The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-21
Suite Department.
CAMPBELL IS HELD


and told Edwards to go back In the
house. Edwards had knocked one man
down and another was standing farther
| down the alley and was covered with
blood. The man he had knocked down
picked up his hat and went back into
the cabin and the man who was cover
ed with blood walked away"
James Hawkins testified: II am a
miner by occupation, but am not work.
ing now. 1 knew Judge and saw him
alive about o'clock that afternoon. I
saw him in that cabin and also saw
Nugent. Johnson. Ryan, Campbell and
some others whom 1 did not know.
Some women came in afterwards, but
l did not know them. We were all
drinking and rather drunk. Nugent
and some woman got into an argument
about having robbed him a year ago.
Leyden said he wanted no trouble in
the house and he and Campbell then
went out and soon Jeyden came up the
alley covered with blood, and Campbell
came up and hit me. Leyden and
then went away and came up to DR..
Leavitt's office where he had his
wounds dressed. We left about $50
O'Clock that evening. / saw only one
gun in the cabin. i heard no one make
any threats against any officer or any
one else. 1 was in the California Brew
shot.
Pat WEIGH said: 81 was not in the
cabin at the time of the shooting /
got drunk on Saturday and did not go
back to work / did not tell anyone
that 1 quit because 1 was afraid /
would be arrested and drawn into this
scrape."
Matt McRae was called as a witness
but knew nothing except that he had
been will
Barney Hall testified that he lived in
a cabin near the scene of the shooting
There were three or four other men
with him. The first shot was fired at
about minutes past IL o'clock He
thought the shot came from the cabin
where Campbell lived because it was
a common occurrence there. The wit
ness and one Bert Kennedy went to the
door and just after officer Parlin came
along and asked where the shooting
was. Il said down the alley further
Parlin went on down to the Campbell
cabin and stopped at the door and
seemed to carry on a conversation with
some one in a low tone. Some one said
to me there will be a shooting there,
and said that the officer should be
warned. / was looking straight at
Parlin, and then 1 saw a flash and a
shot came out of the door. Parlin
threw up his hands and fell back on
his back into the alley. / heard him
strike the ground. When the shooting
began / went back into the house and
then I heard several more shots and /
came out and ran out and went over
on Silver street to look for one officer
and met one and took him over to the
cabin. When Parlin fell saw no one
run except a man who had come up the
alley. / have lived in the alley since
the 4th of last December. l heard shots
fired in the cabin occupied by Campbell
some time ago. / heard some one tell
another to put the gun away or a cop
would be down on them. The man re-
piled, Let him come; 1 would like to
Kill a s. of a b. of a cop anyway
That conversation took place about
three weeks before the 18th and was
in the next cabin and overheard it,"
Bert Kennedy testified II occupied
the cabin with Hall, and when the first
shot was fired l went out and saw Of
ficer Parlin come along. He asked me
where the shot came from and i said 1t |
was farther down the alley. He went |
on down to cabin No. and stopped at
the door and talked to somebody at the |
door. heard him say something about
a shot but could not hear the CONVEX
sation. Tom Farrell, who was with me-
said he would go down to see that the |
officer got a fair shake and / told him /
he had better not as he would be filled |
full of holes. Farrell said he would go |
anyway and just then the shot was |
fired and the officer fell, and 1 said, |
There goes one now The shot came |
from the door and there was a man
standing in the door but / could not |
see him plainly"
Frank McGinnis, another man who |
was in the cabin with Hall, Kennedy |
and Farrell, testified that he heard the |
Hf-cf hot .
as to where ii came from. McGinnis /
went back into the cabin and soon the /
second shot was fired and he heard /
that the officer had been shot IT went |
out and Kennedy ran up the alley cry
Ing Police, murder / saw a man run /
down the alley toward Porphyry
street."
Tom Farrell testified: IT and three
others were in Barney Halls cabin and
were just ready to go home when the
first shot was fired. We all stepped to
the door and the officer came up and
asked about the shot. He went on
Town to the other cabin and went up
10 the door where a man was stand
ng. The policeman said: Who fired
hat shot, did you partner? and then
hey had some talk and a shot was
ired and the policeman fell back A
nan was coming up the alley and when
he shot was fired he ran away. 1 saw
10 one else run away"
G. NJ. Larrimore said he heard six
'hots altogether and then saw one man
The witness was at his house
It the corner of Gold street. The man
he saw running wore. a light suit OF
'lothes. The man was painting as IL he |
lad run mile. The man disappeared |
Iround the corner of the house and |
'oon afterward two other shots were
ired from the direction taken by the |
nan.
Mrs. Archibald was the next witness
md testified as given above At the
onclusion of her testimony the inquest
vas adjourned until O'Clock in the 1
vening.
The Evening session
c. ID. Archibald was the first witness
xamined last evening. He told the fol-
owing story: Il reside in the rear of