The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-28
ANACONDA news.
IS NOT THE MAN WANTED
Sheriff Davidson Says Jesse Fair
Is Not Reynolds Murderer.
ANSWERS DESCRIPTION
In Every Particular Fair Tables With
the Description of Allen. the Sus-
pected Slayer of the Sheep
Herder Near Helena

Sheriff Davidson of Helena came =
yesterday to take a look at Jesse Fair.
the man suspected of being the u
derer of j. S. Reynolds of Mitchells.
near Helena. Fair was arrested on
Tuesday by officer o'Brien and he tai
lies in every particular witt the de-
~scription of the alleged murderer sent
out by the Helena officers. The name
of the man suspected of the murder Is
Joe Allen. He is a quarter-breed and
the last that vas seen of him was at
Helena Monday morning. The man ar
rested in this city is also a quarter
breed and in every way corresponds
with the description given of Allen.
Sheriff Davidson was accompanied
ny william Johns of near Helena, at
whose house Allen had taken breakfast.
M. Johns said that Fair was not the
mar who had called at his house, and
the Helena officers returned to the
Capital City.
The Helena Independent publishes
the following additional particulars
concerning the murder:
About the time Sheriff Davidson re-
ceived notice of the murder Monday
morning, the murderer arrived in Hell
9n0 on a MOnldnd III iitiShh Ah'''
william Johns, where he had taken
breakfast early that morning. He was
traced TO the office of the Montana
Central yardmaster. in Helena, where
ne seemed to disappear. Deputy Sheriff
Ed Andrews. who learned late Monday
night that the quarter-breed assassin
was named Joe Allen, returned from
Mitchells yesterday morning with Cor
oner Ben c. Brooke n County Attor-
- n.-z~tt ..AA hal1 nm fnnitpGt over
the body at the Keller ranch Tuesday
afternoon.
ALLEN is either a daring man or a
fool. 1t was learned yesterday tfter-
noon that he had come to Helena on a
freight Monday morning after cashing
a check stolen from he body OF his
victim. Mr.. Johns, who lives north
of Helena on the Great Northern rail-
way. came to the city yesterday morn
ing and reported that a man answering
Aliens description had stopped at his
place Monday morning about Z o'clock.
Mr.. Johns had first noticed Allen at
his barn, and believing him to be a
laboring man offered him work. as he
needed a man in the hay field. Allen
answered that he had been shearing
sheep and was tired. He said that he
did not care to work for a few days,
as he wanted To rest. The stranger
asker MI JoilllS IL nv N'bhN 80
breakfast If he had money to pay for
II. an Mr.. Johns promptly replied tina
he could. Allen ate a hearty break
fast, and when he got up from the table
presented the check on the Thomas
Cruise Savings bank for s26.5S given by
". w. Martin to j. S. Reynolds N
payment of the latter's and Aliens
services at his place. Allen said he
was the man 10 whom the check was
issued and indorsed IL with the name
of the man he had murdered but a few
hours before. Mr.. Johns recognized the
signature of Mr.. Martin and took the
check without hesitation. giving Allen
SOS 10 for IL. Allen inquired the way IL
Marysville. A few minutes later he
saw him board a freight train which
was slowly pulling up the hill on its
way from Great Falls TO Helena.
From inquiries made of trainmen,
Deputy Sheriff Andrews yesterday
learned hat a man answering Aliens
description left a freight train at the
crossing of the Montana Central and
Northern Pacific railways about $3.50
o'clock Monday morning. The mar
who left the train there walked to tbs
boxcar Office in the yards of the Mon
fana Central, about one mile from tbs
crossing and inquired of the operator
Charles Saunders. what track branched
from the main road to M~arysville. Mr.
Saunders directed him to the Northerr
Pacific depot, telling him to follow til,
Great Northern track until IL crossed
Helena avenue. from where he shoult
follow the street car track TO the depot
The man inquired If the street car line