The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-07-21
Men Paying Bills in Dis
barment Case Remain
In Background.
RELATES SAD STORY
Mrs. Josephine Wallace,
Detective, Tells of Being
Hounded by Foes.

'WilO - PhIlNG ! III INCL
DENTAL EXPENSES or THE PROSE-
CUTlON or ARTHUR J. SHORES IN
THE DlSBARMENT PROCEEDINGS
BROUGHT BY JUDGE (. w. HAIR
NEY?"
That is - question which was promi-
ncntly to the front IA the Shores trial to-
day
The inquiry 50 far has demonstrated
the TACT that neither Judge llarncy him
self, nor Peter Erecn, the county attorney
who IS acting as the friend of the court
and prosecutor in the action. know any
thing about paying those expenses. Il.
August llcinlc. John MacGnniss nor any
other official of the Montana orc Purchas.
ing company has yet been put on the stand
to testify in this regard
What brought the matter out was the
examination of Mrs. Josephine NJ. Wal
lace this morning.
Mrs. Wallace IS one ol the detectives
who gathered the damaging evidence
against Judge llarncy and Mrs Bracket,
chiefly from their own lips.
Under Severe Examination
For two days she has been undergoing
q rigid eros. examination at the hands Of
MI. Brccn, a cross examination IN which
every artihce known 10 a skilled lawyer
was used to break down 10 confuse aud 10
badger the witness and yet she has stuck
10 her original story and left il with all its
damaging strength intact.
Today, after a vollcy OF questions seek
ing in an insiuuating way TO attack her
character, her virtue and her rcput lion,
had been fred at her by the cross oNami-
ncr for the prosecution and had been re-
the woman. relieved from the strain and
placed in the more kindly hands OF the
defense for redirect examination, broke
down.
HER IRON NERVE, WHICH HAD
EVOKED THE ADMIRATION or ALL
WHO HEARD HER TESTIFY, FOR
SOOK HER WHEN THERE WAS NO
LONGER NEED or IT, AND SHE LEFT
THE STAND CRYING LIKE A CHILD.
THEN SHE CAME BACK, A FEW
MOMENTS LATER, COMPOSED AND
READY, AND IN THE DIRECT tx
ANIMATION THAT FOLLOWED SHE
TOLD a REMARKABLE STORY OF
PERSECUTION AT THE HANDS OF
THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN
THE PROSECUTION or THIS CASE.
II was this story which brought sharply
10 the attention OF all the query, who is
footing the bills both for the prosecution
Of the defendant and the persecution Of
his witnesscst'
Il has come out in the trial that Mrs.
Wallace is a woman who has suffered
much III health, who was obliged to
obtain divorce from morphine hus-
band who abused her; that she is sup
porting herself and an invalid son, and
that she is a detective as a means OF
earning a living for herself and her
hey.
The prosecution in its -exannina-
ton OF her has sought in every manner
10 blast her reputation as a virtuoua
woman, but she has carried herself
through it all as BELTS woman against
whom no such accusations can lie.
And today she made it clear that for
weeks she has been the subject Of an ex-
pcnsivc inquiry for the purposes OF the
prosecution.
II might De mentioned incidentally that
everything that has been brought out
against her to date is the fact that she
owes a small grocery bill in Denver.
SHE DESCRIBED HOW DETEC-
TlvES IN DENVER, EMPLOYED FROM
BUTTE, HAD SOUGHT TO lNJURE
HER CREDIT THERE BY ClRCULAT-
ING THE STORY THAT SHE HAD
BEEN ARRESTED IN MONTANA FOR
PERJURY AND THAT SHE HAD
JUMPED HER BAIL.
SHE TOLD HOW THEY HAD
SOUGHT TO OBTAIN INFORMATION
IN HER OWN HOME BY REPRESENT
ING THEMSELVES AS AGENTS FOR
THE LAW FIRM OF WOLCOTT&VAlL,
WHO HAD LEARNED THAT SHE WAS
HElRESS TO AN ESTATE-AN ABB
SURD PROPOSITION QUICKLY Ex-
PLODED.
SHE DESCRIBED HOW THEY HAD
GONE TO HER DIVORCED HUS-
BANDS PRESENT WIFE IN THE PUR-
SUIT OF INF ORMATiON, AND HOW
THEY HAD MADE INQUIRIES ABOUT
HER, PREFACED BY FALSE STATE
MENTS, AMONG THE MERCHANTS
OF HER HOME CITY, DENVER.
The witness declared she had no objec-
tion whatsoever to being watched and obs
served within proper lines, but she did en-.
tor ohiectinna m the attenpts that haA