The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1901-08-28
ON TRIAL FOR PERJURY.
BITTER ROOT CITIZENS APPEAR IN
FEDERAL COURT.
ALL SORTS And CONDITIONS
Pleas In Abatement Filed In All Cases
The Roll Of Prls0ners Trial
Set For September ,.

peared before United States District
Judge Hiram Knowles yesterday az
ternoon in answer to the stern demand
of the law to come from their homes in
the Bitter Root valley and enter pleas
to the charges of perjury contained id
the indictments found against them BY
the federal grand jury" says Wednes-
days Helena Record. s'They stand
accused of having made false oaths to
secure title to prospective homes. II
is charged that they perjured them
selves for gain; that they were con-
spirators in land stealing plot.
Amcng them are aged men whose once
stalwart frames are bent with the
heavy weight of years, bearing the
scars of hardships and the infirmities
of age. Some of them are cripples:
| some of them are deaf; some Of them
are blind, but none of them show any
evidence of close communion with
crime. Among them are women,
mothers: wives, in some instances all
who remain of the family circle. There
are women bearing in their arms their
babies. Among them are aged women
, whose white hair and trembling hands
tell the story of long years of patient
toll and suffering
| Pleas in abatement have been filed
in behalf of all the accused. It is
alleged by the defense that question
able methods were resor, ed to to i'm
press the grand jury Which indicted
the defendants and that the grand jury
itself was illegally drawn.
The following is list oi the names,
ages, residences and occupations Of
those arraigned; Herbert Eddy, 50
years of age, farmer, Victor, Ravalli
county; Mary Eddy, %, wife, Victor;
! Eveline Jemison, o., housekeepsr, Vic
tor; A. J. Jemison, 80, engineer, Vic
tor; Laura Roll, 60, housekeeper, Vic
tor; Thomas Roll, 46, farmer, Victor;
Lavina l. Gilman, ~, housekeeper,
Victor; Joshua c. Gilman. 81, farmer,
Victor; Calvin Yarger, 81, farAer, Vic
tor; James w. Wheaton. 81, carpenter,
Victor; Charles H. Jemison, q, farmer,
Clearwater; Nellie J. Ehle, 81, house
wife, Missoula, Frank B. Arey, ~,
laborer, Missoula; James Mize, So,
farmer, Rosemont; w. J. Eddy, 80,
farmer, Victor; Geo. Dildine, A., car
penter, Missoula; Robert Starkie, "a,
laborer, Missoula; Albert Ehle, 80, car
penter, Potomac, Missoula county;
Mary A.. Starkie, 81, housewife, Mis-
soula; Daisy L. Chattin, 80, house
keeper, Missoula; George p. Jenaison,
80, farmer, Victor; A. c. Snyder, q,
laborer, Misscula; Harriet Bryan, 20,
honsekeeper, Missoula; John B. Reeve,
So, laborer, Missoula; Guy Muchmore,
%, farmer, Missoula; Belle Bryan,
(now Mrs. Belle Evans), "a, Clear
water;C. S. Hoyt, "a. rancher, Ovaado;
Leonard Barrett, O., gardener, Mis-
soula; Charles B. Sperry, ~, farmer
and stockman, Helena; Albert Stew
art, As, rancher, Ovando; Oliver e.
Muchmore, IS, farmer, Ovando; e. D.
Doney, 81, rancher, Ovando; Albert
F. Muchmore, "a, farmer, Ovando;
J Leila Bryan, IS, teacher, Clearwater;
. Elijah W. Hoyt, 66, rancher. Ovando;
Charles H. Moss, 81, farmer, Missoula;
Jacob F. Jemison, II, farmer, Clear
water; Frank Chattin, "a, laborer,
Missoula; Nels o. Opsarta, IS, rancher,
Ovando; Elizabeth A. Muchmore, ~,
: housekeeper, Ovando.
E In addition to the above, which are
/ for perjury, there is one indictment
against Robert NJ. Cobban, of Mis-
soula, for perjury and II for SUBJ
ornation of perjury, and five against
John B. Catlin, also Of Missoula, for