The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-02-11
NONE no DnATu
aoeancho Goes to HE Lo0G
rone, Uossly Followed b. a.
o.ove-FuI Report Of Teotl-
mony Before Ooroosrs
Jury.

OO1ys
-. ,,us4,s which brought about the
18Th of Al. Grove and Joseph Bosan'
~ have already been mentioned in
-. MINER. Bosancho died at twenty
~ :,.t.. mast one o'clock yesterday morn
w. n the sisters Hospital. Grove died
even o'clock yesterday morning 81
me same place.
rhe following is the full stenograpbic
...+ Of the testimony taken before the
'anner'. jury ut the inquests held at
~, nlace Yesterday on their remains:
:. tho matter of the cor0ner's inquest
n. ,ssly Of William Bosancho, de-
...e.,. held at the Sisters Hospital In
u,tte city, NJ. r., February 10, 1882.
Jurors: u. \. Upton, f. b. Water
.,r, Robert Mcliinn, J. r. Wilson,
p.,cr Mcmahon and Richard Hughes
~ere sworn by the coroner.
lanes Higgins was called and sworn
md testified as follows:
liz name is James Higgins. rec
..n;ze the body lying here - that OF
william Rs,ancho. On the evening OF
N. 18th (Monday) he came to Walker
lille and was under the influence Of
ruuor, and the foreman wasn't there;
,h;s vas in Silver Bow County, Mon
ran. Territory. The foreman wasn't
,he,e and he went in the mine and was
there twenty minutes or % and the fore
man went down. They were laying
the cace and the foreman wanted the
york done his way and Bosancho want
ID it his way, and the foreman looked
Il the man and said, "You ART drunk"
,pd B.sancl,o said mo am not" and
aid. "You are sinking liar" and the
foreman said, 1T is all right, you go on
and talk, you can't work." And Bo-
.ancho said, "YOu are q dirty, mean
~ ola b-h, and can lick you on
top or here or anywhere else; come out
here and will fight YOU" Carroll. the
foreman, then said, mo, don't want
70 fight you, 20 on top ard we will have
no bother" 1 was about twenty feet
away when Bosancho replied "You are
a dirty s-n Of b-h If you don't take
il up and finally he asked Car
roll il he could 20 to work again
and he said no and he started in to abuse
him again and the other witnesses say
h. had 4 candle stick. l heard noise
outside and came cut and I just saw
IhanrI,o falling, there was timb<rs he
tween where he was and where !
wa.. I saw him falling and he
attempted to get up and he part
" raised and looked AS If he
wanted to get to Carroll again, but he
was too weak; Carroll told us to take
him up and We did. did not see Car
mll strike him; there ~as timber be
tween u and was in a place couldn't
s~ until came right on him. The two
men were pretty close. They were alone
in the lnttom Of the shaft. 1t was in the
station. The station il Is! feet long and
$ feet wide. I suppose the thing Oc-
CURED in the shaft 81 fest from the sta
tim.
Did you see anything in this mans
hand when you came up:
No sir. came on the west side Of
The station and there were ti'nbers h.
tween him anl me. / just came there
when Istxa,lcl,O fell.
Did you see anything in Carroll's
lands:
No sir. not ut the time, but after BO-
>a''cl" made an attempt to get up Car
roll stopped but did net see him pick
up anything.
Didn't s.r him lay down anything:
No sir.
You wasn't aware what he was struck
with:
No sir.
You was aware that he was struck
with something:
Yes sir.
Was that oil that Carroll said when
you came up about about sending him
up:
iessir. That's about all, he said he
didn't want to have any further trouble
and I" take him away.
Did this man say anything.
When We took him in, the changing
rom h. didn't want to 20 in. This was
a"'''t three "'cl,,ek Monday afternoon.
liz WAS 80 drunk that when he went
'"wn and came in the station he was
'"'iny around all the time. We thought
w WAS liable to ring the hell and kill
"s'"' oily. and VT wanted him out. he
vas contrary and we didn't shy any
'''''s !" him. This place was ID feet
wife an" :H iect long, and pretty nearly
S ~. They had difficulty before.
mere wer" tools lying all around, the
'"''"!' tools lying all around there.
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