The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-06-22
ALBERT HAD
A LITTLE GUN.
ChaS. Judd Bites the Dust, and
the Great Old World
Moves on.
COMPLETE STORY OF THE AFFAIR.
The State Has not Il Witness to
Stand Up Against
the Accused.

Last Friday, June IA, at p. M,
Albert McGee shot and killed Charles
Judd. The scene of the killing was
on the ranch of John McGee, four
miles east of Monarch. The facts in
relation to the case, as brought out
in the subsequent trial, are related as
follows:
Charles Judd married in Iowa
some years ago. From the union
there were born two children, the
elder a boy, the younger girl The
family later moved to Montana, set
ting upon ranch near the town of
Stanford. 1t happened that in the
winter of lS94-5, the head of the
house secured employment on the
ranch of John McGee, between Mon
arch and Barker, and the family re-
moved thther Mrs. Judd keeping
house for all, while the work continu-
ed. While at the McGee ranch an
attachment sprang up between AL
bert McGee, a son of his father, and
Mrs. Judd. So strong had this
attachment grown that when laterly
the husband decided to return to
Stanford, the wife, retaining the
children, expressed her displeasure
by remaining with McGee. Judd
tried many ways to induce his wife
to return to him, but all without
avail. 1t was at this time that he
made big and general talk that he
would "fix" and "do'' and s.smolix"
McGee for alternating the affections
of his wife. He committed his woes
to the multitudes which very much
alarmed the neighbors, who would
rather see peace than war at any
time.
The children were sent to school
at Barker where the advantages in
that line are good. McGee still
held his job, and in the meantime
had gone before Judge Lilley in
Barker with the then Mrs. Judd, and
received the marriage ceremony, the
bride claiming to have already been
divorced from Judd. The truth or
falsity of her claim has nothing to dc
with the case, and everything might
have gone along tremendously, but
Judd was still in the country. He
was boisterous on many occasions
He seemed to labor under a state OF
unstable mental equilibrium, and
many times vowed vengeance upon
his imaginary rival. Most men un-
der the circumstances would have
left the woman and went in search
of another But it is different with
the Judds. He called at the school
house in Barker, and frightened
teacher and scholars almost out oi
their wits by ordering the little CIR
to come with him. He took the in
nocent little creature of II years
and started in the direction Of the
Highwoods and Fort Benton. The
story of their chase and capture by
Albert McGee and officers, the tria
at Neihart for the custody of the
child, the decree giving the chile
over to its mother and the applica
ton of McGee for writ binding
Judd to keep the peace, have already
been published in the HERALD anc
the public knows it all.
Since that time the Judd fellow
spent most of his spare time making
medicine and scheming for venge
ance. On the day above named HI
called at the McGec ranch, armed
with Winchester rifle and heav'
revolver, drove the woman from tn
house, who ran in the direction c
the men who were in the field. som
300 yards away. A shot had bee
fired at the woman, which attracte
the attention of the men, who at one
broke into run in the direction c
the house.