The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-19
FIFTEEN YEARS FOR BECK
A 49, Year Old Youth Will Spend
a Long Time in Penitentiary.
OTHER MATTERS IN COURT
Frank Weaver and Charles Sherman
Plead Not 0uilty-Several Demurrers
Overrulsd me q Few Sustained.
Unimportant Case Tried.

In the district court yesterday Chas.
Beck was sentenced to Is years in the
state prison at hard labor.
Beck is the fellow who committed an
unnatural crime on May 6. for which
he was arrested and an information
filed against him. The victim of his
f~iendishness was a lad named Whitley.
Tuesday morning for arraignment. As
he had no attorney, nor money with
which to retain one. the court appoint
ed M. ID. Kelly to represent him. MIR.
Kelly took statutory time to enter a
plea.
Yesterday morning Beck was again
brought up for arraignment. He plead
ed guilty at once and the court fixed 2
O'Clock in the afternoon as the time
when sentence would be passed.
When the hour came Mr.. Kelly mad
an earnest plea for leniency on behalf
of his client. His age. said Mr.. Kelly,
ought to be taken into consideration by
the court. At the conclusion of Mr..
Kelly's speech the court sentenced
Beck to Is years i'm the p~enitentiary.
The court took occasion to express
himself with reference to such crimes
as the one to which the prisoner had
pleaded guilty. 1t was the opinion of
the court that the mar was more a fit
subject for q medical sanitarium than
for the penitentiary, but as the law
allowed him no lternativ he would
be compelled to sentence him to the
penal institution. Beck asked to be
taken to Deer Lodge at once in order
that his sentence might be entered
upon as soon as possible.
In the case of the state. against
Frank Weaver n Charles Sherman,
charged with robbery. the defendants
pleaded not guilty and their trials
were set for May "a. Viewers trial
will be taken UP first.
In the case of Martha Walters
against A. II. Mitchell, the demurrer
heretofore argued and submitted was
sustained. The case is that in which
Mrs. Walters sues DIR. Mitchell for $25.-
900 as damages for the death of her
husband, who was killed by an inmate
of the asylum a year or two ago. =
The demurrer in the case of II. p.
Leck against Frank S~trickfaden, here
tofore argued and submitted, was over
ruled. The case involves the fulfill
ment, or non-fulfllment. of a contract
to build a business block OF East Park
avenue
The demurrer in the case of II. p.
Leck against r. B.. Peckham ct al. was
also overruled. The case involves the
same features as the one above men,
toned.
In the case of j. c. Robinson against
A. Kleinschmidt, the motion for a new
trial was overruled. ~
In the case of Isador Glenn against
John W.. Moss, the demurrer was sus-
tanned as to the third and four para
graphs of the complaint.
In the case of Anna Collier against
John Fitzpatrick, sheriff, a stay of pro-
ceedings was granted the defendant
until May % on motion to set aside the
Judgment and default. An order was
made to file a stay bond for double the
amount of the judgment and costs be-
fore the evening of May 10.
A case Of A. f. Bray against j. p.
Foley was tried before a jury in the
latter part of the day. The case in
wolves abo $75. The jury was out
about 20 minutes. n returned a sealed
verdict. which will be opened this morn
ing. There are assignments and gar
nishees connected with the suit, and ii
is said that on the outcome of the
ease depends the adjudication of sever
al thousand dollars worth of like
claims.