The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-27
CORINNE WILSON FREE
Has Been in Jail Ever Since Her
Eventful Ride.
NOT EVIDENCE ENOUGH
She Took a Ride With Married Man.
He Got stupidity Drunk and She
Was Accused OF Robbing
Him of His Money.

Corinne Wilson, the bit of feminine
frailty who several months ago took
buggy drive with married man
which resulted in a scandal and public
ity through the vengeful acts of the in
jured wife, was released from the
county jail yesterday where she had
been held ever since the eventful drive
on charge of grand larceny. She
had been arrested for robbing her male
companion of the money, which. it APP
pears, he spent on her.
Deputy County Attorney Stivers
filed a written request in court yester-
day morning for permission not TO file
an information against the woman The
request stated the facts in the case to
be that the defendant at the request
and solicitation of one John Funk, the
complaining witness in this case, took
buggy ride with him out on the fiat.
leaving Butte between / and o'clock
in the morning. They called at several
of the road houses, and finally wound
up at the Reception road house, where
the complaining witness became stup-
idly drunk. The complaining witness
is a married man and has little
daughter. He claims that he had saved
up some one and two-dollar bills for
his daughter, and that money together
with other bills and gold amounting in
all to between 500 and so, was taken
frors him by the defendant and one
Rosario Levitre, the latter being the
barkeeper at the Reception who was
arrested with the defendant for this
crime and discharged on preliminary
hearing. Mr.. Funk admitted that he
had not been robbed up to the time he
sat down behind a stove at the Recep-
ton, and other testimony went to show
that the defendant was not near him
after he was seated there.
THE prosecuting witness does not
know how he lost his money, and the
witnesses for the defense say he was
very liberal in spending, the defendant
claiming that he gave her SIS to spend.
She testified that he gave her $40 In
small bills, ones and twos. When the
defendant was arrested next day she
had some money, including So in one
and two-dollar bills. She testified on
the stand that she had some of this be-
fore she went out riding with Mr..
Funk Mr.. Funks wife went out t.
the road house for him next day when
she heard of his Spree and they (Mr.
and Mrs. Funk had quarrel. They
both claim that his money was gone
but no one outside of Mr.. Funk knew
how much he had when he left town.
THE testimony further showed that
he was spending money in the lodging
house in which defendant stopped. and
from where they left town that morn
ing before they went down on the fiat.
Affiant now states that he conducted
the preliminary hearing and is con-
yersant with the facts in this case
from full and complete investigation
of the same, and is of the opinion that
the testimony that could be produced
by the state would not be sufficient to
warrant conviction, wherefore your
officer now asks leave of court that he
be allowed not TO file an information
charging the aboVe-named defendant
Corinne Wilson, with the crime of
grand larceny"
The court also ordered the sheriff to
restore TO Corinne the money and eff
fects taken from her when arrested