The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-16
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SEVEN BLACK
IN THE CITY COURT THIS MORN
ING CAUCASIAN AND ETH
lOPjAN MEET.
Drunks Have First Call in Judge
Boyle's Court-Alex Smart I'M
personated by Another Smart
Alex-In the Parade Of Ma
lions the Court Picked
Out Good and Bad.

There were fourteen prisoners to go UP
from the city jail to the police court this
morning for arraignment-seven white
men and seven black women. The array,
which looked like a parade of races,
spoke we'll for black men and white
| women.
The prisoners were charged with a
variety of misdemeanors, and the spec
| tacle presented by the daily grind
through the judicial mill was variegate6
while not elevating.
| Two crafty men mixed the proceed
| ings a little by confusing their identity.
but the kinks introduced by them were
Strengthened out after couple of false
starts; after which defendants trotted
the usual heats before Judge Boyle.
| One of the shrewd persons mentioned
was Alex Smart on the Jail books. He
was run in by the jailor last night on a
charge of drunk. He applied at the
| Jail for bed for the night, having heard
| about the new comforters and desiring
to try them out. He had forgotten his
| name. and the jailor, sizing him up as
smart aleck, put him down as Alex
Smart.
A Crafty Prisoner.
as Thomas Caughlan. The drunk
charges are usually disposed Of first.
Alex Smart was included among these,
but he did not answer to the name.
Caughlan was asked his name and said
he did not know it. Time is valuable
in the police court, and he was marshall
ed up with the other drunk defendants,
and he craftily pleaded guilty under the
name of Alex Smart though the charge
against him was assault and battery.
With Jack Boyle, who was out on $50
bond and sent plea of guilty by proxy,
/ Joe Sullivan, Charles Clark and Jack
Pollard, who also admitted the corn. he
was fined S..
When the name Of Ed Caughlan was
called in the assault and battery case
it was discovered with the aid of Tailor
Levy that the real Alex Smart>had been
washed up by the tide and stranded on
side track and that Caughlan had
vicariously and generously taken his
place, possibly thinking that Smart
would rush into the breach when the
assault and battery charge was called.
Smart was brought out of his trance and
arraigned on the drunk charge, while
Caughlan was required to answer to the
other matter. Both pleaded not guilty
Curley Was Lucky.
Barney Curley was arrested last night
on the corner of Broadway and Arizona
streets and charged with robbery in the
daytime. He was accused of robbing a
drunk in the person of Jack Boyle,
Three witnesses of the robbery told
stories of how it occurred to the arrest
ing officer. These We're H. E. Heath.
Jack Sullivan and Rafferty,, the hack
man. The defendant was accused of TAX
ing $6.55 from Boyle, and the money was
found in his pockets.
This morning Boyle declined to prose-
cute Curley. He was not sure the latter
did not take the money to keep it for
him, though he admitted that was not
acquainted with Curley. His charitable
view of the matter let Curley out of the
charge against him.
Thomas Hubbard, who was arrested
on the complaint of the street commits
sjoner and chaged with making an ex-
cavation in the street at 636 East Park
street without first securing a license
granting him the right to do tile same
was arraigned before Judge Boyle this
morning to plead. The defendant first
entered a plea of not guilty on the
ground that he did not know that he
was doing anything wrong. It was ex-
planned to him that ignorance of the
law is no excuse for its infraction, and
then he changed his plea of guilty. Judge
Boyle fined him the minimum fine of
SO.
Ed Smith was arrested last night on
charge of disturbing the peace. The
complaint was preferred by his sister,
who lives at 81 North Jackson street.
morning he failed to appear to answer
to the charge. The bond was forfeited,
A Whisky smuggler.
A whiskey smuggler in the person of
a boy Of 16 or II was caught in the
act of passing whiskey in to the male
prisoners in the city Jail, by Jailor Sol
Levy. this morning. A charge of vio-
lating the regulations of the city city
was put against him. He could not re-
member his name so he was booked as
Jimmy, the Smuggler He pleaded guilty
before Judge Boyle and was fined SO,
with the alternative of going to Jail for
five days.
LOttie Smith was arrested last night
on a charge of disturbing the peace and
street walking. She gave a cash bond of
$40, and this morning she pleaded not
guilty before Judge Boyle and her trial
was set for the goth.
Albert Burland was arrested last night
on East Galena street for disturbing the
peace and fighting. When arraigned in
Judge Boyle's court this morning he said
to the court:
II just took one swipe at him, Judge,
and missed him. That was all there
was to It,"
well. you had a right to hit him."
the Judge said.
you want to measure your distance