The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-19
S0OAS IN TROUBLE.
JACOB ACCUSES CON MURPHY OF
MAKING ASSAULT.
FALSE CONCLUSIONS DRAWN
Murphy Charged With Knocking the
Sparkle Out of Soda-Murphy's
Mother Thought She Had
Been Called Names.

A complaint charging Con Murphy with
assault in the third degree was issued by
Deputy County Attorney Lynch this
morning at the request of Mr. ant Mrs.
Jacob Soda.
The request was made in broken En-
glish. with quaint German accent and
Mr.. Soda looked sa lily out of one eye
while it was being made.
The Sodas dwell on Anaconda Road
at the number Al, in the basement of
the dwelling there, and Con Murphy re-
sides upstairs with his mother.
Soda is a swarthy man. and the dis
coloration of his left optic made him far
sWarthier today than usual. His wife is
fat and fair and there is little intelligi-
bic English between them.
Mrs. Soda is the same woman who re-
fused to let a drayman remove clothes
line stretched across an alley. two or
three months ago, and created Il small
rot.
The drayman had a load of furniture
for a neghbor, and it took three police
men, the neighbor and several volunteers
a half hour to overcome the Sodas and
get the dray near enough to the neigh
boris house to deliver the furniture.
Case Somewhat Different.
That case of Soda was different one
to this. There was more snap in Soda
then than there was this morning while
he was making his wall to the lawyer
man who helps the redress of wrongs.
With his eye in mourning, and several
abraded places on his dark complexion,
he looked more like soda and brandy
than Soda.
First Soda explained what Murphy
did to take the sparkle out of aim. He
said that when he was on his way to
work at the Stuart mine this morning,
Murphy met him and swung with the
right hand, which contained stoue like
a robust turkey egg, and landed on his
eye. He went down, he said, and Mur-
ply kicked him in the back few times.
This happened near the house, and he
fell upon the rocks of the Stuart dump.
The stones made his back sore, and the
kicks made it sorer. He declared that
Murphy took him unawares, and that he
had no chance to defend himself.
After his tale was unfOlded Mrs Soda,
who was more gingery, popped out of her
chair and related the wherefore of Muir
phys actions.
She said that a mistaken assumption
unfortunately made by Mrs. Murphy, the
mother Of the defendant, was responsible
for the swing Murphy is accused of maxi
ing with the rock.
Woman Tells Her Story.
my man and me, We had some words
dis morgan. We had little racket like
all married peoples has, and he vas talk
ing loudt, and dot woman drinks he vas
golling her names. He vas not; he vas
talking to me.
I'VE had some troubles, and he talked
like all married mans do. Dot woman
thought he vas calling her bad vonlaa,"
Mrs. Soda said:
From the woman's statements it APP
peared that Mrs. Murphy thought the
epithets handled on the tongue of Soda
were directed at her, while, as matter
of fact, he was merely arguing with his
wife, as all married men do.
The noise also was Objectionable to the
Murphy's. Mrs. Soda was fixing With
Indignation before she had finished.
Soda looked like dead soldier as he
sat in his chair and wiped his blackened
visual organ. He and his wife took the
complaint to Judge Arnold to get war
rant for Murphy.
When Murphy is taken into custody,
he will realize that while from soda. to
hook is from one end Of the deal to the
other they are not really so very far
apart.