The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-28
THE CASEYS AND CLANCYS
Counter Afidavits Prepared by
the County Attorney.
TIL FACTS AS SET FORTH
Mrs. Gruden Wants a Divorce Because
John. Her Husband, Disciplines Her
With a Poker-Civil Cases Set
for Trial by Judge Clancy.

The county attorney Is preparing
counter afidavits to the motion for a
new trial for James ID. Casey, the con-
victed robber who Is serving a 20-year
term in the penitentiary. Casey's mo-
ton is supported by the afidavits of
James Clancy. Ed Baker and Charles
Perry. all ~convicts and members of the
same gang. The counter affidavits will
show these facts. Baker n Perry
made afidavits that they were in "A
room I'm Pleasant alley with Casey at
the time the robbery for which he
was convicted was committed, and
Clancy says i'm his affidavit that he
committed the robbery and not Casey.
The law provides that n motion for "A
new trial. based on newly
evidence. must be made within 30
days after knowledge of such evidence
Is acquired, yet bakers affidavit is
dated Oct. %. 1897, and Perry's Sept.
%. Clancy's was made on the 18th of
the present month, the date indicating
that his AFFIDAVIT was held OF until the
supreme court had passed on his own
case. and when the decision was adj
verse to him he concluded to- do what
he could for his friend and pal. Casey.
The county attorney has Information
that the Clancy gang had two rendez-
vous. one i'm Pleasant alley and the
other I'm the cabin on East Park street.
where most of the robbers were cap
tured. The Pleasant alley room on
the night of the robbery of the Pine
Tree salon. for which Casey was con-
victed. was occupied by Baker, Perry
and ran Moody. 1t was the scheme
of the gang TO work on shifts, or re-
49,. $500 l.fA.A- .a.s8 ~ tho nitN
and that is why some of their members
were always in condition to swear to
alibis. The fact that Baker vas also
serving time i'm the penitentiary was
news to the county attorneys office
when they read the affidavit, as he
was not sent up from this county. Ii
has not yet been learned where he was
sent from. hut that fact will appear In
an affidavit To be made by Warden Nc
Tague to be used in the Casey case.
Ursula Gruden yesterday commenced
an action for divorce in Judge Clancy's
court against her husband, John Cru
den. to whom. she says, she was mar
ried at Meaderville in November, 1895.
Mrs. Gruden says i'm her complaint h a
she has always been a true and faith
| full wife and performed TO the best of
her abilities her duties as a wife,, while
the defendant has been guilty of the
most extreme cruelty toward her, par
ticularly during the past six months.
He frequently beat her and struck her
I'm the face. and on n OCCASION. in
August of last year, he inflicted griev-
GUS injuries upon her with an iron
stove poker. a week & last Friday
he again used the poker on her and
drove her from the house. In fear OF
her life she sought the protection OF
~neighbors and does not dare to return
to her home. She asks for a divorce
alimony, counsel fees and the custody
of their two children. She says the
defendant Is not q tit and proper per
son to have the care of the children.
K. w. Farmer yesterday brought suit
against J. Il. Frederick. the estate OF
\. J. Marchand and others, for $l99 due
as wages for work performed on thu
Lion mine In Granite county between
Sept. - and Oct. 3. 1897. when the prop
erty was operated by the
Judge Clancy yesterday set the fol.
lowing civil cases for trial:
James Lamb ct al. VS.. the Butte City
Water company, May :.
Patrick Mullins vs. the Butte Hard.
ware company, May ,.
Oscar Aiken w. w. c. Harding
May 3.
II. H.. Becker yesterday filed an an
swer To a suit brought against him b,
the Butte Hardware company and de
MES that he is indebted to the compan
i'm the sum of S450.50 or any other sum