Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-24
FOR STEALING
ROLL Of CALICO
Frank Lee Sentenced to Six
Months in Jail.
FRIENDS OF MRS. SMITH
Attacked Attorney McElroy and One
OF Them Pleads
Guilty.
FRIENDS OF MRS. SMITH

Tom Johnson. John Murphy and Frank
Lee, three very tough young men were
before Judge Sullivan charged with petit
larceny. While two of the men went
into a South Main street pawnshop the
third helped himself to a roll of calico
and was caught red-handed.
Johnson n Murphy entered pleas OF
not guilty and demanded jury trials. Lee
pleaded guilty md told the court that
he alone was responsible for the theft.
He was sentenced to six months in the
, couny Jail.
Mickey the Greek pleaded not guilty
to the charge of vagrancy. His case
! will be tried Tuesday.
Paul Reiman and Attorney McElroy
were charged with disturbing the peace.
Reiman entered a plea of guilty and
Judge Sullivan took the case under adj
visement. McElroy took "a hour to
plead and later the charge against him
was dismissed. The trouble between the
two men was the outgrowth of a bust
ness deal between S. NJ. Wade. a real es-
tate agent. and a Mrs. Smith. Mrs.
Smith claims that she paid $40 on a
lodging house which Wade had for sale
ave her money back if she concluded
to change her mind. Wade contends
that the money was paid as a forfeit. A
few days later Mrs. Smith called on
Wade and demanded her money back.
Wade refused to produce, and she shat
caused a warrant to be issued for her
arrest but the officer could not find her.
Wade and McEiroy occupy the same
offices in the Silver Bow block.
Yesterday four of Mrs. Smiths friends
called at the office and asked tor Wade
who was out. McF,lroy told them he was
connected with the lodging house dea,
and they chorussed a demand for the
$50. Warm words followed, and accord
ing to McElroy's story the four men set
upon him and handled him with vio-
lence. Finally he told them he would
give them all he had-$5, and would go
to a bank and get the balance. Then
they quit pummelling him, took his
money, and accompanied him to the
street, where he met Officer McGrath to
whom he told his story. The officer put
McElroy, Neiman and Reiman Under ar
rest.
The case of Jay Sullivan, the boy who
was carght in a clothes closet in the
afternoon.
Ole Larsen, the only man who has Of
fered any resistance to the quarantine
officials during the smallpox epidemic
was tried in Judge Sullivan's court yes
terday afternoon, adjudged guilty and
fined $40 and costs. Larsen and a bro-
Their conduct a grocery store on Utah
avenue. ABOUT TWO weeks ago the
brother became i'll of smallpox. SAM
tary Inspector Croni called at the
place, and put it under quarantine. Ole
Larsen objected to this procedure, and
the officer placed him under arrest.
Peter Chase, charged by Francis
The only witness against Chasse was
Langlier, who told a rambling story
about being enticed into a Tenderloin
saloon, and of a general row which was
started in the place, as he believed, for
his benefit. He was of the opinion that
the fight was started in the hope tina he
would get mixed up in it and fall an easy
victim to the others, who would knock
him down and relieve him of his money.
Langelier slipped out the door before
the naturalization of his anticipations
and swore out a warrant for Glasses
arrest.