The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-01
WILSON WAS BOUND OVER
His Preliminary bearing Delayed
for Two Months.
CHARGED WITH ASSAULT
Wilson Was Having Trouble With His
Wife When the Prosecuting Wit
ness Called-Jones Received
Charge of Shot.

After numerous continuances which
have extended over a period of two
months. the preliminary hearing of
Charles +. Wilson on a charge of
assault in the second degree was had
in Justice Burns court yesterday after
noon. resulting in the defendant being
bound over to the district court.
On the evening of Nov. of last year.
John s. Jones, a colored man, visited
the house of the defendant, also colored,
to take guitar lesson. Several people
were at the house. All were drinking
and Wilson was having trouble with
his wife, the outcome of the difficulty
being that he fired a shot from Il shot
gun, managing Jones left arm SO badly
as to necessitate amputation. Wilson
was arrested. but one thing after an
other delayed the hearing till yester-
day. Deputy Attorney Stivers conduct
ed the examination for the state. and
the defendants counsel not being pres
ent Attorney Jackson was appointed to
look after his interests.
DR. Edgar A. Brooke. the acting
county physician at the time the
shooting ARRAY occurred. testified that
he amputated the arm of John L. Jones
about three inches below the elbGw.
The wound was evidently inflicted by
a gunshot and was very serious. There
was another wound on the arm sep
arate and distinct from that caused by
the gun shot. which the witness was
unable to understand.
The complaining witness. John $.
Jones, was next called. He testified
that on the evening of Nov. he was a
the house of the defendant in South
Arizona street. He went there to take
a music lesson and found a number of
people there drinking and he was asked
10 get some beer. Wilson was having
trouble with his wife and threatened
to shoot her. Witness took IA pistol
away from Wilson and gave IL to
friend. Wilson was in a rear room
when the pistol was taken away from
him and came back in the main room
to get a glass of beer. He then went
back into the rear room and got a shot
gun The witness heard noise and
looking in saw Wilson coming with the
shotgun. He saw he could not get to
Wilson to get the gun away from him
so stepped back and closed the door.
Without saying word Wilson fired
through the door. iniicting the wound
which necesstated the amputation of
the witness left arm.
On cross-examnation the witness
stated that Wilson drew the pistol on
his wife two or three times and put it
back in his pocket. The witness was
afraid Wilson would shoot his wife and
for that reason took the pistol away.
In doing so a scuffe ensued, Wilson
slipped and fell and as he did so the
witness pulled the gun out OF his
pocket.
City Detective Jerry Murphy testified
To being notified of the shooting. He
went to the scene and was told Wilson
had run away. He went after him and
caught him near the Parrot smelter.
Wilson acknowledged having fired the
shot, and said that If he had "A gun
then he would not be taken.
Police officer James Leyden accom-
panied Detective Murphy when Wilson
was arrested. Wilson had stated that
he had been cowboy and If he had
gun he would not be arrested. The
witness examined the Wilson premises
and found the door between the kitchen
and main room shattered.
Henry Pagan, colored, was at NO. sos
South Arizona street when Jones came
there after the shooting. Jones had a
gun which he gave to the witness. The
pistol, a double-barrel derringer, was
exhibited in the condition in which 1t
came into the possession of the witness
Jones was recalled and identified the
gun In evidence as the one he took
from Wilson.
The state rested, and no defense be-
ing put in the defendant was bound
over In 81, 900 bonds, in default of which
he was ordered committed TO the
county jail.
The preliminary hearing of Dan Nc
Masters and Tom Morrisey. charged
with assault in the second degree for