The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-14
BEFORE JUDGE CLANCY
A Venire for One Hundred and
Twenty-Five Jurors Issued.
FORTY CRIMINAL CASES
Informations Against Seven Defendants
Filed by the County Attorney.
Proceeding in the Case OF
William Thompson.

Judge Clancy convened his depart
| ment of the district court yesterday
morning and issued a venire for 1875 ;u-
rors, returnable tomorrow morning
He announced that there We're about 40
criminal matters awaiting trial and
that he would take up nothing else until
they were disposed of.
County Attorney Connolly filed infor-
nations against seven defendants in
criminal actions. Three were presented
against William Magill, charging him
| with assault in the first degree on his
mother-in-law, Mary Downey; his sis
ter-in-law, Kate Miller, and his divorce
ed wife, Bridget Magill On Sept. 8 Ma
gill went to the home of Mrs. Magill
and got into row with the women and
assaulted them with a coupling pin, and
almost beat Mrs. Downey to death; in
fact, for time it was not believed she
could recover. He also seriously beat
the other two women and the informa
ton against him charges that he in
| tended to murder them all. Magil was
arraigned on each information and as
he did not have the means with which
to employ an attorney the court ap-
pointed three for him-one in each case.
| The attorneys furnished him by the
| Naughten. Magill was given until Sat
urday morning a t $50 o'clock to plead
to the different informations against
him.
An information was filed against John
Boyd. charging him with receiving stol-
en- property, knowing it to have been
stolen. Boyd is the man who is ac-
cused OF having stolen about $1,000
worth of crude bullion from the Gran
ite- Bimetallic Mining company and SELL
n Knife o
inally charged with grand larceny,
: upon which he had preliminary hear
ing in justice court and was bound
over to the district court under a $1o.-
600 bond, which he furnished. The
county attorney stated to the court
yesterday that he had concluded that
the proper charge upon which to try
Boyd was receiving stolen property.
The defendant was ordered to appear
in court next Saturday.
Other informations were filed as eol-
lows: Joseph Rice, mayhem, charged
with biting off a portion of Michael Sui
livan's ear on October 5; John Moulin,
assault in the second degree, commit
steel drill; l.. G. Livingston, charged
with forging a $50 check on the First
National bank of Denver and defraud-
ing Thomas P, Newton with it.
All the defendants We're ordered to
appear in court on Saturday morning
at $50 o'clock. All the attorneys off er-
ed mild objections to being required to
appear in court at such an early hour,
but Judge Clancy said 1T had to go.
The bills of exception and statements
on motions for new trials in the cases of
the state against Dan Lucey and Ed
| Mahoney We're submitted to the court
together with a number of amendments
offered by the county attorney.
The bill Of exceptions in the Shafer
murder case was set for hearing at
o'clock on next Saturday,
A motion to set aside an order of ar
rest and another motion of the plaintiff
for judgment by default in an action of
William Thompson against Robert Ed
gren and Charles Nystrum. which had
been set for hearing yesterday, were
continued until Dec. 9. The plaintiff in
the matter is proprietor of the Silver
| Bow Coal company and the defendants
are the owners of the Model Steam
laundry. Several months ago Thomp
son. hearing that the defendants were
about to leave the state, secured war
rant from Judge Clancy for their ar
rest as absconding debtors. Suisse
quent!y they, through their attorney,
filed a motion to set aside the order for
the warrant of arrest, claiming that it
had been improperly issued and that they
had no idea of leaving the state or of
defrauding any of their creditors. They
set up that the laundry business was
losing proposition and that while they
had a number of creditors they could
not pay their debts. The plaintiff then
filed a motion for Judgment by default
against the defendants, claiming that
the motion to set aside the order of ar
rest was not an answer. Judge Clancy
declined to take the matter up yester-
day and continued the hearing as stat
ed. Several laundry girls, who had
been subpoenaed as witnesses. gave no.
tice that they would not testify until
their fees had been advanced. Later
they were accused by the defendants
with having made false statements in
certain affidavits in which, among other
things, they alleged that the defend
ants had absconded, taking with them
the money and property of the laundry
business. The girls denied that they
had made any such statements In their
affidavits and they appealed to the
judge and clerk for corroboration, but
upon investigation it was found that
the affidavits did contain such state
ments. whereupon the girls repudiated
them and said the matter alleged was
they signed the affidavits without
knowing their full contents. Their
stories will probably be heard when the
different motions come up again.
An application for temporary alimony
in the divorce case of Felicete Clark
against William J, Clark was heard by
Judge Clancy yesterday and he made an
order that the defendant pay the plain
tiff $50 a month for the support of her
self and child and $50 as an attorney
fee. The defendant in the case did not
appear in court and the order was made
in default of his appearance and after
the plaintiff had given some testimony
as to her needs and the defendants
ability to pay.
Attorney Forestelle made an applica-
ton to the court to set for trial civil
case in the which the Kenyon Council
: Commercial company is plalntin and
Mary F. Kelly, Administrative of the
estate of John F. Kelly, deceased, is
defendant, but the court told him he
was out of order and that no civil cases
| uro,,l1l h., cot Cor some time to come. MI.