Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-30
IN POLICE COURT
Husband, Wife and Lover Be-
fore Judge Sullivan.
FOUGHT TO A FINISH
Mrs. Gamble and the Green Eyed
MOnSter--An Insane Man Who
Expects to be Hanged.

A wronged husband with two black
eyes. a lover who also gave evidence OF
having been a principal in a severe en-
counter, and an indiscreet wife were be-
fore Judge Sullivan this morning,
charged with creating a disturbance in
the Newport lodging house, on South Ari-
IONA street. last night. In each instance
pleas of not guilty We're entered, and the
case, which promises to be somewhat
sensational. will be tried tomorrow after
noon.
The husbands name is William Higher,
and he charges George Wilson with i'm
proper conduct, to use extremely polite
language. with his wife. He found Will
son and Mrs. Higher in a room in the
Newport last night, and a fight ensued
in which his wife took Wilson's part and
the husband was forced to retire, defeat
ed.He secured a Ratchet and returned to
the attack. His wife took the Ratchet
from HIM and the woman and her alleged
paramour then proceeded to vent their
wrath on Higher, and by the time an Off
GER arrived the husband had been thor
oughly whipped. All three were taken to
the city Jail. Mrs. Higher was placed
in the woman's department., while
k'gher and Wilson were locked up in the
main corridor. Then came Kigher's turn,
In a few minutes he marred the hand
sorpe features of the usurper of his wife's
aHyctions. and before the jailer could
Interfere had done about as good a job
as Wilson and the woman had done on
MN. The men were separated and the
husband was locked up in the dungeon,
and a little later all were released on
bonds. Apparently the husband has for
given his wife, as they We're together this
morning in police court.
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gave his name as J.. C. O'Brien, this
morning, on a charge of insanity. O'Brien
IS a miner. who was arrested about a
year ago on a similar charge, but was
dismissed. He imagines that he is under
sentence to be hanged, and asked the
onicer VINO escorted him to the county
JAIL. for a agar to smoke before his exc
cution. He also insisted that the officer
should go with him to see the gallows.
Love does not always laugh at lock-
smiths, as Mrs. Gamble can testify. Be-
cause OF her admiration of Jack Lenni-
han, who plays fast and loose with sus-
ceptible women on Mahoney street, Mrs.
Gamble was put in jail on Saturday
night and Cupid did not come to her res
cue-she is still in Jail. 1t seems that
Lenn!han presented a Mrs. Frances Nc
Defmott with a handsome necktie and
Mrs. McDermott went to Mrs. Gamble
wearing the token, and gushingly told
her about it. Now Mrs. Gamble was
jealous of Mrs. McDermott because Len
mhan had whispered the soft nothings
into the ears of both. The green-eyed
monster at once possessed her, and she
expressed herself in language that could
not be brooked. even on Mahoney street.
Mrs. McDermott replied that both Mrs.
dambles face and reputation needed re-
pairs, and when the police separated
them the necktie was in shreds. Mrs.
Gamble pleaded not guilty this morning
and was fined $40 and costs.
When the name of Charles Smith. a
colored beau of the bad lands, was called.
he stood up and asked leave of the court
to explain how he happened to break a
window in No. 40 Pleasant alley last
night.
"fo' honah,' said he, II we. Jest goin'
long de street, not a meanin' no ham.
an TO de purpose of tantalizing a lady
trend OF mine | brek dis Winder. Wuz
eelln rather gay. It is not often dat T
feel dat way, but dis time I wuz caught
IN dis predicament. So l jest pushed in
de Winder TO to scare de lady. exneetin.
to a de damage"
He was fined $40.