The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-01
|. NJ. HETU FOUND GUILTY
He Was Accused of Disturbing
the Peace.
THREATENED AN OFFICER
The Original Charge OF Pulling a Gun
on Murphy Was Withdrawn.
He Was Fined Thirty
Dollars.

| loon keeper, who had trouble with Po-
lice Officer ]. ]. Murphy Wednesday
morning and was accused of pulling
a gun on the officer, had his trial in
the police court yesterday on q charge
of disturbing the peace, the original
charge Of threatening the officer with
gun having been withdrawn for some
| reason and that of disturbance substi-
| tuted. The case was prosecuted by
City Attorney Lamb and Attorney NJ.
| Il. Leblanc appeared for the defense.
Of1cer Murphy, in giving his version
of the affair, said he went to Hetus
saloon after drink. While there
Hetu kicked him on the shin, wit.
ness thought he was in fun and paid no
attention, but Hetu came alt him.
| pulled off his star and called him bad
names. Witness went outside and
| Hetu followed, still using bad lam
| guage. Witness told him he must be-
nave himself in the street or he would
arrest him. Hetu wanted to fight, but
witness told him he was in no condi.
| ton to fight. When told he would DO
| arrested Hetu went into the saloon and
| came out again with a gun and said,
Now come and arrest me, you big -
- =" Witness walked away and
| later caught Hetu in bar
| Der shop and arrested him. Cross
examined, Officer Murphy denied that
| the trouble arose over his refusal TO
| pay bill.
| Howard Bennett was crossing Mon
tana street. and saw Murphy and
Hetu quarreling. He heard Hetu
| make threat, and heard Murphy
| dare him ITO carry it out The officer
| told Hetu if be made any disturbance
| in the street he would arrest him. Hetu
| went back and came out with a gun,
with which he threatened Murphy.
Lewis Edwards was in Hetu's saloon
| and heard Hetu and Murphy have
| words. Finally they went out in the
| street and had more trouble He did
not see Hetu have gun at any time,
| but saw him have his hands under his
coat.
For the defense. j. S. F. Iba was
called, but could not throw any light
on the case.
]. j. Adams, the bartender, said
Murphy came in to get drink Hetu
| made some remark to Murphy. Shortly
afterward he heard Hetu say some
thing about money, but he could not
say just what it was. Some customers
came in and witness attention was at
tracted. All else that he remarked
was that he saw Hetu have hold of
Murphy's arm and heard some one, he
could not tell who, say something about
not pulling a gun.
The defendant was the next witness.
He said Murphy was in his saloon
when he came in. He passed a. JOSH
ing remark, and Murphy made a surly
reply. which angered witness, and he
replied by telling Murphy he had bet
ter pay what he owed for several
months. He was angry and grabbed
Murphy by the collar. Murphy at
tempted to pull his gun and witness
told him to take off his star and he
would lick" him right there. Murphy
started to leave the place, and wit
ness thought he would make a bluff
at him and put his hands under his
coat at his back and said, Come on,
and we will see who will get the worst
of it," Witness emphatically denied
having had a gun at any time.
Judge Sullivan found the defendant
guilty and sentenced him to pay a fine
of $50.
James Bray was Before the court,
charged with disturbing the peace of
Edmund Wilkinson. 1t appears that
Bray and Wilkinson and a third party
who was with Bray met on the street
Bray spoke up and said, There's the
biggest scab in Montana" Wilkinson's
reply was, according to the testimony,
even less supplementary than Eray's
salutation. Bray having a witness
aside from himself, while Wilkinson
had none, the latter was pretty badly
outsworn and the court dismissed the
case against Bray and taxed the costs
to Wilkinson.
After threatening for long time to
do something to put stop to the petty
thievery of boys by holding responsible
the junk dealers who buy what they
steal, the police took the first step yes
terday toward putting the threat into
execution by aTresting the principals
of three junk buying firms for viola
ton of the ordinance which prohibits
junk dealers from buying copper wire,
which is the principal commodity the
young thieves have been dealing in of
late. The complaint cites Fannie Cor
don, the Blumpkin Junk company and
M. Schott as the defendants Attorney
j. c. Bachelor appeared in police court
for the defendants yesterday and en-
tered plea of not guilty. The trial of
the case was set for next Friday
Other cases before Judge Sullivan
were Jack Iba and Frank Leblanc, for
vagrancy, dismissed; Ormila Proulx,
failing to comply with an order from
the health department to clean a vault,
was fined $40.
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