The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-18
ANACONDA NEWS.
THE MARONY FAMILY ROW
1T Occupied the Attention of
Two Courts Yesterday.
mo ONE WAS PUNISHED
But a Three Months Sentence Hangs
Over Con Walsh's Head and Will
Be Enforced II He Is
Not Good

4 Con Walsh is the only one Of the
three people arrested Saturday night at
the Marony residence on Alder street
who has been found guilty. Judge Ken
nedy yesterday imposed a sentence of
three months in Jail on him, but sus-
pended sentence to allow Walsh to care
for his wife and family.
The shindig of the Marony family and
its relations occupied the time of
two courts yesterday and attracted
large crowds. The stories related and
the appearance of the witnesses would
have furnished enough material to a
farce comedy writer to grind out sew
eral plays. First there was Mrs. Fair
field, petite, pretty, red checked and
confiding, a charming study for a SOU
brette. Then there was Mrs. Marony,
her mother, rotund and ample; Mrs.
Majors the neighbor who came in ito
borry a smoothing iron,'' and wit
messed part of the disturbance; Mrs.
Con Walsh, giSgllng and embarrassed;
Con Walsh himself, sullen and morose;
Mr.. Marony, father of Mrs. Con Walsh
and Mrs. Fairfield, red bearded and in
dignant ]. J. Crowley, short, nervous
good natured and snub nosed, and John
Brown, slim, dapper and attentive to
Mrs. Fairfield.
When they solemnly stood up in a
row to be sworn one instinctively ex-
pected them to break into the chorus of
come-all-ye and ito see one of them
commence to dance a Jig.
The testimony went to show that Con
Walsh was the disturbing element in
I the Marony family party. He has a
habit of playing that character. He
! has been arrested three times in the
last three months for disturbing the
peace. May 1 he was up for firing a
revolver in an effort to start something
and was fined $40. At that time and on
the occasion of his previous arrest his
wife had told the court he had abused
her and failed to support his family.
This time, however his wife asserted he
had been good to her. On last pay day
he had paid all his bills and given her
the balance of his check. Hence the
court was lenient with him.
According to the evidence Saturdays
disturbance started when Walsh en-
tered the Marony house loaded ana
bearing mis- baby in his arms. His re-
Spected father-in-law was lying on u
bed. Con threw the baby into Papa
Maronys face and demanded: "Whatcn
Yer got against my kid?"
i Papa Marony. being peaceable man,
declared he had nothing.
Con expressed in forcible language e
desire for more beer, the Marony
family can having been rushed several
& times in the afternoon. On it not being
forthcoming Con chased the children
out of the kitchen, opened a trap door
and descended to the cellar, where he
procured four bottles of beer sfs
Emerging from the cellar with the
beer under his arm he went away to-
ward the section house, telling the fam
lily and assembled guests they could
''all go to HI" which was impolite on
his part.
When he returned from the section
house. after drinking the beer, Con
playfully grabbed his father-in-law by
his luxuriant bunch of whiskers, MAX
ing them look like a broken bale of
hay, and threw the old gentleman off
the bed to the floor.
BY this time Mr.. Brown, who Mrs.
Walsh, with rare discrimination, de-
clared was exactly three quarters full,
woke up from a nap he had been TAX
ing. Con glared at him and went on
to the kitchen, where Mrs. Fairfield,
his sister-in-law, lay on a bed.
You --." said he, accosting
her, why don't you go back to your
husband?"
II don't have to-" retorted Mrs Fair
field, who has no love for her sisters
husband.
Then Con let Connemara yell out OF
him, shed his coat and threatened to
clean things out; whereupon Papa
Marony went for the axe and Mrs. Fair
field for a gun. Papa Marony returned
with his weapon and swung il once, but
was begged by his wife not to do any
thing rash
Then Mrs Fairfield came in from the
woodshed with her gun and blazed