Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-18

and Roberts assaulted Crawford with q
knife. The latter knocked Roberts down
with a pitchfork, infiicting ST. ugly cut on
the left side of Roberts head. Roberts
got up and told Crawford that he wasn't
through with him. He then came to town
and saw Deputy Sheriff Themes and asked
him to 60 out and arrest Crawford. This
Mr.. Thomes refused to do without q war
rant. and advised Roberts to come back
the next day and file q complaint against
: Crawford and have him arrested in due
form. Roberts agreed to do so but
never came back and Themes did not see
him again until yesterday when be arrested
him for murder.
{ The above are the facts which probably led
up to the murder as they were cleaned from
different parties acquainted with both
men.
SWORN TESTIMONY.
Coroner Howard. who was notified of the
crime shortly after it's commission, visited
the place and secured the names .of wit.
nesses, and then prepared to hold an in.
quest. which was commenced about half.
past two O'Clock. The jurors were A.
judge, N. r. Thorpy, John Griffin, James
Leach, F. II. Butler, and Patrick Regain.
/ The Hrst witness examined was DIR. o. B,
Whitford, who testified that he had been
called to the Silver Bow house to examine
a man who had been shot, and that when
ne arrived there, a quarter past one
O'Clock, the man was dead. lie recognized
the body as that OF q man named Craw.
ford whom he had treated professionally
some time previous. He examined the body
and found a wound through deceased right
middle arm between the elbow and shoulder,
and thence it entered deceased's body be-
tween the fifth and sixth ribs. He proEed
the wound and followed it's course about
six inches in the direction of the stomach.
The wound was made by a gunshot, and
the witness thought that the ball had
pass d through the stomach and lodged in
the region OF the heart. Death was caused
by the wound, as the man had been in a
healthy condition when last witness saw
him, Monday evening.
William II. LaDuke, a teamsterin Corea's
employ, was next sworn. He deposed as
follows: 81 was in the wash room of the
hotel and Crawford was washing himself.
Roberts entered the room and walked
towards Crawford and came up to where I
STOOD. l paid no particular attention to
MIN n neither he nor | spoke. I heard a
shot and turning saw Roberts standing to
the right side of Crawford with a pistol in
bis haDd. Crawford said something about
being hurt and staggered out OF the room.
up to this time Roberts had not sale a |
word, but after having fired the shot he |
sald, Il got the -- --.n Roberts |
then left the room and in company with |
Joe Forth and a man named Tom walked
up town." Here witness detailed the |
account OF the trouble Roberts and Craw.
lord had in the barn two months before.
which he witnessed, and gave the names of
sherman Kelly, Emanuel Corea, Gus
StF0nU and Inn Eortsn ruL~ L. |
in the room when the shootingtook place.
Joseph Forth testified: "Isaw the shoot.
ing: Crawford vas washing himself when
Roberts shot him. Roberts was standing
o three or four feet from DECEASED
when he fired the shot. Crawford was
standing in such q position that he could
see Roberts. Before firing the shot
Roberts did not say a word. After he had ,
fired he said, You hnt
couldn't understand all he said. 1 then
walked up town with Roberts. On the
way up Roberts said: I'm satisfied. and
hope Crawford is dead. NY heart has
burned ever since I had that little racket
with him, and Tn happy now He also
SAID to me: III you had not held me I
would have got two or three more, and
among them was Corea, because I don't
ike Corea and he hasn't treated me rieht.'
ROBERTS was sober at the time and had not
been drinking. He seemed perfectly happy
when he was going up town with me. Sid
The shooting"
Emanuel Corea deposed: II was in the
lining room, which opens into the wash.
where the shooting tool place; did
lot see 1T. When | heard the shot / started
'o"ards the wash room but a crowd oil
men were coming towards me and T could
lot get through the door. Was told bv
am ferrls this morning that Roberts had
nade his brags that he would kill me and
Tex and | told Tex to look out for
lim. L told MIN this just a short time bel
ne was shot. Both men worked for
ne, as teamster and Z. ,herts as
'agon boss. Roberts always acte p, sane
ut at times appeared cross and cranky.
fa"iord walked out of doors after b.lna
not and fell to the ground. We Carried
I'm Into the house and laid him OF; u he'd
lie wal ead when we picked him up"
lnomas j.. Croswhite swore: Il was one
! the men who went up town with Roberts
Tier ne did the shooting. On the WAY up
3 1o!d me that lie h. d shot Crawford oui
oped ne had killt d him. He raised his hal
nu showed me a scar on his head which he
ald Tex had given him, and that he never
lowed any to get the best of him and
I'D that he felt easy now that / e had shot
ex. have seen Tex and Roberts rid.
'sether since their trouble of two murths
ons." ioa
Here the inquest was adjourned until
30 O'Clock, owing to the absence of p MN.
y OF material witnesses. ,
III the evening the inquest was resumed.
no a number OF witnesses examined. No
rtner evidence OF Importance was ,licited .
cepIing that Roberts had threatened re-
nnrlnO tho m r-;r T. I'm ]
ro' Corea and several others. The eyi.
nee went to show conclusively that the
urder a p~remeditated and cold !
CODED, it having been proven that
ooerts had been out nearly all of tho
before drinking and making threat q
ainst Crawford and Corea. t
Inc Jury returned a verdict charpinu !
'oerts with having killed Crawford, and I
ommended that he be held for murder '
eoiulnsiy Coroner Howard issued a war.
= !. asalns. hooerts charging him with
service. A'oyo
10 soCp as Mr.. Lloyd received the war; 6
ut be bad Roberts taken out of the iail =
u Teao the document to him, and then
'haiiy gave him in charge of Jailer Cook.
,er Che instrument had been read to him -
oerIs smiled and ~nonchalently said "Ali
and then was locked up to await
he PRIV Vi Ino law. 4
THE PRISONER.
MINER reporter called at the iail at
out 3 O'Clock, and was accorded an in.
view with Roberts. Prisoner seemed c
and collected, and when asked abopt a
affair a faint smile crept over his face 9
SAID he had no statement to male n
ther than that he had shot CravforJ =,
! was glad OF it. He said that he and "
.wford had talked over the matter vi q
'r difficulty of a couple a months no. OF
Monday evening, but had not renewed q
If quarrel, and that he had told Graz IT
!, showing him the scar on his. the nr;s- n
head, that he should not have Sven !;
that. ""o gwen
eporter-"At theinquest this afternoon =
amber Of witnesses swors that Won had
auited Crawford with a knife. and thai
why ne struck you with the fork.n
rlsoner-"It is all wrong. did not fry
ut Crawford. I was whiting. using \
pen knife, something l frequently Do C.S
n he struck me-"