The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-08-25
.HA 2RY ROWAND'S FOLLY
He Attempts 10 Commit Suicide Without
Any Apparent CaQSe.
Hiring Horse Early In the Morn
Ing He Proceeded to the Halt
way House Went TO a Room
and Shot Himself.

BY the Standards Special Wire.
BUTTE, Aug. 2i.-About o'clock this
morning Harry l.. Rowand shot himself
at the Halfway house, about Il miles south
east Of this city. Rowand is q resident
OF this city and an employe of the Butte
Street Railway company. lie roomed
and boarded at the Willard house, in
which is the railway office where he is
employed. He worked at the Office with
the bookkeeper of the company, C, "A.
Wilson, until II o'clock last night, and
then left the Office, as was supposed, 20
retire.
Shortly after two o'clock this morning
he appeared at Carr's livery stable on
Main street and wanted To hire a horse.
He said that he intended To 20 the Half
way house, bat gave no reasons for going
there. He did not seem 10 know the way
very well, The horse was saddled for
him and he started OH, paying s. on his
hire.
About ~ o'clock he reached the Half
way house and took room there. Nothing
was heard Of him until half an hour later
when he began calling for water. The
harkccper broke into Rowand's room and
found him lying in bed. He said he had
shot himself and upon lifting the bed
| clotcs his statement was found 10 be only
too true. Az his left side covered by the
bedclothcs laya aS-calibrc revolver with
which he had attempted self-destructon.
Blood was slowly soaking from wound
near his heart into the sheet beneath.
Tie had fired the revolver under the
clothes and so the report was not heard.
Rowand was pale and apparently very
weak. Tie told with some difficulty that
lac lived III Butte NJ the corner Of Park
and Arizona streets aud that he had gone
ont ON "A horse from Carr's livery.
As soon as this part Of his story was
learned, a man by the name 81 Lewis
jumped upon the horse Rowand had rid
den ont, and riding as hard as he could,
arrived at the livery about a. m. Lewis
was very much excited and said that Row
aud had prdably died before he reached
here. MIR. Carr accompanied the man
down To the Willard house and there they
told the story.
Rowand's aunt, Mrs. Ellie ]. Dodge, is
one ot the proprictors IT the Willard
house and was the first to hear the news.
Rowand's mother and sister were visiting
al the Willard house aud heard Of il a
moment later.
ut must bc a mistake" they said. at
could not he Harry"
They ran To his room 10 prove that he
was safe, hut the bed was untouched and
Harry was not there. A carriage was
! called with the greatest possible dispatch
aud "A messenger sent for Dr. Murray,
About l0sD o'clock DR.. Murray, Mrs.
Dodge, with the mother aud sister, drove
! to the Halfway house. They arrived there
J shortly after | o'clock. DR.. Murray did
not iind the young man In as bad a condi-
ton rs he had expected. ilc did not com
plain al very much pain and had
lost hut little blood. The ball had
! entered the cartilage between the
eighth and ninth ribs, PASSED
: just below the heart quite through the
I body and came ont near the spine, where il
was found beneath his back.
! All the doctor could do was 20 dress the
r exterior wounds aud To bandage the body
, tightly 50 as Ia prevent the left lung being
I moved. This the doctor fears the ball has
] penetrated, as Rowaud spits some blood.
I The danger now is that inflammation will
r set in this lung and cause his death.
Q Otherwise he will pull through all right.
Meantime, the mother and other rela.
: lives had been trying To find out what
!, could have induced him to attempt sui.
4 eide. lie refused Ia say anything to-day,
Z but told his mother that he would talk
4 with her about II to morrow.
q Rowand Is a young man scarcely NOR,
e than ls years Of age. He came here from
z Illinois aud has for more than year been
Y employed in the railway office as time
I clerk. Tie has always been singularly
4 temperate in his habits, as far AS thoss
. IN the office know, never entering d
I saloon. He was attentive Ia business ant
l. was trusted implicitly. &. II. Wilson
= the bOokkeeper, said 10 a STANDRARD re
e porter to-day that they could conceive o
y no reason why the young man shoul,
Il have committed suicide. The impression
y had gone out that il was because of dis
e covered irregulariiy in his accounts. Thii
= Mr.. Wilson said was all wrong. He iii,
not believe Rowand was in default to th,
company one cent and in his position a
bookkccp"r he was the one man wh'
ought TO know. Even II Rowand ha,
been other than the honest fellow
they believed him To be, h,
u could not have gotten away with enough
Il tu have made this trouble, as they keeI
n their money very closely banked. As IA
: as was known IN the office Rowand hat
no love affair. aud they are at as mucl
' loss as the mother aud sister Ia find an,
: motive for his strange conduct Nothing
= strange had been noticed IN hts conduc
beyond depressed spirits Tor the past tw,
: weeks. The mother and sister remail
:, with Rowand At the Halfway house. an,
y To them he may explain his strange actioI
before morning.
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