The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-16
ANACONDA News.
POLICE COURT MATINEE
& Kittie Braoken Too Modest to
Appear Before the Judge.
WITHOUT GOOD CLOTHES
She Is Arraigned, but Takes the Statu-
tory Time to Plead--A Considera-
BILE Bunch of Offenders
~ Is Dealt With.
WITHOUT GOOD CLOTHES

Late in the progress of his matinee
yesterday Judge Kennedy in the police
court. had worked through bunch of
\ offenders and needed more grist for his
Il Justice mill.
Who said he inquiringly, looking
around upon the police officers present,
l will bring Kittie Bracken up?" Not an
officer stirred. Kittie and her tongue
are well known to the police. Officer
8 McMasters was detailed for the duty a
4 length.
Z After a wait of several minutes, he
returned. ''She wants to get her
N clothes first" he reported.
( Hasn't she got any clothes on?' ASK
ed the judge, a blush rising above his
collar and spreading up to his glasses.
We'll" said the officer obviously,
+ mot very many She's got Skirt and
"a and a" but here the polceman's
E knowledge of feminine attire failed MIN.
She's got as many clothes on as she
had when she was arrested out in the
street" said Chief White, who plainly
had no patience with kittes attack of
modesty.
HAS she-will she-is she present.
able?" asked the court Of McMasters
with evident anxiety.
. ooh, guess she'll do was the non
commital reply. Even the court smiled.
Wen fetch her up" said the chief.
plunging down the stairs. Presently
he came back with kittie, who had rus
tied some clothes somewhere. She wore
skirt caught in the back with arhand-
some brass safety pin and hanging
about her in long, if not graceful, folds.
A waist of calico, manifeStly too large
\ for her slender figure was above this,
. while over her head and shoulders were
draped, la senorita, crimson shawl.
Kittie was nervous, but laxative
well, Kittie.'' said the judge, you
I have finally landed inside?'
Il beg pardon" said kittie, politely
II said you have finally landed IN
/ side
But am here unjustly," was the re-
ply. Then kittie went on to tell he1
story. She overlooked the fact that she
had been drunk and bowling like a
4 band of Indians off the reservation
when arrested, but insisted she was a
badly abused woman. Her tale was
II that she had been sick two weeks; that
her husband was very late in getting
home and being frightened she had lock
ed the door. He had come home, come tt
the conclusion some one was with he1
and broken in the door. The had raj
out screaming and had been arrested
When asked to plead to the charge o
4 disorderly conduct Kittie gibly an
/ nounced she would take "a hours to d.
SO. So she went down the chute back tt
Jail.
Heavy-eyed and with a jaw who's
hinge was weakened, Tom Dolan tool
his place on the mourner's bench. IN
charge against him was assault in tn
third degree, he having playfully drag
ged Matte Anderson about the floor Q
her shack in the bad lands, using he
long flowing hair as a handle.
II didn't strike the woman, SAID ne
plaintively. Then he pleaded not guilty
changed him mind and concluded t
take "a hours in which to plead.
Take him away said the court. an
Tom shambled down the chute.
John Mehan had disgust on hiT
thick enough to cut when he cam
blinking up from below.
You are chaged with being drum
and disturbing the peace of CONNER
cial avenue" said Judge Kennel.
What is your plea?'
IF he said so, guess it's So snar
ed Mehan, as he shuff1ed about IN -
chair and tried to find soft spot o
which to rest his aching head.
officer Gerald Sullivan testified tina
at $50 yesterday morning he had bee
attracted to the Mehan house, bs
tween East Commercial ana PARK aV'
nues, by the cries of Mehans Slste
Mehan was there with a payday loa
on him, creating the most uneven kin
of a rough house. He was curslng n
sister. calling her an ''old sport" ar
similar names. and demanding that ST
pay him some money on pain of bein
murdered.
Give me the money" Mehan ha
howled ''or I'll murder you. I'd just