Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-15
LONG DRAWN OUT
Is What the Big Mine Suit
Promises to Be.
THE SHADWELL TRIAL
Will Not Be Commenced Until NOvem-
Der 15-Applicati0n For
Bail Refused.

1t is now beginning to look as if there
would be very little exparte business
transacted in department NO. 2 of the
district court until after the trial of the
great Pennsylvania vein suit. When the
trial began persons familiar with the
duration Of this class Of actions predicted
that it would consume at least a month
of the courts time, but five weeks have
elapsed and the end is not in sight. Each
side has eight regular witnesses and a
retinue of others for rebuttal purposes,
and up to date only nine of the sixteen
regulars have been examined. Lee Hayes,
the first for the defense, has been on the
stand all week; and probably no witness
a mine case has ever received a more
thorough questioning on matters bearing
upon the qualifications which make the
services of an expert or an engineer
necessary in the determination Of a suit
of the magnitude of the one at issue.
The cross-examination was especially
searching. no apparent point being over
looked by Attorney Hayes, who pro-
pounded the questions.
This was the day set for the second
trial Of G. r. Shadwell. charged with
the murder of Martin O'Connor, but on
account of the mine suit Judge Clancy.
at the request of Deputy County Attor-
ney Alley, the matter was continued
until November Is. Shadwell and his
mother We're in court. AS soon as the
judge. announced the date Attorney
Thresher, in behalf of the prisoner, asked
that his client be admitted to bail. In
making the request he said Shadwell had
been in Jail twenty months. In passing
upon the request the judge said the tes-
timony adduced at the first trial was
sufficiently strong against the prisoner to
satisfy him the case was not bailable
n he would deny the application. Shad-
well was then returned to Jail.
Mrs. Bridget McGill, who received a
beating at the hands of her former hus-
band a few days 6 called at the coun-
ty attorneys Office today and announced
her of appearing against her
assailant in court. She is a nice-appear-
ing woman. 1t may be that McGill will
be charged with a more serious offense
tina assault in the second degree-it may
lave to be changed to murder. 1t will
be remembered hat at the time McGill
assaulted his ex-Wife, Mrs. Downey, her
mother, and Mrs. Katie Miller, her sis
ter, entered the room from another apart
ment and We're also assaulted, McGill
using a coupling pin on them. When Mrs.
McGill called on the county attorney to-
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not be able to appear in court, as she
was very low from the effects of the in
juries inflicted by McGill. She was con-
scious and unconscious by turns, and all
noticeable changes in her condition SEEM
ed to be for the worse. Being an old
woman the chances for her recovery are
against her. One of her arms was brok-
en- by a blow from the coupling pin.
Fred G. Bowen began an action in the
district court today against Joseph Des-
jardine and wife and S. c.. F.. Cobban to
recover judgment for $40, interest at the
rate of one per cent a month from April
20 of this year and an attorneys fee of
500. The plaintiff alleges in his COM
plant that the amount is due on a prom
issory note for 5000 executed by Desjar-
dine on Oct. 20 of last year. Cobban is
made a defendant on the ground that HI
has a claim as mortgage on the prem.
Uses mortgaged to secure the note. Plain
tiff asks hat the usual decree of proce-
dure be made.