The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-06
(Signed)

JOHN MCCAFFEY,
JAMES MCINTYRE.
And thereupon the Coroner issued a war
rant Tor the arrest Of Cray, and ordered that
lie be brought before a justice of the peace to
be dealt with as the law directs. On Satur-
day, the 9th day of March, the Deputy Sher-
III, Bert Stone, brought Patrick Gray before
Richard Il. Thomas and H. Ii. Avery, justices
ofthe peace ofthis county, where he was duly
arralgned by having the charges in the Coro-
ncr's warrant read to him. His counsel,
waived all examination and the court placed
the defendant under bonds in the sum of
$1,000 for his appearance before the next en-
suing term of the District Court to be holden
in and for Beaverhead county.
Gray furnished the necessary bonds and
was discharged from custody. Our Justices
OF the Peace are receiving considerable CEN
sure from some of the would-be J. P.s in this
place for placing the prisoner under so light
bonds. The Coroner is receiving his full
share of the blame also, because he gave an
order for the body to the only friend that
cared for him, and was willing to dress the
body and furnish all things necessary for its
decent burial. The body was lying in a room
in one Of the boarding houses here, and when
the woman (Fannie Matthews), asked leave
to dress the body, the proprietor refused her
admission. | think he had forgotten that text
where it says "He that is without sin cast the
first Stnpn - lint mayha no woull houa hoI
cheek enough to have cast it. This woman,
spoken of above, claims to have been married
to the deceased some time ago at Butte. A
couple of weeks ago a man by the name of
Jaggers jumped a part of a lot sold to this
woman by G. NJ. Shepherd, and fenced i'll the
lot. During that week the fence disappeared.
Then to have revenge upon her a complaint
Was made before one of the Justices of the
Peace against her for selling liquors without
a license, and a warrant issued for her arrest,
and on the oath of March she was brought
before a Justice and was fined 500 and costs,
total $45. 20 on a plea Of guilty, and the above
tragedy is the result. From the evidence be-
fore the Coronor's jury, l gather the follow
ing:
Gray was in the back part of his saloon. A
man by the name If Sampson comes in and
says Dan Hammond is on the war path and is
going to put a head on me or kill that bald
headed s--of a b., Pat Gray, before he
went to bed. Gray appears and says no
man in this town shall whip me-" and walks
out on the side walk. In a moment t hose in
the saloon heard Pat say: G away, Dan,
90 away and d rush is made for the door,
and they see Tat in the act of getting up.
Wm. Samson then appears and places his
hands upon the shoulders of Dan Hammond
and says: "For - sake let the old man
alone" He (Sampson) for his pains receives
a blow from Hammond the latter then ad-
yanccs upon Gray, whereupon Gray fired two
shots in rapid succession, and is grappled by
Dan, and one witness says was thrown upon
a pile of boards, Hammond falling upon him.
The latter called for help from his partner,
Samson. Gray then commenced pounding
Hammond over the head with his six shooter.
The bullets entered Hammond's body OIL the
left side, one about two inches above the left
nipple the other first struck him in the feshy
part of his left arm and entered the body
about four inches above the nipple, both bull
lets passing through the body and coming out
within half an inch of each other under the
right arm. The body was removed the next
day TO the house of John Ebenhack, where
those parties were permitted to dress it, and
on the Goth inst, after services, it was taken
from thence to its long home.
On March Sth the II. G. NJ. Co. made its
first spring shipment OF 240 bars of bullion
(2O,OO1 pounds) by Dan Tohen, and since
that time they have shipped several car loads
If bullion and matte. They have manufac-
tured "a car loads of bullion so far this year.
The smelter is now making a successful run,
turning out 10000 pounds OF bullion daily
and about 1000 pounds. of copper matte. And
still the business men cry dull times but the
oil 40ers don't say dull times, as several of
,,,,,n will soon bow their heads to the matri-
monial yoke.
understand from an unofficial source that
III. IIecla sale is progress sing finely.
Yours truly, BENZ.
it's wise ChinAman who knows his own
enc after he has been in California twenty