Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-06
Erickson Gets Five Years in
the Penitentiary.
SINGERS HEIRS FOUND
They Have Already Received the San
Francisco End of the Money
Due Them.

EDWARD Erickson, the young man who
b Mike Cavanaugh because the lat
ter refused to give him % cents on gen.
eral principles and slept in the chair in
the court room while his trial was in
progress, was sentenced to five years
in the p~enitentiary by Judge Clancy this
morning.
After being brought into the court
room the prisoner took a seat by a table
and dropped his head into one hand in
restful repose. In about a minute his
eyes closed and he was apparently
sound asleep. When the judge address,
ed him he did not stir, but after the
magic words Give years in the peniten.
tlary' had been pronounced he awoke
and stared blankly at the Judge until
Bailif Shay tapped him ON the shoulder
and said follow me-" He then left the
room.
When Erickson was asked if he had
anything to say why sentence should not
be pronounced upon him, z. +. Cason, his
attorney, informed the court that there
mad been no testimony to show mat the
assault was committed WIN a deadly
weapon. The head of the complaining
witness showed only a small scar. When
Erickson was arrested his conduct was
such as to warrant the belief that he
was insane.
IL YOU LINK ne is crazy said tho
court, you had better take steps towards
an investigation by a commission. Do
you wish to do it?"
mo; we will let it go now answered
Cason.
Then the judge said: 81 do NOT SEQ
any mitigating circumstance whatever
IN this mans case. He asked CaVanauph
for a quarter and, not getting it, assault
ed him with a pocket knife. AS to
whether that brand of knife is a deadly
WG2 non the matter wa 1aft tn tho inr1
and the latter answered atfirmatively.
The prisoners conduct was very bad.
lie is a stout young man and able to
work. He committed his offense on the
9th OF august, a time when everybody
should be busy. 1 will sentence him
to five years at hard labo1."
Judge Clancy signed two default judg-
Foster VS.. Enos Cannon and the other
the same .plaintiff against Cannon &
Heilig. The former calls for about $4,-
500; the latter a smaller sum.
d. L. Toomey has filed objections to
the probate of the alleged will of his
wife, who died in this city October 4.
The objections are based upon the allie
cation that the document is not a will
and was never intended as such by the
maker. He further objects to it on the
ground that ii was not competed or
dated by his wife and that there We're no
attesting witnesses. He does not know,
he says, whether the document is in the
handwriting of his wife, and therefore
denies that it is her writing; that he
never consented in writing to the maxi
ing of n such will and does not be-
lieve his wife ever did in due form make
and execute a will as alleged in the petit
tion of Annie T. Clarity.
In the suit of the Anaconda Mining
company against F. Augustus Heinze
the defendant to-day made a motion for
judgment for the alleged reason that the
answer filed contained new matter and
the plaintiff had failed to reply to it
within the time allowed by law.
The Inter Mountain is In receipt of a !
letter from Mrs. Agnes Jenkins, of
Branchton, Ont, canada, asking for the
address of the public administrator of
Butte. Mrs. jenkins is one of the two |
heirs to the estate of James Caldwell
Singer, who died in San Francisco over !
a year ago while paying hat city 4 WIS.,
it. He had, prior to his California trip,
been a resident of Butte and had prop
erty here. Shortly before going to the
coast he sold the property and had the
larger part of the proceeds with him
when he died. His estate was valued at
$50, 600 and the most of 1t was in cash and
bonds. He also left a will in which he
beuueathed the entire estate to Mrs.
Marion Bennie of Detroit. and Mrs. Ag-
mes jenkins of Branchton. his cousins.
There was something over 81, 900 of the
estate in this city and J. P. Collins, the
public administrator was appointed by
Judge Lindsay to take charge of it, as the
executors named in the will refused to
act. About ten days ago Collins filed