The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-12-09
STABBED WITH A CANDLESTICk.
A Miner Inflicts Three Wounds in a
Free Fight.

On Sunday morning about. 3 O'Clock Dub
lin Gulch was the scene Of a very lively and
serious fight, in which three or four men
were engaged, and one OF them was stabbed
in three places with a miners candlestick.
The difficulty is so badly mixed, that great
difficulty was experienced in ascertaining
anything about it. The cause OF the affair
dates some time back, and was the direct
result of a fight between a man named
Murphy and John Lyons, in which the
former was worsted, Lyons being the better
man, and Murphy is said to have since
watched for an opportunity to get even,
and thought that it presented itself last
night. Lyons had been around town all
night, drinking very freely, and was consid-
erably intoxicated when he started home
about 2:3D O'Clock in the morning. Murphy
had been watching the proceedings, and it
is asserted, had waited for Lyons to get
drunk, in the hope of being able to whip
him as he went home. After Lyons had left
| a saloon on Main street, he was followed
by Murphy and another man, and when he
had reached a point in Dublin Gulch, out
| side OF the city limits, Murphy came up and
in less than a minute a fight was the result.
+, Again, as on the former occasion, Lyons
was getting
THE BEST OF THE CRAP.
when Daniel Murphy, a brother OF the one
| who was fighting with Lyons, came olong
| As he ID going home from his work in the
| Parrot mine. Seeing his brother getting
| the worst OF the affair he very naturally
'uterfered, and was knocked down. He
umped up, and the fight was continued as
a free-for-all. In a few seconds Lyons fell
TO the ground and began to scream. He
was taken to his home, hen it was ascer-
tanned that he had been stabbed three
times with a miners candlestick. When
Daniel Murphy left the mine he had his
dinner bucket and a miners candlestick in
his hand, and it is supposed that as soon
as he got up after being knocked down,
and in his excitement, used the candle
| stick, but upon being locked up in the city
prison he claimed that he had given the
bucket and stick to another miner who was
passing by.
THE
Word was at once brought into the city
and Marshal Stoner and Officer Frank Nc
Donald made their way over the bitches
and rocks up into the gulch and arrested
Daniel Murphy on a charge OF dong the
cutting and brought him into the City
Hall and locked him up. During the day
yesterday M%urphy's brother was also
arrested. and both of them gave bonds and
were rel, ased. When the second Murphy
was taken into custody it was ascertained
that he had been pretty roughly handled in
the fight; and besides being considerably
bruised from fist blows, he had received
! several kicks in the face, badly gathering
his countenance.
THE WOUNDED MAN
A physician was summoned to attend
| LYONS Immediately after the stabbing and
went over to his home. Upon making an
, examination OF the I'M uries it was found
that he had been stuck three times with the
caudlestick. but the ound closed up and
| it was not considered safe to probe them.
| Probably the most dangerous OF the three
! is the one in the right groin, and it may
i prove very troublesome. If the instrument
went straight in it is very liable to cause Sc
F! rious trouble, as it passed very close to the
! femoral artery, and may have penetrated
very deep, but if it turned downward, as is
most probable, there is not likely to be
ANYTHING serious result from it. A second
! wound, and almost as perplexlng as the
/ other, is near the point Of the left Shout
der-blade in the back. It is also very diff
cult to tell what will come OF this thrust,
as. like the former, there was too much
danger in probing, and it is not known how
deep it ma be. The third wound is in the
cheek, near the mouth, and does no
amount tt much. Lyons friends thinks
there is nothing serious in his stabs anC
that he will be out in a short time.
CONFLICTING STORIES.
The fight having taken place in the dark
1t " as hard for ever those close at hant
to see lust how it wal progressing, and i
is very difficult to ascertain who was tn
AGGRESSION. The friends of Murphy cl i'm
that neither he nor his brother startedthe
melee. but that Lyons met Murphy an
commenced it himself, and forced it all tn
way through. The case will probably b
called in the Police court to-day, an
further developments may be looked for.