Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-25
A STICK AT HIS WIFE, ANNA

Mrs. Anna NJ. Westlake sWore out d
warrant in Justice Nicholas court last
evening charging Edward Nestlahe, her
husband, with having threatened 10 XIII
her. The alleged offender was arrested
and given a hearing this morning bun a
bound over to keep the peace. me COM
claimant said she resided at S43 East Mer-
curry street; tina about l:5o O'CLOCK OH
the 23d while she was cleaning her teelh
Westlake appeared at the house. she ac-
~cfdentaily threw the tooth water out on
him and he said: You blahke7S plallh-
ed blank. don't YOU throw water on me!
He pointed a stick at her and told hef
tba newt time he came he would lave
something different. On the 4th of July
he had also said he would do for them,
meaning her son and herself. She had
them told her story to a policeman ana
the latter took him away. She SAID she
had reason to be "afea1ed' of hlm. On
! cross-eXaminatton she SAID ne nad put d
razor to her throat twice.
He Lives close to you does he not
! asked Attorney Carroll, who represented
Westiake.
Yes, sir; he broke into one Of my
houses"
You have a suit against him In the
| district. have you not?'
NO; he has one against me-
Further proceedings on tins line We're
! objected to ON the ground that they cut
no figure in the issue on trial. Ihe de-
Tense said it desired to show that the
prosecution for alleged threats to Kill
were prompted by malice having orig
mated in the district court case. The jus
tice sustained the objection, and Attor-
ney Carroll too up the tooth water
! throwing episode. He had Mrs. Westlake
make a diagram of the house and the rel
ative positions of all hands when the wa
ter was thrown. He also drew from her
the Information that when Westlake re-
marked he would return and when he did
it would be with something besides a
stick he did not say whether that some
thing would be a razor, gun, a bologna
sausage or a dynamite bomb.
Were you on Warren avenue last Sun
day?'
mo; I was at home"
Did you not on Sunday, while on the
side Of Warren avenue opposite West
lake, look over at him and say to the per-
son you were with: See them old gam
DIV legs
mo: ! did not" answered the woman,
Edward George Thomas, the son OF
Mrs. West,ake, corroborated the story
told by his mother.
TINS closed the state S Slde and the de-
PENDANT was placed on the stand He
said that last Sunday he had gone into
the yard and spoken to the boy when the
woman came out with a big tin full OF
water and threw it ON him with the re-
mark: Get out of here you ---
We don't want you around here at all.
And l got out said he.
Ibid the water strike you" was asked.
Eyes; she CAV me a good swapping all
right
'Have you n intention of killing
her?"
mo; nonsense. She has been trying tc
have me arrested for a year and a half
Westlake further said he had a brok-
en- knee and was otherwise crippled and
she was always mimicking his gait. He
had never. he said, owned a gun He adj
n1itted having had a family quarrel last
Fourth of July.
Have you ever been put under bonds
to keep the peace"'
Yes. sir"
How many times?"
"Oh, God knows. l DON'T"
You have had a rough experience?'
yes; | have had a Queer old deal
Every time the old woman needed a littlt
diversion she would have me arrested
For What did she have you sent up 70
80 days?"
Just because they wanted to have
little fun with me-they wanted to keel
me in Jail while
How did you get your knee cal
broken?"
Il fell down"
e Did you not get it in a fight?'
g mo: l did not. I fell in East Mercur,
street."
did YOU meet Mrs. Westlake in Par
: street yesterday and say to her: 'Yo'
old ----. Go dye your hair?"
4 mo, sir: I did not"