The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-02-22
The Body of Billy WOrlsy Found on
the Frcz.n Rivers Edge.
ITS MURDER AND SUICIDE
News OF the Anaconda Tragedy
Deeply Impressed him. and lie
Read the Account of II Several
Times-he Knew Dresser.
.peelal Dlspatch 10 the standard.


ported In the Standard to-day, COM
pleted his had business by taking his
own life and saving the county the cost
OF prosecution. His remains were
found in the river back of the west end
of the bad lands at Las o'clock this aft
ernoon. He had cut his throat with
some dull knife. presumably a pocket
knife, making a cash from ear 10 ear.
the cut being ragged as IL the knife had
not cut we'll
When the Standards dispatches
closed this morning at O'Clock the po-
lice and sheriff's officers were stll
searching for the murderer. Just be-
fore o'clock his foot marks were found
leading from back of the Shamrock
sporting house down the steep bank
across the ice that has formed along
the shore of the river and ending at the
edge of the ice as II a man had jumped
into the icy stream. The searching
party at once went across the north
channel of the river To the island. but
could find no trace OF any tracks there
and IL was assumed that the man had
drowned himself and the search was
ended for the night. This afternoon
Deputy Sheriffs Corbett and Naughton.
with one or two other men. went down
to where the tracks had been seen last
night with the intention of following
the stream down It's course Ia see II the
body could be found. The search was "A
short one, for one Of the party after "A
few minutes walking found the re-
mains of Morley close To the north
bank of the middle channel of the
stream. II was lying on It's back and
had been washed by the eddy against
the bank and held there. The face and
shoulders were encased In Ice. The feet
pointed down stream. The ice was
broken away from around the face and
this disclosed the fact that the man had
cut his throat II is supposed that he
did this as he made the jump into the
water, as his trail To the channel had
no blood stains with II. As soon as the
coroner was notified the body was TAX
en- from the stream and To the morgue,
where II will be kept till the inquest Is
held.
This ends the second chapter ~ the
tragedy Of last night. Billy Worlcy
was man apparently about ~ years
old. Ten or more years ago he dealt
faro i'm Missoula for Tom Poole and was
one of the most popular men in his bus
iness in the city. He afterwards left
town and nothing more was seen Of him
Till three months ago, when he turned
up here again. He did not have much
to say about his life after he left Mis-
soula. hut told his former employer
that he had been in Georgia. He lived
from the first after his last appearance
In Missoula with the woman Blanche
whom he murdered last night. OF late
the two are said To have quarreled "A
great deal and Morley had considerable
10 say about the way that she had
done" him out of a lot of money before
he came back To this town the last
time. He had also accused her of
showing too much attention To another
man and they had had some words.
Four or five days ago, according To the
story of some of the friends Of the muir
dered woman Blanche gave him $50 tn
leave town with and he was To go away
and not return. He did not go, how
/ ever. but spent the money for absinthe
To the use of which he was addicted.
and he had been under the influence Of
the liquor most OF the time that he was
| ON this spree.
In the meantime came the tale of the
shocking double murder in Anaconda.
Morley said that he knew Dresser well
and had worked with him. The story
Of the Anaconda tragedy made Il decid-
ed impression on him. for he referred
to 1t constantly. Yesterday afternoon
/ he read the account Of IL i'm the stand
ard two or three times, each time say
| ing that Dresser was good fellow. At
ll:20 O'Clock last night he was in the
| Cafe Royal, where he took n drink Of
absinthe and spoke pleasantly as usual
/ To the people about the place. Then he
| went out and was never seen up town
again. From that time IL seems that
he must have gone at once To Blanche's
house. where she and Black Bess were
drinking beer together In the front
room. He asked Blanche to take a
drink with him. She said: NO. I
don't care to drink with such people as
/ you No more was said. but he at
once drew his revolver and fired at the
| girl Blanche and her companion al
/ once made n dash for the back room
and the man fired several more shots.
/ The number is placed by those who
heard the reports at from four to six.
| Black Bess. who tells the story of
what happened in the room, does not
know. She was too busy getting out of
the back door one bullet hit her but
her life was saved. as stated In the
Standard this morning. by corset
/ steel As she fed she heard the girl
! Blanche fall. hut she did not stay.
Blanche was shot twice once in the left
side and back of the head. the bullet
coming out OF the left side OF her neck.
The other wound is under one arm.
| After he had killed her 1t Is supposed
that Morley tried to shoot himself. as
his hat was found In the room with two
bullet holes in IL. No signs of any bull
let marks are found on his head. II is
thought that when he had fired his last
shot and had failed tO kill himself he
ran from the house and made his way
up the street until he came To the place
where he turned on 10 the river. What
happened then is hard To tell. From
the appearance Of the snow II Is evident
that he did not cut his throat till be
had jumped into the water and the the
ory uf the officers IL that he made the
lump and was washed To shallow wa
ter. Desperate and determined To die
he drew his knife and slashed his
throat He was "A strong, handsome
man and had IL not been Tor the alb
sinthe habit would have been able IL
work.
Since his last return to Missoula he
has done nothing but live on what
Blanche gave him. Nothing concerning
his antecedents or those of the woman
have been learned. The most intimate
friends of the woman say that they
never heard of any other name for heI
than Blanche and II was under that
name that she paid her fine into the po.
lice court The Inquest will not be held
till Tuesday, as II has been announced