The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-06
ALL KINDS OF TROUBLE
Between Toomey and His Sis
ters-in-Law.
WAS PUT UNDER ARREST
He Spent Part of the Night in Jail for
Attempting to Remove Furni-
ture-It Is Mixed Up
tumble.

Dominick l.. Toomey is having all
kinds of trouble with his sisters -in-.aw
over the small estate his late wife left.
After successfully resisting an effort
to have him tried in the district court
for grand larceny on a claim that he
had stolen the wife's will, and finally
being appointed administrator of the
estate, he encountered new difficulty
Saturday evening and was forced to
spend the greater part of the night in
the city Jail.
Della Pitts and Ann Clarity, succeed
ed in leasing the Lafayette house,
which Mrs. Toomey had conducted. out
from under him. By the terms Of the
wife's last request the furniture be-
longed to him. but when the sisters-in-
law got the, lease on the house, it is
said, they took charge and proceeded
to rent the rooms furnished with his
furniture. Accordingly while the ;'is-
tiers We're in the district court Saturday
to answer citation, Toomey got drays
and proceeded to remove the furniture
When the sisters returned and found
what was going on, they went to Chief
| of Police Lavell and asked for Toomey's
| arrest. officer butcher, acting on the
orders of his chief, arrested Toomey
and no charge was placed against him
on the police register, yet when his at
| torney, Alex Mackel. appeared at the
| jail and offered to put up a cash bond
| OF $500 the bail was refused uncondi-
| tionally and he had to stay in Jail.
| Later in the night affairs took new
turn and Toomey's man Friday, one
Frank Ryman, was thrown into jail
| with Toomey. 1t appears that when
Toomey was arrested he left Ryman
to hold the fort. Ryman locked himself
into the office of the lodging house and
refused to grant admittance to any
one. The sisters at length decided to
some one heaved flower pot through
a window. which alighted on Ryman S
| proboscis and he straightway caused
the arrest of Ann Clarity, whom he
| charged with propelling the aforesaid
| flower pot He accompanied Officer
butcher to the Jail to prefer a charge
| of assault against the woman. and was
himself locked up. No charge was
preferred against him at the time, but
| like in Toomeys case an offer of cash
| bonds was refused. Later a charge
was written down on the register which
! charged him with assaulting Agnes
Gasner. Miss Garrity was allowed to
| give bonds for her appearance.
l. Owing. to- the fact that the furniture
belonged to Toomey and the further
| one that he had been duly appointed
administrator of, his wife's estate, he
was disposed to think he was treated
more severely, than the circumstances
warranted, and he served notice of an
! intention to go into the courts for Sc
dress for his arrest and detention with
| out a warrant for his arrest having
been issued $3.50"
Late yesterday morning Attorney
/ Mackel succeeded ,in convincing Chief
| Layell that Toomey and Ryman We're
being illegally restrained of their lib
erty when ample bonds Were offered
for their appearance. and whereas they
/ lad before been refused unconditional
| ly the privilege of giving bonds, they
were released on $25 cash bonds each
booked against Rooney and one of as
| sault against Ryman. The denoue-
ment of the badly jumbled up affair is
| eynacted To ba very interestipo.