The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-08
DAN MQU|LLAN SENT UP
He Got Drunk and Abused His
Wife Shamefully.
SWIPEO SOME CHICKENS
]. B. Aeagher's Fondness for Fowl
Causes Him Much Troubie-A Big
Grist of Hoboee-A Sausage
Machine in Court.

Yesterday was a busy day with Judge
Fitzgerald in police court. the volume
of the days business being heavier
than has been the case for some line
past.
Dan McQuillan and his wife again
appeared in court and aired their fam
lily troubles. This makes the third or
fourth time that Mrs. McQuillan has
had her husband arrested. but each
time McQuillan has promised to re-
form. and the cases were settled out
of court. Yesterday. however. McQuii-
Ian did not get OF so easily. for he was
fined $50 and ordered committed to the
county jail until it is paid.
McQuillan, il appears, Is a good
enough sort of man. but he drinks too
much beer, and when he gets keyed up,
he goes for his wife. The couple live
in a little shack on Lower East Park
avenue. They have been married a
dozen years or more and have four
children. Mrs. McQuillan's story OF
their last rouble as told to the court
yesterday is to the effect that when
McQuillan came home from work on
Monday evening. he commenced rush
ing the GROWER" He kept this up till
IL or IL o'clock, and to make things
more sociable like, he invited in a
OF tNO 10 JOIN niIl u W.
a little fun. When Nc ~uillan had
drunk quite enough at home, he went
out and came home at about . o'clock.
His wife was lying on the bed waiting
for him. He began abusing her and
calling her vile and indecent names and
accused her of acts of infidelity. which
Mrs. McQuillan says are entirely un-
founded. She stood the abuse as Ions
as she could and then she reached up
and SLAPPED his face. Thereupon he
playfully pulled her out of bed. n in
falling she struck her head on the
floor. She screamed and the cry awoke
one of the children. who ran screaming
into the street. M"Nr'llan was ar
rested and locked VI over night.
McQuillan made no defense, but
promised his wife that he would &C
away and leave her N their children,
and would provide for them. The wife
said such an arrangement woul be
satisfactory to her. but she was sure
that whenever McQuillan got drunk
again, he would be up to his old
tricks.
Judge Fitzgerald thought about %
days spent in reflection would do Nc
Quillan a heap of good and he accord
ingly fined him $50.
]. Il. Meagher was arrested by officer
Powers at McHale's boarding house on
East Commercial avenue, where the Of
ficer found him in the hen house with
his arms full of chickens. He was sent
up for 30 days.
william Smith vas arrested for hav-
ing in his possession a sausage ma
hin which he was trying to dispose
of. The officers believed the machine
had been stolen. Smith said he had
found it in an alley. AS no owner could
yesterday be found for the machine,
Smith was kept in Jail until the owner
shows up.
John Metzger was picked up by OFF,
Ger O'Brien on suspicion that he is
mentally deranged. 1t seems that he
has been drinking for some time. and
when arrested he was acting in a very
peculiar manper. He will be held in
Jail in order to find out II he is really
insane or only suffering from the eff
fects of too much hiskey.
Martin O'Grady, a vag, was ordered
to leave town, and he lost nj time in
doing so.
A couple OF colored women of the bad
lands had a couple of men arrested,
whom they claimed had assaulted
them. There did not appear to be much
in the charge and the cases were dis
missed.
George Kelly and Frank Morgan got
into a fight and they were run in.
Kelly was sentenced to 20 days in Jail
and Morgan was ordered out Of town.