The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-01-16
GIVEN Benefit OF DOUBT
Complaining Witness Testimony Ma
teriaIly Assisted Defendant
Farrell Trial in Progress.
From Thursdays Daily Gazette.

to be tried at ne present term OF the
district court and he was also the
second to be acquitted by a jury. Like
Luther, the defendant preceding him,
Glunt was charged with grand lar
.ceny, being accused of having stolen
a couple of horses from Garrit Dc
Doors, a sheepman living in the Mus
selshell region.
His trial took place yesterday. The
evidence brought out the fact that he
and Clyde Bentley, October 8, took a
couple of horses from the complain
ing witness and started to drive
across the country to Dakota. Glunt
admitted having taken the horse, but
claimed that he had received permits
sion from the owner to use them.
While this was not exactly admitted
by De Doors, his testimony was of
such a nature that the jury did not
feel justified in convicting the de-
PENDANT.
On cross-exa mination De Doors said
that Glunt and Bentley had been
working for him and several days be-
fore their departure Glunt had ask
ed him for the horses; that while he
had not directly refused them he had
not really granted the use of them to
the defendant. He also admitted hav-
ing told a neighbor that if the de-
PENDANT had left a note for him telling
him he had taken the horses it would
have been all right with him.
1t was midnight last night when the
jury returned into court and announc-
ed it's agreement. Inc prisoner was
brought in and the verdict of acquit-
tai read. The court Immediately or
.dered the discharge of Glunt.
Several of the jurors said subse-
quently that if De Doors had testified
that he had absolutely refused to let
the defendant take the horses a YER
dict of guilty as charged would have
been found in a few minutes, but De
Doors own testimony had caused
them to give the defendant the bene-
fit of the doubt.
Meanwhile Bentley is a fugitive
from justice, and unnecessarily SO.
Had he remained and faced the charge
he would also have been acquitted,
as it was brought out during the trial
of Glunt that Bentley had merely
worked for the former and had acted
on his employers instructions. The
cash bond of $3.50 which he gave for
his a%ppearance has been declared for
feited and no effort will be made to
bring him back, the officers consider
ing that the county is the gamer as
the case now stand.
Charged With Grand Larceny. /.
Minnie Farrell is on trial today on
the charge of grand larceny. In the
complaint she is accused OF having
stolen the sun of $215 from Hoo Gar.
a Chinese admirer of hers. The al
legged theft is said to have been com
mitted October 10, last. At that
time she was the keeper of a resort
below the dead line and Gar was one
OF her friends. On some pretense
she is said to have induced him to
visit her and then took occasion to
slip her hand into his pocket and ex-
tract the money. She left for the east
on the next train, but was arrested al
Miles City and brought back. Not
being able to furnish the bond de
manded of her, she was placed in
Jail, where she remained until a short
time ago when she took advantage
of the fact that the door had been left
open one day and made her escape
Subsequently she was seen on a train
near Logan by Sheriff Hubbard and
r~earrested. At that time she was
masquerading in male attire.
The Jury who will decide as to hel
guilt or innocence is. composed OF the
following:
N. |. Algeo, Alfred Swanson, J. -
Sanford, D. A. Benedict, Levi Col
grove, ]. M. Motifs, w. L. z. Mitchell
P. L. Lotus, John Pearce, J. j. Dun
lavey, Thomas F.. Moore and John
Stems.
Being still quite i'll, County Attor
ney Harris asked the court to appoint
F. H. Hathhorn to assist in the prose
cution.
The trial promises to be quite
lengthy and tiresome, as the number
of witnesses is large and several Of
them are Cinnamon who understand
English only imperfectly.