Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-30
P|CkED IwO
OUT OF -FOUR
FARMER RANDALL SURVEYS
THE DUSKY DAMSELS WHO
; ROBBED HIM.
THEY ARE IDENTIFIED
BY HIS UNDERSTUDY
The Women Forfeited Their Bonds
and Could Not Get the Matter
Reopened.

Mabel Brown, Sadie White, Addie
Hardin and ella Robinson, four dusky
women who were arrested Thursday
night on a charge Of robbing a color
blind farmer from Bozeman oe $50, ard
who failed to appear in court yesterday
morning, in consequence Of which their
bonds We're forfeited, were before Judge
Sullivan this morning IN the same
charge, they having ,,eel rearrested last
night. Randall, the giddy agriculture
lst who lost his roll, was, also present.
The women were represented by Attor-
neys Grice and Wines. When the case
was called Mr.. Wines stated that the
FORGETTING Of the bonds of tn ewomsn
was somewhat premature; that they did
not know the time court convened, and
he asked that the matter of the forfeit
ed bonds be reopened.
Judge Sullivan was not inclined to grant
the request. Il have been informed"
said he, that n of these women look
ed into the court room yesterday norm
ing, and seeing the defendant, got out Of
the place as quickly as possible. I know
that this man has been robbed of $3.50; l
know, too, or believe, that thess Wornen
are the members of ar organized gang
of thieves, and the fact Ina. they failed
to appear here yesterday morning looks
very suspicious. If they wanted to pro-
tect their money they should have b:en
here"
Farmer Randall of Bozeman vas then
called into the court room to identity
the women. He was accompanied by
Reube Jones, a young man who works
on a ranch on ~Sourdough creek and who
came to town with Randall to see that
he did not spend his money foolishly.
Reuben is a wise looking youth. In his
mouth was a Wfsp of straw
and he was busily engaged in making
pulp Of the end that was between his
teeth. It seems that Reuben was Ran
dalps understudy on the niglt OF TIN.
touchdown and the fun was so fast and
furious that he forgot the mission tina
had brought him all he way from Sour
dough, and disported himself like a glad
young thing until Randall brought MIN
back to life by telling him Of the golng
OF the simoleons. So Reuben came along
to help his short-changed friend pick out
the women who were his financial I'M
doing.
bench of the court room and the two
men from Gallatin inspected them crit
ically. With Randall 1T was = ease OF all
coons looking alike, but Reuben. after
munching The straw refectively, decided
Upon Sadie White and MABEL BroWn' ano
the other women were discharged.
II now give notice that | propose to
move for the reopening of the matter CT
these women's bonds" said Attorney
Wines. 1.-The only way your clients can
get HI money is by suing the city, re-
Piled the Judge, and the incident closed.
The White and Brown women then
took "a hours to plead, and the case will
he called up Monday morning.
John johnson, a railroad man, was nm
ed $40 for carrying concealed
He said he thought railroad men were
entitled to carry guns n the judge con-
yinced him of his error. Mamie Supre-
nant. who broke the windows of the city
iail last night, and Tom Kennedy, VINO
was arrested yesterday on a charge OF
mnersonating an officer, entered pleas
of not guilty, and their cases were con-
tinued until Tuesday.