The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-22
TELLING 1T UNDER OATH
Witnesses Give Their Testimony Abort
the HomeStake MURDER.
Facts Found by a Reporter About
the Dead Man--What 10 Said
ny Those Who
Knew Him.
si..ciaI INTERPRETATIONS os one standard.

special correspondence ut the standard.
Butte, Feb. 21.-Tners, has hecn n great |
deal of mystery as tn the personality at
Edward Smith, the man who was killed
Mrs. Omo ON Wednesday i'm defense of
her honor. Nobody could learn anything
about him. where hc came from. ar whe-
tlcr the name he went by was his right
name. In the dead mans pocket was u
small flask that lad contained whiskey.
and two memorandum books. Ther, was
IO money about him. examining these
memorandum books with a view of asccr-
tanning IL possible something about the
mans identity, a STANDARD reporter
found this address; "Hcnry NJ. Ricsscn,
Chicago House, Butte"
The reporter went to the Chicago houss.
and inquired for MIR. Riessen. That gem
.leman was proiuccd; and In resppn.a 70
Snlitl, well. He had been in Montana
about two years. He is q mouidier by
He worked at the mouIdins trade. He IS
originally from Troy: n. Y. and that is
where his father is living now. I know
He WAS q good fellow and ] know
him To he incapable OF such AN act as APP
pears from Mrs. Onlo's story. l believe
there is some mystery about the matter
that has not come to light. 1 saw Smith
last ON Tuesday. He told me hc was going
out to Blacktail and would be gone 10
lays. He said he had n job of piling wood
but lie didn't say who he was going to
wOfk IoTs Ue stboht utbbtt tlts'tlIK ~
woman on the street who is the wife of n
man he formerly worked for. IL was a.
week or 50 ago that smith told me he had
bought - revolver. He said there was
somebody i'm town who was going tn kill
him and he wanted To he prepared to de-
fend himself. He didn't say what this
trouble was. He has il,een working three
seasons ont on the Boulder road in "a wood
ramp"
person. In one of the memorandum
books WAS "a letter of recommendation
from DIR. w. A. .Akers Address I" T.. NJ;
Adams and saying that Smith WAS IA good
teamster. DIR. Akers is employed at
Laveile's stable. T. NJ. Adams is a con-
names in the memorandum book are Hood
Mike McAndrews. Fisher, SwaHHer. On
the other memorandum book il a piece of
poetry, g parody on 1.-THE ship that never
Everybody in Butte who has heard Mrs.
Omo's story believes in her entire. limo
ccnce of crime, and admircs greatly her
courage. All the. hardy lunihrrmen OF
the Little Blacktail canyoi, came tn Butte
to-day to lend the little woman
quest was held this afternoon at Coroner
Eddy's office. The iurymcn were w. j.
J.S. ornp W. II. Sweatiani and j.
l.. Switzler. DIR. j. w. Howard made "a
post mor,cm examination of the body
had entered AT the right ear and made it's
exit on the left side of the head. The
other bullet had entered at the lower
shoulder blade and made its exit two
inches below the collar bone and two and
one-half inches left of the center of the
breast. Either wound would cause death.
In the doctors opinion the bullet of the
latter wound entered at the back. He was
not positive that the wound i'm the head
showed signs of the weapon having been
Darius Fellows testified: ~ live al
South Butte. The deceased got on my
sleigh about five miles out of Butte. He
got on the hind end of the sleigh. He said
he was going after a span of horses. a bay
.,..u ... faasa. f-n tt. VhnN.-
ON the top of tho range. When lac left uS
lac said there was IA cut oil by going that
way. ! told .hs him ne sn %rS IN" m'-i tn m,y a -,
Bcck's.' He rode about five and n hall
miles with me altogether. He got oil
about $50 yards from Dmo's house,
between the houses of ONO and Beck,
He said he wanted to see Beck. men
toned To him where ONO lived withou,
his inquiring of me anything about ONO
He had made particular inquiries abni'
the chute before we got in sight of it.: The
the brush at the left hand side of the road
1t was W :; and = o'clock. He was
bearing off to the left of Onio's house
c ai sS, nen pifr mentio%e ed ONO to him. IL
drank with me ont of his bottle. but hs
was Not int n,,, ct ,s,. nd ! only saw him take
Luke Harding said: II live abou. a
mile and n half from ONO. Mr.. Ome
at Is minutes past 3. He went ava,
about go o'clock. He had been walking
i'm from town. A half hour after he icf
Mrs. ONO came to- the door. She wa,
breathless and painting. She cried: oh
Mr.. HartIing. What's the matter, Mrs
OIno"' ! asked. Go mp To- the house
I've shot u man.. she said. asked whs
il was and she said Smith. She said tina
he came there. and undertook to comIni
an assault on her. She had
revolver i'm her right hand. SIN
had no wrap on and wa
barchcaded. Her hair was flowing. Sh,
was terribly excited. She tried scvcra
times 10 speak before. she. was able to a.
her husband. The next morning ] wen
up TO the ONO cabin. Blood was sI,atterc,
around about fifteen or twenty yards froi
where the dead man was lying. Their
was no blood near tn him. l saw "a bulle
hole i'm the floor of the cabin. While Ohm
was in tine cabin with me that afternoon
saw Fellows drive past. Smith was in til
back seat. although 1 didn't know him
ONO said. There goss the Mormon an,
his kid referring to Fellows. He didn
. mention Smith. Thers. was no striggl
I about where the body was lying. From tlI
: tracks in the vicinity SIuitl, seemed I
. have gone "a long way around to get I
Omo's cabin"
: Robert Ashcraft said: ~ live On III
Little Blacktail road, about one and
. half miles from ONO. SAW I'd. Smit
when hc worked for ONO. but was not as
: puainted with him. | met ONO Wednc,
day afternoon near To 4 o'clock. w
started for his cabin after some grub Il
was To get for me. As We were comm
/ down we heard Beck yelling something
1 couldn't understand what Beck sad. ID,