The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-06
MURDEROUS ACTIONS
Walter and Bessie loves Troubles
Take a Serious Turn.
SHE TAKES A SHOT AT HIN
Then an officer Appears. Fires at
the Fleeing Husband and Gath
ers In the Whole Shooting
Match-More to Re Told.

| The troubles of Walter and Bessie
Lowe very nearly eliminated in a muir
der yesterday afternoon. Walter made
jealous play at his wife with a gun
and then she secured the revolver after
1t had been taken away from him and
fired shot at him, but the bullet
missed Its mark. She greatly regrets
her poor Workmanship, and If the
story which she tells of the latest in
! dignities to which her husband at
tempted to subject her is true there
will be good many people who will
wish that she had taken lessons with
revolver and become proficient in it's
use before she took the shot at the
cause of all her troubles The shooting
occurred in the alley back of the Odd
Fellows hall in West Broadway, and as
II was Immediately followed by a
policeman firing shot at Lowe as he
attempted to escape, there was a great
deal OF excitement for a few minutes.
The troubles of Bessie Davis, as the
public is familiar with them, COM
menced last winter when Lowe took
her TO his room on the pretensel of TAX
ing her to church and kept her there
for nearly two days. They were arrest
ed by the police and a charge of Grim
inal assault was entered against Lowe
He was bound over, but when the case
came up in the district court Bessie re-
fused to testify against him and he had
10 be discharged. A few days later he
married her, presumably in fulfillment
of a promise made while he was in Jail.
About a month ago she caught her
husband in a compromising situation
with one of her girl friends and left
him, but returned to him in a few days.
Late In March, Bessie says, Lowe
told her that she would have to go out
and rustic and ordered her to go into
an East Galena street shack and SUD-
port him with her earnings. She re-
fused, and he threatened her life so
often that fearing he might carry his
threats into execution, she left him a
week ago and secured a room over the
Monte Cristo saloon. She was in her
room about o'clock yesterday after
noon when girl who answered to the
name OF Miss Madge at the police sta
ton ana a young man named George
came to her room when her husband
entered and showed a revolver under
her nose. Before he could use it, how
ever. II such was his intention, George
jerked the gun away from him and ex-
tracted the cartridges. A few minutes
later Lowe and Madge left the room to-
gether. After telling of the threats
that her husband had made to kill her
and her fear of him, Bessie secured the
revolver and loaded IL and stuck IL in
the bosom of her dress. She and George
then started out for walk and, as
she admitted afterwards, she started
out to find her husband and take a shot
at him. She said that she did not par
ticularly want to kill him, but that she
intended to hurt him. 1t was only a
few minutes until the two couples met
in the alley back of the odd Fellows
hall, and as they got within a few feet |
of each other, Bessie pulled out her |
husbands revolver and fired at him at |
short Tho hti1
effect, however, and before she could |
fire again Lowe jumped at her and |
knocked her down. He then knocked |
Madge down, stopped down and picked |
up the revolver and ran down the |
alley.
Officer Barnaman reached the scene |
an instant later and seeing two women |
lying on the ground and Lowe running
away, with revolver in his hand. he |
supposed that he had done the shoot
ing. He ordered him TO halt but he /
paid no attention TO the command and
started to climb a fence. Barnaman
then sent bullet whistling so close TO
him that he stopped on the top of the
fence and threw up his hands. The off,
GER then took all three OF them to the
police station, where Lowe and Madge /
were charged with disturbance and |
Bessie with assault in the first degree
IT'S too bad that 1 missed him." said
Bessie, as she was waiting to be locked
up. He has been carrying a gun and
making loud talk. but he amt game
enough to shoot"
II developed later that Lowe had been
a gun for some time and
to wipe various people off
The face of the earth with Il, but he has
lone nothing further than exhibit II on
TWO or three occasions. One of the peo-
pie that Lowe was going 10 kill. but
lid not. is Tom Ledford. an express
nan. Ledford had moved Bessies
trunk on two or three occasions and
Lowe was jealous OF him. Last Friday
Lowe passed the allie house. rldurdlu
Ledford passed the Hale house. where
Lowe was employed as a dish washer,
Ind the latter rushed out and showed
ais revolver in his face. He lid not
ihoot. however. and a cook at the house
separated them before any damage was
lone. Chief Tebo stated last evening
hat he would have Ledford swear Co 4
against Lowe Tor exhibiting
deadly weapon.
Vote for KnowltOn and independence