The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-20
ABOUT THE KILLING
Examination of a Number of Wit
nCsses Before the COrOner'S Jury.
POINTS TO BE DETERMINED
The Funeral of officer Parlin VIII
Be Held To-Day The Inquest
May continue for Some 4 ime
Campbell Has Friends.

killed by Rod Judge, now dead, or by
Campbell. now in Jail. occupied the at
tention af the police all day yesterday.
and occupied the attention of the coro-
ner and a jury all last evening. The
most important points in the determin-
alton of this point are the bullets them
selves. DIR. c. V. Norcross yesterday
probed the wound in Parlin's head and
extracted the ball. 1t had entered in
the right temple and was found in the
back of the neck The ball was so bad
ly battered that 1t was difficult to deter
mine whether or not 1t was the same
caliber of ball which was taken from
Judges head, and which is also badly
battered. The ball was also extracted
from the head of Mrs. Sloan's dog, and
will be compared with the other two
bullets. The officials were reticent about
expressing a definite opinion on this
point and say that the three bullets
must be carefully weighed and examin-
ed by experts before a definite opinion
can be expressed as to whether all three
came from Judges gun, or whether the
one found in Parlin's head came from
some other gun. 1t is intimated by
some of the others that one bullet
seems to be smaller than the others but
the officers will not give a definite
statement on this point.
Although on the face of things the
simplest theory is that the shooting
was all done by Judge, and most OF the
members of the police force adhere to
the opinion that Campbell lis the muir
derer of officer Parlin, or at least that
he is an accomplish and knows all
about it, The police are confident that
his examination will throw light on the
dark points of the tragedy and that
unless he is really the man who fired the
fatal shot he will make clean breast
of the affair.
There was some disappointment how
ever, at the testimony of Ollie Murphy,
Campbells woman" She was placed
under arrest again at $50 o'clock yes
terday morning, and the police expected
that her testimony at the inquest would
be of great importance. 1t was believed
that she was in the cabin when Officer
Parlin was killed. But If she was she
would not say so and was careful in
her testimony to shield Campbell as
much as possible. The report that Ed
wards, alias Campbell. alias Boxley.
was wanted at Leadville proves to be
untrue for in reply to query sent TO
that place, Sheriff Reynolds yesterday
received telegram from Sheriff Nj. ii.
Newman saying briefly: Don't want
Edwards" The report that he was i'm
plicated in a murder at Cripple creek
also lacks confirmation.
Campbell occupies the box car at
the county Jail and passes most OF his
time in bed. Since his Incarceration no
less than a hundred persons have called
at the Jail and asked permission TO see
him. but when asked what they wished
to see him for they invariably replied
that they only wanted to get look at
him. Yesterday afternoon man
whose name was not learned called at
the sheriff's office and pretended that
he knew Campbell well and that he was
familiar with his past history. The
man was taken to the box car and
took a look at the prisoner through the
little hole in the door and became salts
fed that he was the man he had known.
The visitor represented himself as
something of a detective and said he
had known Campbell in Omaha, Spo-
kane and other places and that he was
a dead hard character The detective
said the mans right name was neither
Edwards, Campbell nor Boxley, and he
gave the sheriff a different name, with
advice to telegraph somewhere for ad-
ditional information of the prisoner. He
said Campbell had been implicated in
numerous degrees of crime and that he
was wanted in both Omaha and Spo-
kane for robbery. The chances are,
however, that the detective" was talk
ing through his hat. The sheriff will
probably look into the fellows story,
to see il there is anything in 1t or
not.
Campbell seems to have many friends
in the city among the miners and all
such who have called at the jail spoke
well OF him and said that since they
had known him he had conducted him
self as a peaceable and law abiding
man. He has persistently refused to
talk about the murder except to say
that he was not to blame and that he
did not fire a shot. His friends have
employed Attorneys McLernan and
Grice to look after his interests and
they have advised him to talk TO no
one.
The funeral of officer Parlin will be
held at O'Clock this afternoon from
the residence on Jay street. The fu-
neral is under the auspices of the police
force and will be attended by all the
city officials. by the A. o. U. w. and
probably by other organizations. Mr.
Parlin was a member in good standing
of the A. o. U. w. The services VIII
be conducted by Rev. ]. II. Spencer of
the First Baptist church.
A telegram was received yesterday
by Undertaken Richards from the
father of Judge as follows:
'Leadville, Col, March IS, 1896.
Have Rod buried at Butte.
Edward Judge"
Assistant City Engineer Pearson yes
terday drew a careful map and plan OF
the scene of the murder and the streets
and alley where the two bodies were
found. This plan was placed in evil
dence at the inquest last night. The
inquest was held in the council cham
Der of the city hall. which was crowded
with curious spectators. Assistant;
County Attorney Booth questioned the
witnesses and Attorneys Grice and Nc
Lernan were present to represent
Campbell. Coroner Richards desired TO
have Campbell brought down TO testi-
fy. but Mr. Booth objected. stating
that he would not be responsible for
Campbelrs life IL that was done There
was little of a sensational character in
the evidence adduced last evening. The
inquest promises to be long drawn out
probably II win be several days before
il is concluded. The foTmality was
gone through 81 swearing the wiz
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