Court proceedings

Sources

• 1881-12-10 — The Times, p.6

  The Times's correspondent reports from Castletown Berehaven on the petty sessions of 9 December 1881. Hannah M. Reynolds (Dublin Ladies' Land League) was charge…

• 1881-12-24 — The Herald (Glasgow ed.), p.5A LADY LEAGUER SENT TO PRISON.

  The Glasgow Herald's account of the same Castletown Berehaven petty sessions hearing of 23 December 1881 covered in the Leeds Mercury the same day. The substant…

• 1881-12-24 — The Leeds Mercury, p.3CHARGE AGAINST MISS REYNOLDS.

  The Leeds Mercury's Cork correspondent reports on the post-adjournment hearing at Castletown Berehaven petty sessions of Friday 23 December 1881 — two weeks aft…

• 1882-01-13 — The Evening Mail, p.1IRELAND'S HEROINE.

  The Stockton California Evening Mail's front-page account of the Reynolds case, with sub-headlines "PRETTY MISS REYNOLDS, THE LADY LAND LEAGUER" and "Her Influe…

• 1886-09-23 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.8

  A digest of Jamestown justice-court business. Two Pat Murphy matters appear: the case of Pat Murphy against D. M. Kelleher for wages claimed to be due (continue…

• 1892-09-14 — The Anaconda Standard, p.5

  Court note from the Anaconda Standard reporting the divorce of Dennis J. Murphy from his wife Ellen. Murphy testified he was 31 years old, married Ellen in Cork…

• 1895-09-17 — The Anaconda Standard, p.5HUDSON WAS GUILTY / The Case of the Would-Be Daylight Bank Robber. / HIS NAME IS TIM MURPHY / He Was Not Put on the Stand and the Jury Was Out About an Hour and a Half—Did Not Surprise Him.

  The Anaconda Standard's coverage of the same Hudson bank-robbery conviction reported in the Butte Miner of the same date. The Anaconda Standard's headline gives…

• 1895-09-17 — The Butte Miner, p.6BANK ROBBER GUILTY / Jury Finds Hudson, Alias Doe, Alias Murray Guilty. / PUNISHMENT LEFT TO THE COURT

  Coverage of the conviction of Thomas Hudson (alias John Doe, "whose true name is said to be Murphy") for the attempted daylight robbery of the Silver Bow Nation…

• 1908-01-07 — The Butte Daily Post, p.6JOHN BARLEYCORN IS VERY BUSY MAN

  Butte Daily Post (evening paper) account of the **7 January 1908 commission hearing in Judge Donlan's court**, published the same evening — the longest of the t…

• 1908-01-08 — The Anaconda Standard, p.9TWO MENTAL UNFORTUNATES

  Anaconda Standard's next-day account of the 7 January 1908 hearing in Judge Donlan's court — the third of three papers (Butte Daily Post 7 Jan, Butte Miner 8 Ja…

• 1908-01-08 — The Butte Miner, p.12PAT MURPHY FOUND TO BE SICK AND NOT INSANE

  Butte Miner next-day account of the FIRST insanity hearing for Pat Murphy — the one the 24 March Anaconda Standard later refers to as "examined on a charge of i…

• 1908-03-23 — The Daily Inter Mountain, p.10PATRICK J. MURPHY IS FOUND INSANE

  Single short news item. Patrick J. Murphy, aged 52, a native of County Cork, Ireland, residing at 120 West Quartz street, was found insane by Drs. Horst and Tur…

• 1908-03-24 — The Anaconda Standard, p.9IS SENT TO THE ASYLUM

  Anaconda Standard's follow-up to the Inter Mountain Mar 23 piece. Patrick J. Murphy, formerly a well-known bartender in Butte, for several years an almost helpl…

• 1908-03-24 — The Butte Miner, p.6PATRICK J. MURPHY IS SENT TO STATE ASYLUM

  Butte Miner's coverage of the Mar 23 commitment — third paper to carry the story (with the Inter Mountain same-day and the Anaconda Standard same-day-next-day).…

• 1909-04-07 — The Butte Daily Post, p.5MARY A. SULLIVAN IS NAMED AS GUARDIAN FOR MARGARET MURPHY

  Probate / court news. Mary A. Sullivan of Yellowstone county was appointed guardian of Margaret Murphy and her minor child by Judge McClernan. The final account…

• 1912-08-15 — The Butte Miner, p.7ELUDES COMMISSION BY RUSTLING WORK — Insanity Complaint Against Lyne Is Dismissed When He Looks for Work — G. German Committed

  Wry Butte Miner brief: a Christopher Lyne of Walkerville was threatened with an insanity-commission complaint filed by his own brother on the grounds that he wo…

• 1913-07-06 — The Anaconda Standard, p.32PROBING MYSTERY OF THE DEATH OF GENERAL MEAGHER

  A Sun 6 Jul 1913 Anaconda Standard feature, "Probing Mystery of the Death of General Meagher." It is an item about the **death of Thomas Francis Meagher** (1823…