The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-11-16
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Murderer Of Embody Again In Custody.
~IndeDendent. 10th.

Independent, 10th.
The following telegram was received by
Sheriff Hathaway late yesterday afternoon:
REGINA, N. W. Ter, Nov. 9.-Sheriff Hath
away: George Godas, who escaped from your
custody. is now under arrest at Edmonton.
Please take necessary steps for extradition at
once. l.. w. HERcHMER,
Com. N. W. Mp.
Godas is the half-breed murderer who .es-
capped from the Lewis and Clarke county Jail
last July, while under the sentence of death.
Sheriff Hathaway will at once take the nee
essary steps for extraditing Godas, and when
he has him in his clutches again will see that
the sentence of the Court is carried out, I'M
less the Supreme Court interferes.
The crime Of which Godas was found guilty
was the murder of a man named Embody on
Sept. 8, 1887, in Dearborn canon.
The settlement where the murder occurred
is mostly made up of halt. breeds, who speak
very poor French and not a word of the En-
glish language. A mile below the main set
tlement lived old man John Embody, about
u years of age. He was known to be hoard
ing up money, Of which he had about SIG in
gold coin. He had planned to start East in a
short time to visit his children in New York.
On the morning of the 8th of September a
half.breed boy was out hunting horses. He
discovered that the old mans log cabin was
about burned up.
He Immediately returned to the settlement
and gave the alarm. Some dozen or fifteen
men, joined by a white man by the name of
Lemmens, went to the burning cabin. 1t
was a small, one-room building, with but a
door and a window in it. There was but one
side left standing, the roof having caved in,
bad fallen across the bed of the old man near
the door. The party cleared away the debris
as soon rs possible, and a horrible sight came
to view.
There was little left of the body. The lower
part of the legs were gone and the arms we're
burned close to the shoulders. The rest of
the flesh was terribly burned. Upon further
examination the party found a pool of blood
near the head Of the bed on the floor, the
skull was crushed apparently by some dull
instrument.
IT WAS MURDER.
A thorough search was then made of the
premises, but no gold could be found. A short
distance from the house was found an old
knife, a match box, a two-bit piece and a
piece of quartz.
A man by the name of Godas had been in
the neighborhood for some time, but at this
time was missing. Suspicion rested upon him
as having committed the crime, for the pur-
pose Of obtaining the money. He was fol.
lowed and captured at Missoula. He was
brought to Helena and lodged in Jail, and the
case was brought before the grand jury on
April 18, last. The evidence was entirely cir
cumstantlal. The prisoner assumed an air of
stolid Indifference and talked a long time,
citing several instances where men had been
convicted on circumstantial evidence and
were afterward found innocent.
Godas Is a young man of dark complexion
and eyes, high cheek bones and a thin nous.
tache-a perfect type of his race. The case
was ably argued by both sides, and given to
the jury, who remained out all night. On
the morning of the 10th the prisoner was
brought in to hear the verdict. He was ap-
parentlv very nervous. Be was found guilty
of murder on the tenth count of the indict-
ment. He was remanded back to Jail to await
the sentence of the Judge. An appeal was
made to the Supreme Court. While awaiting
the decision of the Court Godas escaped, as
has been stated.