Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-26
JOHN RYAN
PLEADS GUILTY
And Judge Clancy Gives Him
Fifteen Years.
HE HELD A MAN UP DEC. rs
John R. Burke Relieved From Custody
at the Request of Mr..
Connolly.
HE HELD A MAN UP DEC. rs

John Ryan walked into Judge Clancy's
department of the district court this
afternoon, withdrew his former plea Of
not guilty to the charge of highway rob-
berry, plead guilty and was sentenced to
the penitentiary for 10 years.
Ryan did not care to take chance with
the uncertainties Of a jury, knowing
full we'll that the fact of his former con-
viction on a similar charge in Lewis and
Clarke county would cut some figure
with the result.
On Christmas night he and a pal held
up w. G.. Lloyd at the corner of Broad
way and Arizona street and was caught
before he could escape. He was not
masked at the time the crime was cons
mitted and his victim therefore had no
difficulty in recognizing him.. Had he
escaped even for the time being it might
have been more difficult to prove his
guilt.
After changing his plea in court today
he was asked if he had anything to say
why he should not be retired from active
life for a number of years. His answer
was no" Sentence was then passed.
Frank Conley, one of the prison con-
tractors, was in the court room when
the event took place. AS Ryan had spent
between six and seven years at the
prison. Conley knew him quite well. He
said Ryan had been released on Decem-
Der %, 1894; that he was a handy man in
prison, but was a confirmed morphine
fiend.
w. G.. Bell, who is alleged to have been
the partner of Ryan in the hold-up, will
face the judge tomorrow morning and
will doubtless be liberated. 1t has trans
pired that he is not the right man hat
Michael Aaron, alias the Jew Kid who
was sent up from Deer Lodge county for
two years a few days ago, vas the man
that assisted Ryan in the Lloyd affair.
John r. Burke was discharged from
custody today. He was arrested a few
weeks ago on the SuppOsitiOn that he
had loaned Quinn, the Copper State sa-
loon hold-up, a helping hand He has
been out on bail. In asking for the dis
county attorney stated that he did not
have sufficient violence to convict him
of completely in the crime.
Charles Banlxson, who about eight
months ago was convicted Of alleged rob-
berry and sentenced to four years in the
penitentiray by the jury, had his SEN
fenced confirmed by the court today. He
has been an inmate of the county Jail
since his arrest, which occurred several
weeks before his trial took place. Attor-
ney Dygert, who is handling his case,
took an exception to the sentence and
will endeavor to secure the prisoners re-
lease.
The Home Investment mpan filed
an action against Charles S. Warren and
Mittie A. Warren in the district court to-
day to compel the defendants to reform
a deed to the following property, which
the plaintiff alleges the defendants exc
cuted on July s, 1898: The Independence
quartz claim, a third interest in the
Montana lode claim, a half in the Lenora,
a five-siXths in the Josephine, a half in
the ST. Louis, a half in the Bland, all of
the Bay streak, a third in the Henrietta,
all of the Limitation, all of the Highland
Chief, all of the Montrose, all of the
Donegal, all of the Hopewell, all of the
Unknown, a third in the Sooner, a half
in the Mastodon, all of the Snowflake,
all of the Wooden, a quarter in the Ari-
IONA. all of the Carlisle, a thirty-second
of the Arctic, all of the Anna, all of
the Animosa, all of the Genus, all of the
Hub, all of the Rlackfoot, a half in the
Sunbury, a quarter in the Railroad, a
half in a lot situate in the southeast
corner of the Harriet lode, a portion Of
the Hesperus, a lot of real estate, all
right in the Creole, Grand Junction,
Sarstield, Silver Joe, Zarelda, Pixies
Peak, New Noon. Carte Blanche, Ander-
son, Welcome Stranger, Protector, Pro-
lection, Western World, Clara, Thesus,
Arlington and Mary Ann.
Michael Reagan filed an answer today
to the complaint of James Ryan, in which
the latter stated that in LeadVille, during
1895, 1896 and 1897, one Hugh O'Hara had
sold him goods and merchandise valued
at SAP ID and assigned the account to
the plaintiff. Reagan denies that the
goods he bought We're worth the amount
stated, or that they had an understand
ing to this effect in 1897.
A man giving his name as Joe O'Don-
nell was arrested yesterday on a war
rant charging him with obtaining goods
under false pretenses. He is now an in
mate Of the county Jail. 1t is alleged
that by representing himself as another
man he succeeded in getting $116.3 worth
of goods from the Hennessy store, $33.75
from the Siegel company, $3.50 from the
Council store and $15 worth from Case.
GraVelle & Irwin.