The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-21

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he was shot because 1 did not turn
my head. Judging from his voice he
was about six feet from me. The flash
/ OF the shot blinded me and 1 felt the
| heat OF N on my face. did not see
the man who fired the shot. did not
see the door of the cabin open and saw
no one come out. / heard quite a rus
tie in the cabin after the shot was
fired. ! did not look at the door and
Z don't know whether It opened or not
/ had started down the alley about 20
| feet before j saw the five or six men
| run. / did not notice now any of the
/ men were dressed. L was about 20 feet
to the east of the man who pulled his
| gun. He stopped and / looked at him
and saw he pulled his gun and get in
shape to shoot. 1 dropped. close to the
ground and the man shot ait me. did
not hear the bullet and don't know
| where II went"
an examination of the body of officer
Parlin March 10 and removed the bull
! let from the back of the neck" The
bullet was identified and offered in evil
dence.
Chief of Police Tebo was called and
examined two bullets taken from the
head of Judge and Mrs. Sloan's dog
and said they were of the same caliber
and looked as If they came from the
same gun. The bullet taken from Mr.
Parlin Is a much smaller bullet and
Mr.. Tebo gave n as his opinion that
Vt was not fired from the same gun as
the other two. Mr.. Tebo described the
finding of Judges body under the side
walk on Main street, opposite the house
of Mrs. Sloan Mr.. Mcconnell was the
first to discover the body. Just to his
left and near his hand was a cartridge
box. In the left hand was a cartridge
and several others were lying near the
box. The cap of the cylinder on the
gun had been opened, indicating that
Judge had been preparing to reload the
gun. The cylinder of the gun works
hard and it requires considerable effort
to open Ii. Everything indicated that
he was in position to take out the
shells and reload she gun. The side
walk was about three feet from the
ground where he had crawled under
Mrs. Debbie Beebe testified that she
lived at the southwest corner of Main
and Gold streets, and had Just gone to
bed when she heard the first shot fired
When the second was fred she got uD
and heard the third shot and saw thlee
men run down the alley. They acted like
men who were trying to hide. They ran
close to the buildings ard in a STOPPING
position. The men appeared 70 be in
working clothes. she could not plainly
see any of them. They ran around a
building and she lost sight of them.
John Leyden testified: Il know where
Cabin No. 2 in Wyoming alley is ]
was there on the afternoon of Marth
IL. / went there about / or O'clock
with this man Judge, and Ryan, John
son, Nugent, Hawkins and this man
Campbell, and couple more whom :
did not know | remained there until
about $50. While there we were drink
ing beer. There was some trouble he
tween me and Campbell while we were
hgN.a a h.. -. Ut
away. / got hurt and came away and
washed the blood of my face. Some OF
the fellows got 10 cine wing the rag
about being robbed there about n year
ago. I told then that we didn't come
there % fight, and tIsn II is mil CIn.u-
bell hit me- We were all pretty full
and hardly knew what we were talking
about. / saw only one gun there. 1t
was a Colts and was lying on the he'd.
We were all looking at it. / unloaded it
and gave the cartridges to this man
Judge. Campbell hit me with the gun
and some one interfered and / went
away. That was all the trouble we
had" Leyden identified Judges gun
as the one he saw i'm the cabin.
William Kelly testified that he was
city marshal at Alton, near Cripple
Greek. He knew Judge there, and had
known him for eight years. II knew
Campbell also, but not by that name.
Several weeks ago Judge left my house
and told me he was going to Trail
creek. About a week ago l met him,
and he told me he was living with
Campbell. i knew Campbell at Aspen,
Col. / knew him as Ed Edwards, and
he was also known as Boxley. He got
into trouble and had a prize fight with
a man. He was in a cutting scrape be-
fore that time He was a miner. A
man who roomed with him at Aspen
oot, Tnn1in Mo and no told
Edwards was raised there. Edwards
had a very hard reputation. l heard
that he had committed some crime in
Colorado and was compelled to leave.
Judge had always been as quiet and in
offensive a man as i ever met. He was
between % and % years old and was
born in the San Louis valley, Colorado.
/ had not seen Edwards for four years
prior to meeting him i'm Butte. The
night Judge left my house to go 10 Trail
creek / gave him gun 1t was a.
frame Colt with a 3S-caliber Winchester
cartridge. l did not see the gun again
until now When l met him on the
street afterwards l jumped him and
said supposed he had soaked my gun,
and he said he did not, and that it was
down at the cabin. He told me that
Campbell was going with him to TRAN
creek"
Edward NJ. Kirk testified that he was
WOfklnE at lkttu lively SNbbiN+
knew Judge only by sight. on the night
of the shooting was in bed. When the
first shot was fired my brother said,
Some one is shooting in the alley and
/ said, Don't open the door or you may
be shot When the second shot was
fired / heard a man say in the alley,
Did YOU fire that shot?' and then L
heard a body fall and heard some one
groan. As soon as / was dressed l went
ont and saw the body of a man lying
there. 1 went up TO the body and saw
IL was officer Parlin. He was not yet
dead. but said nothing; only groaned.
| helped put the body in the ambulance.
/ saw no one running. My room was
about 20 or 30 feet from where the
shooting occurred. IL was about 10 or
Is seconds after the second shot was
fired that 1 opened the door. IL was
very dark i'm the alley and could hard
ly see the form of the man lying when
l first went out"
William C. Kirk testified: II live at
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