The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-08-10
From Thursdays DARYL
A COLD FLOODED TRAGEDY.
Mollie Scott Fouliy Murdered by
Z, Her Husband.
Full Particulars Of the Brutal
Crime.

bulCe mas again Deei the scene OF q DlOOdy
tragedy and this lime u woman is the victim.
Our readers will remember the case IF Joe
Scott, arrested some TWO waeks ago at Helena
for an assault upoi, lie night clerk Of the
Cosmopolitan hotel. In the examination
which followed, Scott established the fact Of
his lawful marriage to the woman accolnpa-
nying him, and about whom the trouble with
tie hotel clerk originated aud d: u as this
was proved the charge against Scott and the
woman was dismissed. Upon their release
they came to Butte, where. they arrived last
Friday eve ing, and immediately upon their
arrival the young woman entered the Union
dancing saloon which she left only to go to
her grave. On Tuesday evening the dancing
begai, at the usual hOur and was continued
without the occurrence of anything UNUSUAL
until about half pas, twelve O'Clock At that
tine a quarrel arose IN the ball room between
Scott and his wife, owing 10 a desire Oh the
part Of the latter to visit the other dancing |
saloon, a few doors distant. A few hot words
were exchanged, when Scott seized his wife
by the wrist and led her into the rear hall.
oiiu ttH JuAI ~ tP.i kHiNFhtO iOOHis opening
from the hall towards the east. This action
attracted no particular attention; but five
minutes after the door Of their room had
closed upon the retreating forms of Scott and
his wife, aud without any cry for help, OF
other warning of the tragedy about to be ELL
acted, the loud, sharp report of a revolver
rang through the building aud huslled into
silence the jewellers IN tile dance hall. In
the excitement no one appears 10 have ap-
preached the door, until officer Micklejohn,
who heard the shot from the street, entered
the house and hastily made his way towards
the indicated door. As he entered the hall
Scott emerged from his room, his countenance
bea ing SO strange ii look that the officer im-
mediaiely drew his pistol, asking at the same
time, " What have you dole?" Scrtt made
II" reply but stepped back along the hall
tow ards the back door. retrealIng from the
officer who, not knowing whether the shot
he heard had been fired in earnest Or not,
did no, feel justified in using his pistol in ell
forcing his command to " stop "a comma d
the retreating fugitive did not seem disposed
to obey. All this occurred in less time than
IL takes to describe 1t, he officer advancing
steadily the While, As he reached the room
from which Scott had just emerged he pushed
the door open aud looked in, when the 81 ht
that met his gaze Was sufficient to remove all
scruples AS to the means lie should employ in
arlesling The retreating murderer. Prone ON
her back IN the middle of the floor, and at
tired IN all the cheap tinery Of the dancing
saloon, lay the ~Iifeless f ,rm of Mullie Scott,
her fair young face mutilated with q trighttul,
gaping wound, from winch the torrent of her
life blood was yelling out. The officer i'm
mediately turned towards Scott, but only in
time to see him disappear through the back
door and into the pitchy darkness beyond.
Micklejohn 81 arled i'll pursuit and chased the
fugitive III u s%outhwestly direction down
across the lower end of Main street, whe e
he was finally lost sight Of in the rolling
ground of the hydraulic claims in that neigh
borhOOd.
Meanwhile the inmates Of the Union house
had gathered in all awe-struck group about
the p~rustrate form whose last faint breath OF
wv "oo oPSS"'S SooP'o o"p' A"AGo5
dragoon bullet had struck in the right cheek
below the cheek bone, AMI, knocking out six
teeth, ranged backward and upward to the
back part Of the head, at thu point where the
neck joins the head, and there it remained
imb-ddrd beneath the scalp from which it
was not removed. On its pass &c the bullet
probably injured the spinal cord, but at all
events the vicl i'm of the muisterous tragedy
never spoke or moved, but remained immoy-
i.bl" and unconscious for the few brief mo-
menis that elapsed ere her life f1ickered
entirely out. The murderous bullet did its
work only too well and the poor, fallen
woman made the last sacrifice it was in her
pow e. to make-che sacrifice of her life lost
through her love for the man whom she had
cheeIfully supporter from the gains Of her
arduous calling, and for whom sue would
cheerfuliv have risked her life.
At nine O'Clock of the following morning,
when we saw the remains, the corpse was
properly arr yed for the grave. being neatly
ROBBED in a white dress, While the kid-gIoved
hands were peacefully crossed on the breast
whose last turmoil of passion for this world
had subsidized. Gathered around we're several
women Of her class. all suffering the
trrpidation which invariably overcomes
them upon the occurrence of such
tragedies for 1t is only then that they appear
to realize their true position aud understand
the constant danger to which they are eX-
posed in the brutal and uncomfortable pas
sions of tie men whom they make at once
their masters and companions.
! Scott was arrested Yesterday by Captain Z.
G. Owen and Mr.. Dick Dickinson, who found
him concealed in II freight wagon bound for