The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-03

possible to tell. however. what had
caused the injury.
Mrs. Katie Matson, a friend OF the
prosecutrix, testified that Miss John-
son was at her house the evening of
July q and remained from 3 O'Clock TO
IL o'clock. Later a girl came and said
Miss johnson wanted to see her, and
she went to the johnson house. Miss
ohnso was crying and told her OF the
assault. h asked that witness nus
band be sent for the police, which was
done.
Mrs. Mulcahy. proprietress of the
boarding house, said Miss Johnson sent
for her the night in question and COM
planned of Frazier. She said there was
but one key to Miss Johnson's door,
aside from the one in the door, ana
that was in the witness possession.
Jacob Matson was next called. He
claimed he could not talk English. and
the interpreter was employed. Through
him the witness testified that the pros
ecutrix came to his house about y
o'clock in the evening. She did not APP
pear to be III. She left for home about
IL O'Clock. Abou l o'clock the witness
went to the boarding house where
Christina worked. with an oficer, to
arrest Frazier. she having asked his
wife to have him get an officer and ar
rest Frazier, as he had committed an
assault upon her.
Cross-examined by Mr.. Kirk. the wit
ness said III prosecutrix entered her
room by means of a key from the out
side.
The state rested and the defense in
opening recalled the prosecutrix for fur
Their cross-examination. She said she
had informed officers Barry and Tor
pey that Frazier had her and
beaten her as well. She did not ask to
have a doctor called. She said she re-
turned from Mrs. Matson's house about
8 o'clock and wen To bed. She locked
the door and left the key in the door.
1t was 10 o'clock when Frazier entered
the room. She did not look at the clock,
but she knew it was about 10 O'Clock.
Police Officer NJ. r. Torpey went to
the Mulcahy boarding house with Off
GER Barry upon Matson making COM
plant. She said she had been assault
ed. The witness went back with Cap
tain Dawson and Detective Murphy
when they went to investigate the mat
ter. The prosecutrix said at that time
that a knock came at the door and she
got up and opened 1t. Frazier entered
and accomplished the crime alleged.
officer Dawson had asked why she did
not send for a doctor and she said she
did not want one.
Officer ]. j. Barry testified that two
men came to him on Broadway and told
him a fellow was hurting a woman In
a lodging house in Quartz street. He
went up and saw the prosecutrix, who
was in bed and who said she had beer
assaulted. Witness inquired by whom
and she said Frazier. She said she was
asleep and some one knocked at the
door. and supposing ii was two girls
who slept in the room with her. she go
up and unlocked the door. Instead OF
being the girls 1t was Frazier.
Thomas Frazier. a cousin of the de
PENDANT, testified that his cousin was II
his all the evening of th'
night mentioned in the complaint. HI
went to bed at 10 o'clock and was never
out of bed till officer Barry came TO ar
rest him. Witness said he and his cou
sin roomed with two other young mel
next door to the Mulcahy boarding
house. On cross-examination the wit
ness admitted, or being questioned
closely, that he and his cousin had com
pared notes relative to the defendant
whereabouts the night of the nth. Or
redirect examination the witness sal
the p~rosecutrix had frequently said sh
was stuck on the defendant and wa
going to marry him..
John Mckenzie, one of the youni
men rooming with the Fraziers. sal
? the efendant went TO bed about |
O'Clock. Before that time the defendan
WAS not out OF t0e Wlt1tSS SlRHl II
: evening. except for three or four min
utes about 20 minute of 10 o'clocl
when he went into the Mulcahy board
ing house to get some lunch. He wa
not gone more than three or four mir
utes and came back with an apple an
piece of pie in his hand. On cross-eS
: animation the witness said he had NJ
: conferred with any one as to what b
was to testify to.
o Dan Mcdonald, the other young ma
rooming with the FraZiers, said the tw
a Frazier boys. the previous witness an
9 himself were all together all the ever
ing the night of the arrest, and all h
:. testimony corroborated the statement
of the preceding witness.
The defendant tool the stand and d
MED all the allegations of the prosect
trix. He repeated the testimony of h
, three friends in accounting for himse
on the night of the 9th.
After lengthy argument by counse
Judge Trap made an order bindin
; the defendant over and fixed his bon
y at $500, which he furnished.