The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-13
CITY NEWS AND GOSSIP,
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The Namesake Of 4 Helena Celebrity
to Start in the American
Derby.
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Recalling q Murder That Took
Place Here Some Three
Years Ago.
Facts About tho Footpad Who Terrified
the People Who Stay Out
Late IT Night.

Among the 325 subscriptions announced
for the American Derby, to be run at Chi
cago during the Worlds fair, is one by III.
II. Baker, OF Helena. The horse he intends
to start is a bay colt called Francis Pope,
by Red Boy, dam Bolus. Tho colt, which
is a yearllng, was bought by Mr.. Baker last
summer from Col. w. b. Hundley, and was
then unnamed. While figuring what the
y%oungster should be called some one sug-
gssted the name of the popular secretary of
the Montana state fair. The new owner
was pleased with the name and gave it to
the colt. If Francis Pope, in his three
yeer-old form, should win the great stake,
the gentleman for whom the colt was
named promises to make things both inter
esting, and pleasant for his friends. The
value of the American Derby to the winner
will be not less than $50,0oO, AZ the racing
association i'll charge of Washington park
guarantees that amount. The owner of the
second horse gets $1,000 and of
the third $4,000. OF course. out of
325 subscriptions there will be many
dropped by the wayside, and If more than
twenty-five start it will be surprising.
Properly handled and trained, Francis
Pope should have rs good a show as any
horse. Marcus DAILY has seventeen sub
scriptions for the stake, among them be-
ing colts by Sir Modred. st. Blaise. and
Longfellow. Every other prominent stable
in the country is represented.
An old murder which took place in Hell
ena something over three years ago is
likely to be recalled by the sale of the VIC
fitnsa offooka tn Aha lo<kor r~rk - T,J-
1888, George Duncan Bryson, q native of
Canada, aged about 80 years, and Anna
Lunstrum. a woman of AZ years. and a ma
tive Of Sweden, arrived in Helena from
Minneapolis, and boarded in various
places. travelling as man and wife. Anna
disappeared about August q,
but it was not until September 8 hat the
fact was made known to the authori-
ties. A search was made for the
woman's body on the supposition that she
had been murdered. Meantime Bryson was
As there was no certainty at that
lime that a murder had been committed,
could easily have gotten of had he
a lawyer. But be evidently rested
in fancied security believing the body
would never DO found. But it was. On
Dot. 2 an old prospsctor found it in an
prospect hole east of town. !
Bryson asking a change of venue, was tried
1T Boulder in March. 1889. convicted, and
hanged Aug. 9. The object of the murder
no doubt to secure some thousands of
dollars which the woman had been heard to
declare she kept sewed up in her clothing.
It was evidently part of the money she had
from the sale of her laundry bust
hess before she left Minneapolis with Bry-
o Some of her clothing was found
BADLY cut, Bryson having slashed
+ in an endsavor to find the money. The
,ther clothing, which was untouched, was
very fine in quality. 1t filled two trunks,
which were taken In change by the authori-
lies and placed in a room at the court
aouse. 1t has been learned that Anna
LundstruM was a widow and left two chill
dren behind her in Stockholm when she
'ame to this country. It has been sug-
zested that the clothing and trunks be sold
1t auction and the proceeds sent to the or
ohans. Tit suggestion will no doubt be !
acted on. \
The passport of the only man who has
aad the temerity to enact the role of high
rayman in Helena for a long time, is now
N the possession of the police. 1t gives
he name Of Henry Clark, the man who
vent to states prison with a forty years +
~eatence, as Peter Emil Fugellie, his birth
as Stevangsr, Norway. says that he
vas born there August "a, 1867, and that he
anne to this country August II, 1856. The
eneral verdict that Clark or Fugellie was a
ull, uneducated fellow, which was f.
redicated entirely ON his appear
nee, seems hardly borne out by
be facts. In the space of Eve years in this
ountry he had learned to speak the Eng
sh language without a trace of foreign ac-
Besides this he had a diploma show
ng that he had graduated at the trade of
with high honors in his native
ountry. His father. Peter Fugellie, is a
'ealthy merchant in Norway, and has sent
i'm money several times. The son re-
sived three rsmittances while he was tray
ling around with Helen Forslund. The
,st one was $50, which he promptly "blew
J." with the girls assistance.