The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-18
MRS. KINDER IS GUILTY
The Verdict Rendered by Twelve
Good Men and True.
ON A CHARGE OF LARCENY
She Was Accused OF Stealing Goods
From the Come Store. Where She
Was Formerly Employed
as a Clerk.

Mrs. Anna Kinder, the woman ac-
cused of shoplifting at the NJ. ]. Con-
nell store and wife of j. w. Kinder,
who was bound over to the district court
the day before for receiving stolen prop
erty. vas tried yesterday before a jury
in Justice ~Laurandeau's court on a
charge of petit larceny, the trial result
ing in a verdict of guilty. Mrs. Kinder
was formerly employed at the Cornell
store. The LIST of July her term of serv-
ice ceased. On the 4th of August she
visited the store and was caught steal
ing a ady's silk vest. Subsequent de-
velopments resulted in an Investigation
being made and something like 81. 600
worth of stolen property was recovered
from the Kinder residence. Mrs. Kinder
was arrested, but as IL could not be
proved that she had taken more than
500 worth of goods at any one time she
could only be charged with petit lar
n At her -arraignment she demanded
a jury trial, which came up yesterday
afternoon before Justice Laurandeau at
2:3O O'Clock. Deputy County Attorney
Dan fancey prosecuted the case and
Attorney e. Nj. Parr appeared for the
defense. The defendant sat through the
trial without evincing any great amount
OF concern. She is a petite little woman,
aOt a great deal more than 80 years Of
age. yet her face is scanned with heavy
lines that would not indicate her lot had
been any too rosy.
Ii took but a few minutes to secure
a jury, and Edward Maloney. floor
walker at NJ. j.. ConnelI's store, was
called to the stand. He testified that
the defendant worked at the store six
or eight months. On the 4th of August
she visited the store and was caught
te4InR goods NNitnAGc na,.,aaA -
she denied the theft. Witness said he
would call an officer and she took a silk
vest from the bosom of her dress and
handed it back. Witness subsequently,
visited the residence of the defendant IN
South Colorado street and, i'm the pres
ence OF a police officer, accused the de-
PENDANT of taking a bolt of lace and a
feather boa. She admitted the theft
and produced the goods. She said she
had been wronged out of So at the store
and had taken the goods to get even.
she mad besides said she was poor and
had taken the goods to help herself
along.
On cross-examination Mr.. Parr asked
the witness to state the language Mrs.
Kinder had used when she admitted TAX
the goods. He sale he could not
state the exact language, but she had
made the admission.
Miss frances pullman was next call
ed. She works at the M. j. Cornell
store and was not present when the de-
fendant gave back the silk vest she
had TAKEN, but she had found several
silk vests missing from her department.
She could not fix the value of the other
goods taken.
Police Officer McGillic was next called.
He said he was not the officer who ac-
Maloney to the defendants
house at the time Mrs. Kinder ac-
u N nv lodi n1 H. .lra
in the complaint, and Mr..
Yancey asked if he had subsequently,
made a search of the defendants resi-
fence, to which Mr., Parr objected, as
mere was no search mentioned in the
complaint. His evidence was according
y shut out and, as Officer Shelby, who
accompanied Maloney, was not present,
he state rested.
MIR. Parr announced he would not nut
n any defense, and Mr.. Yancev. in I,
making his argument, merely went over
he evidence and pointed out that the
being a woman should not !
Weigh in the rendering of a verdict. as I
was imperative that crimes so clearly
'roved should not go unpublished. I
Mr.. Parr laid considerable stress on I
he witness Maloney's testimony that I
frs. Koinder had said she had been {
Vronged and said undoubtedly If the I
rlme a been committed ii had been [
through desperation over her wrong, !
nd made an appeal for sympathy, as |
he defendant had a sick husband and a e
amily to support and had grievous }
revocation. No attempt was made to |
eny the commission of the crime. but 4
'niency was prayed for out of consid- a
ration for the fact that the defendant :,
as a mother and had children and a .
OK husband who needed her attention. 7
Mr.. Yancey, in replying, thought the I
ppeal for sympathy was very much Z
of the place; that the woman knew q
hat she was doing and, as for the sick a
usband, he thought there was a very ;
pod prospect that the state would take :
are OF him, at least for some years TO -
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The jury deliberated very briefly and e
turned a verdict of guilty, fixing the g,
lnishment at 40 days in the county ~
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