Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-02
BUTTE LOCALS.
A YOUNG TOUGH
Testimony Shows Him Up in
In Good Shape.
FOUR REAL FRONT TEETH
'Te -
Laid on a Desk For the Jury to Look
g at--Were Kicked From a
Woman's Mouth.
FOUR REAL FRONT TEETH

The trial of young Jack Ledford,
charged with assault in the first degree
on Agnes Stevens, his former mistress,
took place in Judge Clancy's court today
before the following jurymen:
A. j.. White, L. N. Chauvin, joseph
Roberts, r. c. Levin, Dudley C. Smith,
James Morris, Joseph Hoar, Ernes,
Rogers. Michael Riley, James Naughten,
Hugh Morrison and r. NJ. Campbell.
Ledford was ably defended by Peter
Breen and Alexander Makel, who are as
soclated together in the practice of law.
He is a cadaverous looking man about
the size of a brownie, but if the story told
by the complaining witness is true, and
she had good proof of it's accuracy, he is
wicked. While giving her testimony she
did not attempt to shield him, as many
OF her class do when they get an unmer-
c1ful beating at the hands and feet Of
some fine duck. She laid four large,
real front teeth on the table in front of
her and said Ledford had kicked them
from her mouth. Then she exhibited the
scar of a cut under one of her eyes, also
the result of a kick, and another on her
head which she said had been made by
a blow from a beer bottle in the hands
OF Ledford. A fractured jaw and a few
other minor" injuries completed the
programme of the engagement. She said
she resided on East Mercury street and
the assault had been made upon her
without provocation last March.
On cross-examination she was asked
IT in August of 1897 she had not placed a
gun IN Ledford's hands and told him to
shoot a certain man who was dead drunk
at the time. She said she had not; that
she had never known him until Septem-
Der of 1898.
Ruby Dunbar testified that she was
present when the assault was made. She
said Ledford had entered the house and
asked them to have a drink. He then
accused Stevens of having snubbed him
and followed the accusation by kicking
her in the eye and inflicting the other in
juries.
Charles Streater, barkeeper at Al East
Mercury street, testified that Ledford
had entered his place of business shortly
before the assault was made and an
nounced his intention Of going over to
the place where Agnes was and making
a rough house out of it. Soon afterward
he heard something "drop'-it sounded
like stage thunder-and he blew a police
whistle. Ledford then took a walk up
the street.
Asked on cross-examination how long
he had been a barkeeper in Butte he re-
Iused TO answer, saying it had nothing to
do with the case. The court instructed
him to reply. He said - years.
This closed the states side and the
prisoner went to the bat. He said that
ON the morning of the trouble he had
gone to Streater's place md Streater
had told him Agnes had been there look
ing for him. He went to her house and
put down SIS for a bottle of beer and
waited for his change, but he did not
get no change" They all began to in
suit him, he said, when he asked for it. !
n he slapped her in the face. He de-
nled having struck her with a beer
bottle. After the trouble he had gone
with her to a saloon and she had then |
returned him $3.50 of the SIS. The bar
keeper there had knocked him cold.
AFTER Ledford had told his story court
adjourned until 2 o'clock.
Attorney John McClernan applied to
Judge Clancy today for a reduction in
the amount of the bail bond of William
Boots, charged with having fractured
skull Of Oscar Pau with a billiard
cue a few weeks ago, but the Judge re-
1used to grant it. McClernan told the
court that Paul was walking around the
streets and he therefore thought that q
bz,OOO bond was too great to keep hang.
.ng over Boots. He asked that it be re-
luced to $500.
Judge Clancy has continued all civil
matters until the 18th of this month. Re-
'Ween now and that date nothing but
'rimlnal and exparte business will he
handled by him.
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