Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19
HENRY BERNARD;S NERVE.
BE Denies That the Blood of Jack Enright
Stains His Hands.

Re Denies That the Blood of Jack Enright
Stains His Hands.
The man Henry Bernard, the chief aft
davit witness Of the Republican party OF
Butte, had the effrontery to send to an al
ternoon paper of this city a message to
the effect that the sketch Of him published
in yesterdays MINER has "an infamous
lie.'' The sketch showed the standard
bearer of tie local Republicans to be a
convicted murderer.
It is charitable to suppose that in max
ing his denial Bernard was not aware OF
the fact that there are in Butte at the
present time quite a number OF reputable
men who were in Murray, Idaho, when En-
right, the printer, was shot down in cold
blood ny the same Bernard. Had he been
cognizant OF that fact he doubtless would
have felt satisfied to know that he
was safe in Boulder, and would be
content to remain there without identifica-
ton. It is fair to assume that, although
partisansbigotry goes lar enough to assert
that the denial is emphatic enough" that
it will 'cover the case" and that the con-
victed murderer twill doubtless let himself
be heardhfurther in this matter''-it is ia ir
to assume that Mr.. Bernard will not make
Butte his home. The supposition that he
will be heard further" in the matter prob
ably refers to the distance between him and
the original town of Butte when he makes
another sweeping denial.
One OF the gentlemen who was in Murray
in the summer OF 1854 and who is now in
Butte, is F. P. Carey. He vas a deputy
sheriff and helped arrest Bernard after the
shooting. In speaking Of the affair Mr..
Carey said last night that it was one OF the
most %unprovoked and coldblooded MUIR
ders ever committed. Enright had done
nothing more than ask for bis pay. He
had not even had a war OF words with his
employer; had never threatened him; and
when the shooting occurred Enright had
not SO much as a pocket knife on his per-
son. Mr.. Carey was at the scene OF the
murder one minute after the shooting and
helped carry the victim to the cabin in
which he died, and heard him say that
he was bleeding internally and would
not recover. He was present
too at the inquest conducted by Judge
Hardness as coroner. Demands friends
prevailed upon some practitioners OF medi.
cine to testify that Enright had not died
from the effects of the bullet wound but
from the effects OF an acid taken by mis-.
take. This testimony might have pre-
vailed had not the prosecution shown by
Dr.. Llttlefield's evidence and post mortem
examination that the bullet had penetrated
q vital spot. Bernard took a change OF
| venue, 80 great was the feeling against
| him, and was tried at lewiston, 200 miles
away. Had he not obtained the change
he might have been lynthed. His mother
| was very active during his trial and, after
| his conviction and sentence, was unre-
| hitting in her efforts to have him par
| doned. That she was successful IN pert is
shown by the fact that although her prom.
| Using son was sentenced in 1856 to eight
wears imprisonment, he is at large to-day.
C. NJ. Nesbitt, now q resident Of Butte,
was also in Murray when Bernard murdered
| Enr,ght. He ~corroborates Mr.. Carey in the
facts..of the killing. Michael G wiley a miner
now working in Butte liz aaother gentleman
who knew Bernard at Murray and wEo was
there when the dastardly. murder wal
done. Mr.. Cowley ,rries with him the
indignation caused at the time by the..hei
nousness OF the crime and with it q deer
seated feeling Of dissatisfaction hat such
q man as Bernard should be permitted TIC
be in Butte, much less figure as a purifier O
elections.
Bernard was approached one day in thii
city by w. j. Penross and asked as to his
identity. He vas forced to admit that hs
was the man who murdered Enright AND
he said that he would do the same thing
again under the then existing circumstan
= ces.