Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-06-14

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asked Romiser what time it was. l be-
lieve he told me it was l o'clock-l:3O-
and asked me if | did not want to get up
and have some dinner. l told him no, l
was going to sleep again; and l had a
little talk with James Beal there, said a
few words with him, and they all went
out and | went TO sleep again. When |
woke up Joe Romiser and Harry Cart
nell were in the room with me. | asked
what time it was then. | believe they
said it was 3 o'clock, or some such time,
and they wanted me to get out of bed.
| told them | wanted to stay and sleep,
| felt bad. and Harvey Cartnell
was very boisterous at that time,
had been drinking and was very mean.
Romiscr went down to bring up a
pitcher of beer and when he came back
he brought up Charley Rogers. Charley
Rogers came into the room. spoke to me
and sat down on the side of the bed be-
side me and he says What is the mat
ter with you? You look all byoke up"
and he looks at my ear: | had a mark on
one of my ears. He says What caused
that" | told him that | had been
knocked down and pounded in the
morning in the saloon: | told him when
| got outside: | said that brakeman that
was up in your o that day knocked
me down on the sidewalk, knocked me
senseless. He says "Who, Morgan |
says YES: | believe that is his name" |
remembered heard his name then. He
says He has jumped his board bill and
left town. | says SIS that SO? | am
glad of that" That is all that passed
between me and Mr.. Rogers at that
time. and Rogers borrowed some money
from me: Harvey Cartnell asked him to
play a game of cards and he borrowed
some money of me, and sat down on the
floor and started to playing seven-up.
James Beal and George Poole came into
the room in the meantime. Beal sat
down on the bed and talked with me
while these people were playing cards on
the floor. They kept sending out and
getting beer. l think they brought up,
one small bottle, ! believe half pint, of
whiskey. Cartnell was drinking more
and more and getting bo%isterous. Then
Cartnell commenced jumping on the bed
on TOP, of me and asking me to get out Of
bed: | would not do it: | told him |
kept jumping on top of me and wanted
going to lick me and pound me, and all
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bed. and finally | got up and started to
get my clothes on: as | was pulling on
my clothes he came up and grabbed me
three or four times, threw his arms
around my neck, pulled back and told
me he was going to kill me, and all such
talk as that, Now, you know ] can lick
you, don't you? If you say | can't
lick you | will just kill you right now
Finally Beal took him away from me two
or three times and managed to get my
clothes on. | walked into the hall and
there was a green.bottle setting in the
corner there. | put it in the pocket of
my overcoat. Cartnell came out into
the hail then. He says, "lou dare not
talk to me with your hand out Of your
pocket" | told him no, ] would not
talk to him, gave him to understand l
had a revolver in my pocket. Beal
finally got MN away from me. | went
down stairs and walked over to Beal's
house. | says, Jim, | want to go back
and see Charley Rogers and get that
money he borrowed from me. He is
likely to spend it," | went over to the
Cash boy saloon there and met Rogers
and he pald me in part. He whispered
to me and says, You want to look out
CartneIl has made threats against you of
going to kill you Romiser also told me
SO. Cartnell renewed the conversation
at the bar. | told him if he lone az he
said he would | would hurt him. and he
believed | had a revolver. | told him
| would not talk to him with my hand
out of my pocket, Romiser came up to
me then as l walked out of the saloon
and he said, you better go and get a
gun and arm yourself because Cartnell. is
a dangerous man and has threatened to
kill you" | says, "All right, Joe, if
that is the case | will. Will you go over
town with me while | get a gum He
says, "Yes. | will" and we started over,
and on the way across the prairie Rom
User told NE several times what Cartnell
! had Deer saying while / walked over to
Beal's house, and told me the threat he
had made. We got over across
the bridge and got on the east
end Of the bridge, and Romiser said he
would wait there. | walked up to Sam
Herskovitz's pawn shop, selected q
revolver and bought it for 1915.
asked the man at the pawnshop if ht
t had any cartridges. He said he hac
t not, but that the hardware store would
| be open the next day. | said, ST have
: no use for the revolver if | cannot ge'
cartridges for it," He says, II will SCI
if | can hunt you up some" So HI
3 hunted up three cartridges, wrapped
them up in a piece of paper and handed
:, them to me. | put my revolver in m.
overcoat pocket and my cartridges il
my vest pocket and started back t.
Q where | left ROmiser on the bridge.
t went underneath Their, and Romiser wa
y standing there, throwing rocks and chip
in the water. He throwed chips GU
X into the river and | shot twice at tn
chips to see if ! could hit anything wit
3. it, and was going to shoot again. II
It says, "IIold on; you better not shoot tn
n other M away; you may need it. 1ha
|e is q dangerous man: if you 60 over thcr
ID you may nced it," 50 | told him | woul
-e keep it then. Then | put the revoIvf
in my oycrcoat pocket. We camc u
u from underneath the bridge, and wake
ID on to the bridge together.
o We started across the bridge. When "
got to whore We met this man Morgan
ROmiser walked straight past Morgan
TX As soon as Morgan seen me he Etcppc