Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-09
Bearing the Returning Montana
Volunteer Soldiers.
LANDED A DAMAGE SUIT
For $4,000 Against the Railroad
C0mpany-NO New Trial for
Shafer or Lucy.

On motion of Y. T. CaSon, a or
the Silver Bow county bar. Theodore M.
Holland Of Minnesota was admitted to
practice in the courts of Montana by
Judge Clancy today. pending his regular
admission by the supreme court. Mr..
Cason told the judge that Holland was a
man of good moral character. which is
one of the principal requisites to he N-
tension of the glad hand of fellowship
among the legal fraternity. and the judge
wanted to know how he knew.
"Well 1 know" said Cason.
Shortly after Holland was admitted
he had John H. Rooney appointed
guardian of Vincent Rooney. his son, 10
years old, for the purpose of maintain
ing an action for $4,000 damages against
the Oregon Short Line Railroad COM
paly. A complaint in the action was
then filed in the Office of the clerk. In
the document the plaintiff claims that
on the o3rd of October his son Vincent
went down to the depot of the
to watch the trains bearing the oldiers
come in, and the crowd was so dense
that he was damned against the first
section, thrown under the wheels and
had one foot so badly crushed that the
leg a to be %amputated below the knee,
extent of 1 5000.
Rooney further alleges that the train
was running at the rate of IL miles an
hour; that it was the custom of the COM
pany to run it's trains in on the first
track south of the station, but in this
instance it ran them down the fourth
track, and did not stop the first section
until after it had reached Il point near
the race track. The complainant fur
they says that the company should have
known that the crowd would assemble.
Judge Clancy granted several DEGREES
of divorce today. Norah f.. Preston was
granted a legal separation from James
p. Preston. and Sadie Lawrence was
given a bill of clearance against Gilbert
Lawrence.
In the case of the state against Joseph
Shafer, charged with the murder of john
Hawkins, the defendants motion for a
new trial was Overruled. Shafer has al
ready had two trials and in each he was
convicted of murder in the first degree.
His attorneys took an exception to the
order made today.
Daniel Lucey, the convicted murderer
of Patrick l.. Regain, was also denied IL
new trial. He is to be hanged about
Jan. l, to which date he was respited
from Nov. 10.
The court overruled the motion for a
new trial in the civil suit of Annie f.
Hanley against the city of Butte.
A bevy of bad boys made close con-
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partment No. 2 today. They are James
Benson, George York. John Murphy,
Richard Dyer, Jack Shea and Ed Boyle.
With the exception of Boyle all the boys
rock their medicine heroically and with
a smile, but Boyle asked to be allowed
to go free. When the judge told him no
he cried.
The wife of John Zagur responded to-
day to a citation issued several days ago
requiring her to appear in court and tell
What she knew about the property of
Zagur. but nothing of a definite nature
could be obtained from her.
Zagur is the man who a few weeks ago
gave Mrs. Susan Christian such Il beat
ing that she sued him for IS. 900 damages
n got judgment for the amount and
costs, which made a total Of IS. 1O9. 20.
Since then she has been attempting to
get hold of enough of Zagur's property
to satisfy it, but has not yet succeeded.
Today she filed in court an affidavit in
which she stated that she believed Mrs.
Zagur was possessed of more than $50
worth of property and refused to apply