The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-03-07
WALSH LAY DEAD
The Horrible Spectacle to Which Charles
ncGilliSs AuOke.
10 Supposed to Have
Died BY Taking
Poison.

streets. the blackened body OF pretty Hes
sic Walsh was lying this morning. when
a STANDARD reporter called to investigate
he report which had got out on the
streets that a woman had sui
eide. An hour before that Charles Me-
Ginnis, u young man who Is bartender at
The Board of Trade saloon, and who had
for months past been on init mate terms
with Bessie, and had with her occupied
room "a i'm the Iron block, awoke to find the
woman dead beside him i'm bed. There
is "a mystery surrounding the sudden death
of this unfortunate girl which will prob
ably never be cleared up. since the coron-
light upon il. Bessie Walsh was "a re-
nineteen years of age. b was large.
sessing. But little is known i'm Butte of
her a~ntecedents or carly life: She came
Wear and since then has been a woman of
the town. The girl had apparently re
ceived a very good education, as she was
intelligent and n fine conversationalist.
Notwithstanding this, she has been since
coming here n habitnc OF the lowest dives
i'm this city.
About two months ago she entered
Sprague's beer hall i'm an East Park street
cellar as waitcress. With Charles Nc
SiInis she occupies led the Room WHERE hSr
opinion of some that she had become
tired of life and committed suicide by taxi
4 jury of Thomas Stccs, j.
w. Taylor, T.. sheldon, r.. Herbcr, Joseph
McGugan and Gilbert EnGlc was at once
Jada. Eads. aH Charlie na 'H MSGinn as'a the Se asaS
woman's companion, was the first wit
ness; He appeared before the jury with
swollen eyes, and to all appearances felt
badly over the uuenviablc position i'm
which he was placed by the oman sud
ssrais dsasn, nf m Rans n'f but ss seemed a an a
iois to say as little as possible about the
case. He said: ~ have been i'm Butte for
formerly worked i'm the Comique. ] have
known the deceased since last October.
She told me her name was Bessie Welsh;
name because she introduced hcr
sister to me as Miss Welsh; have been
cember. She appeared to he troubled
last night, as she told me that she had re-
ssise Sl,n a ' 81 Eran;s saying SS:. t tnpa h %c Si sSsr
she was going to start to see her sister
this morning. just before we went to
and that she was suffering therefrom. We
went to bed about nine o'clock. She sat
up about fifteen minutes after I retired.
day and evening but was not drunk. She
was not an habitual dr7inkard. We talked
sleep. "'i i lid f, not wax. s,o up a Mer" that Me until, IL
about $3.50 his morning. When / awoke
I was crowded; her hand was lying
Of it and found !, cold. |
then sprang from the bed
and went To the room OF n friend OF mine.
I called TO him and told him l thought
Bessie was dead. He did not get up and
told me to go and call the landlady. This
then whether Bessie was dead or not and
the landlady would not believe IL until
she came and saw the body. never
life. But she ha4l said that il ever she did
intend to kill herself she would take NOR
phine. She was troubled about having
had "a quarrel with the man whom
worked for. She was afraid of appearing
in the court room against the man. She
and did not want to. About a month ago
some sort of liquid labelled poison. She
family. She had $500 which l gave her.
She also had money OF her own, rs she
was working Tor 9 She wa going
i advised her not to do so and n locked Il
up and put the key i'm her coat pocket. I
session of the hottie of morphine found
in her dress this morning. She com,
planned to me about having been choked
worked. Before she went to sleep last
night she seemed to he suffering from
thirst and asked me to give her water
swollen, and L told her l thought she had
something I'm her mouth. She said she
then went to sleep and whe i awokc
found her dead. DIR. Leavitt testified
that he was called to see the deceased and
examination which I made" said the doc
tor. "she seemed to have died
from h effects of morphine,
she was black i'm the face. 1t usually
takes from IL to Is hours to cause death
from morphine, but there have been cases
where one hour produced death. Owing
to the extreme riRidity of the body when |
examied IL the woman must have been
dead some six hours. There was no evil
dencc that death was occasioned by VIC
lence. ] could not swear what the woman
died from. since I only made AN external
examination. 1t is probable that NOR
phine occasioned her death from the fact
that morphine was found in her dress and
the body bore evidences of poison.''
Rosa Gordon. landlady of the lodging
house where the death occurred. SAID she
had known the deceased over two months.
She was addicted To using intoxicat
ing liquor. though she was not
"A Between q and IL
O'Clock last night l met her i'm the hall.
she did not appear To be i'll at that time.
Testimony relative To the young woman
was given by Mrs. Katie Raynes,w who was
employed in the same beer hall with her
and by Grace McGinnis who formerly
kept the Eagle saloon. She is the wife oi
a brother of Nc(;innis. William Knight
the undertaken. said there were no marks
OF violence on the body.
When the jury retired the witnesses
Sprague and the dead girls chun. Mrs
Haynes, went down 10 the police cour
where the trial OF Spraguc was to bc held
AT 4 o'clock. for having last Monda.
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