The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-02-24
MURDER IN ANACONDA.

MURDER IN ANACONDA.
Patrick Reardon Shot and Killed by VIM
Martin-Martin Captured ut Elliston
and In jail for Murder.
While the thronR of people awaiting the
| execution of Scott last Friday were passing
time in conversation uO:3o q. n.y.. the word
came from Anaconda by telephone that .
man had been shot and killed there BY VIM.
Martin, the proprietor Of the Planters House.
Persons present in Deer Lodge recollected
| that Just rs the tram was about leaving, Mar
! tin was looking for some one he said owe
him some money, but the name could not be
ascertained. 1t turned out afterward to have
been Patrick Reardon. As near as We can
ascertain the circumstances they were about
as follows:
Martin kept the Planters House. Reardon
had been working at the smelter, had got his
time on Wednesday and had not paid Martin
sc due him. Martin, We understand, says
Reardon owed him the Sc for q revolver he
had sold him others say for board. Any
how, Martin found Reardon in q saloon and
called him out for q talk. While going along
Front street they had words, when Martin
drew a revolver, struck Reardon with the
butt of it, knocking him down. He then
kicked him while he was down, and as Rear
don raised up q little on n elbow, Martin
fred into the back of his head, just back Of
the ear, the ball passing out of Reardon's
face and inficting q fatal wound, of which
he died almost instantly. Martin looked at
him a moment, then walked of and through
a building, and away to the foothills. The
officers Of the town happened to be here at
the execution of Scott. It did not seem to
occur to the witnesses of the tragedy that
any of hem had just as much authority to
arrest Martin as an officer would have, and
SO it was seme time before special officers
could be sworn in by Justice Fitz Patrick
and started to capture him.
As a result, Martin got away, and was not
seen again in Anaconda, although feeling
ran high against him, and a large number of
people were in search of him. Under Sheriff
Frank Hatton left here by the 1914 train,
and was, with the Anaconda officers, soon
country was so well covered that he could
not escape, but it was not until the next Mon
day afternoon thai the officers got eyes on
him. For a day it looked as though he had
eluded his pursuers, mi although he was en-
circled with a Gordon of duly apprised Sher-
ifs, while the regular and special officers of
Deer Lodge county beat the bush effectually
within its lines, he almost eluded them. The
first nights outing was not at first located,
come believing he was out about Stuart, but
he says he was not. He seems to have been
in the vicinity of Walker & Co.'S slaughter
house, below Anaconda, that evening, and
to have slept in a straw stack near Warm
Springs that night, where he met a man
named Haney, to whom it is believed he
gave some checks to get cashed, and who,
Martin says, agreed to meet him next night
and give him some money. He is also
known to have changed his clothes there.
But Drs. Mitchell & Mussigbrod became ap-
prised of his being in the vicinity, and
Deputy Sheriff Bell was quickly on hand
and the creek brush was searched up and
down without ever getting any trace of Mar
tin. That night he slept in a straw stack
again, and in the morning left early, still
carrying two pistols, and by noon was at
at James O'Donnell's, on Caribou, asking for
to eat. From there 1t seems he
skirted along the foothills, and says he was
in Deer Lodge Sunday with the purpose of
giving himself up, but this is not believed,
although a man was seen crossing Lodge &
Beaumont's fields that day, and some suspect
it was Martin. He also says he was at the
old Dog Creek Station at 10 o'clock Monday
morning. At 5 O'Clock Monday morning
Under Sheriff Hatton and Frank Conley left
here on horseback for Avon. They left their
horses there and went to Elliston by train,
remaining there until the delayed No. 2 west
bound train on the N. p. came along. They
got on to return to Avon. While running
along below jenkins ranch, about II miles
above Avon, a man with a long overcoat,
and carrying a stout staff, was seen in ad-
vance. Contrary to the usual custom of
pedestrians to look up at the train as it
passed, the man, shortly before the train
reached him, turned square off from the track
and walked away with his back toward it.
The action at once aroused the suspicious Of
the officers. They went or to Avon, got
railroad men gave the description of the man
who bad passed, and he was the man they
wanted, except the mustache, which he had
gotten rid Of. When a mile or more off they
discovered he had been taken on board a
hand-car, which was going into Elliston.
Hatton struck out to head it off, found a
crossing of the river, and as soon as within
good hail ordered the car to stop. AS his
desires were not complied with as quickly as
he thought proper he pulled his gun, and the
car was brought to a stand-still. He covered
up" Martin acceded, jumped off the car
aud was marched toward Frank Conley and
a guide who had accompanied them, and
who had deployed out to prevent Martin
from escaping to the woods. Here he was
searched, and it was found he had thrown
away or hidden his pistols. He had $40 in
money. He broke completely down when
arrested and was in tears nearly all the time
until he reached Deer Lodge, where a large
crowd had assembled, at the depot. He was
walked off to Jail, no one contemplating any
out of mere curiosity.
In response to a request, he met a represen-
tative of the NEW NORTHWEST Tuesday
morning, and on being told it was not desired
to have him say anything about his ARRAY,
but that if he desired, an account of his ad-
ventures thereafter would be an acceptable
item, he thought it over for a m and
then said he would prefer to say nothing at
all at present. He probably had a hard trip.
MI. Hatton says Martin told him he would
have surrendered to him if he had been in
Anaconda, but he was afraid of the mob.
Martin was only q years old last june, and
does not look that old. He has a wife and
one child, two brothers and a sister in Ana
conda, and, we are informed, his father and
mother live in Benton. He was evidently
seeking to reach the latter when captured.
His face is not what would be called a bad
one, and his reputation heretofore was not
such that a crime of the enormity Of the one
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