The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-06
BUTTE NEWS.
BAD men PUT IN JAIL
Two Italians Arrested on Charge
of Burglary.
GAVE THE POLICE A RUN
During the Chase One of Them Threw
Away Watch, Which Was Picked
Up by Boy-JoEn Carey Raises
Sensational Disturbance.

( Frank Merend and Arthur VILLAIN,
two Italians, are under arrest at the
4 city Jail. Merend charged with burg
larry in the day time, and VILLAIN with
] being an accomplice.
Il Lew P. Smith lives in a cabin on
the Little st. Lawrence lode, west of
/. Missoula gulch. John Sears is one of his
I neighbors. Yesterday morning Sears
wife saw a man go to Smiths cabin and
i break a window and climb in. She
. called her husband and Sears started to
investigate. He saw the man leave the
cabin and start toward town and he
followed On the way in the man was
Joined by another. who appeared 10
, have been waiting for him. Sears fol-
/ lowed the pair till he came across Of
ficers Roach and J. J. Murphy at Mon
tana and Park streets, and called their
! attention to the two fellows. When
! the pair saw Sears approach the Off
GERS they started to run, and the officers
gave chase. VILLAIN was quickly over
hauled but Merend gave the officers
quite chase. AS he ran he passed a
boy named Freudenstein. who saw him
throw away a watch, which the boy
picked up and handed to one of The
officers. The police are of the opinion
+
! eral small jobs of similar character
that have been done recently.
I Merend is new to the police, but VII
I iani has received their attention before.
A short time ago he was arrested and
punished for brutally ill-treating his
4 wife while she was in a delicate con-
I dition.
The police rounded up a gang of five
vags yesterday, who gave the names
! of Henry Cumiford. Frank Barry, John
Nelson, George Ennis and Frank Wade.
4 The fellows had in their possession
+ big lot of phony jewelry which they
were peddlng, and as this is a favorite
blind under which house breakers dis
gllise their perambulations about resi-
/ dence sections while laying plans for
future operations, they were taken for
Il investigation and were booked for
yagrancy.
James Wilson and Paddy Mcmahon,
J the latter tin horn fighter, were taken
to the city jail yesterday morning in
badly bruised up condition as the re-
suit of an encounter they had in the
bad lands night before last, Both were
! badly used up, and as each carried
{ beautiful jag they We're booked for
Il drunkenness They declined to give
/ the names of their assailants, and the
Il police are of the opinion their condltlon
& was due to a COLLISION between rival
y bad lands factions.
* John Carey, a miner living in Cork
i town, was taken to the city Jail yester-
3 day morning and booked for carrying
concealed weapons and for threatening
i to kill Police officers McQueeney and
4 Radmilovich. The officers were called
] to quell a disturbance between man
and his wife, and Carey, who was very
drunk and appears to have had hand
{ in the rumpus, came out with big gun
: and threatened to shoot the officers II
+ they interferred. He was in the act OF
Z putting his threat into execution when
the gun was knocked out of his hand
by one of the officers and he was
i marched off to Jail.
/. The police yesterday arrested Charles
4 Pearson, a 17-year-old boy, for petit
larceny. The boy is accused of stealing
car wheel from the Silver Bow mine
4, and selling it to the Blumpkin Junk
company. He is supposed to be mem
/. Der of gang of boys who have greatly
Il annoyed the Boston & Montana COM
pany of late by petty thievery.