Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-15
Between Two Attorneys in the
O'R0urke- Schultz Case.
CHUNG LOUIE HELD UP
And Robbed of Eleven DOllar-Judge
Lindsay Resets Cases For
Trial.

For a few minutes this morning there
was a warm t.me in the trial of the
misunderstanding stock suit in Judge
Lindsay's court. and like other amusing
incidents with which the testimony has
at times bristled and cracked, it was
enjoyed by all persons within it's radiant
glow.
When the trial was resumed Attorney
Kirk said he desired to show by Mrs.
Schultz that she was willing and ready
to turn over to Mr.. O'Rourke S34 shares
of stock in the Northwestern Brick &
Supply company provided he would pay
a third of the s., 800 note signed by A. A.
Lisker. DR.. Schultz and Mr.. O'Rourke
at the time the 300 shares Of LeClaire
stock We're sold at auction.
In answer to Mr.. Kirk, ]. j. Mediation,
who with Messrs. Bender and Alley is
representing Mr.. O'Rourke, said the pro-
posed proposition of the other side was
the most extraordinary performance he
had ever WitnesseG in a court room. 1t
was unfair, he said. he followed this
assertion by asking why the offer had
been reserved until the last minute.
I'VE Will show he continued, that
Mary Schultz has not in her possession
now and has not for some time past had
one share of stock she can deliver, as it
has all been levied upon and attached"
He objected to Mrs. Schultz being al
lowed to say whether she was ready to
exchange the stock for cash, but the
judge said he desired to be informed in
the case and would allow the question to
be asked and answered.
Mrs. Schultz, are you now ready, will
ing and prepared to deliver to John
O'Rourke s34 shares of stock in the
Northwestern Brick & Supply company,
free from all membranes in considera-
tion that he will pay a third of the note?"
asked Mr.. Kirk.
Yes, sir"
That was all the testimony along the
old line and court adjourned for an hour
to give the parties to the action time in
to prepare for the introduction Of
opened by the offer of Mrs. Schultz to
deliver the stock.
If the story related by Chung Louie
in the county attorneys office to-day is
true all the bad boys in Silver Bow coun-
ty are not in the reform school or the
but there is still a little
room left in these institutions. He stated
Yesterday. while walking along West
street in the vicinity of the new
high school building, he was accosted by
six boys. some Of whom We're as large
a. AtitSetA ans aSsdutttd ana lODDel
him Of 81 ana a silk handkerchief. One
of the larger boys caught him under the
jaw with a left swing and knocked
him down. The striker, assisted by the
other boys, tnen searched his pockets
and secured the reperty mentioned. at
ter which they ran away. Louie said
he knew one Or Two Of the boys by sight.
Louie had a hard time getting into the
court house. The entrance is guarded
by a revolving door having four or five
wings or apartments and its correct
manipulation is not always properly un-
derstood by ever nat class Of persons
who have not had experience with them.
Louie gave one of the wings a push and
it moved forward, the one directly be.
hind him, closing in. The door stopped
after moving about two feet and Louie
was a prisoner. Instead of giving tha
wing in front of him another push and
moving along with it to the opening be-
You'd he became excited, braced his feet
against the wing at the rear and his
hands against the one in front and began
to push. The wing would not move and
Louie grew desperate. He Wedged him.
self tween the wings and was about to
throw his whole strength into the thing
and either move it forward or break a
suspender when a deputy sheriff discov-
cred him and helped him out.
On motion of Jesse B.. Roote, w. A.
Clark, Jr.. was today admitted to the
legal bar of Silver Bow county by Judge
Lindsay pending the determination of
his application to the supreme court.
Tho yol,po man &c q graduate nf tho law