The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-04
HELD Up AND ROBBED
A Miners Experience in a Tough
Restaurant.
A PECULIAR GRAFT GAME
Tried to Make Him Pay for Three Meals.
Knocked Down and lll-Treated
in the Row-The Police
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Richard McKeown had rather un-
usual experience trying to get some
thing to eat in a tough restaurant in
Lower Wyoming street yesterday morn
ing. One might expect to get rolled IN
one of the saloons of the locality, but
to be held up and robbed, or rather,
robbed and then knocked down and
maltreate ted in a restaurant, is some
thing one would not ordinarily count
on, vet that was the experience Nc
Keown had.
McKeown is a miner and an average
good fellow Like many another, he
has a failing for liking a little time of
furnished the occasion for the unusual
experience he met with.
McKeown went out to do the town
Saturday night and got comfortably
full, with the result that he decided to
make night of it, and did. Yesterday
morning about o'clock, after he had
been out all night, he felt the need of
something to eat and made his way to
a little restaurant near the corner or
wyoming and Mercury streets. A
rounder named Dan Donnelly invited
| himself to go along and McKeown,
| having no objection, they sat down to-
gether Presently another fellow came
in and sat down. MckeoWn. who had
not asked either of the pair in to eat
with him. ate a cheap meal and got
up to go out. He had no change and
| gave a young woman who presided at
| the counter as cashier a S. bill. She
| had no change and sent out for some.
| When the messenger came back she
handed McKeown 81. He inquired for
| the rest of his change and was told
that his bill was SO. He asked how she
made that out and was told that he
had asked the other two in to eat with
| him and that each had eaten a dollars
| worth.
| McKeown, who had ordered only a
two-bit meal, knew he was being
| jobbed and demanded his money, re-
| fusing to pay for the meals of the two
| who had come in on him and declining
to be charged a dollar for a two-ht
meal. Then there was trouble. Don
nelly. the first to invite himself in, de-
clared McKeown had insulted the
woman and assuming to be her cham
pion, assaulted McKeown and knocked
him down. In falling. he fell against
the stove and disarransed it, where
upon the woman demanded that he pay
for having broken it. The two men
We're prepared to enforce the woman
| demand anu "Iele hIiNSo"i "o"iH
have gotten off if a policeman had not
! arrived on the scene, at that time would
| be hard to tell. -z
Upon hearing MeKeown's story Don
nelly was arrested land taken to the
city jail The police state that this
| is only one of many complaints of the
same sort of thing that have come from
this particular restaurant
Jack Day was arrested yesterday
morning and locked up at the city jai
on a charge of exhibiting a deadly
weapon in rude and threatening man
ner Day had spent ;his money at the
| Montana Music hail. in South MaiI
street, and when he became boisterous
| was ordered thrown out. He objected
when the bouncer made his appear
ance and drew a knife. He had the
house pretty well buffaloed when the
| management called a policeman ant
had him taken to Jail. -.,.-
| Dan Newman. Richard Mcleod. JohI
! Rooney and Roy Birmingham are :
quartette of tough boys who got them
selves into jail yesterday morning b,
trying to break the windows c
Wright's drug store, in East Parl
street. For no known reason othe
than pure deviltry, the boys assemble
themselves on the opposite side of TIL
street from the drug store and wer'
shooting at the windows with tlipper
when a policeman came along and tool
them in.