The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-28
BEHIND THE BARS.
Mis-ouIa's ''Isig Four and the Way They
Happenedt o Get Into Trouble.

MissouIa's "Iig Four and the Way They
Happened to Get Into Trouble.
Special Correspondence OF the standard.
MIssouLA, JAM. 3.-There are now but
four prisoners i'm the county jail, "Philip
the Indian" Mcclellan Munger, Larry
Finley and Daniel Hawks. Finley il n
halfbrccd. his mother u Flathead Indian;
his parents live at Arlcc station. Finley
il charged with the murder of an Indian
named Jocco, of the Vooknai tribe. Ii APP
pears that Finley went to Dcmersville last
fall on business and whilst there camped
with his cousin named Battise Finley. A
number of Indians were around that place
at the time and got all the liquor they
could pay for. As Finley and his cousin
were playing cards i'm their camp Jocco
entered and attempted tn clean out the
place, but Larry grappicd with him and
finding himself no match for the intoxi-
Gated savag picked up n club and hit him
"a terrific blow on the forehead that fcllcd
him, Jocco lay unconscious on the ground
for sometime and finally expired. Finley
made his escape to sun river hut was
and lodge, in the Jail. His trial is set for
February 3 a..
The most MISUNDERSTANDING figure i'm
murdercrs' row is Daniel u. Hawks. "a
w~hite-haired Irishman. abont go years old.
The "old man. as he is appropriately
termed by his fellow prisoners. is always
in n happy mood and il as frisky aS -
nanny goat. If he realizes his terrible po-
sition he betrays no outward signs of IT,.
He is no 1olht suffering from alteration
of the mind, caused by his financial losses
in life.
Tho crime that Hawks is charged with
is the killing of Joseph Fortien in the
spring of 1859. Hawk + is an old Montana
pioneer and we'll known in Helena, hay
ing moved there from Rock Island. ILL.,,
in 1856. He worked i'm the mines for
about 20 years and saved considerable
money. He owned "a ranch i'm the Prickly
Pear valley and sold ii i'm 1887 and moved
with his wife and family to the Flathead
Lake valley, and. like winnigcr, he is
where his trouble commenced.
He prc-empted n quartz section near the
river and paid one Dan Anchor
"a sum of money to vacate IA ranch near by
that he held by 50 that he
(Hawks) could use il for n homestead.
The winter of 'ss was n severe one ON
Hawks, as most of his cattle pcrishe for
want of provisions and Hawks was once
more forced to go out and rustic for the
neccssarics of life for his family. In the
spring of 'S9 he went To work aS day labor
or i'm Helena and was informed by his wife
shortly after that the Fortien brothers had
jumped his claim and that if he would not
return and protect his family the Fortien
brothers would turn them ont. When
Hawks returned home and saw the status
of things and being of unsound mind. he
went boldly to the newly constituted cabin
and finding Joseph Fortien in possession
he deliberately fired six shots, killing
Fortien.
Hawks served as n iuryman for several
years i'm the district court at Helena and
bears the reputation of being a law-abid-
ing citizen. During Hawks lucid mo-
ments he is continually. talking about
Frank Way. and says that il was Way who
put bad luck i'm his road. Hawks trial
will follow Finlcy's.