The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-18
DOING UP THE FOREMAN
Joe Eby offered Five Dollars to Any
Han Who Would PIX" Him.
Evidence Like a Chapter From
Reade's ''Put Yourself I'm
His Place"--The As
satlapt Held.

John Norton, who was arrested Sa,ur-
day for assault ON John with u
deadly weapon. tn wit: am iron sbolcI.
WINS arraiRncd ira the police court yester-
day. He waived examination and was
bound over tn appear before the grand
jury. under s2yOOO bonds. He could not
furnish bonds and WAS placed i'm Jail.
Patrick Gallagher and Joe Eby were
arrested ON n charge of hcing implicated
in the assault. They were arrainResi
before Judge Fitzgerald mt 2 o'clock yes
teriay afternoon and the evidence in the
case was taken. Mr.. Clcmmcnsw WAS first
sworn and stated that las, Friday morn
and that lsc was not doing the work prop
eric. He told Norton how he wanted tile
that way. He consequently told Norton
tn pat down his tools and leave as he
was discharged; norton then said m
went To seq Dwyer. who is Clcmnnens' su-
perior at the works. After seeing Dwyer
Norton came back and said that Dwyer
told him Inc would have tn see
Norton then asked him tn bc put back To
work hut he refused. He then left Norton
and me when he turned around he Noticed
Norton was still standing i'm the ann
place. He came back towards Norton and
hand that looked like "a shovel handle.
Norton was turned away from him and
he did not give the matter any attcn-
struck on the right side of
the head and became unconscious. He
ates. He said ti,crs. wcrr. several persons
stanG ing near tho spot where the blow
was struck, hut he only remembered two,
mcnts was asked il lie knew Gallagher
and Ely and said he knew them both.
Eby had worked. for hin, oiiing nachin-
cry, but l,c had quit, taking a better Job.
and his, the witness. son had taken his
place.
John Monger was next sworn, and said
Ina i'm aV AII ulfll
Gallagher and Eby. He saw Norton
and Gallagher talking. and heard
After Morton Went away he asked Gal.
a9hcr What was the troublc. and Gal
laRller said Clemmcns had told Norton to
fioor and then came back before the old
man ClcmInrns had hccn struck. Gal
lagher told Norton there was IL man there
who would give him 80 IL he would fix the
old man. No names wcrr. mentioned.
This occurred about < o'clock i'm the morn
ing and the witness did not see Gallagher
and Norton together again. Monger was
asked III hc had ever heard Eby oiier 80 to
have the old man "done," and said he
never heard Ehy say anything IN regard
to the affair.
John Mct,arty. deputy sheriff at Carroll,
testified that Norton owed him 50, bor-
told him Gallagher owed him s. and to
sec Gallagher and get the 81 from him.
He saw gallagher but Gallagher said he
wouldn't pay him anything. But Galla-
CHER said Eby had promised to give Nor
ton - IL he would do the old man.: Gala
CHER said he had sccnb Ey and asked him
for the S5,but Eby said he wouldn't give il
to Norton as he thought Norton was going
said he saw Eby sunday hight and told
him he was under arrest and what for.
Eby said il was only a joke and that he
had no luminosity against MIR. Clcmniens.
Gallagher was sworn and said that Eby
told him he had been oiling machinery
for Clcmnens some time previous, and
that InasI So hsprn .ae ~
that place i'm order to give il to his. Glenn
mems, son, and he, Eby. would give 81 to
anyone who would hit Clemmens i'm the
nose. This conversation, he said, oc-
Cured about "A week before he told Nor
ton he would get 81 for him, and no
names were mentioned. When he called
Norton, back Ely was standing near him,
and when me told Norton about the 81,
Norton said: A right, bc sure and
conversation he had with Norton. and he
only did il to- obiige Eby, who was not ac-
Joseph Eby next testified. He said
that on the day the trouble occurred he
saw Norton coming down the smelter
abo,It = o'clock. He had "a green charge
in thu furnaces and went around behind
them TO attend tn the charge. As he came
back he saw Norton and Gallagher talk
toward them, but before he reached them
Norton walked rapidly away. He asked
gallagher what was the matter with, the
kid, and Gallagher said Norton and Glenn
mems had some words and Norton said he
was going to- give Clcmmens "a licking. He
then said II will give 50 to see the fight"
Gallagher then called Norton back and
told him there WAS ~ man there who
would give him 50. He then left them and
went back to attend to the furnaces.
Eby was asked how many times he had
said he would give 50 to have the old man
done up. He said that he had never made
the remark. and that Gallagher had sworn
falsely in regard to the 50. He had only
said he would give 81 tai see the fight.
After the evidence was all i'm, Gallagher
was discharged with "a warming to he more
careful in the future. Eby was bound
over ON charge of being an accomplish i'm
the assault and put under 500 bonds.
waitin g for the Council.
Special correspondence of the standard.
BUTTE, Feb. 11.-At the meeting of the
bOarl of county commissioners to-day. n.