The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-12-20
From Wednesdays Daily
WHO DID 1T 2
An Unfortunate Woman on Park
Street Fatally Shot.

AcsteIuay mOTnlnR, SOOQt tnree O'CLOCK,
screams of murder were heard issuing from
q small frame house about q square east Of
Main street, just south OF Park street, which
has been for some time occupied by L0ttie
Ables, known among her friends by the nick
name "Sorrel Mike and by a young girl
named Dolly, known as her sister.
Dollie had been visiting for a short time at
the house of a nelshbor, and hearing the cay
OF murder, rushed home to find the unforLu
nate woman Lottie suffering from a pistol
wou nd through the abdomen, just below the
stomach. From DR.. b. G. Brooke, of II elena,
who was called in at oncs to see the wounded
woman, we learn the following details He
found that the ball had entered the abdomen
about two and a-half inches to the right of
and a little up from the navel, passing di.
ractly through. On examination of the
back the bullet was detected and cut out,
kidney, in the small of the back. The ball,
when extracted by DR.. Brooke, was perfect,
showing that it had struck no bene, aud was
turned ever to the Marshal. 1t is said to be
36-calibre, and was shot from a Smith 81 Yves.
son revolver, passing through the clothes
end then through tbs body. At the time the
DR.. was first called in the unfortunate woman
was rational, but her pulse soon began to
sink, and her extremities to get colo, show
Ing the dangerous nature of the wound. When
asked to give an account of the affair she
persisted in saying that a man had shot her ;
that xba had pulla5 bar pistCl ia shoot him
and he had taken it away from her and shot
her that he was unkLown to her, but had y
light mouStache, and wore a cap and brown
o~vercoat.
5 Her sister at once spoke up and said "Let'
t tie, you know that is not so; you did il
| yourself. Some innocent man may sufie1
7 from your talk and you know you did il
: yurself."
The Doctor then Informed the WOUNDED
t girl that she could not live probably, and tina
she had better make a clean breast of it, ant
her sister as gain saying: "You know you die
it YOURSELF" the sufferer apparently assentee
to the truth of this statement by not denying
it. Morphia and hydrats of chleral wer
then administered TO her. Just about da,
break the Doctor returned and found til
q lower part of the abdomen swollen, and pain
full to the touch, showing internal hemorrh
n age.
" During most of the day she was nncon
csious from the morphia and other sedative
u given her. A buggy was at once dispatche
for her friend, who had left town severe
hours before the shooting, for Jefferson, til
r. driver having instructions to 60 and return q
H. full speed.
Ii seems that a quarrel with this man wa
the occasion of the attempt at suicide--if sue
- it be, the girl having tried to persuade he
ir male friend not to leave town, saying to hi
"a. that if he went 81 you'd show bin who WI
ed his friend and who not.
en Her sister, when asked about the affair Ia
n evening, said she thought the wound was il
Sc tlicted accidentally that the man was lea
ing the house without paying for the wine
had drunk, and her sister had drawn b.
pistol on HIM from under her pillow that
be had then returned into the loom and tried
all take the pistol away, and in the strugg
IN it had gone off.
She went on to say that several days befo
L. Lottie had tried to commit suicide, and tb
on she, Dollie, had taken the cartridges out
the pistol and hidden, all exec
re one, which she laid in Il
bureau. This last one was, 81
'e believed the fatal messenger. Miss Able
'"' better known as "Sorrel nike" IL abo
1'' thirty wears old, and has a husband llvin
'J She came to Helena, we are informed, abo
the time when tie racer, "Sorrel Mike
made his first appearance i'll the Terrltor
III, During her stay in the Capital city she MAJ
wv several attempts at suicide, but was broug
to each time by this same DR.. Brooke WI
attended her yesterday morning.
we 70 to press her pulse IS extremely We
and variable. and abe ia IN a sinking cone