The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-22
SHOT DOWN LIKE A DOG
Tie Way Pat LjVnsy Net His D9a.h
at Victor, Col.
A COLD-BLOODED MURDER
There Now Seems Little Probabii.
ity That the Fellow Who Fired
the Fatal Shot VIII Ever
Be Punished.

BUTTE. March 21.-Mike Lowney whc
went TO Victor, Col, after tho body of hi,
brother Pat, who was murdered there las
! week, gives a somewhat different version
OF the affair from any account that has
yet been published. His story puts the
shooting in the light of a cold blooded
murder of the most cowardly nature com
mitted under the guse OF law, and II
seems that the murderer is TO 60 entirely
UNPUBLISHED. Mike Lovingly was in Victor
and Cripple Creek for several days and he
! states that the mine owners of that sec
| ton are running things with n very high
! hand and doing just nj ont as they please,
as was evidenced by the farce of an iu-
quest that was held on his brothers body.
| Mike Lowney's story of the murder is ns
| follows:
"On the morning of the day of the muir
| der j. w. Lupton, a constable aud ex-deu-
uty sheriff came into the Red Light saloon
in Victor with a warrant for the arrest of
Hugh McQuadc on an old charge of beat
ing deputy on Bull Hin near Victor
Seth Ralston, McQuade's partner, sa d TO
Lupton; Read your warrant and If Nc
Quade resists I'll help you Lupton then
pulled his gun and fired at Ralstou, taxi
ing piece out of his jaw. Deputy sher-
IFS then arrested McQuade and Ralston
and Luptou was also formally arrested
but Immediately released on bonds. IL
was decided to take McQuadc and Raj
ston 10 Cripple Creek for safe keeping
and Lupton took them TO the train. The
passengers were all driven into the front
car and the prisoners we're hand-cuifed
together and placed in the back seat OF
the rear car. Lupton sat opposite them
and covered them with two guns while
Walter Skeen paraded up and down the
aisle with two more guns. Skeen
was deputy at the time of the
trouble at Cripple Creek last summer
but the sher III told him sometime
ago that his commission had run out,
After they got the prisoners in the car
Lupion sent word up to the Strong mine,
where the deputies have a regular fort,
and III deputies came down to the depot
with Nlnchesters and shotguns. The
miners then decided TO let the prisoners
go to Cripple Creek. As the train was
starting Jim Macarthur said that he would
60 down to Cripple Creek and see what no
could for the men. He asked my brother
to accompany him and they jumped on
and went into the front coach. After
they had gone little over mile they
decided no; to go to Cripple Crock until
the next morning and the brakeman
stopped the train for them and they
jumped oil. As Pat Lowney walked gpast
the rear coach Walter SKeen said TO tho
other deputies: There goes that -----4-
" nos and we must get him.
Lupton then stepped out on the rear
platform, while Skeen stood in the door
When my brother got about 10 feet away.
from the rear of the train and was walk
ing away from il. Skecn took deliberate
aim at him and fired, the bullet striking
him under the shoulder aud coming out
just under the heart. Two more shots
were fired, one by Luptou and the other
by Skeen, but neither of them
took elect. Lupton then Jumped
down, ana examined the BODY
and found that there were no firearms on
II. The train then proceeded under
Skeen's orders, leaving the body lying
there. Friends from Victor afterwards
went out and took the body to town. That
night the coroner sent three men over
from Cripple Creek for the body, but the
miners refused to let them have it. Tho
coroner was afraid to go after the body
himself. he then sent six men after the
body and il.was given up.
AT the inquest. which / attended, Lup-
ton, being an officer. claimed that he did
the shooting and assumed all the RESPONSE
bility in order TO shield Skeen. He claimed
that LOwney had one foot on the step of
the rear platform when he fired and that
he fired just as he called TO him TO halt.
Had this been the situation of the mon
my brother would have been shot in the
breast. but the doctor testified positively
that the bullet entered his back. In spite
of this, however, Skeen, the real muir
derer, was discharged, while Lupton was
held III only 5000 bonds"
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