The Anaconda standard., 1895-11-22
HE DIDN'T EXPECT IT
John Caddick Goes to the Peniientiary
for Life.
DRUNKENNESS HIS DEFENSE
The Victim Was an Unoffendlng
Old Man. the Prisoner Is Not
Yet 26 Years OLDHAM
other Case.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Deer Lodge, Nov. H.-John Caddick
commenced at noon to-day to serve life
sentence in the penitentiary for the cruel
murder of Jason Lunceford on the night
of the 9Th of October last, near Avon.
The killing was unprovoked and the facts
relating to the affair are the same as re-
ported in the Standard the day after 1t
occurred.
The information filed against him by
the county attorney charged murder In
the first degree. to which he had entered
a plea of mot guilty"
His case came to trial last Monday and
before a full jury was secured to sit on
his case he asked permission OF the court
through his counsel, Napton & Napton.
to change his plea to guilty OF murder in
the second degree. This was granted,
the county attorney consenting to 1t at
ter the examination of several witnesses
who were present when the tragedy oc-
CURED.
When he appeared for sentence this
morning he was pale and trembling and
seemed to fully realize his terrible situa-
tion. The court asked him IL he had any
thing to say why judgment should not be
: pronounced against him at this time. TO
which he replied that he was crazed with
drink when he committed the deed and
was very sorry now that he killed the old
judgment that he be confined In the
western penitentiary at Deer Lodge for
the rest of his natural life. Caddick was
dumbfounded, as he fully expected to get
off with a short sentence. As. he passed
out of the court room he was heard TO
say: MY God! I did not expect such a
dosei wish now that / had stood trial
for my life" He was removed immedi-
ately to the penitentiary by the sheriff,
as the sheriff feared that he might exc
cute the threat he was heard to make
Yesterday that he would surely commit
suicide IL he got to exceed Is years.
The damage suit of S. d. Root against
the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific railway,
which was on trial all day yesterday, did
not reach the jury until late this after
noon. w. B. Rodgers came into the case
this morning as counsel for the railroad
company and conducted the examination
of all the defendants witnesses.
The veteran Jim Keefe. who has lived
on Front street in Anaconda and con-
Quoted a business there since the founda-
ton of the town was laid, was called to
the stand. He testified that the building
of the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific rail-
road on Front street has increased the
value of his property and also the vol.
ume of his business. He also thought
that the business of the plaintiff. insteac
of being diminished since the road wal
Dullt, was materially lncfeaSeu anu M
judged this from the fact that he saw {
sign conspicuously displayed in front o.
Mr. Roots lodging house, Rooms arr
all full" L. L. Beaudry, proprietor o
the Grand Central hotel, also testified Il
the increase of business on that street IN
the past two years. He thought that Il
there was any depreciation In realty val
ues IL was caused by the building of the
Montana Union shops, which turned al
the country traffic to Commercial stree
and Park avenue.
J. B. Williams. Con O'Connor. Thomas
Murray, II. T. Mahan and ID. Shovlir
also testified In the case to-day.
At late hour tonight the jury in the
case of s. d. Root against the Butte, An
aconda & Pacific railway reached a yer
dict and awarded damages to the plant
IN In the sum of $500. w. b. Rodgers, at
torney for the defendants, asked that tn,
jury be polled, which resulted in eight o
their number agreeing to the verdict an,
the other four dissenting. All the jury
men were then excused from further at
tendance upon court.