Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-29
IN POLICE COURT.
Tales Of Those Who Fractured the
City Ordinances.

dollar fine this morning for fighting near
the corner of Mercury and Jackson
streets yesterday, there were nine dol
lars of the fee that shoul be charged
up to rugged chivalry. Sullivan had a
dispute with a fellow whose name he
would not give away. and proposed that
they should settle matter with bare fists
n rough and tumble behind Clark's
barn. sullivan got the worst OF the en-
counter, as the numerous pieces OF cour
plaster which ornamented his head front
n back. straight up and diagonally.
disclosed to the court and spectators, as
he sat on the mourner's bench.
The fellow who came off champion was
no visible when the policeman got
around to the ring and arrested the
crest-fallen Sullivan. He paid the fine,
saying as he did so it was the first
money he ever put up in a police court.
Owen Lynch was charged with disturb
ance on East Broadway. When the usual
question was put by the clerk regarding
his plea, Owen started in to tell how 1t
all happened, in the Gaelic brogue of the
County Belfast. Owen said he was just
as sober yesterday as he was that min
ute, standing before the court. when he
sailed out for a ride, taking along a nog-
gin of Cruiskeen lawn, because it was
the customary thing to do before hiring
a rig. On his drive he encountered some
acquaintance who had not recovered
from the jag over the primaries, and
they stopped the buggy and began to
tumble in. Their clumsy efforts broke
the wheel. and the fuss for w--ich Owen
was arrested occurred at the livery sta
BILE. The prisoner said the policeman
used him roughly with his club.
Lynch'S story threatening to be long
drawn out, the court interrupted by ask
ing him to plead guilty or not guilty. If
the latter were entered, he had an OPP
portunity for trial and a chance to prove
WHA3t he said ahnnt tho nOlippman. Az
ter some hesitation. the young man de-
cided to, take. his medicine and he was
fined SO. He went below.
One drunk pleaded guilty and also
went below.
One of those scenes which provoke a
struggle between pity an Indignation for
mastery, transpired yesterday afternoon
in police court. Pity for he mite of a
woman who sat on one bench, with a
baby Rugged to her breast and her left
arm clasped about a child at her side
scarcely a year old. Indignation for the
robust fellow who sat on another bench
and swore to protect and support her on
the evil day she married him. The con-
traSt these two presented was enough to
reveal the cause of the trouble which
brought them to court, ever if a word
were unuttered in testimony.
Thu little woman told ner story in a
modest a Ever since their marriage
the husband had i~il-treated her. He
would not work, and she was obliged to
obtain support from the county. The
lazy fellow ate the food provided by
charity and left her and the children Of
ten hungry. She ~as compelled to leave
him and so to her sisters. The other day
Walsh came around and implored her to
live With hin again. q
She rejected the proposal. and then
the brute seized her by the throat and
threw her Off the sidewalk 2sfsJG bs
Walsh in. his .alvn e aafonsa .<Said fho
sister of his wife was the whole cause OF
the trouble. He put up a"story about
being in nl-health to mitigate the change
of non-support. In a whimpering tone
he told the judge he was ready to do
anything the our advised.
Walsh, you are a strong, rugged man,
able to work, yet you take away the
food from this little woman and her chill
dren and abuse her shamefully," said the
court, "and-"
"Her sister is to blame for the whole
trouble, and
"Silence!" exclaimed the now angry
judge II don't want to hear another
word from you. The court finds yoi
guilty and the sentence is six months il
Jail"
The trial of Gottlieb swartz for break.
ing a window ola Chinaman's restauran,
on South Main street gave the German
an opportunity to conduct his own de
Tense, but he was outclassed by the Chi
nese Witness; and the testimony IF thu
policeman along with the bricks which
broke the. window completely flooret
GOttlieb.
After committing the deed, Swartz raj
away and was chased by the officer, VIII
fired twice in the air before the offende
was captured.
"W,hat for you shoot at me ?" inquire,
h defendant, using his privilege il
cross-examinatfon. ..l. t.3
ITO make you stop running" answer
ed Officer Smith. D you suppose tn
police are paid for foot racing?" -
Swartz was sentenced to pay a fine o
$40, and will, earn it in the county jail.
The charge made against Lewis, man
ager Of the Afro-American club, for vic
lation Of the liquor license law. coul
not be sustained. Lewis was named /
the complaint but it was another "cullu
men'man" who sold the beer; so the ma
jesty Of the law was baffled. The detec
tive Of the Liquor Dealers associatfo
evidently got off the track, n wa
heard to softly whistle after court" ad
journed, "All Coons Look Alike to Me-"