The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1888-06-06

knee down which were not fully healed.
Wore black stiff Derby hat, laced shoes
with black twisted cord strings; white
shirt and dark suit of clothes. His upper
set Of teeth were worn into hollow
which was quite perceptible, while the
lower set was not 80 badly worn He
speaks very lndistinct and badly broken
English. Is Polander by birth.
| Mr.. Jno Scott, who arrived from the
Z Sweet Grass Hills mining camps Sun
, day, brings the information that Max
Hoppe, the murderer of Jno. Adams,
reached Old Dutch Henry's camp at the
middle butte of the Sweet Grass Hills on
Thursday evening the 31st ult., where he
got supper and breakfast. Mr.. Scott was
, ready to start to Benton and did not
learn of Hopes subsequent movements.
Mr.. S. says that Hoppe arrived there bare
headed and without a coat, and his white
shirt covered with blood. He had his pis-
tol and also the Winchester rife which he
took away from Adams and Bredes camp
after he had mortally wounded Adams.
He told the miners that he had winged
man but didn't know whether he killed
him or not" We learn from Mr.. Brede,
after our first account of the shooting had
been printed, that after Adams was shot
/ by Hoppe he sprang from under the wagon
where he was laying and endeavored to
4oly n +1oo,
and that quite a scuffle followed between
the two mon. Adams finding that he was
growing weak from the loss of blood, and
that he could not hold out much longer
With that the murderer let 60 Adams and |
ran to the wagon and seized the rifle and
left. This accounts for the blood on
Hopes shirt. Mr.. Scott says it was pro-
mediately and hold him, but others OBJ
jected to acting too hastily, for fear Of
getting themselves into trouble. He left /
before any definite action had been taken
concluded to put Hoppe under arrest or
not
Mr.. Scott reached Conrad Friday after
noon and there met Deputy Sheriff Craw-
ford and told him where Hoppe was.
Mr.. Crawford took a fresh team and
started Immediately for the Sweet Grass
mines, where it is likely he will catch
Hoppe, who probably remained in the Hills
all day and the night of Friday, as he was
about worn out with fatigue and did not
seem to be in any hurry to get away
Deputy Crawford would reach the mines
sometime during the night, and unless
Hoppe had taken to the hills and secreted
himself, he probably captured him easily
with the assistance Of the miners which
he readily obtained without doubt. {
Deputy Sheriff Charles Crawford, who
left here in pursuit of the murderer Hop
pc, at o'clock p. m. Thursday, returned
Monday afternoon at 2:45 p. NJ, hav- +
ng Travelled by team and horseback three t
nundred and fifty miles almost an aver
age Of one hundred miles day. The first i
hight he rested for a few hours at Capt. !
Nelse's place on the Teton. The next af
ernoon (Frlday) he met Scott at Ft. Con
ad and learned that his man had been at :,
he Sweet Grass Hills that morning. He y
litched up and reached the Sweet :
1rass fifty miles distant early Satur-
lay morning. He ascertained that Hop
70 had reached the camp on Thursday Us
yening. The first place the murderer
ound was Simmons cabin where fami- fe
= lived. All were away from home ex- o.
ept a little girl. Hopes appearance,
nth his hat off and coatless, with a te
loody shirt SO alarmed the girl that she ae
hut and locked the door and kept him ra
ut. She told her people when they re- or
urned that murderer had been there. fiji
he child insisted that the man was
and was terribly frightened. R1
[oppe afterwards found his way to Dutch da
Lenry's cabin, where he got supper and ur
reakfast next morning. He told such a on
LauslOle story ABOUT now ne came there hi
loo ~ - e0o"po" - ooo ana ooo0ooion' th
His story was that he had been travel
g with some illicit whiskey traders and =.
ley got into a quarrel and tried to kill u
m and he escaped after having taken
ot at one Of them, which he did not =
ink had any effect. The miners be-
,ving his story let him go. He left early
riday morning between 8 and 7 o'clock
go to the camp Of the Mounted Police, ch'
rth Of the British boundary line, on ae
ilk river. When Deputy Crawford en oll
ached Sweet Grass he was still "a hours 1o'
more behind the murderer, and had ~
st completed an all night ride Of fifty ~
les. Up to this time he was sure Hoppe l,e'
)uld be arrested and held by the miners. 1he