The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-16
HE FIRED AT THE CON
A Drunken Street Car Passenger
Shoots to Kill.
ON THE MEADERVILLE LINE
The Man Was Put OFF. and There
10 Where the Trouble Started
A Constable Was Nearly
Hit With q Bullet
ON THE MEADERvILLE LINE

A drunken Austrian made repeated
and deliberate attempts to murder o.
d. Holmes. a conductor on the Mead
erville street car line. and Constable
Lazzaroni of Meaderville last night,
and that he did not succeed in kill
ing both of them was no fault of his.
He fired half a dozen shots. but the
best he could do was to send one bullet
through the constable's coat and an
other one through the street car close
to where Holmes was standing. The
Austrian got on Conductor Holmes
car as 1t was leaving Butte ON the
10 o'clock trip last night and paid a s.
cent fare. When the car reached the
Braund house the conductor informed
the fellow that he had reached the s.
cent limit. He said that he wanted to
go on to the fat and Holmes told him
that he would either have to put up
5 cents more or walk the rest of the
way. The car was stopped and the
Austrian went out of the front end
and stepped off. AS the car started
he stepped back on again and Holmes
went out and pushed him off. He
struck at the conductor as he was
pushed of. and the latter retaliated by
taking "a kick at him.
The return trip up town was made
without incident. but as the car was
going back to Meaderville on the IL
o'clock trip the trouble commenced.
The Austrian concealed himself along
side the track near the Silver Bow
mill, and as the car passed he fired
shot at Holmes. who was standing
inside the car with his back against
the rear door. The bullet struck the
end of the car close beside him and
passed through dt without doing any
damage. There were three passengers
in the car at the time. but they were
seated on the opposite side of the car
and out OF range. Had they been
seated on the side at which the bullet
entered II is probable that there
would have been a fatality to record.
The shot produced the greatest excite
ment and the passengers tumbled
down on the floor of the car in a heap.
On arriving at Meaderville the con-
ductor telephoned to the sheriff's Office
for help, and Constable Lazzaroni came
back up town with the car. Near the
point where the first shot was fired
the constable saw a suspicious look
ing figure a short distance from the
track, and he started after him, think
| ing that he was the inebriated Aus
| TRAN and that he was looking for more
| trouble. The correctness of this belief
| was fully established a moment later
| officer at short range and then started
| to walk rapidly away. Lazzaroni re
turned the fire as soon as he could un'
| timber his artillery and the would-bt
murderer and the constable emptied
their guns at each other almost as fas
as they could pull the trigger and the
| bullets whistled thick and fast. One Of
the bullets fired at the constable went
| through his left coat sleeve, but the
damage that was done by his shots, II
any, is unknown. Holmes chased hi:
cowardly assailant for some distance
before remembering that he did mo-
have a gun, and he then started VI
| town for assistance. After going only
| a short distance ne met Under Sheriff
Young and Deputy Elderkln, and hs
returned with them and assisted then
| in a fruitless search for the Austrian
Police Captain Waters arrived a few
| minutes later and assisted in th'
search, but no trace of him could b.
found. The efforts to capture him will
be renewed to-day.