The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-10

.P|ERSOA is ACQUITTED
He Was Accused of Receivins
Stolen Goods.
FOUR BOYS CONFESSED
They Will Be Prosecuted for Stealing
Brass-T The Butte g. Boston Brings
Damage Suit for
$4,000.

Charles Pierson, young man. was
tried by jury in Judge Clancy's court
yesterday on the charge of receiving
stolen goods and was acquitted, though
the jury was out from o'clock until
7:45 last evening. The evidence of the
state was that four boys Charles Gal
lagher Ed Gallagher, Charles Bulweare
and Clyde Pierson, stole four brass
. journals worth 81 from the Great
Northern railway and then sold them
to the defendant, who was doing a If
tie junk business. Bulweare testified
that they told Pierson that the brass
had been "swiped,'' but the two Gal
laghers said he had not been told. The
defendant himself denied that he had
any knowledge that the stuff had been
stolen and said he was a hard working
boy, attended night school and tried 10
earn an honest and respectable living,
AT the conclusion of the trial COM
plants were drawn up against the four
boys, who confessed they stole the
brass, and they will be prosecuted for
petty larceny.
In Judge Lindsay's court an appeal
case of c. S. CriSty against Dan Tewpy
was tried before a jury In December,
1895, Cristy was a guest at the South
ern hotel and when he left his trunk
was held as security for his bill Two
years later he paid the account and
asked for his trunk, but it and contents
had disappeared and he sued for their
value, which he placed at $1266O. The
jury gave him a verdict for $63 80.
yesterday brought another suit in the
district court against F. Aug. Heinze
and A. P. HeinZe for $4,000 damages
and an injunction to restrain the de-
PENDANTS from continuing an alleged
trespass on a portion of the Michael
Dewitt mine. 1t is alleged that the de-
PENDANTS have been taking out ore from
the property by means of underground
workings, taking it out through the
Montana Ore Purchasing company
shaft and to the company's smelter A
temporary restraining order and an or
der to show cause were issued by Judge
Lindsay.
David Altman, special agent of the
Great Northern, whose business it is to
look after his company's interests in
such cases as the prosecution of Charles
,Pierson for buying brass journals stolen
from the railroad company, was in
Butte yesterday attending Pierson S
trial. Mr.. Altman was subpoenaed as
witness after his arrival in Butte, and
then tried to collect mileage from the
county from Havre to Butte, but the
clerk of the courts refused to pay it.
The county attorney was appealed to
and he sustained .the clerk, and Mr..
Altman had to be satisfied with his per
diem as a witness.
c,1I E.xr,,
Lindsay's calendar for hearing this aft
ternoon:
Fstates-Largey minors petition for
letters; George O'Brien, a minor, petit
ton for letters: Joseph GirouX, return
of sale of real estate; Edward BoWden,
petition for letters Abner Gle, settle
ment of account; John SCombelaCk. pc
tition for letters: j. D. Shaffer, order to
I show cause; J. p. Gallagher, settlement
of account and distributions John P
Byrne, return of sale Of personal prop
erty.
Amos Booth VS.. j. McGovern ct al,
motion for a new trial; James DOull VS.
Ella Doull, plaintiffs proofs; Butte, An
aconda & Pacific Railway company VS..
Ophir Mining company ct al. petition
of Johann II. PetersOn; j. p. Reins IS.
Silas F. King. motion to strike out cost
bill; Jesse j. Seward VS.. Mabel G. Sew
ard, motion for alimOny: John l.. Carl
son vs. Gerda Carlson, plaintiff proofs;
j. A. Riddell VS.. George l.. Ramsey ct
al, demurrer of Suffer x Ramsey: Me
rida Thibodeau VS.. Gervais Thibodeau,
plaintiffs proofs: Clinton H. Kerr VS..
Josephine Kerr, PLAINTIFFS proofs; state
ex. rel. S. j. Reynolds vs. e. J. Lauran-
deau, argument on motion to strike;
state ex. rel S. ]. Reynolds VS.. f. J.
Laurandeau, argument on motion to
strike.
Christiana Freudenstein has petition
ed the court for the probate of the will
of the late Lee FTeudenstem and the
motion was set for hearing June "a.