Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-04-24
DEATH RESULTED.
Thomas Lowery, a County
Charge, Dies Sunday Morn
ing at the Poor Farm.
Coroner's Jury Find Robert Roy
Indirectly Responsible For
His Taking-Of.
THE sfAN DIED.

Thomas Lowery Passes In His Checks ON
Sunday Morning.
1t will be remembered that Robert
Roy, young man who has been al
inmate of the poor house for some
time, was committed to Jail for thirty
days on Saturday for an attack on MI
aged pauper named Thomas Lowery.
Lowery WAS in feeble condition aud
died about twenty-four hours after
ward. Coroner Redd summoned a
jury on Sunday afternoon and pro-
ceeded 10 the poor house, whereLowery
WAS laid out and held an Inquest. DIR.
Lebcher made post mortem examin-
alton and his evidence, together with
that OF other witnesses aud the yer.
diet, appear below. Roy will be held
over to await the action of the next
grsnd jury aud will undoubtedly be
indicted tor some serious offence. Fol.
lowing is the testimony:
CHARLES S. YOUNG
! being sworn testified rs follows: The
morning Of the 2lst between seven
and eight O'clock | found Lowery out.
side washing himself with his face
cut; / asked him what was the matter
hs told me that Bob had hit him with
a spittOOn; then dressed mis- wounds,
came into the dining room and asked
Robert why be had hit him; Robert
said he went to get drink of water,
the can setting on this table, (gets up
to show and in getting drink be
said he stepped on Lowery's toes
aud that he picked up the spittoon al
him; rs be took the spittoon away
from him he hit him with it; he said
he would have hit his father il be had
done the same thing.
Question. Who was present at th'
time? Answer. The man with hi,
feet ampuIated.
q. How did he appear through thu
day? A. He appeared delirious GU
OF his head from after break fast abou
8 o'clock.
q. Were the wounds there wher
you first discovered him? A. Yes.
q. Did he complain of pain? A
No, but he was feeling his head all the
time and the more so after he became
Unconscious. He was trying to teal
the plaster from his wounds; DR.. Redo
was here until 1880 O'Clock this morn
ing and he kept getting worse witt
spasms until about . O'clock tbi'
morning, when he died.
@. Is this the spittoon that he wa
struck with? A. Yes.
q. What IL the name OF the MAJ
who struck him? A. Robert Roy
age, about 20 years.
q. Did he seem TO regret what b,
had done? 4. He did not.
GEORGE MILLER
being sworn testiiies as follows: | wa
shaving at the window and did M
, see il all; saw the boy strike Lower.
with his list and thought they wer
: playing: ! heard Robert say drop rh
spittoou" and | heard It fall; that
ali know about il; was busy shay
ing and don't know which struck iirs
after Robert Roy struck him with hi
fist; then noticed for the first tim
that he bad a wound on his head.
@. Do you know whether tn
wound was made with his fist or th
spittoon? A. | don't know.
q. Were they on good terms pr,
vious 10 this time? A. Yes.
q. There were only three in th
room at the time OF the difficulty?
Only US three.
C, u. LEBCHER
being sworn testifes: | am practi
ing physician; live in Miles City, \
r.; | was requested Ly Il. G. Red,
coroner Of Custer county, Montau
Territory, 10 perform an autopsy upo
the body OF Thomas Lowery, deceased
at the poor house OF Custer county
Territory Of Montana, at 9 o'clock, !
M, April end. The external woun
was situated on the forehead CORES
pondiug TO line drawn from the ey
brow TO the centre OF the foreheadi Tia
wound was about one and one'hal
Inches long, penetrating the integ
ment; the corresponding wound inter
nnlly was about the same length; III
bone was not injured; upon the r,
moval of the calvareum | find n
fracture of the skull nor any spot ,
ecbmofec opposite OF the wound. Th
. capillary vessels were injected; IN
veins were also full OF blood but n,
distended; there was serum in II
mcshes of the brain and upon II
whole had the appearance ~ II the
had been menginitis prior to b