The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-15
NOTHING NEW DEVELOPED
Coroner's Jury Reaches a Verdict
in the DAILY Murder.
HANAFINS GRAPHIC STORY
The Young Man Tells In Detail How the
Atrocious Crime Was Committed.
Description Of the
Murderer.

The coroner's jury has rendered a YER
on the murder of John DAILY in an cleo
ton booth in this city on the morning Of
November Q. Two new witnesses were
examined last night, John j. Catalan
and John Hanain. boys who hung
around the booth during most of the
day inc night. Young Hanain was an
eye witness Of the tragedy. Both of the
boys gave their testimony without en-
barrassement and without any display
Of Their stories were
told in a straightforward manner.
Cahalan said that his father was dead
that his mother and two sisters are
living. He understood h
of an oath and said that he knew II he
told a lie that he would go 20 jail. He
laid that he saw Higgins. one of the Of
fisials of the precinct. in company with
two strangers across the street car
rack from the booth. The men. he
said stepped behind a red shack" when
they saw the witness. His testimony
In substance was as follows:
II stayed in the booth until 2:30
o'clock in the morning of the 9th. On
the morning of election day Higgins
told me to carry In Some wood n he
would give me % cents. ] did IL, and
during the day asked Higgins for the
25 cents. Con Murphy another boy and
I were together in the booth most of the
day. Con rushed the GROWER for Hig-
gins but I did not"
Was Higgins sober when he paid
you the 25 cents?" asked Chief Deputy
County Attorney Connolly.
He didn't pay me-" Later In the
day. continued the witness. Il stepped
out OF the booth and saw Higgins and
two men talking over near a red shack
across the street. When the men saw
me they stepped around the a out
OF sight. ! returned 20 the booth and in
about 10 minutes Higgins came into the
booth" His description of the strang-
ers was vague.
John Hanafn. the 1s-year-old boy
who witnessed the shooting and gave
the alarm to the police was the next
witness. His testimony proves him TO
be about the coolest headed young
man in the city. 1t certainly has not
been c~ontradicted that he was the cool
est one in the booth at the time of the
murder. He said that he did not notice
anything suspicious until the two muir
derers entered the booth. He then gave
a vivid description of the occurrence.
IT was standing near DAILY when the
men entered the door n gave the
command TO hold up hands. At first
I thought that Il was a josh and I did
not hold up my hands nor did any one
else. In an instant h second COM
mand was given and the men swore in
such a way as TO make US all think
that they meant IL. i think my hands
were the first to go up. The man i'm ad-
vance went past me in such haste that
I didn't get a good look at his make
up but the second man, the n who
killed DAILY, was so close to me that l
could not help seeing his eyes. fingers.
hair and particularly his clothes. He
wore a white silk handkerchief across
his nose and chin. His hands were
small and white and on his left hand
he wore a diamond ring which flashed
in my face. He wore a round cut dark
sack coat and his pants were OF dark
cloth. His hat was the Fedora pattern.
When he fired the flash of the gun shot
passed me uncomfortably close. The
first man shot before the other n did.
He shot over Eugene S~ullivan's head
and when I saw sullivan tumble over
/ thought he. OF course, was dead, but
he was not hit. When the hiring De-
gan Higgins and another judge wen,
over TO the corner OF the booth and
huddled up together and everybody
yelled out that all hands were shot. !
believe Il was as cool tnen u Il am INV
| After the murderers backed out OF the
booth ran out the other door and
down to the city Jail and notified Cap
tain OF the police force. When
DAILY was shot he raised his hands and
seemed to try to stand up but he stag
eered over against me and fell
The lad said that the reason he stayed
all night at the booth was because ms
father wanted him to take him a report
of the count before he went to work In
the morning. After he had concluded
| his testimony Captain Dawson n De-
| tective Murphy brought before the wit
| ness a man named Ton Terrell and tine
| coroner asked the witness II the man re-
| sembled the man who shot DAILY n ths
| boy said he did not. That Terrell was
larger than either of the murderers.
Later young Jack Ledford wa'
| brought in but he evidently did no.
40 the shooting. Ledford was turned
loose but Terrell was returned to TN
county Jail Tn jury returned the foi
lowing verdict:
THAT said deceased came to his deatf
on the 9th day of November. 1898, III
Butte. Silver Bow county.
and from the testimony we find tina
said death was the result or a sho
from a pistol held In the hands or /.
marty or parties unknown to the jury
Too pretty TO be overlooked-thi!