The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-24
HARD LINES IN
POLICE COURT
SICKNESS AND WANT KNOWN
ON LIFE'S SEAMY
SIDE.
vagrancy Charge Against a Boy
Sophia James Case Will BE Tried
Sullivan Charged With Insanity
Minor Charges Attended,
Jessie Woods Used an Axe
on a Window Breaker,

Ihere appears to be HARD experfanceSs
IN the lives of the women of the Galena
street quarter as we'll as in the lives of
others. This is illustrated in the case Of
Nellie Mitchell, a young woman who lives,
down In that part of the underworld ]
Nellie was arrested last night ande
charged with the nefarous practice Of,
street walking. The arrest took place on'
the corner of Mercury and Wyoming
streets. After she reached the Jail the
young woman furnished a cash bond of
$500 and was freed again.
This morning she convinced judge
Boyle that her lines had fallen in. diff
cult places. She told his honor that she
had been sick for weeks, had been out OF
bed4two days and been on the street only
two hours. when arrested. She was pallfd
and thin and her appearance bore out her
story.
Therefore the judge fined her s. and let
her go. The way of the transgressOr in
Nellie's case appears to be exceedingly
rocky at times.
Vagrancy Against a Boy.
A vagrancy charge was preferred
against a boy named Abe Broslin, last
night, and the latter was arrested ..l
East Galena street. This morning the
defendant pleaded guilty when arraigned
and Judge Boyle dismissed the case. The
court remarked that the the boys father
kept store and that the boy worked for
him. These facts killed the vagrancy'
charge, but the tramp-like clothes he
wore and the unsavory quarter where hei
was arrested were prfma facie evidence
warranting the police in arresting him. D
The Sophia James Case.
The Sophia James case. in which the.
police authorities are trying to punish
the defendant on charge of Keeping al
house for immoral purposes, came up,
before Judge Boyle yesterday afternoon
on arraignment The defendant was,
charged on two warrants with maintain
ing nuisance in keeping the house she
runs at 100 West Galena street, back of
Renshaw hall.
j. M. Hinkle. Miss James lawyer, put
in demurrers to the complaints against
her. and Judge Boyle overruled the same,
The defendant pleaded not guilty and
her case was set for trial on the 9th.
The police object to the James woman
living where she does, and her prOSecu-
ton Is understood to be an effort to
force her to move from the west to
east side of Galena. or somewhere
in the recognized tenderloin quarter,
and to test the power of the city to
prosecute successfully violaters of the
ordinance relating to prescribed houses.
Minor Offenders.
Denis Sullivan was arrested by Of
flcer Roach on South Main street last
night about 10 o'clock by Officers Laugh
ran and Yutz on a similar charge, on
Fast Park street. Both prisoners were
There were four DRINKS before Judge
Boyle this morning for hearing. Their
names were August Sonberg. Harry L.
Johnson. A. c. Berg and Gus Barten. Ali
admitted that they had been under the
influence of liquor and were fined S
each.
VIII Larsen. a man who was fined $40
Yesterday by Judge Boyle on a charge of
disturbing the peace. and who then took
"a hours to plead to a charge OF nsaA
licious mischief in breaking the windows
Of the house Of Jessie Woods on East
|. Galena street. was up on the latter
charge to plead this morning. He
pleaded not guilty and Judge Boyle disc.
missed the case against him. .
It had come to the ears OF the Judge
that the complainant. Miss Woods. had
chased the defendant with an axe. and
considering the exercise he received
then and the money he had already paid
into the city treasury. Judge Boyle cons
sidered him sufficiently rebuked for his
mistakes. )