The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-11
CAME BACK ALONE.
Sheriff Hubbard Returns from Fruit
less Trip to Butte.

Sheriff Hubbard Returns from Fruit
less Trip to Butte.
From Mondays Daily Gazette.
Sheriff Hubbard has returned from
Butte, where he went last week with
a warrant for the arrest of Mrs.
Maudie Archer and her alleged para
mour, a fellow named Hobart, who
are charged with adultery. The COM
plainant in the case is the husband
of the m
Mr.. Hubbard had no difficulty in
finding Mrs. Archer, but Hobart had
disappeared and is supposed to have
gone into Idaho. AS at the most the
woman could be convicted of a mis-
demeanor only, the sheriff decided not
to bring her back and thus saved the
county the expense of trying her.
According to Mr.. Hubbard the wo-
man is about as cool a combination
Of femininity as yer wore skirts and
as a p~revaricator could run the most
hardened liar a close race Notwith-
standing that last July she was in the
employ of Mr.. Hubbard, when con-
fronted by him at Butte she denied
ever having cen him and declared
most emphatically that he was mis-
taken when he claimed she had ever
been in Billings. When told he had
a warrant for her she said she suppos.
ed she would have to accompany him,
but he would find when they got back
here that she was not the person he
was looking for.
Before he saw her, Mr.. Hubbard had
a talk with one of her attorneys, for
she is prosecuting a suit for divorce
against her husband, and the lawyer
informed him that he certainly was
in error, as Mrs. Archer had given
him a complete list of the places at
which she had been while absent from
Butte, together with the dates, and
that she had not been in Yellowstone
county during any of the time. When
the lawyer finally realized how com
pletely the woman had deceived him
he was nonplussed and admitted that
she had pulled the wool over his op-
tics in the most complete manner, es-
pecially when Mr.. Hubbard told him
that Mrs. Archer had worked for him
and consequently he could not be.
mistaken in his identification of her.
Last Saturday her action for a di-
vOrce came up on a motion for tenn
porary alimony' and attorney fees.
The court made an order compelling
her husband to pay her $25 by this
morning and also SIS for lawyers
fees, with the option of going to Jail
for contempt in case of failure to do
so. This will probably be all, how
ever, that he. will be required to pay,
for he has a crossbill pending on the
ground of adultery, a charge he very
likely will have little difficulty in prov
ing. as he caused Mr.. Hubbard to be
subpoenaed as a witness. While in
this city Mrs. Archer went under the
name of Mrs. Hobart and introduced
the man with whom she was then
living, Hobart, to the sheriff as her
husband and said he was employed in
one of the wool warehouses of the
city.
Beside the sheriff, there are several
others here who know her we'll and to
whom she was known as Mrs. Ho-
bart"
Pay Your Taxes.
State of Montana, County of Yellow
stone, Treasurer's Office, Billings,
Montana. .
Taxes for the year A. D. 1902 are
10Y due. 1.
Payment of these taxes may be
made at the County Treasurer's Of
fee in Billings, Montana, during CT
flee hours.
Taxes will be delinquent ON the
30th day of November next, at +
o'clock p. m, and unless paid prior
thereto, 10 per cent will be added to
the amount.
On or before the last Monday in Dc
cember the delinquent tax list will be
published and the expense of publ.
cation charged against the delinquent
tax payers. In not less than 81 nor
more than % days from the first pub
LEGATION the property will be sold for
taxes and costs.
After sale one per cent will be add
ed for each month that elapses from
the date of sale until redeemed.
Note.-Pay promptly and save ex-
pense. Please remit all amounts less
than IS by p%ostofice or express money
Do not send stamps.
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