The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-13
ANACONDA news.
POLICE COURT CLEANUP
Judge Fitzgerald Disposes of 9
Job Lot of Tough Cases.
THEFT, SCRAPS AND VAGS
A Very Dark Woman in a Case Refuses
to Prosecute q Colored Man-Josie
Oleson. b Minnehaha OF the
North End-Sentences.

Yesterday was one of Police Judge
Fitzgerald's busiest days this season.
There was an unusually large and var
led collection of offenders to attend to.
The nature of the cases ranged from or
binary everyday vag to larceny.
Charles Peck is the name of the young
man who stole a watch Wednesday
from a hospital patient and was SUBJ
sequently arrested by Under Sheriff
Donoghue after a tedious chase. He
showed his hands to the judge i'm proof
or his statement that he was an honest,
hardworking man. He offered no fur
Their defense. and the judge. after CIV
ing the man a brief lecture. sentenced
him to 90 days. The fellow does not
look like "A criminal. He was respect
ably dressed and appeared to be great
ly chagrined over his sorry plight.
Clarence Leland, arrested the night
before by Chief White for fighting in
Mainville. was tried. and he had one
good witness. He was a colored man,
who testified that he didn't see the fight
at all. He heard a great hubbub and
rushed out To find his friend rolling in
the dust. bleeding profusely and pow
erful drunk. sah.' He took him to a
room and washed him and put him to
bed. When the Judge asked him il he
didn't think that his story was fiimsy,
he said that he didn't think 1t was. mo
sah." Half a dozen denizens. includ-
ing "A woman, from that part of town,
testified and the evidence bore out the
assertion that there had been a knock
out over there. II. T.. Fennimore was
one of the participants. The Judge fined
Leland and his two beautiful black eyes
$40, and then Josie Oleson. a witness.
laughed aloud. In fact, she laughed
all the time she sat in court. She went
to the court in a hack in company with
a lame girl. who also giggled whenever
she tool her eyes off the floor. Attor-
neys Goodwin and Self. who were i'm the
room. left after the girls had giggled
their first few bars, but their departure
had no noticeable effect upon the girls,
who continued 10 laugh. 1t was re-
marked that Josie has the merriest,
sweetest. most ringing laugh that ever
enlivened a somber court scene. TIL y
returned home i'm the hack.
Henry McElroy. colored. sat in the
court room for some time waiting for
Mrs. Carney. colored, To go to the court
and swear to the complaint upon which
Henry was arrested the night before.
She is about the size of ex-Queen Liliou-
kalana, and looks some like the de-
posed ruler. She created quite an i'm
preston Wnen she TOOK ner seat III lroilt
of the judicial bench. \ few prelimi-
naries conducted by the judge and As
sistant County Attorney Self and
the woman disposed of the case and the
prisoner was discharged. The woman
did not ant to prosecute Henry. The
Judge told her what would happen IL
she repeated the proceeding.
John Tierney took 30 days for disturb
ing the peace and dignity of the old
.AsIr - " AIAfa
and Front. Wednesday night.
Harry and Clarence Rand, vags, were
fioated.
Lou Preston c"Nancy Hanks") was
released pending more detailed investi-
cation of the charge preferred against
her. that of robbing a man of $40 the
day before.
There are several hard looking char
acters in town, and the police are ex-
ercising great vigilance these days. A
squad of smooth-looking strangers is
under the eyes of the police