The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-07
FAMOUS MISS MATTE
The Woman Is Known From Ubet TO
Southern California.
HOW SHE POSES THESE DAYS
She Carries a String OF Names and
Leaves One In Every Town
She visits-Many Fig
ures Cut.
HOW SHE POSES THESE DAYS

ures Cut.
Matte OverInan, the young woman
who is so badly mixed up in the Rev.
c. o. Browns scandal in San Francis
co, and 1t is claimed cut some figure In
Butte about two years ago, is being
heard from in almost every corner OF
the Northwest Accounts Of her esca-
pades in Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane and
Victoria, furnish the San Francisco pa
pers with columns OF interesting and
spicy reading. In some of the towns
she was known as Miss Overman; In
others as Mrs. Dan Silveira, and again
simply as "one of the Dubois sisters"
AT present she is a member of Rev.
Browns family and poses as a meek
and lowly Christian.
Miss Overman had told the Sam Fran
cisco people that her husband had been
shot and killed over a gambling table
in Butte two years ago. When the
story reached Great Falls 1t brought
out the following from the husband,
whi is very much alive, and which ap-
peared in a dispatch to the San Fran
cisco Examiner of last Saturday:
Daniel Shlveira, who has resided
here and IN this vicinity for five years,
and is we'll finown as a waiter and res
taurant man under the sobriquet OF
Dagger Dan,' stated to-day that Mat
the Rev. DIR. Brown and Mrs. Davidson
blackmail suit, was formerly his wife.
He read her testimony In the Exam
liner which reached here this morning,
and denies In part her statements re-
garding him. He says they were mar
ried at p. m, Nov. 16. 1884, In JUS
tees Office in Spokane. The day fol-
lowing the marriage she said she
should never have married him. as by
so doing she had greatly wronged him.
She declared her intention of throwing
herself from a bridge.
HE locked her i'm her room and in
sisted on discussing the matter. with
the result that he dissuaded her from
her suicidal intent and agreed, for the
sake of his own name and that OF her
parents, OF whom he speaks very high
ly, to remain with her, exacting from
her most binding vows OF virtue and
fidelity.
I'm 1885 they removed to Helena. Up
to that time they had lived happily to-
gether. though she had declared to him
facts most damaging TO her character
prior to marriage. They remained in
Helena two years, during which time
he provided for her most comfortably.
Her conduct there, he says, aroused
his suspicious. and investigation, he
claims, satisfied him that matters were
not as they should be. When he learn
ed these things he sent her to Spokane
her accusing her of misconduct and
giving her the choice of getting a d.
vorce from him within six months or
being killed.
"She chose the former course, for
divorce proceedings were begun soon
after and summons was served on Sill
veira by publication in the Spokesman
of which he has preserved a copy. The
divorce was granted to her ON April 20.
1888.
"Silveira left Helena In 1889 and came
here, working through the winter on
the Niehart branch of the Great North
ern railway when IL was building. He
admits that he was fond of his wife,
and after their separation he drank and
gambled a good deal, but during their
life together he was not only true to
her, but that he did not drink to any
extent and did not gamble at all.
Had she left his name out of her tes-
timony he says he would have remain
ed silent, but he objects to being re-
ported as a scoundrel.
Until he read the article in the Elk
aminer, he believed his former wife
dead, having heard so about two years
ago. He left Helena for the purpose of
escaping everything which recalled his
association with her. and since the re-
port of her death has had no news.
He states that unless she and DIR.
Brown, whom he does not know and
has never TO his knowledge seen, re-
tract their statements regarding him.
he shall institute a suit for dibel. He is
considerably stirred up over them, as
he has always borne a good name here
and in Helena.
AT the time they were married he
was proprietor of a saloon In Spokane,
but since his advent In oMntama has
been mostly engaged In the hotel and
restaurant business.
His matrimonial ventures seem sin
gularly tnfeiicitous. He married again
after the divorce, and was in a mining
scheme at Shelby. this state. living
with his second wife. to all intents very
happily, when his partner. who had be-
come acquainted with his wife through
their dove for music, developed a pas
sion for her to which she yielded.
HE scouts at the report of Matte
Overman' Seduction, culture or musi-
cal ability. He says she was a farm
ers daughter. and had scarcely a COM
mon school education. She had no taste
for reading, and her culture must have
been suddenly acquired since 1883. At
the time OF his marriage she could not
play a tune. and IL was only after six
months of training by Spokane music
teacher that she was enabled to sing
Home, Sweet Home"