Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-20
RECEIVED
STOLEN GOODS
THE sANToR0S ADMITTED HAv.
!, ING PURCHASED HAMS AND
SOAP FROM WARD.
THEY WERE PURLOINED
{ FROM THE P. J. BR0PHY STORE
Defendants Attorney Stated That the
Real Thief Had Disappeared
Case Is Now on Trial

The trial of Guyette and Emanuel San
toro en- a charge of having received stol-
en- property knowing it to have been
stolen was commenced in Judge Clancy's
court today and was still in progress at
a late hour.
The goods which it is alleged they re-
ceived consisted of hams valued at $50. 20
and soap quoted at $S.25. a total of
s4o.45. The offense is alleged to have been
committed on the 18th of last March.
The defendants were at that time en-
gagged in the occupation of peddling, and
it is claimed that they bought the hams
and soap from a man named Ward, VINO
worked as a delivery clerk for p. }.
Brophy, and that they knew Ward had
stolen the goods from BrOphy. The ar
rest of the two defendants was brought
about by the confession of Ward. Mr..
Brophy had been missing goods for
quite While and suspected Ward Of
being responsible for their disappear
ance. When he accused Ward of the
theft the latter weakened and told ali
about it, He was arrested and placed
in Jail, but how he got out or why the
CTlIIllllil proceedings commenced against
him were not maintained was not made
clear at the trial of Santoros On the
witness stand Jerry Murphy, the city de-
tective, testified that Ward had also
confessed his guilt to him in the city Jail
and that the Santoros were present at
the time. The witness said that when
Ward told of having sold the goods to
the Santoros the latter called him a liar.
Ward, he said. had told him he had
! stolen sugar, olive OIL soap, hams and
/ various other articles from Brophy and
| sod them. He had seen Ward in town
about two months ago.
! During the proceedings Judge Clancy
! asked what had become of Ward and
| the prosecution said it did not know, as
| the action had its origin under the old
/ administration
| The real thief has disappeared" said
| NJ. P. Gilchrist. the defendants attorney.
That is not the right kind of a remark
| to make in the presence Of the jury eX-
! claimed the judge.
+ Mr.. Brophy said Ward had told him he
! had sold the goods to men whose names
| he could not remember. Although Ward
! had told him all about the theft of the
goods and the disposition he had made
! of them. he, Brophy. had never received
| a cent of the money realized ON them by
Ward.
What became of Mr.. Ward?" asked
the attorney for the defense.
Il do not know. l guess he left the
country
Did you have anything to do VIII
getting him away?"
Il did not. After his arrest I receive.
letters from his sisters and parents il
! 7 nI~ hnu tn
cut him, and l allowed the matter t;
drop Ward admitted to me that he hat
tstolen ten sacks of sugar with the Other
goods and sold them to peddlers.'
In the opening statement for the de
Tense Mr.. Gilchrist said it would b,
fshown that when the defendants bough
the goods they did not know whenc,
they came.
| Emanuel Sanford then took the stans
in behalf of himself and brother II
said he had been engaged in the ped
ding business about IS months. H
knew Ward, the Brophy store deliver!
clerk. Ward had sold him a sack ant
! half of hams at cents per pound, ant
he had in turn sold them for 10 cents
He had paid Ward 214 cents per poun
for the soap. Both the hams and soal
had been sold by him at the McDermot
|
Cudahy company for and 4 cents am
he therefore considered s cents a goo
price in view of the fact that Ward hat
represented them as a job lot. The wit
ness also said he had bought a job 10
of canned goods from Ward about
month before the ham and soap pur
chase, paying So for it, He said tina
had he known the goods We're stolen IL
would not have bought them from
. Ward, and that he had sold lots of stu
at the McDermott hotel. Some of tn
hams he had bought cheap at othe
stores were .rat-eaten and mOuldy, blu
he had cut the rat bites out. polished tn
mould with other grease and sold them
| Guyette Sanford, the other defendant
said he kept a butcher shop on Eas
Park street at present. but last Marc
he was engaged in the peddling bust
ness. He named the various places a
which he said he had bought good
while peddling and denied having eve
bought hams, soap or sugar from tn
Brophy store. He had on one occasion
bought Is sacks of potatoes from War
: at the latter place early in March, an
a barrel of fish later in the month.
Carpenter, manager for the Harmon
Packing company, testified to havin
I sold Guyette Sanford some damage
goods, but as it was done during tn
summer an objection was made and sus
4 tanned. The testimony Of two other pei
sons was shut out at the quarter. as
had no bearing on the case. AT
O'Clock the testimony was all in and tn
. prospects for verdict early in the even
1 ing We're good.