The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-03
WAS It MALICIOUS
Doubts Cast Upon the Story of
Mrs. Younger.
THE CHILD Is ALL RIGHT
A Case In Police Court Develops Testi-
mony That Leads the People to Be.
lieve That the Tale of the Out
rage Was Trumped Up.

Disclosures made in a case in the DO
lice court yesterday and facts that have
come to light since the complaint was
made have inclined the authorities TO
the opinion that the story told the po-
lice a few days ago by Mrs. Gus Young
er to the effect hat an attempt had been
made to commit an outrage upon her
~23-year-old daughter was a reprehensi-
BILE yarn, manufactured to injure a
neighbor with whom the woman had
had trouble.
On the day the complaint relative to
the alleged attempted assault was made
Mrs. Younger attempted to throw sus-
picion upon Eugene p. Beams, and sub
sequently he was arrested on a charge
of disturbing the peace at the instance
or Mrs. Younger. Beams, for his own
protection, had the child examined by
a physician, who unhesitatingly assert
ed that there was not the slightest evil
dence of an assault having been at
tempted.
The sequel of the difficulty came out
in the trial of Beams before Judge Fer
rell yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Younger
appeared as the complaining witness.
and by her own evidence virtually ac-
quilted the defendant. 1t appeared
from the evidence that Beams conducts
a cheap lodging house near the home of
Mrs. Younger and that he, in common
with others in the neighborhood, gets
water from a faucet at Mrs. Younger's
house. 1t appears some misunderstood
ing arose between Mrs. Younger and
Beams and she tool il upon herself to
stop him from getting water from the
faucet. She stated that when she re-
FUSED Beams permission to use the
water from the faucet he used abusive
and Insulting la npIlaOA in tho Cor
OF herself and children and for this she
had him arrested for disturbing the
peace.
Cross-examined by Attorney Dygert,
who appeared for Beams, Mrs. Younger
was asked by authority she re-
fused Beams permission to use the
water. She replied on her own author
ity. Asked if she had a supervisory or
proprietary right over the faucet, she
was compelled to answer she had not,
but said she had been told by the owner
of the property that it was not for COM
mon use.
Beams denied he had ever used insult
ing language to Mrs. Younger and pro-
duced evidence to show he had a right
to use the faucet.
The testimony of other witnesses for
the defense, people living in the neigh
bofhood, was to the effect that Mrs.
Younger was a great scold and was oon-
llnually IN trouble with some one and /
after listening to it all Judge Terrell
dismissed the case.
From the evidence in this case and
the statement of the physician who ex-
amined the Younger child, the police
came to the conclusion the story of the
attempted assault was trumped up to
make trouble for Beams and will make
no further effort to find the child's al
legged assailant.
The case is a fair illustration of a
great number of cases in which persons
to get wen with others for fancied
wrongs by bringing criminal prosecu-
tons and putting the authorities to a
vast amount of trouble, only to have
the matter terminate the same way.
The charge of violating the ordinance
the moving of buildings
without a permit, preferred some time
ago against Edgar Dayton, was with
August Smith, colored, was
$40 on a charge of vagrancy. The
of vagrancy against Charles Clark,
accused of being a secretary, was dis
missed. In the case of Bert Rowe, a
who forfeited a diamond the
day before, which had been put up as
bond for his appearance, the forfeit
was set aside, the defendant en-
tered a plea of guilty to a charge of
vagrancy and was fined $25. Bill Rob-
erts was fined s. for drunkenness.