The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-02-25
TWENTY-FIVE PRISONERS FACED
JUDGE MANN YESTERDAY.
FINES ARE NUMEROUS
city Will Be $14s Richer If All Fines
Assessed Are Paid-Disturbers Are
Most Numerous ii Court y Re-
late Thrilling Tales.

When Judge Mann climbed up on
his dais yesterday. morning for the
Monday session OF police court he
looked down upon a lake of faces"
1t could hardly be called a sea. but it
was big enough to be called a lake,
for with the many prisoners and the
witnesses, together with the police Of
fcers, the little court room in the
city hall was packed.
There were disturbers and plain
Idrunks, and DRINKS with frills and
Austrians who flashed guns and there
was a negro woman and a negro man,
as well as white men Of all degrees
and races, though mostly Of frowsy
appearance and bleared eyes.
II all the fines assessed yesterday
are paid the city will be $145 richer as
a result Of the deliberations OF the
court, while il they are not paid sew
eral of the 90 people, arraigned will
have to spend some time working for
the city.
OF the disturbers Joe Ryan and
Henry Hermann seemed to be the
star performers. Ryan. Hermann, Joe
Keil, a bartender at the Blue Rib
bon, and Rose Barry, a woman Of easy
virtue at Clutch Mary's," were mixed
up in a four cornered row which
started inside the house and ended on
the. sidewalk. Keil got a black eye
and broken nose, Hermann was slight
" bunged up and fined $40 and Ryan.
was fined $50 when he came up in.
police court.
1t appears that Hermann got into a
row with Rose Barry, that Ryan and
Keil in some way butted in and the
three men mixed it outside. Officer,
Bake made the arrest, which oc-
Cured Sunday night.
Fines Them All.
Exasperated at his failure to learn
from a bunch of five Austrians or
Italians, whichever they were, the
real facts as to the row which &C.
Cured Friday night in a shack. on
Lower Minnesota avenue, Judge Mann
simply fined each man in the crowd SIS
on general principles. The row start
ed at an Austrian wake or, something
of the sort and. had resulted in indis-
%criminate shooting which hurt no one.
Every man, when questioned, shrugged
his shoulders and disclaimed any
knowledge. of the trouble. &s
The men arraigned were Tom Ko-
sowac, Tom Koyanon, Mike Stow
WITT, Tom Komerio and Mike Nero
nova. Those are their names, on the
police blotter, and they are probably
no nor incorrect than anybody else
could get them.
"A family jar Of large proportions
was aired in court yesterday when
Mike Schropp, Tom Line and Peter
Stocket we're arraigned on a charge OF
disturbance. Schropp's father, moth
er and two sisters as well as a couple
Of neighbors told. the court all about
1t. They explained that Schropp was
several different kinds of a mean
man. that he threatened to beat his
father, mother and all the neighbors
and that he constantly disturbed the
peace Of the vicinity.
On this particular occasion 1t
seems that Schropp. according to
those who testified against him. had
come to the house along with Line
and Stocket, had called his parents
and family the vilest names imagine
bile. and generally disgraced himself.
Costly Fight.
Surveying the situation from his
high seat OF justice, Judge Mann con-
cluded that schropp had disturbed
the peace $25 worth. and Tom Line
and stocket IS worth apiece.
When the matter of the state
against May White tblack) and A. G.
Morris (blacker) was called and heard
it appeared that though Morris had
beaten Miss White instead Of his wife
1t was largely by mistake. and as It
also appeared that Miss White had
done some damage to Morris the
fines in either case we're not made
large. Morris agreed to pay or serve
out a fine OF $40 and Miss White gath
cred the wherewithal to meet a IS
fine.
Ed Misken had been drunk and
disorderly and resisted arrest. He
was fined $40. Charles Youngshrist, a
one,armed Swede, found sleeping in
a barn, a given a chance to go
back to work, Jack Banter, John Doe
Nelson, Dave Griffin. Pat McGill. E.
R Kent and Fred Raymer all. "plain
drunks'' were fined S. each, while
Frank Bell, an old offender was given
a few minutes to get out of town, and
Sqnaw Kelly, whose recent sentence
Of 10 days was abrogated to get him
tt leave town and who didn't leave
was sent back for 10 days.