The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-26
REVELRY AT NIGHT
The Music and Dancing Suddenly
Interrupted By Murder.
1T WAS AT A VILE RESORT
Richard SCOTT. a Colored Soldier
at Fort Mlssoula. Shot and XIII
ed BY Charles l arter- The Bull
let Intended for Another.

Missoula, May 25.-The body of Rich
ard Scott will be buried with military
honors at Fort Missoula, and the little
garrison cemetery will receive the third
victim in three years of the vile resort
known as Billy Boyle's place. This
place, which is also called the Four
Mile house. Is one of the worst in the
state, and its victims will never all be
known. 1t is the resort of some of the
worst men and women that ever got to-
sether anywhere. They will stop at
nothing. All attempts to close the place
have been unsuccessful and 1t has gone
on with its vile work until it's inhab-
itants are reckless and do not seem to
have any fear of the consequences or
their work.
Richard Scott, the latest victim, was
a soldier of the Twenty-Fifth infanty,
private in Company G.. All of his
officers and his fellows say that he was
one of the best men in the command.
He was young man and was account
ed handsome. He was favorite in the
circle in which he moved and with the
women that hang about the post He
was a prince charming. There was no
favor that he could ask that would not
be granted. This made him a much
desired member of the pleasure parties
that the men at the post are in the
to the Four-Mile house with a few of
his fellow soldiers and they made a
night of II. Some liquor was drank,
but the men were not intoxicated, so
the story goes, and they had music and
dancing till an early hour this morning.
Two o'clock found the party singing to
the accompaniment of a guitar played
by soldier named Sixton. The player
was seated on table and the singers
stood around him. Near him was Scott.
the man who is now dead.
Another member of the party was
Charles Carter. He had had enough to
drink TO make him quarrelsome and
he commanded the musicians to stop,
as he had enough music, and as
there was nothing more to drink. the
comamnd was not needed. He repeat
ed II and added that IL the guitar was
not laid away he would fix" the
player.
Still the music went on. Then Car
ter left the room. The piece that the
group was singing was My Broken
Home" Scott was standing next to the
guitar player and had his hand on the
shoulder of the men that stood next TO
him. singing
Almost Immediately after Carter left
the room, the singers were startled by
the report of a revolver just outside
the window and Sixton, the man with
the guitar, felt the rush Of a bullet
past his cheek. The ball buried itself
in the brain of Scott entering just
above the right eye. The little party
was broken up and its members, as
soon as they could collect themselves.
bore the unconscious form of their
companion to the fort, where he was
placed in the hospital. lie lived till
7:15 this morning, when he died. At no
time after the shot was he conscious.
The case was at once taken in hand
by Lieutenant Ahrens, who was officer
of the day. and Constable Hautchins
was sent for. The facts were slow to
come out and IL was not till near noon
that enough was learned to direct sus-
picion to Carter. He was at once placed
in the guard house and at o'clock the
coroner and the county attorney began
an inquest upon the body. About Is
soldiers were examined and several
dissolute women. white and black.
from the dive where the man was
killed. The story. as developed by the
testimony, was substantially as stated
above.
The jury brought in a verdict fixing
the responsibility of the death upon
Carter, who has been placed In the
hands of the sheriff. 1t is not thought
that the bullet was intended for the
man that IL hit, but tnat the shooter
meant to kill the man Sixton or another
soldier named Rideout. AS far as is
known, Scott had no enemy in the
world except one man who was insanely
jealous of him because of the attention
that he received from one of the wo-
men at the place where he was killed.
Scott was % years old. He was born
in Washington, ID. c., and enlisted in
Pittsburg. where he had been a fire.
man. This was was Nov. s. 1894. and in
the following month he Joined his COM
pany.
Carter, the man who is thought TO
have done the shooting. is a man about
40 years old and has been in the service
a long time. He is a quiet man, but Is
said TO be quarrelsome when he has
been drinking. He will not say much
about the affair of last night Nobody
saw him shoot. but the circumstances
"a re against him