The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-29

thicknesses Of clothing. which was all
| that saved the officer from a bad
I bite.
"Handcuff him. why don't you?''
/ shouted one of the badly-frightened
/ spectators. But patrolmen do not carry
handouts, and they couldn't carry out
| this advice.
"Lemme up. viii you. Lemme up.
and I'll behave myself" gurgled the
pinioned man.
The policemen took Johnson's word
and allowed him TO rise. Then they
thrust him back i'm the box. He was
silent for about 80 seconds, then he
emitted another war whoop and shot
out his left and then his right fist
This took the policemen off their guard
Kinnane received the left fist fun i'm
the mouth. The blow cut his lip and
caused II TO swell to twice it's natural
size. The right fist caught Flanagan
i'm the same place. Kinnane reached
i'm to catch johnson by the throat, but
he quickly withdrew his hand. for the
prisoner snapped at IL with his teeth
and would have bitten his finger off.
kinnane thinks. AS IL was, the back of
one of the fingers was grazed and the
skin taken off. Kinnane afterward
went to n drug store and had the
wound cauterized.
From this on the Indian kept up his
fighting continuously, and the officers
were obliged to use their clubs freely
to keep him i'm the box. To subdue
him was out of the question, appar-
emily.
You dassen't hit me, You dassent
hit blind mani" he yelled over and
over again. striking out with his fists
and feet so fast that the policemen
could hardly get near him. They man
aged to crack him once or twice over
the head. but, although the blows laid
open his scalp and caused blood to flow
freely, they seemed to have no subdu-
ing effect on him.
The wagon now arrived, with Police
men Pike and Dreyer In charge. 1t
took the four burly policemen just five
minutes TO get the Indian out of the
box, where he braced himself and
swore al them. All the way TO the sta
ton house Dreyer and Pike had to
kneel on his PROSTATE form TO hold
him down. At the station house he re-
newed his resistance, and the police
were obliged TO put him in blind cell.
There he pounded on the walls and
yelled like a mailman. For fear that
he would butt his brains out against
the iron walls the officers transferred
him to the straight Jacket, in which
he was bound so that he could not
move. 1t required the services of five
policemen to accomplish the opera
ton.
johnson refused to give his name for
the record. but that mattered not. for
he is well known. Kinnane and Elan
ma gan charged him with disorderly
conduct, and he probably will get a Sc
we're sentence this morning. Justice
Harrington used to take pity on him
because of his blindness when Johnson
first began to fall into the hands of the
police, but toward the last Harrington
his sentiments and used to |
send him up to the penitentiary for 10 |
days or so. Many of the First precinct |
officers have had hard fights with the |
Indian. and none of them dares to |
tackle him alone.
They say that Johnson deserves lit |
tie aid from charitably-dispo peo-
pie and that he imposes upon them by |
various little tricks, among which is |
the greasing of his forehead in the |
time to make believe that he is
sweating and suffering from the heat.
The woman who lives with him was |
after Johnson had peen dis
posed of and she will have to answer 10 |
the charge of intoXication.