Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-09
FOUND IN AN ORE CAR.
The Very Uncomfortable Bed
Which a Badly Used-Up
Stranger Sought.
Wounds And Too Much Whisky
Render Him Unconscious
And Speeches..

Vest erday afternoon Deputy Sher d
Rudies, on duty around and in the vicinity
OF the Montana Union depot ip. South
Butte, observed four t~ough-looking char
acters prowling around the yards and max
ing themselves generally numerous in his
5ailawick. The officer kept his weather
optic peeled on the gang, intending il they
made any breaks to gather them into the
fold and cork them up in the bastile. His
intention wa evidently OWNED by two OF
the gang, who toward evening secured first.
class apartments in q box-car and migrated
hence. Rudies was on the eve OF congrat-
ulating himself on securing good radiance
OF bad rubbish, when in making a casual
tour Of the yards he discovered the remain
ing two tramps sleepingi in an ore car. Upon
his approach one of the nomads chased
himself away at q gait that left a long
crack in the atmosphere and left the odor
OF singed garments lingering in his wake.
His companion was found lying on
the bottom Of the car, bis feet
elevated at an angle Of about forty degrees
above his head. The officer received no
response to his summons commanding the
man to awake and crawl down.. An ugly
looking wound on the scalp attracted the
officers attention and led to an investiga.
ton, which resulted in disclosing that the
man was insensible and seriously injured,
having sustained q broken arm and re-
ceived an ugly looking wound above the
left eye. The pungent odor OF his breath
was proof positive that at the time OF re-
ceiving the injuries the man had been
1----I- 49, A.. sQ s,~-
He could render no account OF himself and
blood, and the officer, recognizing the Yeri-
business of his injuries, summoned a team
and wagon and had him transferred to the
Jail. Here an effort vas made by the kind
hearted jailer to establish the mans iden-
tity, but be remained unconscious, and az
nothing could be found in his pockets to
indicate bis name, the effort proved
alb ,rtive. Everything that sympathy and
kindness could suggest was done by the
jailer to alleviate the sufferings Of his IN
fortunate guest, but without avail. as he
evide ntly suffered intense pain. County
Physician Tremblay was summoned to as
certain the extent OF The mans injuries.
The doctor, following a critical examina-
ton, looked grave, and though he ven
tured no EXPIRE ssioD, his implied
that ne regarded Uhe case as serious. Inc
wounds were dressed and bandaged and
the poor unknown placed on a cot in the
jail and made as comfortable as possible
under the circumstances.
A man named Kennedy, who was ar
rested near the depot in South Butte and
seat to Jail in the same wagon hat on
veyed the wounded man to the city, in
timated hat the man r, ceived his injuries
at the hands of an officer while resisting
arrest. The officer, when confronted with
this statement Indignantly denied it and
in language more emphatic than elegant,
exclaimed that Kennedy was a three-story
and mansard roof liar. Officer. Rudies
claims to have found the man as above
stated, and in explanation of his condi-
ton, ventursd to suggest that he might
have been struck by a passing train or
pounded into insensibility during a fight
with tramps, which infest that locality in
large numbers. The injured man is ap-
parently about thirty years of age,
roughly dressed and destitute of coat or
vest. His condit. on is quite serious, and
it is not improbable that his. injuries may
terminate fatally.