Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-08
Of George Schmidt Delivered
to the Court.
SECRETED A YEAR AGO
BY an Unknown PerSOn-Tampered
With at the Beginning Other
Court Matters.

of George Schmidt, who died in this city
in 1895, has bobbed up s~erenely from be-
low or above. or some other place equally
as isolated and obscure. The docunsnt
disappeared about a year ago and since
then it has been sought high and low. A
few days ago it made its appearance in
a large envelope addressed to the judge
of the district court Where it has been
or who had it is not known. and the
chances are this information will never
come to light. The address was type
written; the envelope bore the Butte post
mark. showing that it had been deposited
in the office here.
After Schmidt's death a relative aD-
Piled to the court here for letters of adj
ministration on the estate, but as the
property was located in Beaverhead
county the matter was transferred to the
court of that district. which is located at
Dillon. The will was then in the hands
of a Butte man, but a copy of it was
made and the original then turned over
to an attorney. Later on the copy and
original were compared and it was found
that their contents did not dovetail. The
original. Or what was purported to be it,
was afterwards filed in the office of the
district court and when the matter of ap-
pointing an administrator was trans
ferred to Beaverhead county, it was sent
to the clerk Of that district, the letter
containing it being registered at the
postoftice. The letter was received by the
person to whom it was sent, as he re-
celpted for it. but when the matter in
which 1t was to be used came I'D in
court the real will was missing. and the
n4f1lrll nnnn1orcenN ryoo ,~,lz1 49,.
someone had stolen it.
A complaint charging Pasquati Gut
dom with having conducted a Junk bust
ness without first having taken out a
license was issued from the county attor-
neys office today. Guidoni was tried in
Meaderville a few days ago on a charge
OF receiving stolen goods, knowing them
10 nave been stolen. and was bound over
10 the district court. At the trial his at
tofney stated that his client had a legal
right to buy goods, and therefore could
not be held responsible, but it after
wards transpired that the attorney had
been misinformed. The complaint issued
today was filed In Justice Nichols court
ana a warrant for the arrest of the al
legged offender followed
A complaint charging Joe Holman Vim
cent Rooney n Henry Perkins with the
VI ". LIZ SdIIOll > grocery Store
has been filed in Justice Nichols court
The defendants are boys under the age of
2O years. Holman and Rooney are out on
pond. Ihey were arraigned before Justice
Nichols, pleaded not guilty and will he
tried on the 10th.
If the action taken by the receiver an
poln'ed by the court last week in the
matter of Charles Dockman against the
Dekreko Bros. is to be taken as a criter-
ION, the property over which he was to
exercise control pending a settlement of
the difficulty between the plaintiff and
defendants is not all in his care. Last
night he had a warrant Issued from JUS
tlce Harrington's court for the arrest of
two of the defendants on a charge Of
taking some Of the goods belonging to the
aggregation, but The county attorney, it
is alleged, did not authorize the acton.
The articles alleged to have been taken
are the sword which one Of the troupe
swallows temporarily during the enter
tainment and the sheet music of the
Oriental Tom Tom march, produced by
the company while circumnavigating the
town or street cars an hour or two before
the doors to the play house opened. There
is also a trunk for which no accounting
can be made. 1t is claimed that the de-
PENDANT took the articles from the pos
session of the receiver. On the strength
Of the complaint Judge Clancy issued an
order citing the defendants to appear in
court and show cause why they should
not be punished for contempt. The de-
fendants were thrown into Jail as a start
err, but gave bonds thism morning M were
released, Alexander tombstone and j.. r.
Wharton signing the bond.
The deed execute by the administrator
| of the estate of John r. Richards, trans
| ferring to Louis S. COhn the lot on which
the ~latter's new building in West Broad
way stands was filed for record in the
office of the county clerk and recorder
today. The amount named in the docu-
ment is 81, 900.
THE EDUCATED TRAVELLER