The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-05
FIRE CAUSED THE ROW
Great Falls Has an Interesting Case on
Hand Just Now.
1T HAS QUEER FEATURES
WeH-known Citizen and BusI-
ness Man on Trial Charged With
Setting Fire to a Building to
Get the Insurance.

GREAT FALLS, March 4-The prelim
mary examination of A. II. Wallace, one
OF the men charged with setting fire to
the club rooms over No. 22o Central
avenue last Tuesday morning, com.
menced this afternoon before Judge
Hawkins. Leslie & Downing, Ewing &
Green and George Taylor appeared for
defendant. The county attorney con-
quoted the examination. William Cruik-
shank. John Shea, Chief Burns, W. B.
smith and Marshal Pontet had to stified
up 10 the time the examination
was postponed until tomorrow after
noon. The fire chief described tho
nre and told about finding two
pieces of clothing saturated with coal oil
within fow feet from where tho fire did
the most damage. He also found an
empty oil can and some glasses which
smelled strongly of oil.
w. Is. Smith, who is a railroad man,
testified that no was partner in the club
room with Wallace. They bought the
place last November about election time
for 81 900, part of which had been paid.
Tine balance was secured by a MORTGAGE
given to j. b. McCullom, the former pro-
prietor. The fixtures and stock were in
sured Tor $1,000, the policy having been
signed over to Wallace & Smith by Nc
Cuiiom when he gave up the place. Smith
admitted that business had not been
rushing since election. He was a silent
partner in the concern, however, the man.
agement being left entirely to Wallace.
Other witnesses testified to practically
the same as Chief Burns respecting the
tire and the finding of clothing saturated
with coal oil. Richard Jockey, the Helena
insurance man. and a number of local in
surance men, will be called to testify to-
morrow.
The affair has already awakened con-
siderable interest and if the defendant is
bound over his trial in the district court
promises to be a crowd drawer.
County Attorney Freeman to-day filed
informations against the following who.
since the last term of court, b. ave been in
Jail or out on bail pending trial in the dis
trict court: Frank Murray. forgery:
Thomas McAiister, assault with q deadly |
weapon; Thomas Young, assault with a |
deadly weapons; Charles and George |
whitaker, cattle stealing; Pete Pitgram,
changing brands. They were arraigned |
to-day and will be brought into court TO-
morrow to plead. Their cases will proba-
bly, go to the foot of the calendar. The
first case to be tried at the March term of
the court, which begun to-day, will be
called tomorrow.
died from exposure while under the
the influence of liquor" was the verdict
of the coroner's jury at Choteau to-day
after ii had listened to the testimony con-
nected with the death OF Peter Anderson.
whose body was found last night living on
the prairie four miles east of tho county
seat of Teton county.
A special from Choteau says that az
soon as Coroner Schmidt heard of the
finding of Anderson's body he impan-
eled jury and in company with the
latter visited the place. Tho body was
partly frozen. There were no bruises on
I, which did away with the theory at first
started that Anderson had been the vic
i'm of foul play. The remains wero
brought into Choteau, where the inquest
vas held to-day.
ltappears that Anderson was in Choteau
He was drinking pretty heavily
md when he left in the afternoon for his
lome. several miles east of town, he was
the worse of liquor. The 9
Imposition is that he either fell down J
nd was unable to get up, thus perishing l
rom the cold, or that he died of heart :
allure. He was about 20 years old. and !
anne to Montana last spring from Iowa.
lie has son, c. j. Anderson, in Rock
sland, Ill. The deceased is thought to
ave been comfortably fixed. 1t is UNDER a
TODD that he has money in a Great Falls 6
ank, but which one cannot be learned TO. o
light. n