The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-02
ANACONDA NEWS.
WILSON IS DISCHARGED
No Information Filed Against
Him and He Was Released,
CHANCE TO MEND HISWAYS
Young Parmour Was Not Sent to the
Reform School - Charles virgilio
Pleads Not Guilty-w. R. Conn
Was Arraigned.

Lee H. Wilson is again free man.
He was discharged yesterday in. the
district court. The charge against Will
son was that of having obtained from
w. H. Jones the sum of SIS under false
pretenses. Wilson was arrested the
latter part of April for having, it was
alleged, sold for SIS to Mr.. Jones the
agency of an arc lamp for the counties
of Deer Lodge and Gallatin. He was
to deliver a certain number of lamps
to Mr.. Jones, but this, it was also al
legged, he had not done. Wilson was ar
raigned before Judge Frank Kennedy
on that charge and bound over to the
district court.
Yesterday afternoon Judge Napton
granted leave of court to the county
attorney not to file an informal ton
against Wilson for the reason that no
conviction could be had and Wilson
was discharged.
The evidence in the Hendrickson-
Wallace water right case was con-
cluded yesterday, and at the demand
of counsel for both parties, the court
granted leave to the jury to view the
property. The plaintiff and the defend
ant in the case will share the expense.
The jury was placed in charge of
Deputy Sheriff Jack Walsh and the
jurors left last evening for New Chi
cago. They will return on Saturday.
Jimmie Parmour, the 15-year-old boy
who is charged by his mother to be in
corrigible, was taken before Judge
Napton yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Par
mour was placed on the stand and tes
titled that Jimmie was beyond her con-
troll. He refuses to work, runs away
from home and is a lover of Whiskey
and beer He refuses to go to school,
and when she reprimands him for his
bad conduct, he strikes back al her.
Mrs. Parmour said that when he runs
away from home. she fears that he will
be killed, as he jumps on and off of
passing trains and remains away from
home for several days at a time.
Jimmie Parmour, the boy, was called
to the witness stand and said that he
was not an habitual drunkard, but that
he got drunk once. Several times when
his mother told him to work. he an
swered her that heIW 6uld not The boy
said that he had nhEsr AZ tended school
in this city. JinirnisS tofd the judge
that he had worked some time in this
city and that when he received his pay
he bought tobacco with it.
Judge Napton asked the boy if he
had never purchased liquor with the
money he received for his work. Jim
ME answered that he had not because
he could find no place where they
would sell it to him. Jimmie said that
he once told his mother that he would
burn the house. down. but that he was
only fooling.
Judge Napton told the boy that he
would give him "a chance 10 mend his
ways Mrs Parmeuf Nasinstructed to
take the boy hoHfe9'sand If after a
month he had not improved in his con-
duct, the court would have him sent
to a place where he would be made to
behave.
In the divorce case of Mrs Alice Ross
vs. NJ NJ Ross, an order to show cause
was argued and continued until this
morning The bill of exceptions here
tofore filed was, by agreemnt of
counsel, set aside, and it was ordered
that the defendants counsel present
his bill of exceptions within two
weeks.
In the case of James Mcclure VS..
John Y Batterton, as administrator,
upon a motion of Attorney W. b.
Rodgers, counsel for the plaintiff, the
default of the defendant having here
tofore been entered, judgment for the
amount of the note with interest and
attorneys fees of $3.50 was ordered en-
tered and a decree of foreclosure
signed
The demurrer in the case of E. B
White VS. Division No /. A. o. H, was
set for hearing on Saturday.
Charles Virgilio, charged with hav-
ing appropriated to his own use money
which he had collected for the defense
of James Santi on the charge of muir
der, was arraigned and pleaded not
guilty.
w. r. Conn, charged with murder al
Helmville, appeared, answered to his
true name, waived the reading of the
information and took until this morn
ing to plead.