The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-11
A PERSONAL ENCOUNTER
Saner Attacks Attorney Healy,
Who Had Sued Him.
SEPARATED BY FRIENDS
Saner, One of the Defendants, Said Healy
Wanted s25 With Which to Fix
the Stenographer and Do
Some Crooked Work

Judge Lindsay's court yesterday after
moon during the progress of trial.
when a witness made a rather serious
accusation against a young lawyer, who
appeared as plaintiff in the case, and
after the adjournment of court the TWO
came together in a personal encounter
in the corridor and the lawyer escaped
rough handling only by the interference
of several spectators. The case on trial
WAS that of Attorney j. l.. Healy
against A. Saner, Ed Greaves and
Charles II. Grinsdale. a suit to recover
500 for services performed attorney
in the case of the state of Montana
against Eugene Couch, convicted of en-
bezzlement and now serving a sentence
in the state penitentiary. The defend
ants denied that they employed Healy.
The suit was first commenced in ST.
mon Murray's court at Walkerville and
transferred to Justice Laurandeaus
court on change of venue, where it was
tried, and Healy obtained a judgment
for Sl0e. At the trial yesterday Mr..
Healy testified that at the time Couch
was arraigned he happened to be pres
ent in Judge IauraEdeau's court and
that John Bordeaux asked him to take
an interest in COUGHS case. He said he
found Couch had been arrested for
stealing money belonging to the Hold
Carriers union. and that at COUGHS re-
quest he started out TO find Saner. one
man by the name of Hughes, to get
,nhem TO go on his bond. Saner agreed
TO go on the bond II some one else would
go with him and told Healy to go ahead
and defend Couch and he would see
that the money was raised to pay him.
Healy testified that he afterwards met
Saner and the other defendants in front
of the Combination, and they told him
to go ahead with the case and they
would see that he was paid
He testified that he had attended the
preliminary examination. but was not
paid for his services, and along in July,
1887, he met Saner in front of the First
National bank and Saner told him that
kabout $50 was about all they could
praise. A short time thereafter he met
kSaner near the Silver Bow brewery and
was asked to step inside and he would
sgive him the $50. Healy stated that he
invent in and Saner then stated To him
that it would not do for him to be seen
giving Healy any money, that the hod
carriers who were present would think
he was doing it all. A few days after
ward Healy again met Saner on the
street and that time Saner said that all
they could raise was $50. While the
street paving was going on the defend
ants called at his office to get bond
drawn up and said they We're sorry
Healy had dropped out of the case. and
If he could get them contract to do
some work they would be able to pay
him, and afterwards they secured con-
tract TO do some sidewalk work In con-
snection with the paving. AT that time
The told them as far as things had gone
tthey could have his work for nothing.
and at that time they agreed to pay
him 500, and he went on and did all he
could for Couch.
j After the trial was over, he met Saner
on Main street and Saner told him the
boys would have a settlement with
do IN fhsA fPGf of hA Il I'D
they would make it all right with him.
but they did not pay him anything and
Saner afterwards told him that they
were not going 10 pay, aas this was "A
case for the statute of frauds and they
had taken an attorneys advice. on
cross-eXamination by w. l.. Carroll. the
defendants attorney, Mr.. Healy testi-
fled that he had appeared for Couch in
consequence of what the defendants had
told him.
Did not you state To Saner.' asked
Mr.. Carroll, that you wanted S2h or $50
for the purpose of fixing the county at
torneys stenographer and have him
draw the information so Couch could
not be held under it?''
Healy emphatically replied that he
never told Saner that he would fix the
county attorneys stenographer or any
body else with the money: that when
Saner offered him the s25 he said Saner
must take him for chinaman The
defendants said that If they could get
this contract they would be able 10 pay
him. 1t seems that Couch applied TO
his relatives for $500 10 help in his de-
Tense. but the relatives did not come
10 his rescue.
j. r. Silver was also witness for the
plaintiff. but his testimony was evi-
IDENTIFY great disappointment, as af-
ter the first question asked him the
plaintiff laid foundation for impeach-
ment. Mr.. Silver was asked If he did
not, some time last Week in a CONVEX
sation he had with plaintiff. say that
3le knew Healy would not win the case
because the three defendants would
outswear him. The witness answered
he did not use that language. but said
TO Healy he thought he had no right
TO collect from the defendants and that
ne hunted up Healy on purpose TO tell
him that there was no use to have him
testify, as he did not know anything
about the case.
Eugene Couch. who was brought
from the penitentiary TO testify for the
defense. stated that he told Healy that
if he was convicted he would pay him
as soon as he got out of jail. and that
after his conviction he told Healy he
had no money and the attorney said
that was all right. that he had not
asked him for any.
Al Saner. one of the defendants. tes-
titled that he had been asked TO go on
COUGHS bond and that he would If
somebody else could be secured. He
denied that he ever made an agree
ment with Healy about defending
Couch and that he never went good
for what was due Healy. on one oc-
casion, he said, he met the attorney
near the First National bank and
Healy told him if he could get s25 or
$50 he could fix Stenographer Johnson.
The money was to be used in getting
the information written out in a Ger
tain way and that he had already
STAYED off the filing. When Healy told
him that, he went down and raised
$25. Saner also testified that he was
at Healy's office to get a bond signed
and denied that he had any talk with
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