The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-18

Ihought to Be Alive and at
Large.
officer Fred Parlin was shot in the
head and killed last night by a MEM
Der of a tough gang who have been liv-
ing in a cabin in Wyoming alley be-
tween Silver and Porphyry streets and
Immediately afterwards one of his MUIR
derers sent a bullet into his own brain
when he saw that there was no way of
escape from the officers who were clos
ing on him. 1t is not known definitely
whether or not this is the man who
shot the policeman, but 1t is presumed
that he was. The shooting occurred a
quarter after IL O'Clock in the alley di-
rectly in front of the cabin which was
occupied by the gang of desperadoes,
and back of the Arcade lodging house.
The cabin stands a little above the
alley and the front door is reached by
three steps. The occupants of Ii, who
numbered anywhere from four to seven,
had been drinking all day, so the
neighbors say, and had had several
fights among themselves. Several out
siders who interferred were roughly
handled and the fellows conducted
themselves like the gang of desperate
characters that they were.
a few minutes after IL o'clock a shot
was heard in the cabin and officer
Parlin ran down the alley TO investi-
gate the cause of II. The eye witnesses
to the affair say that one Of the fellows
in the cabin came to the door in re-
Spouse to the officers knock and they
heard them talking for a minute. They
heard the officer inquire who fired the
man was standing at the bottom of the
shot but were unable to catch any
So f,V, ,1Is
man was standing at the bottom Of the
steps leading up to the door and the
man who shot him was standing in the
door above him, but not more than four
or five feet away from him. Suddenly
the fellow in the door raised his arm
and fired and the policeman fell back
wards with a bullet in his brain. This
shot was fired at 13 minutes past IL.
A few seconds later all the murderous
gang Joined in a mad rush down the
alley.
The yard Of the Montana Lumber q
Manufacturing company is in the block
below, and W atchman ~. j. Mcconnell
was in the office at the corner of Por-
phyry and Main eating his supper
when he heard the shot. He ran out
and was almost to the opening of the
alley on Porphyry street when several
men ran out of it. The foremost one
leveled his revolver at Mr.. Mcconnell
and fired at him, but the bullet missed
its mark. Mrs. John Sloan lives at
No. 400 South Main street, just below
the lumber company's office, and her
big black dog ran around to the rear
of the house when he heard the shoot
ing. The man who had shot at Mr..
Mcconnell sent two bullets into the dog
as he passed him, killing him instant
ly. He then ran in between the lum-
Der company's Office and Mrs. Sloan's
house crawled under the sidewalk al
most directly in front of the house and
sent the last bullet that he had in his
gun into his own forehead just between
the eyes. The officers were commence
ing to close in on him from all sides,
and he probably saw that escape was
out of the question and determined to
end his own worthless existence.
Waterman Mcconnell left his gun in
the office when he ran out or he might
have saved the fellow the trouble of
killing himself. When the man who
killed himself ran under the sidewalk
his partners ran off through the lum-
Der yard.
The first shot aroused the officers on
the surrounding beats and they came
running from all directions. Officers
Gabert, Baldisero, Sinsel and Hadley
were on the scene in a moment and
others followed quickly. Gabert and
Mcconnell saw the man who killed
himself run in between the lumber
Office and Mrs. Sloan's house, but did
not discover that he had shot himself
for some time The officers who were
first to arrive ran up the alley and
found officer Parlin lying with his feet
against the steps of the cabin and his
head in a pool of his own blood. He
was placed in an express wagon and
Immediately taken to DIR. Wells hos
pital, where Drs. Wells, Kress and
Alvord attended him. 1t was found that
the fatal bullet had entered his right
temple just above the corner of the
eye and the doctors pronounced IL
fatal. This fact, however. did not de-
ter them from doing everything pos
sible for him, but he died about 100
o'clock.
Captain Waters and Chief Tebo were
both on the ground in a few minutes
after the shooting and went TO work on
the case Every person residing in the
alley was questioned and they gave the
story Of the affair as given above.
Bert Kennedy, who lives in a cabin
five or six doors above the one in front
Of which the murder was committed.
told the following story: y little after
II O'Clock / heard a shot somewhere
down the alley and / went 70 the door
20 see IL there was any trouble. on
Ger Parlin came down the alley from
Silver street and asked me where the
shot was fired and / told him some