Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-13
MHuGHS BOND
IS FORFEITED
, WAS NOT ON HAND TO ANSWER
TO CHARGE OF BURGLARY
THIS MORNING.
ONE OF HIS PARTNERS
IS In PENITENTIARY.
Engene Mellier, Charged With Receiv-
ing Stolen Copper, Has Case
Against Him Dismissed,

The case of the state against James
McHugh, charged with burglary. was
calledk for trial in Judge Clancy's court
this morning, but neither McHugh nor
anyone else desiring to take his place
and chances responded as defendant and
the $500 cash BAIL bond put by McHugh
was adjudged the property Of the state.
fMcHugh is said to have been a menu
Der of the Butte football team. but be-
sides being a good ball player he is also
a good burglar-not an ordinary sneak
thief, but a first -class. ail-rpund cracks
a The crime for which he was ar
rested was the burglary of the room of
Mamie Smith in a Wyoming street lodg-
ing house. He a as pals one Harry
Nixon, who has more the of
a spoiled boy h a thief, and a man
who answered to the name of hon
Williams. The latter is now serving a
term of three years in the p~enitentiary
for the part he toe in the crime. having
entered a plea of guilty. Nixon has not
been tried and will not be, as he fur
nished the information that sealed the
fate of his two companions. This is
why Williams pleaded guilty, but had
he known that the unsupported testi-
mony of an accomplish would not be
worth the time consumed in giving it he
would have stood trial, as there was no
other evidence against him.. McHugh,
knowing he was in for it, put up a cash
bond of $500 and was released from Gus
tody, but he Immediately laid plans to
leave the state, and to hold him the
county attorney had him arrested on a
charge of vagrancy. McHugh, however,
was equal to the occasion, for he at Once
gave a bond of $50. When the day of
trial on the vagrancy charge arrived his
attorney appeared in court, entered q
ryan oF ~-sN<xy b. I-n,11E 80 a so- @~l
the court imposed a fine of $40. This
money was paid and the $50 bond thus
saved. but when it was planked down
MdHugh was many miles from Butte
and was striking only the high spots in
am effort to widen the gap between Butte
west, IN if such is the case, is probably
heading for Cape Nome.
The trial OF the case Of the state
against Eugene 0. Mellier, accused Of
having received some bars OF copper
knowing them to have been stolen, was
Ito have been commenced in Judge
Clancy's court this morning, but when
1t was called Cornelius F. Kelly, acting
fer the county attorney, asked that the
charge be dismissed. In making the re-
quest he stated that within THE last week
information had reached the county at
torney's office to the effect that Mellier
had been more sinned against than sin
ming and THAT under the circumstances
! the officers of the Anaconda company, at
whose ~instigation the prosecution of the
defendant had been brought about, We're
unwilling to go farther in the matter.
A 1.-THE conclusion of the statement
Judge Clancy discharged Mellier and
| released his bond.
It is alleged that private detectives
worked UP the case against h defend
ant, but it was afterwards learned that
they made allegations which had no
foundation in act and that a trial of the
defendant would result only in an ac-
quittal.