The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-30
AT The MURDER TRIAL
Testimony Of q Child Which the Court
Declined to Receive.
Odd Notions Entertained by a Little
One About the Relations Of
Butte to the Home OF
the Blessed.

BY the Standards Special Wire.
BUTTE, April a.-The trial Of Joseph
Barriere for murder occupied all the time
Of the district cour to-day. n number of
witnesses being examined for the prose-
cution. This morning Cora Myers was
put on the stand again. She had kept the
cigar store in the house where the woman
was killed until three days before the
tragedy. She had frequently heard Bar
riere and his wife quarrel. On the Sat
urday before the shooting. Barriere
came 10 the house, and Mrs. Bar
riere had told the witness not 10 open
the door. Bad words passed between
them. The witness saw a revolver in
Barriere's pocket. Barriere accused his
wife of having slept with Leland, and said
he would fix her i'm i've days. The quar-
rels OF the couple were mainly on account
OF Leland the policeman. Barriere had
agreed to go away il his wife would give
him 500, and she told him il he wanted
money 10 go and earn il.
Nictorine Bertrand was asleep the
next door to the Barriere house and was
wakened by a conversation between the
couple, conducted in high words. After
wards she heard a crash as Of something
fallen. She got up, partially dressed her.
self and went To the house. No one was
there but Mrs. Barriere lying on the floor
apparently dead. She stopped but an in
slant and went back.
This afternoon several witnesses were
put on the stand and told The same stories
they had told at ihep preliminary examin-
alton. officer Leland was on the stand and
told Of searching Barricre at the request
OF Mrs. Barriere during the night before
the shooting. No gun was found i'm the
search. Blanche Desjardins told Of the
fear expressed by Mrs. Barrierc To her
on the night before the shooting and of
the many quarrels OF the couple. She
saw Barriere sign a paper agreeing not Ia
trouble her any more and receive S2uO for
signing il. That was last summer.
Mrs. Maria Lawrence, who slept i'm a
O adjoining the house where Mrs,
Barrierc met her death, said that she wac
awakened by a heavy fall and the scream.
ing of n child. Her testimony developed
nothing duplicating the defendant
Much importance was attached tn the
matter Of considering the testimony oi
the little girl, Bejune, who was just 4 years
and a month old AT the time of In,
tragedy. The jury was excused and tho
Judge, for Tho best part of an hour. ques,
toned the little girl, who is thought Il
have been a witness of the tragedy. Sh,
was questioned on general mat
tiers To show her general intelli
gence, n also on the event. Sh,
stuck 10 the statement that ''papa killed
mamma, button some things hertestimon,
was hardly creditable. One question pro
pounded her was. "Where do good people
go when they die"
ITO Butte city, Montana said the it'll,
one.
Whether this answer influenced III,
Judge or not can never be known, but a
any rate he decided not To admit the littl.
ones testimony. II is limited that Their
may be some startling testimony whei
LavegIe is put on the stand. Lavegut
did not appear at the %coroner's inquest o
the preliminary examination, but wal
traced to Anaconda and ~subpoenae,
for the grand jury. Then he was hcl,
under bonds for his appearance Mt TIN
trial and furnished them. Ii is know,
that there was a maj in the house Just be
fore the trouble occurred and who he wa
has been a mystery. II is now said tina
Lavegue was the man. The case has bee
adjourned until tomorrow morning.