The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-01
SAMPLE CASE OF GRAFT 5.
Being a Stranger From Big Tim
Der, Sample Was Taken In.
THEY DID HIM UP QUICK
He Had $50 in His Old Tobacco Pouch
Which He Didn't Find When He
Came Out Again-He Was
Easy Plucking.

The county attorneys office Will take
hand i'll the prosecution of the Galena
street grafters and will make an exam
pie of woman giving her name as Mag
gle Moore. who had crib at No ~. next
door to king Mahoney's place. The wo-
man was arrested few days ago by Cap
tain Dawson on complain OF an old miner
from Big Timber, named Jacob A. Sam
pie, whom she had touched for $50 all
the money he had in the world.
The city authorities and police did not
consider the evidence strong enough to
make out a case of robbery against her
and the common charge of running "a
house of prostitution was put against the
woman and she was fined S25 in the police
court and discharged.
Sample, however happened 10 tell his
troubles TO a friend and was advised to
see the county attorney. lie called at the
office yesterday morning and told Mr..
Connolly about il and offered to remain
in the city to prosecute the woman. MIR.
Connolly considered the evidence against
the woman strong enough to send her To
the penitentiary, and he instructed the
sheriff s office to arrest her. Deputy SheT-
if O'Neil nabbed her Just as she came
from the police court. and she is now I'm
the county jail and Sample is detained
as Il witness. An information will prob
ably be filed direct in the district court
against the woman.
Sample tells the usual story az how he
came to be robbed. lie had just arrived in
town and ON Wednesday evening was
walking along Galena street and received
the usual invitation TO Come in. dear"
Il didn't want to go in. and had no
business there. said the old man, in tell
ing his troubles. but she said she had
some good whiskey and cigars and asked
me to come in and get acquainted and
like darned old fool | went in
The girl sat on his lap and soon he got
up and left her When he got outside he
took out an old tobacco pouch in which
he had kept his money and found 1t open
and all his money gone but q nts He
reported his loss 10 the policeman on
that beat, but, he said, the officer refused
10 arrest the woman. and gave the old
man no satisfaction. He then hunted UP
Captain Dawson and the latter promptly
arrested the woman.
Sample told Mr.. Connolly that he was
dead certain" that he had his money
when he entered the Moore crib. because
just before going in he had left another
crib. and having heard so much about
the smoothness of the Galena street rob
bers, he took out his tobacco pouch to
see If he had been robbed or not and he
found that he still had all his money. lie
then succumbed to the Moore woman's
invitation.
''She is a smooth one darned IL she
amt" said the old miner after he told
his story to Mr. Connolly II have been
knocking around this country a good
many years but this beats my time
The man said he was willing to go TO
jail to be held as witness if necessary
and would not hesitate to testify against
the woman and tell his experience to a
jury.
The Sample case is but the second case
of grating ever reported to the county
attorney by the victim. He has never
been able 10 even get chance to pro-
coed against the grafters and now hav-
ing found man who is willing to testify
MIR. Connolly says he means to take adj
vantage of the opportunity and make an
example.