The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-26
ALLEN TALKS FREELY
Anxious to Go on the Stand and Tell
ALI His Troubles.
THE KILLING OF MGUERlN
Still on File With the Clerk of the
Court Is the Indictment Return
ed in 1889 = An Apparently
Demented italian.
Special Correspondence of the Standard.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Deer Lodge, May 25.-Philip Allen Is
resting quietly at the county Jail, where
ne is a source of great curiosity to hun
dreds OF people who call every day for
the purpose of seeing what the old man
looks like. He greets his callers very
cordially and delights to discuss old
time affairs with those with whom he
was acquainted when an honorable
man. He will talk for hours at a time
about how he was wronged by different
people and how hard he worked to lay
by some money, so that he could take
things easy in his old age. He says he
is ready to go to trial any time and
make a true statement of all the
troubles that led up to his crimes and
adds that he has no fear of the out
come, even If he is compelled to pay
the full penalty.
The indictment returned by the
grand jury which convened in 1883 to
Investigate the killing of James Nc
Guerin at Gold Creek, by Allen, is still
on file in the clerk of the courts Office.
He will probably be ararigned under
this indictment some time next week,
as all the eye-witneSSeS to the killing
are still residents of Deed Lodge coun-
ty. and can be procured without much
trouble. The indictment is as follows:
I'm the District Court of the Second
Montana in and for Deer Lodge
County:
The Territory of Montana, plaintiff,
VS.. Philip Allen, defendant. At a reg
ular term of the district court of the
Second Judicial district OF the territory
of Montana, in and for Deer Lodge
county, on the 7th day of October A
D., 1889. and continued from day to
day thereafter, by the adjournment of
the said court from day to day there
after, until the 9Th day of October A.
D., 1889, on which last mentioned day,
the grand jury of the said county, duly
drawn, empaneled, sworn and charged
to inquire into public offenses commit
ted in the said county, upon their oaths
do present and say: That one Philip
Allen. late of the county of Deer
Lodge, Montana territory, on the Both
day of August A. D., 1888, at Deer
Lodge county, Montana territory, with
force and arms in and upon one James
McGuerin, in the peace of God and the
territory of Montana, then and there
being unlawfully, wflfully and feloni-
ously and of his deliberately premedi-
tated malice aforethought, did make
an assault and one certain deadly
weapon, commonly called rifle, in the
hands of him, the said Philip Allen,
then and there had and held and then
and there loaded with gun powder and
a leaden bullet and with an intent
then and there had and having him,
the said James McGuerin, to kill and
murder did then and there unlawfully
wilfuDy, feloniously and of his DELHI
erately premeditated malice afore-
thought shoot and discharge at and
against the said James McGuerin, then
and there giving TO and infiicting upon
him, the said James McGuerin, by
means of the rife, gun powder and bull
let aforesaid, in and upon the body of
him, the said James McGuerin, one
mortal wound, THE said James Nc
Guerin did then and there die, and so
the grand jurors aforesaid, upon their
oaths aforesaid, do find and present
that the said Philip Allen in the man
ner and form aforesaid, unlawfully,
feloHiously and of his deliberately pre-
meditated malice aforethought, did
kill and murder the said James Nc
. Guerin."
The Indictment is signed by II. F. Ti-
tus, county attorney. Deer Lodge coun-
ty, Montana territory and endorsed on
the back No. 2S04. Murder. Territory
of Montana versus Philip Allen. An
indictment. A true bill, III. IL. Zenor,
foreman. Names of witnesses exam
ined before the grand jury. David Ho-
gan and William Heney."
Presented in open court by the
grand jury, through their foreman and
filed in their presence on this 18th day
of october, A. d. 1882 yelling Nap
ton, clerk"
An Italian laborer was found walk
lng around Garrison this morning APP
Darently in a demented condition. A
complaint of insanity was lodged
against him and he was taken to Deer
lodge on the noon train. Judge
3rantly summoned commission to in
luire into his mental condition but the
esult was so unsatisfactory that the
INQUIRY was continued until Monday
ext in the hope that something might
e learned about him in the meantime.
lie stubbornly refused TO talk even to
making his name known and insisted
n sitting in the court room during the
Examination with his vest wrapped
round his face and holding his face
/. his hands. 1t is thought that his
anne is Barney Rush.
@ II. Marker and Russ Apling left
yesterday morning for the new town of
ouigley, where they intend to locate.
Judge Brantly and County Attorney
W. IL. Trippet took the evening train
for Philipsburg.
ID. NJ. Evans of Anaconda. was a Wis
itor in Deer Lodge to-day.
Dan Coughlan, one of the leasers of
the Emery mine, came down from 70
sci this morning on a purchasing trip.