Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08
CRIMINAL AND
OTHER CASES
JUDGE CLANCY'S BUSY DAY WITH
PART OF BUTTE'S LAWLESS
POPULATION.
C0L0RED WOMAN DIVORCED
FROM DRUNKEN HUSBAND,
Edward Smith Did Not Want an At
torney-Dates For Hearing
Pleas Are Set.

SouiL lHlS morning ana among Otnor
things disposed of at it he granted Julia
Forester a decree of divorce from Frank
FORESTER on the ground that the de-
had failed to provide the plain
tlff with the common necessaries of life
and was addicted to the excessive use of
Intoxicating liquor. The parties to the
action are colored. Mrs. Forester tes-
tied that she was married to Forester
on November %, 1898, and he had been
drunk two years.
Was he drunk when you married
him. asked the judge.
NO, sir" coyly replied the plaintiff.
Mrs. Forester further stated that for
of the shoal of starvation by doing wash
ing, ironing and keeping boarders, and
had a witness in the person of a Mr..
Nichols to prove it.
Edward Smith is either a believer in
ability of attorneys appointed by the
court to defend persons. Mr.. Smith is in
Jail on the charge of obtaining money
under false pretenses from Moses Mautz,
an East Butte saloon keeper. Today he
was lined up in Judge Clancy's court and
asked if he wanted an attorney appointed
to defend him.
mo, your honor" said he. IT do not
care to put the state to the expense of
having a lawyer defend me. I desire to
simply explain the case and plead
guilty"
"Yo., don't want an Attorney" said
the judge, somewhat astonished.
mo. sir: I dom care to have one" re-
piled Smith.
"Well, then TIL except your plea Mon
day evening and fix your sentence" said
the judge.
In the case of the state against Frank
(Tn11an nharOO1 with 1nxino 1nCN0i1n7
Lille Benz, a young girl. the demurrer to
the information was confessed and the
county attorney ordered by the court to
file a new information.
Daniel Ryan, charged with assault in
the second degree on Constable Daniel
Shields. was arraigned and given until
next Saturday to enter his plea. Attor-
ney Dowlan has charge of Ryan's case.
What is your given name Mr.. Dow
LAMP" asked the court.
IN. Dowlan, sir, plain Mike" was the
reply.
And the court jotted the given name
down in his big book and looked
pleasant.
Levi Cartier, accused of grand larceny,
the theft of a buggy from Fred J. Row
lands, was arraigned and given until next
Saturday in which to plead.
John F. Lang, charged with having IL
beled w. Bardner, an engineer on the
Great Northern railroad, was given until
next Saturday to plead. Thomas j. Cox,
a recent addition to the legal Fraternity
of Silver Bow county, hailing from Ala
bama and Oklahoma was appointed by
the court to defend him..
Eugene Riley and James Blake, charg-
ed with robbery alleged to have been
committed on July 5, We're given until
nnYf Snfllrlnv To p1nnd w T ~,
was appointed to defend them.
Motions and demurrers in the following
actions We're dismissed by Judge Clancy
today for van of prosecution partly due
to the absence of attorneys representing
them. r. A. Hubbard VS.. Pietro Ramlna-
ciotti: State Savings bank vs.. Cassie
Shaver; Kate Leary VS.. James Leary.
The date for the a~rraignment of w. A.
Bridges n Patrick Griffin, the former
charged with forgery and the latter as
sault in the second degree, has been
changed to the 18th of this month.
Judge Clancy set the following criminal
| cases today for trial:
State VS.. John Boyd, alleged to nave
taken bullion belonging to the Bi-Metal-
lie Mining company. September 20.
State VS.. John E. Clifford, set for the
9th.
State VS.. Charles Verona, who is charg-
ed with murder by the sale of wood al
cohol to Indians. September 90.
State VS.. Henry Evans and IKE Cohen,
grand larceny October 1.
State VS.. John J. Mason, robbery, con-
Victed once II sent to the penitentiary
for twenty years, but granted a new
trial, October 2.
State VS.. Thomas Reyes, accused Of
murder, October 3.