Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-16
Mrs. Dem0ry Surrenders the
Four Ryan Children.
hILLIKER AND HIS KNIFE
Cut a Wild: Cash in One Of James
Farrelrs Cheeks..Other
Court Notes.

The four Ryan childresn, over the Gus
tody Of which legal complications arose
yesterday between the mother and grand
mother, were turned over to the custody
Of their mother in the office of the dis
trict attorney this morning, but the mat
ter was not settled exactly to the salts
faction of Mrs. Demory, the grand
mother. 1t was the intention of Mrs.
Demory to oppose the petition for the
writ of habeas corpus sued out by her
daughter formerly Mrs. Ryan, but now
Mrs. T~allon), but this morning she con-
Guided to surrender the children to their
mother without going into court. She
had kept the little ones a long time and
the attachment between them was
mutual. The children did not wish to
leave their grandmother and with the ex-
ception of the younger one, which did not
seem to realize what was transpiring, all
cried when the surrender was made. Mrs.
Demory was quite bitter in her denuncia-
ton Of Mrs. Talon and told her among
other things that when she died Mrs..Tal-
lon was not to even look upon her dead
face.
Mrs. Demory left the office first, but on
the way out of the building stopped in
the corridor downstairs. Five minutes
later Mrs. Talon and the children started
out, but on the way the little boy, Joe,
caught sight of the grandmother and ran
to her. He was returned to his mother.
The children We're all neatly dressed
and appeared to have been we'll cared for
by their grandmother.
John Ahern was locked up at the county
Jail today on a charge of petit larceny
placed against him. He is alleged to have
stolen a pair Of shoes from a West Park
street store. When searched at the Jail
his pockets yielded a document which
showed he had been a emil of Battery
G of Utah and received an honorable
discharge from the service on December
8. In the long marches incident to the
campaign in Cuba and the Philippines he
probably wore out his shoes and consid-
cred that the people owed him a pair of
new ones. He is a native of Virginia
City, New, and in view Of the fact that
his discharge papers describe him to a
IT it is a sure thing that he has been a
soldier.
A warrant for the arrest Of Henry
Hilliker has been issued at the request
OF James Farrell. the charge being as
sault in the first degree. 1t is alleged that
on Saturday evening Hilliker cut one of
Farrelfs cheeks with a knife. In detail
ing his story to the county attorney Far
rell said that some time g Hilliker and
his wife had trouble and concluded to
separate, one Of the conditions being thai
she should take the furniture and get
along as best she could. She opened a
boarding house at No. 2O9 West Granite
street and among other boarders was the
complainant. She was getting along all
right, which fact, Farrell alleged, nettled
Hilliker and he began to make trouble.
evening Farrell said he
emerged from the house for the purpose
of taking a walk and as he stepped from
the door Hilliker. slashed him with a
knife, the blade entering the flesh near
the ear and cutting through the cheek.
DR.. Campbell dressed the wound. On the
following evening Terrell said Hilliker
returned with a gun, a knife and a bottle
of poison and threatened to kill all of the