The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-07
CHARGE
DEFENDANTS, ACCUSED OF sERI-
GUS CRIMES, IN COURT.
ROBBERY AND ASSAULT PLEAS
Information For Burglary Filed
Against Man Caught by Young
Woman-Defendants Are All
Young Men.

Deputy County Attorney Yancey this
morning filed an informa ton in Judge
McClernan's court charging George w.
Miller with the crime of burglary.
Miller was arraigned. and stated that
he had no lawyer and no means to en-
ploy one.
Judge McClernan appointed Attorney
Grice to defend Miller, and the latter was
allowed till next Tuesday morning to
plead.
Miller is the man who was captured in
Miss Emma Arnold's room by Miss Ar
mold night before last, while he was
plundering the apartment. He was load
ed down with a coat and vest and two
revolvers, and box of toilet articles and
trinkets.
Miller is a young man, with a peculiar
looking face. He was dressed in ordinary
style, and had an unfavorable appear
ance.
Information Charging Robbery.
An information for robbery was also
filed by Deputy County Attorney Yancey
against Frank Denton, Jesse Helm,
George Cameron, Theodore Sturburt and
Bat Harrington All the defendants were
in court to answer to the arraignment,
except Denton.
The deputy prosecutor said that Den
ton, unfortunately, mad escaped from
custody. The names given are the de-
PENDANTS true names, they said.
Attorney Booth appeared for Hef1in,
Cameron and Sturburt, and waived the
reading Of the indictment and entered
plea of not guilty for them.
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tive. and was given until next Tuesday to
get lawyer and plead. Attorney Booth
asked that his clients be given separate
trials, and the order was made.
All Young Men.
These defendants We're all young men,
too, and most of them smooth shaven.
They are accused of robbing a man
named ]. c. Coburn Of 500 in gold.
The alleged crime was committed on
Silver street, near an alley, on October
II of this year, and the men are accused
Of falling upon Coburn and taking his
money by force on the night of that date.
The story runs that Helm, who used
to be a bartender and whose wife was
sent to the state insane asylum recently,
played pool all of the afternoon of that
day with Coburn at Creech & KinsOns
saloon, where the men became acquaint-
ed and he is believed to have been in
collision with the others and to have.
steered them upon Coburn after 1t was
discovered the latter had some money.
Arrested Soon After.
The defendants We're arrested shortly
after Coburn was robbed the night that
experience befell him, and all have been
in Jail since then except Denton, who
escaped from the custody of constable,
and sturburt, who furnished $500 bail for
his appearance.
Joseph Holmes, colOred man who is
charged with assault in the first degree,
for shooting another colored man during
the progress Of card game at the sa-
loon run by his brother, Harvey Holmes.
was arraigned to plead. demurrer
and a motion to quash the information
were peremptorily set aside by the court,
and then Attorney Booth counsel for
Holmes, entered plea of not guilty.
In the County Jail.
Holmes shot johnson several weeks
ago. and he has been incarcerated in the
county Jail ever since. Attorney Booth
asked that bail be fixed this morning.
saying that his client might be able to
put up $1,000 or $500. The court fixed the
bond at $1,000 saying that that was the
regular figure in assault cases.
All these defendants will go on the
books for trial when the next trial jury
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