The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-27
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DtTTts n ~.-NQfSs SSteibhOH'rKs WHO
was ARRESTED upon a charge Of completely
i'm the crime of blowing her husband up
In his he'd with giant powder and who was
released ON bonds at noon to-day, was re-
arrested tonight upon a rciuisition Of
County Attorney L~ippincott. who claims
to have discovered fresh evidence Of her
guilt. She WAS locked up i'm the county
Jail and took her arrest very harSl. She
says the authorities are p~ersecuting her
without amy cause. The prosecution de-
cline to- say what new evidence, they hssve
obtained, but say IL is very important.
Mrs. StcinhcrG visitesl her injured huns
band to-day and pleaded with him tn ask
the authorities tn Hibernate their son August
on bail. Steinberx positively refused, say
ing il would do the hoy good Ia keep him
in Jail awhile.
The STANDARD's announcement this
morning that the hoy had made 10 confess
sion, was u great surprise. The a%utlIori-
ties are i'm possession of the boys state
ments, which are very damaging to Larry
Smitxger. The hoy admits that he was
requested 10y Smitxger to help him "blow
the old man up" bu { that he did not do
all that SmitzRcr requested him o do.
A. reporter Tonight visited
~Stcinherg and found him greatly inn
proved. His burns and bruises arc still
very painful and dangerous, but hopes Of
his ultimate recOvery are now entertained.
When the reporter told ~Steinberg that his
son had made n confession duplicating
siaimss: N" :1 "R ensms issPP /" kn @ss and III s #
there is anything ia .~piritualistic rcvela-
ton Of danger. i had Il the morning that
I remember seeing l,otL Smitzeer
and my SON a niomen after I was blown
nr. They seemed as plain tn me at that
was discharged l fancied I saw my boy
and Smitzger ran away from the building
and across the alley. Smitzger. l Thought,
tenance and AS hc ram he seemed to STUN
bile ON a board. Then, he looked back, /
sn31SSns, S and seemed to say take tina.
fully convinced that SmitxQer did the
deed and il he don't hang there is no jus
bed now and pull the rope on that infer
nal ~scoundrel."
When speaking of his strange vision,
Stcinbcrg became very much excited and
forgot his pains and aches. He says he
is s,irs. he will he able to get zap i'm a few
dcavor to prove the guilt of the man he
"bo you think that your wife had any
"Dh. my wife is not entirely innocent
hc replied; ''she may not have done the
deed. but she knew more about il than
want to see. punished. for I'm sure he did
;sl,..I for it,"
The evidence on which Mrs. Steinbcrg
was rs,arrestrd is said tn have been of "a
County Attorney Lippincott took the evi.
dcncc of Agnes Steinbcrg. the 1+year-old
daughter of Stcinberg, and although the
child tried To shield her mother and was
evidently against her father, yet her testi-
niony was very valuable for the prosecu.
ton. She said that last week Friday
Smitz2er ate dinner at the house and
Stcinberg came around. wanted tn know
why Smitzger kept haunting his tracks.
and kicked him out of the house. The
girl contradictcd herself frequently, as.
p~scially i'm relation to- who held the key.
At first she said the hoy had the key, and
fsa 4 aI.nN 1A.. h nn.x
ease against those arrested promises tn be
very strong
IL was earned Tonight that Stenberp
had his life insured for S1O,0OD at the mr.
gent request of his wife. Ia
her he had allowed the policy to lapse q
short time before the attempted murder