The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-24
WHO THAT WOMAN IS
She Formerly Resided In Eastern Mon
tana and Was Beautiful.
BUT WHlSKEY DOWNED HER
She Was the Wife of a Well Known
Man-Once Ran a Boarding
House Had Lived In
Livingston.
special Dispatch to the standard

Special Dispatch to the standard
Livingston, May 23.-The dispatch
published in yesterdays Standard un-
der Great Falls date. captioned What
Whiskey Can Do" created quite a sem
sation in this city. and considerable
speculation is rife as to the identity Of
the woman arrested on a charge OF
insanity after a drunken debauch last
ing several weeks. The dispatch stat
ed that she was found i'm n Great Falls
house of prostitution. and ends as fol-
lows: THE jury found her sane but
advised that she be sent to the county
hospital for treatment. She is well ed
ucated and evidently has been refined,
but has fallen through drink. She
came here from Livingston with n man
named Woods, who dropped her here.
She assumed his name and refuses
TO give her true name. but says she
came from a good family i'm Livingston
where she says greater portion of her
earlier days have been spent. She was
happily welded. and attributes her
downfall to a Livingston banker. She
claims to have once kept a hotel i'm
the Yellowstone Park"
1t was at first thought here that the
woman referred to was romancing
when she claimed to have been n resi-
dent of this city for number of years.
but IL is now a settled fact that she
was telling the truth. That her right
name is Mrs. Calvin Swift admits Of
no doubt, and that she went to Great
Falls from this city with a man named
Woods is equally certain. The facts I'm
the case are: Calvin Swift, the wom-
ans husband, is perhaps one OF the
best known men in this part of Mon
tana. The two were residents Of Boze-
man i'm 1879 and were married i'm that
city. The Mrs. Swift Of to-day was
then a pretty girl Of IS The acquaint-
ance between herself and Mr.. Swift.
which ripened into love and marriage,
was formed in n Bozeman beer hall,
where Swift tended bar and the girl
slung beer. Mr.. and Mrs. Swift re-
moved to Livingston more than 10
years ago. and ran boarding house at
Yankee Jim's canyon, on the road 10
Yellowstone Park, for several years.
Then they moved To Meagher county.
and for two years conducted the Half
Way House" between White Sulphur
Springs and Castle They returned TO
this city four years ago, and for the
past two years have resided at Horr
where Mr.. Swift is now employed I'm
the coal mines.
While employed I'm the Bozeman beer
hall Mrs. Swift developed an uncon-
trollable appetite for strong drink, and
this worked her ruin. She had often
appeared i'm this city i'm a state of
beastly intoxlcation and has taken the
Keeley cure twice. Three weeks ago
patience ceased to be a virtue with
her husband and he refused to longer
permit her presence in their home at
Horr. The next day she arrived i'm this
city in the company of Dave Woods,
an engineer at the Horr coal mines.
They went to Great Falls together. A
week later Woods deserted his congen-
ial companion and returned to Horr.
He is well known in Red Lodge. and
for n number OF years held the position
of electrician for the Rocky Fork Coal
company. He has a divorced wife and
several children residing at Red Lodge.
During the Coxey craze last summer
Woods Joined the Montana common
veal army en- route TO Washington on
the stolen train and acted as assist
ant fireman.
Mrs Swift, before she took to strong
drink, was an uncommonly beautiful
woman and still retains some Of her
prestine loveliness. She is a decided
brunette. tall and graceful and walks
with queenly step when able 10 navi-
gate. The Livingston banker To whom
she refers as having accomplished her
downfall is believed TO be George l..
Carey. the dcfaulting cashier of the
defunct Livingston National bank In
order TO ascertain for a certainty that
the woman at Great Falls is Mrs. Cal
win Swift the Standards correspond
ent wired the Great Falls office Of the
Standard for a description Of Mrs.
Woods. The following was received
this evening, and the description tai
lies exactly with that Of Mrs. Swift.
Rather tall. black hair and eyes. well
formed, always wore wine-colored
dress in Great Falls: first gave name
as Hazel Woods; claims Woods Is cleo
trical engineer and worked in Central
America"