Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1900-03-02
BEAST IN HUMAN FORM
Charles A. Stanley Bound Over on a
Charge Of Polluting His Own
Daughter
IN PRESENCE OF WIFE
Forced the Child to Occupy His Bed Under
the Threat Of Numbering Her.
He is in Jail.

A0 Is III Udlks
Incarcerated i'll the county Jail at
fed Lodge is an inhuman monster
charged with the most unnatural
crime that the mind of man can con
ceiye Of. If the story told by his wife
and family be true, and not much
doubt is expressed on this score, a
damnable crime has been committed
by this beast III the form of u man
which will forever subject him to the
direst eXecrations which can be hurled
from the lips Of anoutraged people.
In all the category of crime, from tho
slightest otlense to the commission of
the foulest murder, nothing stands
out so black and infamous as the
deed which is charged against Charles
4. Stanley. Beasts in human. form
have been charged with the crime of
rape, but the ravishing Of ones own
daughter, an innocent child Of but
fourteen years Of age, in the very
presence Of the mother Of the girl,
under the threat of killing the on
tire family il resistance was offered,
is the lowest and most despicable
crime to which man .an descend.
This is what is alleged to have oc-
CURED i'll the family Of Charles A.
Stanley, and according to theevidence
of Mrs. Stanley aud daughter Edna,
us given before Justice James Bland
ing at the preliminary hearing ut
Carbonate on Wednesday last, the de
grading and unnatural crime is
brought right to his door.
The first intimation that the officers
obtained of the crime was conveyed
in a letter from MIR. Norton Of ST.
Paul, enclosing |. letter received from
his aunt, Mrs. Charles A. Stanley,
detailing the infamy Of her husband.
1t was evident from the tone of the
letter which she wrote that Mrs
Stanley lived in mortal dread OF her
husband and dare not mako complaint
to the officers of the dlabolical out
rage committed upon the person OF
his own daughter by her husband.
Immediately upon the receipt ol the
letter, Sheriff John Dunn and Count y
Attorney Reno proceeded down to
Selmes by private conveyance and
heard from the lips of Mrs. Stanley
all the horrible details Of the crime
committed by Stanley under his own
roof upon his daughter. They ac-
cordingly arrested Stanley on the
charge Of incest and lis preliminary
hearing was had at Carbonado.
The evidence introduced was toe
revolving for publication. Suffice il
to say that the testimony went on tc
show that Stanley had only achieved
his villianous purpose after years o1
trial and had at last compelled his
daughter, under the threat Of the
complete annihilation of the entire
family, to seek the couch occupied b.
her mother and submit to his fiendisi
advances. The justice, after hearing
the evidence of the mother anC
daughter, bound the defendant oyel
to the district court in bonds Of 81, 600
failing to furnish which he was
brought to this city and lodged in tn,
county Jail to await trial at the next
term of district court. The defendan
waived his right to put in a defense
: at the preliminary examination. ant
it is understood that he did not deny
the very grave charge brought agains
him at the trial, although since he
] arrived ID Red Lodge he has attempt
5 ed to set up denial OF the awfu
| offense with which he is charged.
The accused formerly resided ii
, Red Lodge and worked for time il
| the Rocky Fork coal mines. Later
: he removed with his family to a rancl
l near Selmes, where it is alleged ht
polluted his own daughter one night
about six weeks ago. His MARTA
relations have been greatly strained
for years and it is said of him that h
frequently took occasion to beat hi
: wife. After the commission of th
1 alleged crime, Stanley went to Geb
to work in the mines and his arres
= was made at that coal camp.
G Blance Stone, Butte tenderlio
Il woman, took carbolic acid and climlj
ed the ssgolden stairs.