The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-20
MOLL|E MURRAY IN JAIL
She Has. Been Arrested Two
Hundred Times.
SAYS SHE is NOT GUILTY
Has Always Taken Her Medicine With
out Protest Before - The First
Time That She Has Ever
Made q Protest.

Mollie Murray, the colored woman
who knows more about the city and
county jails than any officer of either
the city or county, is once more a
guest at the city prison as the result
of disturbance in the coored circles
of Pleasant alley, which occurred at
an early hour yesterday morning.
There is nothing very sensational about
this announcement, for Mollie has been
arrested more times in the last two
years than any four dozen people in
the community. 1t is no eXaggeration
to say that Mollie has been arrested
at least 200 times in that period, so
the fact that she once more occupies
cell at the city Jail is very com
monplace. But there is something quite
remarkable in connection with her
case this time, nevertheless.
Heretofore Mollie has never been
known to deny her guilt. Always in
the past it has been Molle's custom
to march up before the judge in what
ever court her case was set and &C
knowledge her guilt, no matter what
the charge, but this time Mollie claims
she is not guilty, and that Is why her
case attracts unusual attention at this
time.
1t was during the wee small hours
Of yesterday morning that a row oc-
CURED in Pleasant alley. The society
of that quarter was badly disrupted
and razors, if they did not cut anything
worse, cut a good deal of figure in the
disturbance. 1t was all because some
one had made touch and gin and
sugar were more plentiful than usual.
A big row was matter of course un-
der such circumstances. Mollie was
chief n
of the trouble. and, justly or unjustly,
she was marched off to Jail.
Mollie protested stoutly against the
arrest, claiming she had no hand in
the difficulty and for once it really
looked as though she was telling the
truth. for she was, to her. disgusting,
ly sober. But the charge stood and
Mollie had to go before Judge Sulli-.
van when police court convened in
the morning
Mollie's case was the first one reach
ed when the docket was called. To
the dismay of the court the clerk and
the habitues of the court chamber
Mollie stood up when her name was
called and entered an unqualified plea
of not guilty. 1t was the first time in
the history of Molles connection
with police court matters that such
thing had been known, and it caused
sensation. Judge Sullivan peered
over his glasses IN aStcnlshment ana
repeated the question as to guilty or
not guilty. thinking he could not have
heard Alright, but Mollie answered again
in the negative, and while consterna-
ton was written on the faces of all
who heard. Judge Sullivan quietly re-
marked: well I'm glad to hear it
for once" and set rthe colored woman's
case for trial Friday. Mollie went be-
low to await her trial. She now oc-
cupies her place in the womans de-
partment and wears the air of one
who feels very confident that for once
term in Jail is not in store.
John Lyons furnished the only other
case for the adjudication of the police
magistrate yesterday Wednesday night
Lyons took aboard more red liquor
than he could pack comfortably and
got into a fight which resulted in his
arrest. He appeared before Judge Sui
Ivan yesterday and entered a plea of
guilty to a charge of disturbance and
paid the customary fine of $40.