The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-22
ANACONDA NEWS.
IS GUILTY OF FORGERY
Everton j. Patch Convicted by a
Jury in the District Court.
COURT TO FIX SENTENCE
The Prisoner Will This Morning Have
Judgment Passed Upon Him-En-
dorsed Another's Name ona
Certificate of Deposit.

+; Everton j. Patch was convicted of the
crime of forgery by jury in the dis
trict court yesterday. Patch was
charged with having on July IL. 1896,
presented for payment at Hoge, DAILY
& Co.'S bank certificate of deposit for
$50, upon which he had endorsed the
name of Edward Dugan, the name
which appeared on the face of the
check
Patch, after having committed the
crime, left the city and went to Butte
after which he went to Helena. He was
arrested in that city and brought back
to Anaconda. In his preliminary hear
ing Judge Donoghue bound him over to
the district court in $500 bonds, and in
default thereof he has been in the
county Jail ever since.
Patch was tried in the district court
on Nov. 10 and IL for crime of rob-
berry in stealing a watch and other arti-
cles from Dugan. The crime was al
legged to have been committed at the
same time that the forgery was made.
The jury in that case acquitted Patch,
and an information charging him with
forgery was then filed. Is. S. Thresher
OF Butte appeared as counsel for the
defense and County Attorney Trippet
prosecuted the case The jury was out
about four hours and they left the pun
ishment to be fixed by the court.
The jury was selected in compare
lively short time, only little difficulty
being experienced in this direction
The jury as selected is composed of Hi
ram Jones, ]. p. Jenkins, Bullas Par
rott. j. NJ. Shoup, Thomas Mcdonald,
Steve Henault, John Kaiser. John a.
johnson, Chris Stuernagel, Sam Scott,
Charles Hilbert and William Forman.
During the forenoon County Attorney
H.
ward Dugan, Richard Burke, George
III. Linsley and Alex Devine. Burke
and Dugan testified that On the night
of July IL, 1897, they had attended
dance, and after the dance they pro-
ceeded tc take on a feS drinks. Early
in the morning, at about $3.50, they went
to Burke's room, where they found
Patch in bed. They went out and got
some beer, and after drinking this they
went to bed. When they awoke it was
about IL o'clock. Dugan searched his
pockets and found that a watch, some
silver and a certificate OF deposit were
gone. He hurried to the bank 10 stop
payment on the certificate in case il
had been presented. The bank people
told him that the paper had already
been cashed
George II. Linsley the paying teller
of the bank, told of the cashing of the
deposit check. He said that at about
y O'Clock on the morning of July II. a
man came into the bank with the GER
tificate which was made out to ''Edw.'
Dugan. The check was endorsed
''Edie" Dugan. Mr. Lnsley compared
the signature with the name in his
book and informed the man that the
check would have to be endorsed as it
was made out. He asked the man
his name was "Edi'' or Ed
ward, and the man said it was Ed
ward, The applicant then tried TO
change the nf 'tEs1ia'' MT
ward. but on the advice of Mr. Lins-
ley he reWrote the whole name Ed
ward Dugan." Mr.. Devine .corrobo-
rated Mr.. Linsley's testimony with ref
erence to the conversation that took
place in the bank
In the afternoon, the defense. repre- !
sented by Attorney =. S. Thresher of |
Butte, put Patch upon the stand He |
said that he was asleep in Burke's |
'oom when Burke and Dugan came in. |
They were drunk. They wanted Patch |
to get up and go out and get drunk |
with them, but he would not He told
hem that 1T was all off with him. so
Tar as having good times was con-
After that Dugan and Burke
got pitcher of beer and wanted him
Q drink some, but he declined He
vent to sleep again and Dugan and
3urke went out of the room. They re-
urned in short time with another
person, whom he did not know They
lad some more beer and a lunch of |
,igs feet and canned tomatoes. and
ome other stuff that he did not know
What 1T was. Dugan and Burke then
aid down on the bed and fell into a
tupor. He got up when the two went
o bed and put on some of his clothes
nd went out for a few minutes. about
0 minutes
When he returned the third person
vas sitting on Il chair in the room.
'atch asked him if he was going up
own. The man said he might as we'll
hey visited various saloons and at
bout o'clock they found themselves
4 front of the Copper City companv,s
tore. The man pulled a certificate of
eposlt out of his pocket and handing
to Patch. he asked him to have il
ashed at the bank, while the unknown
nan went TO his room and got his
'atch, which he said he had forgotten.
hey were to meet at the postoffiee
nd Were going afterward to Butte The
IAN wanted him to cash the check in
rider to save time, and so they could
lake certain train
Patch took the certificate to the hank
nd admitted having had the CONVEX
alton which Mr. Linsley testified to.
scept that he denied having said that
is name was Edward" neither did
q say his name was Edward Du-
an What he did say was that he
as called ''Edie," and had been known
y that name for long time. He
lid he endorsed the names upon the
ack of the certificate. but did not ]
now that it was criminal or Illegal. He g
fought 1t was all right. After secur-
g the money he went as per arrange I
ent to the postoffice, where he met the n
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