The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-15


to bed. He did not think at the tine
that she was In her right mind. 1t was
his opinion that h was either drunk
or crazy. He was afterwards called
upon to assist In taking her to her room
in the hotel.
Joseph Neville, another Avon man.
since h came to Avon He a some
times thought that h acted queerly.
h wal In the habit Of ~brooding, and
at times In a very melancholy con-
dition. She seemed to be very angry
on Saturday evening when he passed
through the hotel kitchen. He asked
her what the trouble was and she told
him she had the blues and that h was
going to get drunk after supper.
Later in the evening she had evident
ly carried out her expressed intention
n he saw her when she was very
noisy and when h was talking loud.
She insisted on going out into the
quiet her down, but she would not be
still. and she first cursed n and then
the other. She was finally taken to the
p~ostoffice. where he had been one of
those to keep watch over her. 1t was
his opinion that she was ~insane-tempo-
rarily, at least. She was still out of
her head when he assisted in taking her
to Garrison the next day. Sunday. she
had had no whiskey since the
night before, but she still talked inces-
sanity about her troubles. Her chief
topic Of conversation, said the witness,
seemed to be the A. o. u. w, which
organization she turned over in no gen.
tie way. She also talked about her
lead child. She seemed to be in great
fear that h would be taken to Warm
Springs again.
She had old the witness a time OF
two before that she had the blues often.
Mrs. Shields was then examined by
the doctors. She said that at Avon
she had been as drunk as she could
possibly be. She had drunk too much
occasionally. On Saturday night she
had drunk a little liquor out of a glass.
She had not drunk anything on Sun
day. She salt thai Constable Bufty of
Avon, who brought her to Anaconda,
had often sold her liquor. Asked IL she
had had any troubles, she said that she
had her ups n downs. With refer
ence to the testimony given as to her
crawling under the train, she stated
that she had not tried to crawl nde
the train, but was in the act Of climb
ing over it, III a man, in order to
reach the depot. She denied that she
had done any praying, and also denied
that anybody pulled her out from un-
der the cars.
She aid that her name was Mrs.
JoIlc oulcluS anu tldl SHt Was 20 YEARS
of age. She was born in London, Eng
land, in 1873. She asserted e~mphatical-
ly that she had been married to a mai
named William Shields, who. she claim
ed, was the father of her child. Shields
had denied both her and her unborn
babe and had conspired to send her to
Warm Springs from Butte, where she
remained for four months. Her hus-
band, Shields, died in June, two years
and in the following September
her child was born at the hospital in
Deer Lodge.
She was very reticent about her par
ents, relatives and her former where
abouts. She refused to tell where she
came from when she came to Montana,
but said that she came to the United
States about 1873, and to Montana
o seven years ago She a not
any relatives in Montana. One of her
children was still alive and she was it's
sole support and maintained it by her
labor. She refused, she said, to disclose
the name of her father. and she re-
preached Judge Brantly for asking her
what her name was, saying: 81 think
1t would be very rude. indeed, sir, for
to tell you my fathers name under
the circumstances" She had assumed
the name Of Jennie Hall before being
married to Shields.
The throughout the trial
seemed to be cool and at many times
smiled as the witnesses told their sto-
ries. Her replies to the questions asked
her were rational, n she appeared To
be in full possession of her mental fac
ulties. After a short consultation the
physicians decided that she was not
insane but that her violent spells were
caused by too much liquor which she
drank when the melancholia came on.
She is a woman who has evidently had
a great deal more than her share of
this worlds trials and tribulations and
would N doubt be all right if she did
not go on her occasional sprees. She
was given her money by the sheriff and
allowed to go.