The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-21
Ed MAHONEY COMES HOME
He Announces That He Is Ready
to Face the Music.
BE AT THE TRIAL
Lest He Might Forget 1t. However. the
Court Fixes His Bonds at OIL 500.
He Denies That He Has Done
Anything Criminal.

Sheriff Regan returned from Spo-
kane yesterday morning with Ed Ma
honey who is charged with unlawful
intimacy with the girl Nellie Corbett
while she was under the age of is. Ma
honey was willing to return 10 Butte
without a requisition and informed the
sheriff that he would have returned
alone TO face the music" IL he had
been given a chance to do so. He did
not deny that he had been intimate with
the girl, but declared that he was not
guilty of a criminal assault. He de-
MED hat he had skipped out with the
OBJECT OF escaping any consequences and
SAID ne did no desert his family. Ma
honey was arraigned before Justice
Trap and his hearing was set for FRI
day morning. His bono was fixed at
$1,000, and being unable to furnish il
he was returned to Jail. He told the
justice hat he might just as well make
the bond 81 as $1,000. for he intended to
be on hand TO see the affair through. The
Justice, however, thought hat a bond of
$1,000 would be a more certain induce
ment to him TO ''see it through"
Mahoney has by many people been
COMPOUNDED with other men of the same
name. The accused is a miner and has
lived in Walkerville. Some time ago he
served for a considerable length of time
on the jury In Judge Clancy's depart
ment of the district court.
The Spokane Spokesman-Review IA
of Mahoney's arrest:
f. Mahoney vas arrested yesterday
morning in this city by officers Ruders-
dorf and Bringgold on a warrant from
Butte charging him with crimlnal as
sault. The crime with which he and
accused is alleged 10 have been COM
mitted upon 15-year-old Nellie Corbett.
The first notice the Spokane officers re-
ceived that Mahoney was desired in
Montana came Saturday morning in the
shape of "A telegram from Sheriff Regain
of Butte. The telegram stated that Ma
honey was desired to answer to a charge
of crimina assault and to arrest him at
once If in the city. The officers soon
located Mahoney, who is well known in
the Northwest, and who has been in
Spokane for several weeks. Yesterday
morning the detectives went TO Ma
honey's room on Post street and arrest
ed him before he got out of bed. He
took his arrest calmly and expressed but
one desire, hat he be taken to Butte
as soon as possible. He said that he
would gladly return to Montana and
would go with the officers without eX-
tradition papers.
Mr.. Mahoney is a ~well-known mining
man of Montana, having lived in that
state for the last &c years. He is a mar
ried man, having a wife and two chi
dren, the eldest aged Is. Nellie Corbett's
mother died three years ago and since
that time she has lived with her father.
The Corbett and Mahoney houses are
close together in Walkerville, a suburb
of Butte The gossips Of the neighbor-
hood began some time ago to circulate
rumors of an undue intimacy between
Mr.. Mahoney and Miss Corbett. June
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Spokane in search of work. About a
week later the girl disappeared, the
father supposing she had followed Ma
honey. He learned that Mahoney was
in Spokane and swore out a warrant
for his arrest, which resulted in his be-
ing aiken into custody by the Spokane
officers.
Mr.. Mahoney expresses himself as
anxious to return to Montana as soon
possible in order to have a chance 10
vindicate his reputation. He states that
the charge is absolutely without founda-
tion and that he was never criminally
intimate with Nellie Corbett. The whole
thing he characterized as a revengeful
On the part of Corbett.
"'Corbett and l have not been on the
best terms for some time he said. He
also treated his daughter harshly and is
advantage of this opportunity to
get revenged upon both. He has been
my reputation during my alb
sence, but now | will have an oppor-
tunity to clear away some of the mud
he has been throwing.
LAS for the girl and her disappear
| know absolutely nothing about
that. The first l heard that Nellie was
was when | was informed of it
here in Spokane. She has probably
been driven away from home by the
of her father"