The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-11
SHE ALLEGES ASSAULT
A Sensational Charge Brought
Against DR.. Ironsides.
HE CALLS 1T BLACKMAIL
Mrs. Brown Asks for 81 900 Damages.
Two Witnesses Who VIII Be OF
Material Assistance to DR..
I~ronsides.

A case that appears rattle sensation
al on the surface was made public yes
terday by a suit for damages brought
In the district court by Mrs. Carrie
Brown against DIR. F. A. Ir~onsides. a
well known young dentist. In her COM
plant Mrs. Brown say she is % years
Of g and the mother of two children
who depend upon her for support. The
18th OF September she went to the de-
PENDANTS dental Office at No. 25Is West
Park street, in the Curtis block, and 20
minutes later she started to leave. when,
according to Mrs. Browns complaint,
the doctor locked the door, turned out
the lights and attempted to assault
her. h says the AFFAIR so shocked her
that she has ever since been suffering
from nervous prostration and has been
under the care of a physician. She Is,
however. very modest in her demands,
as she only asks 81. 900 in damages. III.
Il. Cason appears as her attorney OF
record. but the attorney I'm fact seems
To be Burt Marsh. a justice court prac-
titioner, who has never been admitted
to practice in state courts of record.
DIR. Ironsides, the defendant, is a
young man OF considerable popularity,
an Elk, and has many friends, espe-
cially among professional men. The
doctor was questioned regarding the
affair last evening.
What have / to say? Well. I'll tell
you" he said. I'm tell you all / know
about the woman and about this mat
ter. and let you judge whether 1t is a
rank Matchmaking scheme or not. /
never saw the woman until the night
she speaks of and had never heard of
her. 1t was after IL o'clock at night.
i was in a restaurant a few doors down
the street when some one came i'm and
said there was a lady in my office who
wished to see me. / came up to the
Office. accompanied by Mr.. Nadeau, a
young man who sleeps here. / met the
woman In the outer office. / introduced
myself and she walked about the room
a while like a person uncertain what
to say or do. Finally she asked me II
she could see me lone. ! said GER
tainly.' and asked Mr.. Nadeau to step
outside for a moment. After he had
gone she said she wanted me to pre-
scribe for pneumonia. l told her l was
not a physician but a dentist. Well,
she said she wanted the prescription
for a friend of mine. and she named a
man named Munson. a race track tout.
She said she a been taking care OF
Munson and had just come from his
room. Munson made an unsuccessful
attempt to borrow some none from
before that. / told her he was no
friend OF mine, but advised her II he
had pneumonia that he had better call
in a physician. She said he had no
money. and I said I was sorry. but
could not help him. m she left. She
was not I'm my Office over three or four
minutes and the door was not closed
nor were the lights turned out. / re-
member particularly. fortunately for
me, that l went directly back TO the
and the waiter, iokingly. re-
marked that ] was pretty rapid at pull
ing teeth, as / had not been gone over
two minutes. I did not even get a
good look at the woman. and do not
believe l would know her again if 7
saw her. and did not learn her name un-
I'll last Friday, when Burt Marsh came
to my office with a long written docu-
ment. which he handed me to read. IL
was an alleged complaint against ma
made Dy this The English of
IT. was almost as bad as the charges 1t
attempted to make. | read only enough
OF IL to learn what II meant. My first
impulse was to break the fellows head,
hut l asked him what he meant by IT.
He replied that the woman had made
the complaint and had intended to lay
the charge before the county attorney,
but he, Marsh. had persuaded her to
let him have the case and try to get
a settlement OF me. I told Marsh to
get out of the office. After that others
came three or four times and tried To
get money out of me. and I laid the
matter before my attorney. Francis
Brooks. and had intended to bring ac-
ton for attempted blackmail against
some one. but delayed II on account of
the notoriety I feared and the injury It
would do me and my business. ! re-
greet now that l did not. but ! had no
idea that they would go so far with
the matter as to bring the suit. Some
body Ii going To smart for this before /
get through with il now"
A curious incident i'm connection with
the AFFAIR. and perhaps a fortunate one
for DIR. Ironsides, is that a woman
rooming In the Curtis block saw the
woman go into the doctors office and
her curiosity was aroused and. like a
woman she watched. She stated last
evening that the visitor was not i'm the
doctors Office, after he arrived. at the
most over five minutes. and that the
was not turned off.