Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-02
From the Bottom of the Jail
and Tells What
HE KNOWS ABOUT FORGERY
His First Trick Melted Him $42S and
Was Turned on His
Father

Deputy County Attorney Alley, City
Detective Murphy and Howard Mckenty
held a consultation in the office OF the
former this morning and it was not en-
| tirely void Of results.
McKenty is one of the little band of
forgers arrested in this city a few days
| ago, and in order to escape severe punish
( ment has enlightened the authorities on
the work of himself and partners. He is
| only Is years old, and is the son of Hiram
| McKenty. a real estate dealer OF 99
Seventeenth street, Denver. The young
ster told Mr.. Alley he had met H. b.
| Smith, James Higgins and Frank Brown
(alias Fred DeLyle) in Denver and it was
there the plan to do a wholesale forgery
business had been evolved. The first act
Of the three was to induce him, he said.
to forge the name of his father to a check
for S42S and pass it on the Colorado Ma
tional bank. The whole gang then came
to Butte. It was the intention to operate
here a while and then go to some other
place and work it. Mckenty also said
that Smith did all the forging. He had a
room in South Butte and when arrested
a lot of checks filled out and stamped
ready to be passed were found in his pos
session. Smith had obtained the combina-
ton to the safe Of his brother and turned
it over to DeLyle. ut was written on a
slip Of paper and is now in the hands of
the county attorney. McKenty was to
60 to work for Major Smith & Brother
and let DeLyle know when the safe con-
tanned a rich prize in the way of money,
and DeLyle was to do the rest.
McKenty further said that DeLyle was
about 80 years old and an ex-soldier of the
regular rln Among the latter's effects
were found a numbe of letters from girls
in Denver and their contents indicated
that the writer's belonged on the 1000
foot level Of society. One signing herself
'Topsy' aid she knew he would send for
her as soon as he could and that he would
be true to his baby"
In Judge Clancy'S court today Charles
Pierson pleaded not guilty to a charge Of
receiving stolen property. but no date for
his trial was set. The defendant is out on
bail and the judge thouAht he would dis
pose Of the Jail cases first.
OF the three suits scheduled for trial In
department No. 2 today not one mater
ialized. In the one entitled c. c. Whiting
VS.. James A. Graham judgment by de-
fault was rendered. The other two were
postponed.
Peter and James Quello. accused of as
sault in the first degree, the shooting Of
one of their countrymen during a holiday
blowout in the Parrot addition, pleaded
not guilty in Judge Clancy's court today.
When the former was asked by the judge
if he was guilty he answered that he did
not know much about that.
well, you did not do it?" suggested
the judge in an endeavor to help him out.
hut Peter was silent. Pete Breen entered
the plea for him.
Judge Clancy excused the following
members OF the trial jurp for the term
this morning: James Conniham, James
Graham, A. P. Stone, E. A. Smith, John
Charles, John Cannon. r. ]. Pretrierton,
j. r. Robinson, A. Richards, John L.
Morris. Alphonse Saner, Henry Gunthef.
John Tremblay, Michael /. Holland and
George Brouglton.
The court house base ball team has
commenced to practice for it's contest
with the clerks e Sunday. The bat
tie promises to be a warm lumber N.
w. Simmons of the clerk and recorders
office will probably play first base, but
outside of this no positions have yet been
assigned. An admission fee of % cents
will be charged and the money derived
! from this and q series OF other games will
be used in giving the Montana soldiers
now doing duty in the Philippines a re-
ception on their return from the war.
a complaint charging William Booth
with assault in the first degree on Oscar
Paul was filed in Justice H~arrington's
court today. Booth is a messenger boy.
He struck a with a billiard cue. the
blow fracturing the skull Of the latter.
The justice fixed his pond at s., 600.
G. II. Charlesworth charges his wife
and grown daughter with having kid
mapped his 1~2-year-old daughter, Florence,
who is the child Of a former wife. The
chief deputy of the county attorney lis
tened to the story and issued a complaint
with Instructions to file it in a South
Butte court, but it was not filed.
Charlesworth is said to be a pretty
good sort of a man except when he takes
too much booze, which is not often. In
detailing his trouble to the public pros
ecutor he said he and his wife quarreled
last Friday, and it had resulted in a sep
~aration, the wife leaving him. The eld-
est daughter had sided with the wife,
and she. too left, going with the wife.
They took the little girl Florence with
them.
Shortly after the mans visit the
,ln,obtpr Mics Edith also called m the