The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-12-20
STORY OF THEIR CRIME.
A Series of Heartless Murders More Sen
saiional Than Any Romance.


saiional Than Any Romance.
This execution was the termination of
a campaign which was begun about the
middle of last July and which was watched
with the utmost interest not only by the
people of Missoula county but of the en-
tire state. On the Fourth of July some
drunken indians got into melee at Egan
which resulted in the death OF q half
breed named win Finley. who was shot
through the intestines by Antoine, an In
dian. Antoine was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff Lang and confined in his house
and few days later was taken by Deputy
Sheriff Grant TO Demersville for hearing.
On his way he told Mr.. Grant that be was
going TO tell everything that he knew
about the crimes committed by other In
dians in the past few years and asked
that he be taken aside from the road TO
point on Angel Hill where the bones Of
white man were concealed. Mr.. Grant
took him there and found bleaching in
the sun the skeleton of a man whom An
money last year.
Pascale had the name OF being bad
man. Tricky, treacherous, licentious,
charged with the murder Of one OF his
own children, he had passed the most Of
the 40 years Of his life in wickedness. He
had had six wives, discarding one and
taking another, the wife of another man,
perhaps. as his fancy dictated. As he
had confessed il 10 some OF his friends,
the story Of his crime was as follows; One
evening in July, 1859, he was riding along
Angel Hill and saw ahead Of him white
man resting and watching his horse which
was browsing near by. Pascale APP
preached the stranger and asked him for
a drink. The man objected 20 giving him
liquor because 1t was unlawful 10 do so,
but finally gave him single drink from
a small flask which he carried. The In.
dian asked for more but was refused.
Then the stranger proposed that they
trade horses, but Pascale declined because
the horse be rode belonged to Chief
Aeneas. The two started on their way up
the hill; then the Indian said he
would trade and the exchange was
made. The white man mounted
his new horse and started
down the hill. The Indian claimed after
wards that he then wanted TO trade back
but when he proposed II the white man
did not hear him or refused 10 pay atten.
shot him through the body, the ball enter
ing below the left shoulder blade.
Said Pascale, III shot him as would a
grasshopper."
When the man fell, his horse ran away.
Pascale hastily took from his person all
his valuables, including belt containing
about IL 800 Then he dragged the body
| into a cIump Of bushes, threw il between
/ aud thn frtflt.sr..i IA
horse and lost the money belt, which was
found last spriag by Aniice and VIII
liams. Its contents were soon lost IN
gambling.
This story, as told by Antoine, aroused
the settlers of the Lake country. Other
men had disappeared mysteriously. Old
settlers had ridden away and never re.
turned. A reward was out for the arrest
of Pierre Paul aud La.La-See, and Antley
was still at large. Many Of them remem.
bered Antley, the boy who with two com.
paDions had killed three prospectors in
the Pleasant valley country in the fall OF
's7. The prospectors were on their way
from the Kootenai country. in British
Columbia, 10 Ghompson's Falls TO buy
provisions. They had halted, built n fire
aud cooked their supper. Three Indians
Antley, Jerome and Little John, came
along and were invited TO supper, but de
clned the invitation. Jerome soon go'
the oppoTlunity he wanted ana shot one
OF the prospectors and wounded ano ther
The third started TO run, but Little John
picked up a gun aud shot at him. liz
missed him, but Anllcy raised his rifle ant
shot him, while Jerome dubbed the
wounded man % death with the butt o
his gun. Antoine. Dominick and Coosta
on whose testimony Antloy was convicted
were present aud saw the deed commit
ted, aud were compelled 10 assist in burn
ll,nnl..u.,d on EinLih pnn.I