The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-08
BEFORE JUDGE CLANCY
The Demurrer Sustained in the
Nicholson Case.
PLEAS IN MURDER CASES
Nellie Wilson Arraigned for Killing
Jacob Barrett-Burke Pleaded Not
Guilty Quinn Was Caught
Red-Handed.

| tanned a demurrer to the Information
| against George w. Nicholson, charging
| him with murder in the first degree.
He held that it was prejudicial to the
| defendant to name the degree of crime,
as that was matter for the jury to de-
| eide. He said it was sufficient to
charge simply murder. The county at
torney was given time to file an amend
ed information against Nicholson.
Nettie Wilson, the Galena street wo-
man who shot and killed Jacob Bar
under an information charging her with
murder in the first degree. She was
given until next Thursday to plead
Patrick Quinn and John R. Burke,
| the two men who are charged with hold
ing up the Ledford saloon, on Arizona
| street. We're up to plead. Burke, who
will be defended by Miles Cavanaugh,
entered a plea of not guilty, and the
court fixed his bonds at $1,000. His CO..
defendant, Quinn. was not ready to
| plead and his case was continued until
| next Saturday. Quinn is the robber
who took a half dozen shots at officer
Loughrin and he was caught red-hand-
ed and cannot possibly have any de-
|
will plead guilty and will not risk a
| jury trial. The evidence against Burke
| is not so strong.
John Ryan, the fellow who held up
and robbed w. J. Lloyd few weeks
ago. was in court. and County Attorney
Connolly dismissed the information
which was filed against him week ago.
| Mr.. Connolly discovered that Ryan was
| an eX-conVict, having been sent up for
| from Helena NnVpn1bnT
for robbery, and he will get a dose of
| the hahitual criminal act A new in
formation was therefore filed against
him and his alleged partner in the hold
up, William G. Bell. The latter was ar
rested week or SO ago at the request
of Lloyd, who met him on the street
and positively identified him as one of
the two robbers who held him up. Ryan
is charged with robbery and a prior
conviction under the name of John Nc
| Carthy. The defendants were arraigned
and took until next Thursday to plead.
An information was filed against John
harrington, who struck George Althoff
with a beer glass on Nov. "a and de-
stroyed the sight of one of his eyes
! Harrington Is charged with assault in
the second degree. He is out on bail.
Martin Harrison pleaded not guilty to
the charge of robbery and his case was
| set for trial on Jan. 90.
A motion to quash the information
against Thomas Brown, charged with
assault in the first degree, was argued
and sustained by the court, but the
county attorney was at once directed
| to file a new information against
Brown. The motion to quash was
| based on the fact that the committing
| magistrate, in holding Brown to the dis
| trict court did not make such an order
| as is required by law, and the further
fact that the information was not filed
within 30 days after the date of the al
! legged commitment. County Attorney
! Connolly said he was not prepared to
resist the motion and would therefore
confess it. Brown is the man who stole
| lumber from the Carroll Lumber COM
| pany and was caught in the act by
| Ben Baker, the Waterman, who shot
and wounded the thief The latter re-
| turned the fire, but missed the watch
man.
County Attorney Connolly will during
the coming week proceed against the
fellow Sam Phillips who is under ar
rest for the murder of Adolph Schwade,
| which crime was committed more than
a year ago. Phillips is a hard looking
| individual and possesses a face that
might convict him of almost any crime
1t is likely that he will be charged with
murder in the first degree, committed
Emma Reid yesterday commenced an
| action against her husband, James
Reid, to compel him to support her and
one of their children. In her complaint
| she says they were married in Butte in
| June, 1892, and that the defendant is an
| able bodied man, capable of earning SO
| a day and has $500 in cash on deposit in
| a bank.
| She says that for three months he
| has contributed nothing toward her
| support. They have three children, the
youngest of whom, II months of age, is
| in the care of plaintiff On the 1st Of
! last November the defendant published
in the newspapers notice warning
merchants not to extend any credit to
the plaintiff She asks the court to
compel the defendant to pay $50 into
court for her maintenance. An order
to show cause was issued and will be
heard next Thursday. A restraining
order was also issued to prevent the
defendant from getting the cash which
he has in the bank.
j. b. Culbertson, painter, yesterday
commenced suit against Richard A.
Carder and ]. Sidney Ellis for $1163
damages on account of personal injur-
les sustained while in their employ. He
says in his complaint that on the I'd
of last September he was working on
the Hale house and had to use a scat
fold which had been provided by the
defendants and had been neglgently
constructed by them. The scaffold was
not strong enough to bear his weight
and he fell to the ground, a distance of
40 feet, and sustained injuries from
which he was laid up for 80 days to his
damage in the sum of 81 900 and to his
loss in time and expenses to the amount
of 1853.
Judge Clancy yesterday heard proofs
in the divorce case of William w.
Jones against Christina NJ. Jones and
granted the plaintiff a decree. The tes-
timony was that the parties We're mar
ried at WellsVille, Utah, in November
1884, and that in 1891 the defendant de-
serted the plaintiff and on the 18th of
October, 1897, she was also criminally
intimate with the notorious John Doe.
John F. Forbis, administrator of the
estate of w, j. Mcnamara, yesterday
petttioned the court to appoint an APP
praiser to determine the amount of in
heritance tax due on the estate Judge