The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-10-18
MANAGERS OF HElNZE'S GUTTER
SHEET ARRESTED FOR OBJ
SCENE PUBLICATION.
E. D. BEATTY SWEARS
OUT THE COMPLAINT
Charged That the Cartoons Published
Are Obscene, lewd and Indecent and
Unfit to Be Placed Upon the Court
Records Of the United States Com
nissioner-Men Now Out on Bonds.

A. w. Brouse, p. A. O'Farrell. r. A.
Pelky, I. O. McGili and John Doe vii.
marth were arragned before United States
oommissioer Naughton after having been
arrested on complaint of United States
Postoffce Inspector L. d. Beatty, for hav-
ing used the mails for circulating an OBJ
scene picture. The men were all released
ON bonds of $a5o each, which we're fur
nished by John II. MacGnniss and Arthur
+. Heinze. Commissioner Naughton set
the hearing for next Wednesday morning
at 10 o'clock.
This affair is the elimination of vile
attack that was made on United States
Senator Clark by cartoon that appeared
III the Reveille on October a. The I'm
plication OF the picture was one of moral
perversion, and so vile was il that the
shame is that it was ever permitted 70
appear. 1t is said since its appearance
MIR. Heinze, under whose patronage the
paper is issued, has made various attempts
to shirk the responsibility for the SANDER
Gus drawing.
But the matter came under the eve of
Postoiiice Inspector Beatty, who is said
to have been instructed to keep close
tons circulated in Butte by certain Will
fers. The picture in question is unmis-
taxable and as the paper is given n wide
free distribution and laid on every door
step in Butte and surroundings, It is GER
tain to have gotten into the hands of
women and children, when in fact it was
enough TO make the most hardened men
blush.
Warrants Of Arrest.
4. ID. Beatty swore out the complaint
against the charged men yesterday, and
Commissioner Naughton issued warrants
for their arrest late last night. These war
rants were placed in the hands of Deputy
United States Marshal Meiklejohn this
morning and it was II o'clock when he
brought the five men into the Office of the
marshal. They were arraigned and Judge
Mediation entered an appearance for them.
John MacGinniss, who appeared little
later, wanted to know who was in need
of bail.
The complaint made by Inspector Beatty
reads as follows:
Before me, w. ]. Naughton, a United
States commissioner for the district of
Montana, personally appeared this day L.
d. Beatty, who being first duly sworn, de-
poses and says that on or about the 9th
day of October, A. d. 1902, at Butte,
Silver Bow county, Montana, in said dis
trict that A. w. Brouse, PA. O'Farrell, r.
A. Pelky, I. 0. McGill and John Doe Will
marth, late Of the county OF Silver Bow,
in violation of Section 38o3 OF the Revised
Statutes of the United States, did know
ingly, willfully and unlawfully deposit
and cause to be deposited in the postofiice
of the said United States, there situate,
for mailing and delivery certain pfinted
newspapers, to-wit, about 500 printed
newspapers, then and there addressed to
divers persons respectively, and each of
said newspapers then and there containing,
among other things, certain picture, car
toon, print and publication, under a cer-
tain printed heading, to-wit: II am the
Leader of Democracy" which said car
toon, pictdre, print and publication was
an obscene, lewd, lascivious and indecent
picture, cartoon, print and publication, as
they, the said A. w. Brouse, P. A. OFarrell,
r. A. Pelky, T. O. McGil and John Doe
Wilmarth then and there we'll knew which
said picture, cartoon, print and publication
is so obscene, lewd, lascivious and in
decent that the same would be offensive
to the court here and improper to be
placed upon the records thereof wherefore
afiiant does not set forth the same herein,
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