT COURT
William McLaughlin on Trial
for Grand Larceny.
SPECIAL vENIRE ISSUED
The Oase Went to the Jury At q and the
Court Adjournsd-Frank Springer
Pleaded Guilty 10 the Charge
Of Robbery.

49,
Of he day in the district court was con-
u led with the trial Of the state versus
william Mclaughlin, accused OF grand
larceny from the person Of Samuel Cas-
ton. The special venire Issued last
night caught. a. Jurors Charles Russell.
Ed Young. L. e. Foster. Robert Weir.
C. c. Remington. H. J. Skinner, Charles
Stafford, L. W. suhr, Frank Bigman.
Moses Kaufman. w. H. Race and B. b.
Cook. Several Of the u~nfortunates tried
to get excused from duty, but the court
kept them. N. Kaufman tried to beg
on. but the court said that he q
never yet served on q jury in Cascade
county, and 1t was time that he did.
Robert Weir was another who tried
to escape the irksome task and a
that he was not yet a citizen of the
United States. On questioning it was
found that he had taken out his first
citizenship papers W years ago. and
Judge Du Bose remarked that he would
remove the disability at once and
straightway made him . citizen in full.
He served on h jury. These names
constituted the jury in this particular
case and they were ais added to the
regular panel.
The testimony occupied IN greater
part of the day n h case went to
the jury at I o'clock this afternoon and
q verdict had not been returned this
the meantime until 0 o'clock tomorrow
morning. 1t q verdict IL arrived at this
evening the court will meet to receive
IL. At first 1t was the intention to hold
an evening session, but several OF the
bar were engaged to attend the gradua-
ton exercises of the High school and
the idea was abandoned.
Frank Springer. who. with a compan-
ion, robbed a drunken man I'm the beer
hall two weeks ago, pleaded guilty to
the charge n was sentenced to one
yea and nine months in the peniten-
tiary.
lust before adjournment the civil
case Of w. H.. Davis against W. NJ.
Morgan was called and a jury empan-
eled.
Gen. j. ]. Jackson. who has an ap-
peal to the district court from a fine
imposed in Judge Burleigh's Justice
court, endeavored to argue his case
while other trials were going on and
the consequence was that the court
fined him S. for contempt. He was in
the custody of the sheriff for a time.
but finally managed to rustic the
amount of his fine.
The clerk this afternoon issued a
marriage license to William Holzberger
and Miss Annie Dotset, both of whom
are residents of this city.
While the results of the trials of
Edward and Jerry Sullivan for the
theft OF money from a helpless cripple,
Samuel CASTOR. has been their release
ron custody, Judge Du Bose. feeling
that they were. without doubt. guilty,
but not proven" improved the occa-
sion by calling upon them to stand up
and receive a little lecture. In his
judicial career the Judge has admins
tered a good many of these lectures to
criminals, and no doubt they have been
remembered, and IL they did not in
fuence the prisoners from the paths
of crime, they at least inspired them
with a salutary respect for the district
presided " by Judge Du Bose and in
clined them to keep strictly away from
that part of Montana. Yesterday ne
told the prisoners plainly that they had
been acquitted not because the jury did
not think them guilty, but because the
testimony. as brought out, was Insult
cient to convict. They were evidently
a pair OF young inhorn crooks, with
intelligence enough to At them for lives
Of industry. II they pursued the way
Of the thief, they would ind that IL did
not pay. they could not earn more than
Is cents. q day At It in the curse Of a
lifetime and their most profitable days
would be spent In the penitentiary. He
warned them that should they ever ap-
pear before him for sentence he should
remember their faces and give them
the extent of the law. The cour added
that he did not intend to criticise the
action Of the jury; the verdict II had
brought in was the only one justified
by the trial: he was merely giving the
prisoners the benefit OF q little ad-
vice.