The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-17
BRISK DAY IN
POLICE COURT
ROBBERlES, DRINKS AND DIS
ORDERLIES VEX THE DAYS
PROCEEDINGS.
Ida Smith is Out on Bail-Kranston
Said He Was Guilty Man-Sul-
Ivan Admitted His Guilt, Too,
But Murphy Was Back
ward About Coming
Forward.

| Ida Smith was arrested at 10 o'clock
this morning and brought into Jail from
+her house at As East Galena street and
| charged with being an inmate of pre-
scribed place and with having secured
E$l1 belonging to a man who gave his
name as Barney Williams. A male
| friend came in with her and advanced
$40 in cash to effect her liberation.
! Williams claimed to have visited the
| house of the defendant and come away
| $11 loser, and was sure that the woman
had stolen the money from him.
G. D. Kranston was arrested yesterday
afternoon on a warrant sworn out by
b. J. Hail. one of his friends, and
| lodged in the Jail on charge of being
drunk and disorderly. It was stated by
the friends of the prisoner that he had
been drinking heavily and was on the
verge of delrium tremens, and that his
arrest was humanitarian measure. He
pleaded guilty to being drunk in the
police court this morning and Judge
Boyle took the case under advisement
till tomorrow morning. He is an aged
unfortunate.
Tom Sullivan was arrested on Park
and Wyoming street last night on one
charge Of being drunk and on another
put on the jailor's books as Tom Null
laney, and when his case was called he
did not respond to the name of Mullaney.
There is difficulty in identifying the de-
PENDANTS In the police court occasionally
owing to some confusion of mind on
their parts at the times when they are
arrested. This was such a case The
process of elimination. however, reduced
the cluster Of defendants to a point
where Sullivan and Mullaney became
merged in one finally, and then the de-
tendant was arraigned. He pleaded
guilty to both charges and was fined SIS.
Inc judicial police gun seldom misses
fre or fails to wing it's man.
Pete Murphy was another pune tilioAs
defendant who hesitated to answer to
his name and held back coyly because
he was inscribed in the annals of the
lookup as Pat Murphy. He was
| charged with disturbing the peace on
Front street and Utah avenue with
loud, abusive and profane language in
the presence of women and children.
He pleaded not guilty and he will be
tried on the Goth.
man and boy named Fat Murray
and Chas. Hansen respectively We're ar
| rested last night for disturbing the
peace in Dublin Gulch by fighting. they
pleaded not guilty this morning before
Judge Boyle and their trials were set
| for the Goth instant. Their bonds were
fixed at $25 Attorney Burt Marsh APP
| peared for Murray.
| Mrs. Conick, the woman who gave her
husband, tn stone cutter, sucn a start
a short time ago by staying away from
home for two or three days. was ar
rested last night for being drunk and
| down. When brought into the jail she
was somewhat disheveled. Her skirt
trailed her basque was drawn up in
the back and her hat was Just trife
crooked. It was at a late hour when she
was injected into the wonans ward,
and the seven or eight colored ladies
there had all the couches and the table
in service as beds. There was no room
for her. Hence she woke Up all the
dusky girls and prayed permission to
beat some one of them to a whisper.
Before they became entirely awake,
when doubtless they would have ac-
commodated her with alacrity, she was
taken away and given dung. IN dark
at the rear of the mems quarters. She
pleaded guilty to being drunk, this