The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-27
IS PLACED UNDER BONDS
DR.. Weyerhorst Made a Con-
ditional Threat.
BONDS FOR HAWKES. ALSO
Result of the Hearing Before Judge Har.
rington-Hawkes Insisted That
He Was Not Knocking
Down Plaster.

The hearing of the action begun by
Charles +. Hawkes. to have DR.. Joseph
Weyerhorst placed under bonds to keep
the peace was held yesterday afternoon
before Justice of the Peace Harrington.
The trouble was the outgrowth of the
recent fire in the Weyerhorst block at
the corner of Idaho and Galena streets.
Hawkes., having a 10-year lease on the
place, thought he ought to have some
should be made. There was a row over
the subject and DR.. Weyerhorst is al
legged to have threatened the life of
Hawkes.. AT the hearing Deputy Coun-
ty Attorney Roy Alley appeared for
the prosecution and Attorney o. M.
Hall for DR.. Weyerhorst.
Charles f. Hawkes., the complainant
testified to having 10-year lease on
a portion of the Weyerhorst block. The
place was badly damaged by fire; Dr.
Weyerhorst commenced making repairs
by having the places where plastering
was knocked, off patched up, leaving
other portions of the plastering which
We're badly damaged, but where the
plaster had not fallen off, ready to
come down at any time. Witness had
spent about $4,000 when he took the
place in October in renovating and fit
ting it up and he felt that the repairs
should be made in such a way as to
leave the property in at least some
thing like the same condition it had
been in before the fire With this idea
in mind he had taken a. practical me-
chanic upstairs where the damage oc-
Cured, to examine the plaster and tell
him what he thought ought to be done.
They sounded the plaster on the ceiling
with stick and just then DR.. Weyer-
horst appeared, accused them of knock
ing off the plaster and threatened wit
ness with violence, saying: IF you lay
a hand on that plaster or look at it
again I'll kill you"
Cross examined by Mr. Hall, the wit
ness admitted DR.. Weyerhorst might
not have said he would kill witness if
he looked at the plaster again, but he
certainly said he would if he touched
it, and witness was in fear of his life
for he believed DR.. Weyerhorst intend
ed to carry out his threat
Other witnesses corrobarated Mr..
Hawkes. testimony and one ledger saw
DIR. Weyerhorst put his hand to his hip
pocket in a threatening manner.
DIR. Weyerhorst and other witnesses
for the defense entered a general de-
NAL of all the allegations of the wit
nesses for the prosecution.
DIR. Weyerhorst, in denying that he
had any intention of doing Hawkes.
bodily harm, admitted that he had
threatened to shoot Hawkes., but it was
conditional threat. He said he threat
ened to shoot if Hawkes. knocked off
any more plaster. which he thought he
had a perfect right to do.
Judge Harrington made an order plac-
ing Weyerhorst under $500 bonds to
keep the peace, which he furnished.
DIR. Weyerhorst retaliated by having a
complaint filed against Hawkes., in
which the court was asked to put
Hawkes. under bonds also. The affi-
davit was made by DR.. Weyerhorst
who alleged that Hawkes. had on differ
ent occasions defaced and damaged the
atlantis property by knocking off plas-
ter, and that the affiant believed he
would carry out his threat, wherefore
affiant asked that he be required to
give bonds to keep the peace toward
atlantis property. Hawkes. was held in
$500 bonds to appear to-day.