The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-24
BAD EGGS.
All Sorts and Conditions of People Who
Break the Law.

Break the Law.
Jessie Olson and Annie Hess helped
Miles Callahan. a miner. spend hi:
months pay night before last and as a
consequence were fined in police court
yesterday for the alleged theft of part
OF his earnings. Callahan met the WON
en- in a lodging house at the corner OF
Main n Galena streets. He had JUS
got his months pay and the three pro-
ceeded to spend IL. After having a big
time and getting glorlously drunk. Cal
lahan discovered that more Of his money
was gone than he had spent and accus-
ed the women of stealing it. He said he
had been deprived of either $50 or $40.
he was not certain which. The women
were arrested and when booked at the
city jail the Hess woman had $l9 she
claimed Callahan had given her. Both
women pleaded guilty to a charge of
prostitution in police court and were
fined $50 each. The Olson woman liqui-
dated, but the other preferred to serve
out her time and went to Jail.
The usual trial-day number Of cases
were before Judge Terrell. The case
of Sophie James, for maintaining a
house of prostitution, in which Attor-
ney N~aughten proposes to test the wall
idity of the police system of imposing
monthly fines on women of the town,
came up for hearing. \ number Of po-
licemen and people living in the locality
in which the defendants place is locat-
ed. testified to the i'll repute in which
the house stands and of the nightly de-
bauches that take place there and the
court found the defendant guilty and
imposed a $50 fine. Attorney Naughten
gave notice of appeal and will fight the
case in the district court.
The cases of Mrs. Barbara Shaban
n her daughter-in-law, May Shabdn.
who INDUCED in a family quarrel in the
Latin quarter the day before, resulting
in the daughter-in-law being cut by the
mother-in-law, were aired. and as it APP
peared both had been guilty of disturb
ing the peace, Judge Terrell fined them
So each.
Victor Boutine who was twice arrest
ed for disturbance on complaint of his
wife, who accused him of misusing her,
succeeded in defeating both cases and
they were dismissed.
James Gilday was found guilty of
having created a disturbance and was
assessed SO. T.. j. Wesson. arrested
for dumping refuse in Silver Bow creek,
was convicted of violating the health
ordinance and paid a fine of so. l.. q.
Hyllier, charged with disturbance, for,
as alleged. striking a woman at the
of Main and Park streets, plead
not guilty and had his hearing set
for Friday. The case of disturbance
against Mrs. John Murphy was dismiss
ed.
Thomas Burton was acquitted of a
charge of disturbance. Molly Murray,
the negress who has spent the greater
part of the past year in Jail for va
was up again yesterday on the
old charge. She was sentenced to 80
but upon pleading with the court
to give her an opportunity 10 leave
sentence was suspended on on
1ition that she get out in "a hours. r.
Johnson, who was caught prowling
a lodging house i'm the lower
part of town a few days ago and ar
rested on suspicion of being a burglar.
was acquitted of a charge of v~agrancy.
Eldore Livingston, arrested for stealing
Goa from an East Park street lodg-
.ng house, was convicted of petit lar
,eny and given 10 days in the county
Jail.