The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-13
SHE SAYS HE DID IT
The Ladusky Row Brings Out q
Startling Accusation.
HIS WIFE'S SERIOUS CHARGE
Her Story Is That Her Husband
Last August Blew Up the Euck-
ley Residence In Basin-fie
Carries an Alias.

The story OF the family troubles OF
the Laduskys published in the Stand
ard yesterday morning has resulted in
what may likely prove most startling
developments. and II the statement
made by the woman yesterday is true,
the man who on the 18th of last Au-
gust blew up the residence of Martin
Buckley at Basin with dynamite has
at last been discovered. She charges
her husband with the commission Of
the crime. The man called at the
Standard Office yesterday TO correct the
spelling of his name, as IL appeared in
the paper yesterday morning and had
been given out by his neighbors. He
seemed 50 proud OF the prominent part
he took In the ARRAY the night before
that he wanted all names spelled prop
crly. He said his name was Matt
Ludlow. and that Romberger's right
name was Charley lIolium lie said
DE wanted everybody To know that he
caught his wife and Hollum in a. COM
promising situation three different
times. Il get dam tire, / tell YOU" he
said, "ail time | work. hard. / come
hoome. l find dam Swcde dare by my
wife, | get tire and trow him out-may
be | quit"
Inc iran > WIG WAS seen last even
ans by a Standard reporter and related
hcr side OF the affair and ended her
story by making the serious charges
against her husband above referred 10.
She denied that she had ever been
Criminally intimate with Rombergcr.
alias Hollum. and said her husband
was worthless and spent all his earn
ings for drink and did not provide for
her. on Tuesday, she says, after ne
had been drinking. he came home and
ordered her to get him something to
eat, but there was nothing in the house
and she told him TO get his meals
where he spent his money He then
knocked her down and kicked her and
the nelghbors had him arrested The
woman's face and her body also. she
said. bore marks OF his fists and feet
She said he had accused her before of
intimacy with Hollum. but that there
was no foundation to his charges. His |
right name, she said. Is Mike Botwick. |
They formerly lived in Wardncr. |
Idaho, where he "scabbcd" In the !
mines, and consequently when he came /
20 Butte he was compelled TO change /
his name in order to get work and he /
assumed the name Of Matt LuwdoWa, |
which she says. is pronounced Iudu 4
They came to Butte from Wardner /
about year ago and from here they
went to Wickes and then To Basin 1
where he got work i'm the Hope mine |
under John Buckley. a shift boss. He /
did not work long before ne was dis
charged and he told his wife that he
Intended to get even Several times ne
told her he would blow up Foreman
Martin Buckleys house. where John
Buckley lived. but before ne carried
out his threat they came 10 Butte
subsequently he returned 10 Basin and
during his absence Mr. Ruckley's
house was blown up After his return
home she says he told her that he had
done it,
The only Discrepancy I'm her story is
that she said she thought tho decd wac
committed later than August, but she
was sure II was on the 18th of the
month. The fact is that the explosion.
took place about . o'clock on the morn
ing Of Aug. 49, The force was SO great
that IL shook every house I'm Basin and
tore out portion Of the center Of the /
Buckley residence. The house was oc-
'upied IT the time by John Buckley.
me shit boss who DISCHARGED Iuw-
iow' and Buckley's wife and two chill
iren. Martin Buckley. ana his wife and |
hree children. and Miss Maggie Lynch /
sister-in-law of John Buckley. They
we're asleep at the time. and II was nj
most n miracle that all wore not in
SANITY killed but none were injured
Ncept Tor the shock they sustained
ne dynamite had been placed under
he room occupied by Martin Buckley
ma his family, but owing TO the r-ct
nat the ground was not frozen and the :
,ulIdlng was ~ frame the fun force Of {
NJ powder was not felt 10 which fact !
u" family owed their lives Tho Hone
nmpany at once offered a reward az (
900 Tor Information that would lead
% the arrest and conviction of the cul-
MI ana the reward was afterwards q
dlsed to $1,000 which is stlll standiur