The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-14
SKIPPED JUST THE SAME
Mrs. Lavelle Has an Oily Tongue
and Lachrymose Eyes.
OH, HOW SHE DID WEEP
Her Anaconda Bondsmen Are After
Her-Gone to Washington On a
Clue-She Worked the Good
Baptist People.

One of the bondsmen of Mrs. William
Lavelle OF Anaconda was i'm Butte yes
| terday. trying to get a trace of the
missing woman and her family. and in
the evening he left for Seattle to in
vestigate a clue he obtained. The La
velles came to Butte about a year ago,
and after a short residence i'm this city
they became acquainted with several
members of the Baptist church and
represented themselves as being MEM
beers i'm good standing of the same
church in some Eastern state. Mrs.
Lavelle was an oily worker and she
told a pitiful story of hard luck. She
said they a started for the Klondike,
but her husband got sick and they were
compelled to lay over in Denver. where
the doctors and hospital fees consumed
all their resources. BY selling all theic
personal effects they succeeded In pay
ing their way To Butte. They had
heard that Butte was a good town, but
when they arrived here they were un-
able to find employment, and they were
in desperate straits. Mrs. Lavelle en-
bellished her story with "A copious flo
of tears. and they touched the hearts
Of the church people. \ dozen people
exerted themselves in the family's be-
half. and they brought them money.
clothing and groceries and even paid
their rent and procured a place for the
daughter. After the family had Dor.
rowed all the money they could from
their church friends they disappeared
as suddenly as they had appeared.
Their acquaintance i'm Butte made
inquiries about them. but could finI
no trace of them until one day they
read i'm the Standard that Mr.. and Mrs.
Lavelle were under arrest in Anaconda
for selling property hat did not belong
to them. 1t appeared that they haI
leased a in that city and
after running II a short time sold H.,
although they had no title to the prop
erty, and prepared to skip out, but
they were arrested before they could
get away. They had n preliminary
hearing and were bound over to the
district court. After some trouble Mrs.
Lavelle succeeded in getting bondsmen
and was released.
She Immediately came to Butte with
out notifying her bondsmen of her de-
parture, and they became alarmed. as
they believed she had skipped out.
They began to search for her, with the
intention of surrendering her To tn ,
sheriff. Mrs. Lavelle heard of it and
hti lNdhN hoN VI NtdlS 'dil' " hEA
rescue again. She called at the Butte
office of the Standard and told another
hard luck story. She said she hal
come to Butte under an assumed name
to engage in the restaurant business
for the purpose Of earning money with
which to defend herself i'm the criminal
case. She wept and said she was a
Woodworking, honest woman and had
no intention Of skipping out.
She declared that If her Anaconda
bondsmen withdrew she could easily
furnish a new bond Mrs. Lavelle pro-
duced a slip of paper on which were
written the names of half the bankers
and business men i'm Butte. h she
said. were her friends and had volun-
teered to go on her bonds. Then she
cried some more. lust the same. her
bondsmen withdrew and she CAV n
new bond in the sum of 81. 900, with two
Anaconda men as suretics. a few
weeks later Mrs. Lavelle disappeared
and she has not been seen since. nor
has she been heard from through her
bondsmen. who have been making \
diligent search for her.
A few days ago a letter vas received
in Butte. from which IL was gathered
that Mrs. Lavelle and her daughter
are somewhere i'm Washington, and one
of the bondsmen left for the west last
night to run down the clue.