Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10
Judge Clancy Considers It the
Best Place For Roach.
WHISKY AND CIGARETTES
Not on the Bill of Fare at the Re-
form Sch00l-A Property
Mans Troubles.

| Henry Roach, the 17-year-old boy whose
depredations as a midnight mechanic on
the 21st of February led to his arrest and
subsequent conviction for burglary, was
sentenced to the reform school for three
years and eight months by Judge Clancy
this morning. Roach did not change col
or when the judge spoke-he appeared as
bright and "scoopy" as the Standard did
the day it located the public building in
! West Park street. He took a fresh chew
of tobacco, rolled it industriously around
in his mouth and looked about the room.
In sealing the fate of the boy the judge
said:
Henry Roach you were informed
against by the county attorney for the
crime of burglary, to which information
| you plead not guilty. The testimony of
all the witnesses was against you, to the
effect that you had don these things in
the manner and person as alleged, in the
night time. You of course went on the
stand and swore you did not do it-swore
you had bought the whisky and cigaroOts
and other stuff. You boys had a large
time there, but the jury, after hearing
all the evidence believed you guilty
and so found. The statute gives the
court, in it's discretion. power to send a
boy under is to the reform school instead
of the p~enitentiary. 1 don't believe you
are a bad boy and as you grow older you
will learn that these things are wrong
wrong as a matter of policy. AS people
grow older they learn that it pays to be
polite and honest. Have you anything
to say"
mo, sir said Roach.
"Well, then I will sentence you to the
reform school until you are twenty-one
years old"
The hearing of the motion to show
cause why the defendant should not pay
alimony n counsel fees in the divorce
suit of, Anna Mosher VS.. Charles w.
Mosher was heard in department No. 2
of the district court today. The plaintiff
testified that her husband was employed
as property man at the opera house and
received $50 per month; hat he had de-
serted her October 5, 1897. She then had
$40 and that time he had given her only
$40. She worked for a living, but was
able to follow her occupation only about
two months at a time.
S. w. Jackson of South Montana street,
an employment agent, testified tina he
had often provided Mrs. Mosher with en-
ployment. He had, he said, known the
Moshers about two years.
Mosher stated that instead of $50 per
month he received only SIS per week. He
had not been paid such a salary since the
7th of March 1898, at which time he was
in the Occur d'Alene country. He had,
he said, no money and had all he could do
to support himself.
Some testimony was introduced for the
purpose of showing that he was support
ing another woman, but it was not sub
stantiated.
At the conclusion of the hearing the
court ordered the defendant to pay his
wife $40 temporary alimony and her at
torney $50.
In the case of the state against Chas.
Pierson, charged with having received
stolen property knowing it to have been
stolen, t he jury, after celebrating about
five hours, returned a verdict of not
guilty.
The matter involving the mysterious !
disappearance of George w. Nicholson's |
big revolver from Judge Clancy's court
room was heard in department 2 today.
A few days g. w. T. Lippincott, who de-
Tended Nicholson, Informed the judge that
the weapon vas missing and he thought |
the stenographer had it. According ly the
Judge cited the latter TO appear in court
and tell what he knew about it. The
stenographer was under oath.
He said the gun had been offered in evil
dence at the trial and the last time he
saw it Lippincott himself had it.
"Mr. Clerk, issue a citation for Lip
pincott and bring him into court" sal
the judge. Il want to find out where that
gun is"
The citation was issued, but the morn
ing session adjourned before Lippincott
was found.
The weapon belongs to a %neighbor of
Nicholson.
Thu hearing of the demurrer in the suit |
of the county against the bondsmen of
Charles O.. Johnson, t he defaulting coun-
ty clerk and recorder who is now growing