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Show mm BALKS Al PLEADING GUILTY Alleged Highwayman. Once Willing to Serve Term, Is Showing Reluctance. Frank McVoarney, accused ,, being Implicated in the hold-up of the Onya J3ank saloon, who once told Chiefs of Police Sheets and District. Attorney LoofbouroTV that he would plead guilty to the chartro againnt him, Railed to make good his promise when ho wn- nr raifrned for preliminary examination bs fore Judge Diehl in thf City ''oiiri Thursday. BIcVearney bad ongaced Attorney J. M. Hamilton to represent him, and Mr Hamilton was unable to be present in court, so ftfcVeardey refnaed to plead "I was laken out of rdaho without warrant, or extrailition papers ' he told the court. "I won't plead until 1 consult my attorney. ' Judge I behi an V,. MeVearney the st ,-i , nt ore fort eight hour? in which to plead, which gives him until Saturday morning al l i o'clock The prisoner ttaid it was no use to fix a bail bond, ys be could not. furnish bat! He was turned over to the Sheriff's office, and ; is now confined in the county jail. He h'ts been hi the cirv jail since he ;is brought hack from McCammon, Ida., where he was arrested. McVoarney was in company yvith a I man named Williams when he was arrested. ar-rested. Williams vas brought back here, too, but was released on the strength of MEcVearpey I statement rluit he was not implicated in the Onyx Bank affair. Williams told tho of- I fit cis. bowei er, I bal be I lelieved thai he could recover 'he diamonds that yvere stolen in the hold-up if he wore t released, although he denied himself any connection with the robbery. Tho police say them w;js no evidence to con neci Williams with the crime Bacvearnej has received monev from some mysterious source since Williams , was released, which accounts for the faet that he now has a lawyer. |