The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-13
ANACONDA news.
SHAPING DOES NOT co
A Neighborhood Row Aired in
the Police Court.
TRIED BEFORE A JURY
August Hensgen. the Defendant. Was
Acquitted and the Prosecuting Wit
ness Assessed to Pay the Costs
OF the Case.

All are fish that come into Judge
Fitzgerald's net-not that this should
be taken to mean that all those who
get in the police court are in the pop
ular parlance suckers" In the ad-
minstration of his duties the Little
Judge" comes in contact with all sorts
and conditions of men and m
Yesterday he was called upon to settle
a n~eighborhood difference. The case
was entitled the state of Montana VS..
August Hensgen, the architect. The
case was on for several hours yesterday
morning and afternoon and resulted in
the %vindication of Mr.. Hensgen.
1t appears that on July 2 Annie
Christianson, who is a %neighbor of Mr..
Hensgen, took the liberty of reproviug
a little daughter of the architect by
slapping her. Mr.. Hensgen did not like
this action of Miss Christianson, SO
went over to her house and wanted 10
know what the reason for her action
was, and, Furthermore, informed her
that in the future he would
reserve the right to chastise his own
child. In the evidence yesterday 1T was
said that this made Miss Christianson
very sassy, Whatever IND II. FIJI.
Hensgen testified that when Miss Chris
Hanson got .'assy'' he said he would
go up town and get her fixed" 1t APP
pears that Mr.. Hensgen did this. for a
complaint was sworn to in Judge Will
liams' court and Miss Christensen
came in and pleaded guilty to the COM
plant and was fined IS and costs. This,
however, did not end the trouble. On
the contrary. 1t only added fuel to
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wife Miss Christensen resides, went
down to Judge Fitzgerald's court and
swore out a complaint, charging the
gentleman with disturbing the peace
and using vulgar and profane lam
guage, and this was the case hat was
up for trial yesterday n proved quite
an attractive suit from a spectacular
point of view.
A jury trial was demanded n the
following citizens were chosen to adju-
dictate matters: d. Cohen, ST., @. ..
Vineyard, A. Short, T.. b. Mallory, John
Nye and Albert Kleist. In the language
of Mr.. Sawyer, who represented the de-
PENDANT, the jury was decidedly mixed.
He said. in addressing ii, that ii con-
tanned Jews, Norwegianss Mormons and
Missourians. J. NJ. Self, assistant coun-
ty attorney, represented the state. The
witnesses for the state testified that
after MS daughter ndu DeeH Sldppeu,
Mr.. Hensgen went to the house &C.
cupied by Mrs. Drum and Miss Chris
Hanson and used language calculated
to cast a reflection regarding their
~parentage and to call into question, not
their sex, but the race in the animal
kingdom to which they belonged.
Mr.. Hensgen denied this entirely, as
did also Mrs. Hensgen, who was present
when the alleged conversation took
place. The gentleman said he was not
in the least excited. 1t did not excite
him to have a stranger reprove his
daughter, 1t only pained him and tend
ed TO shock his feelings. The evidence
was about as contradictory as Ii could
be. as far as each side was concerned.
Mr.. Sawyer made an eloquent plea to
the jury in ringing tones that seriously
threatened at times to bring the city
hall roof about his head. He did not
believe that the county or taxpayers
should be troubled with such cases and
hoped the jury would sit down or sue
cases by charging the costs to the
prosecuting witness. Mr.. Self, in be-
half of the state, made a dignified ad-
dress, plainly presenting h points in
the case.
The jury was out only a few minutes
and returned with a verdict in favor
of the defendant and charged the costs
of the prosecution up to the complain
ing witness. To the spectators the case
seemed to be one of the kind that never
ought to get into court.