The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-04
MAHONEY GETS HIS DUES
Sentenced to Hard Labor for
Fifteen Years.
AN APPEAL TO BE TAKEN
New Evidence Alleged to Have Been
Observation-Disclosures Corbett's Father
Has Refused to Take His
Daughter Back.

Judge Clancy felt pretty good yester-
day morning when he opened court.
m when Edward Mahoney appeared
before him to be sentenced for accom-
plishing the ruin of the 1~6-year-old girl,
Nellie Corbett. he gave the beastly Of
fender a sentence OF Is years in the
penitentiary. Mahoney's case was the
first thing on the calendar. and as o
as court opened he was brought from
Jail to receive his medicine. Son of
his friends were present. neither was
his wife. who had stood by him during
his trial and testified in his behalf after
she had caused his arrest for the crime.
Dennis Corbett. the father of the ruined
and motherless girl. was present. how
ever. and watched the proceeding with
interest and satisfaction. The court
asked Mahoney the usual question IL he
had anything to say why sentence
should not be passed on him, and the
prisoner answered sullenly:
mo. sir; l have not"
The Judge then made a brief review
Of the case and referred to the evidence
which showed how Mahoney first ac-
complished the ruin of the girl by force
Wnen Snt was "A HltIt tHllu III ytdlSs
though the head of her ather's house
since the death of her mother. and a
the care Of the other children; how his
act wrecked "a life and despoiled a nap
by home. and sent out into the world
the unfortunate victim, unhappy n
disgraced. The Judge could not find
wrods to express his detestation of a
man Of family. a man 46 years of age.
who would assault a girl of l6. SEN
tence was then formally nassed that
Mahoney be confined in the state peni-
Tertiary at Deer Lodge, at hard labor.
for a term of Is years. and that a civil
judgment for costs be entered against
him. Mahoney was then taken back to
jail. and every one i'm the court room
felt that justice had been done.
An appeal will, of course, be taken
to the supreme court by Mahoney's
lawyers. but the county attorney feels
confident that the judgment will be
affirmed. About the only point the de-
Tense has to appeal on IL that the evil
dence was insufficient to justify the
verdict. The trial court limited the
proofs TO one particular act, and nat
urally there was no testimony of hat
except that of the girl herself, Ma
honey having failed to make his in
tentions public and invited no one to
be present. The girls testimony. how
ever. was supported by the introduc-
ton of a letter which she received from
Mahoney in Jail. in which he practically
admitted the wrong he had lone her,
and urged her to secrecy.
A formal move will also be made for
n new trial on the ground OF newly dis
covered evidence material to the de-
Tense, but II is suspected there Is not
| muchl to that
Mahoney's victim and her Legitimate
child are inmates of the Home of the
Good Shepherd in Helena, to which
place she returned directly after Ma
honey's trial. Dennis Corbett. her faith
err. refused to take her back into his
home and kind friends induced her to
go to the home. Corbett Is very bitter
against his daughter. He says he could
have forgiven her for the first wrong
she did II she had not. after he suspect
ed her intimacy with Mahoney, lied to
him and protected her betrayer until
she could no longer conceal her shame
and attempted to elope with the man
who had 50 grossly wronged her.