The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-16

examined his hat and found bullet hole
through the rim at the outer edzc.
you said, Mr.. Copeland, that Gilmore
wore n grim visagc. What do you mean
BY that?" asked Booth on cross-examina-
ton.
"He had a certain amount of deter
mined look.n
Wasn't he always a grim looking
man?''
"Yes. but he always looked PLEASANTLY
at me except this time"
"Then because he wouldn't look pleas
antly at you you wouldn't load his pis-
tol?n
"For that reason and for the further
reason that had heard something"
Mrs. Leonard testified that she had
known Enrick and Gilmore for three years
prior to the murder. A few days prior to
that occurrence Gilmore called at her
house and said be was going up 70 his
Ehrick q - and said he would shoot
him and be shot. She asked him what
he was going to kill Ehriok with and he
pulled a revolver out of his hip pocket end
said he was going to do it with that. The
gun was not loaded and was out OF re-
pair, but he said he was going TO get II
fixed. He was drunk at the time and Sc
cured permission to stay at the house and
sober up. He walked the floor oil night
and cursed Ehrick.
On cross examination, Mrs. Leonard in
sisted that the old man was perfectly So
Der when he came to her house, and that
he wanted to stay there all night to keep
from getting drunk. Every once in a
while during the night she was awakened
by Gilmore walking in the next room,
and then she would talk to him through
the board petition and ask him what was
the matter. He replied that the Dutch =
- was working his claims and he was
gong up to run him off il he had to kill
him. He said this at least IL times dur
ing the night. The next morning he babe
the family goodbye and said that he
might not come back alive. Mrs. Leonard
tried to persuade him to leave the gun
behind, but he would not do it and told
her he intended to use it on the Dutch -
-, and showed her how he was going
to use it by laying it across his arm and
taking good aim.
A 14-year-old daughter of Mrs. Leonard
was the next witness and testified to sub
stantially the same matters as her
mother. She said Gilmore called Ehrick
| Scandinavian.
broken Nose" Gus johnson, a beer
hall bartender, and william Seaman, .
beer hall frequcnter, testified that on the
night of May %. the same night that Gil
more was at Mrs. Leonard's house, ac-
cording to her testimony, Gilmore was in
| a saloon and told two witnesses that he
was going out to the placer ground to run
his partner, Ehrick, of.
| S. NJ. Nixon was the next witness and
| testified that on the fifth of last July. in
the jailer's office, Banks, one OF the
states witnesses. told him that it was a
| question of Ehrick killing Gilmore or get
ting killed himself. and that Gilmore had
said that one of them had to die. On
cross-examination by Mr.. Booth the wit
| ness had no business at present and some
one suggested that he was kept busy au-
swering citations issued from the court-to
show cause why he should not be pun
ished for contempt.
| Nixon said Banks was pretty full. that
| is. just full enough to tell what he knew,
| and he said that Gilmore went out to the
| placer ground, expecting trouble and he
| took n revolver along for that purpose
| The witness said that Gilmore told Banks
that he expected trouble from Ehrick, but
when he recognized that the word from
| was not favorable to Enrick, he changed
il to with" and stuck TO 1t that Gilmore
expected trouble with Ehrick.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Nixon's testi
mony, court adjourned for the day and
Judge Speer notified the attorneys that a
night session would be held tomorrow
evening. Attorney Campbell announced
that the defense would probably close its
case tomorrow.