The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-04

went at once to the scene OF the crime.
They made a thorough investigation,
during which another rock which
showed unmistakabie evidences of hav-
ing been used as a weapon was found.
1t was covered on one of Its Jagged
edges with clotted hair and blood.
The rock weighed at least IS pounds
n must have ben dashed against the
murdered mans head with both hands
TO finish him after he had ceased to
resist. One of the party found a couple
of scent pieces, which had doubtless
fallen from the murdered mans pock-
cts while being carried to the stream:
The foot prints were gathered and all
evidence that might lead 10 the detec-
ton of the criminal carefully noted
after which the party returned TO
Gregson. Il
After the body reached Butte Michael
Regain, a brother OF the dead man. VISIT
ed the undertaker's and identified IL as
his brother. and there was no longer
any doubt as to its identity, but how
Regain came to be in the locality afoot
was a deep mystery. Regan was in the
city the night before and was seen by
his brother and his family shortly be-
fore 6 o'clock. He had been out Of work
about a month and decided to GO 10 the
Occur d'Alene country In search or en-
ployment. At 6 o'clock Friday evening
he went to his brothers house, where
TIC hNEhs anu announce
He said he was going with a man named
Dave Sullivan, who had a brother IN
Occur d'Alene, who could get them
work. He was asked If Sullivan was
all right and said he was. Regan ate
supper and started to pack up MS
clothes. but had only about begun when
Sullivan put In an appearance and SAID
he would not need any clothes, and
talked Regain out of taking anything
but a grip full of shirts and underwear.
They said they were going to take q
train TO Anaconda first and go IRON
there TO the Coeu d'Alenes. They left
and no further trace OF their move
ments has been found. but as the cir
cumstances OF Sullivan telling Regain
he would not need any clothes in the
face of the fact that he was going
away to be gone some time, taken In
connection with other facts that nave
been learned, has directed suspicion to-
ward Sullivan.
II is their belief that Sullivan either
talked Regan out of going on a tram
and induced him to walk, or that ne
got Regain to go out on an ore train
and that they were put off at silver
Bow. As none Of the B., A. a. +. men
remember putting a couple or men OF
a train that night, the theory that they
walked is generally accepted and that
they were probably Joined by another
DaT1N dn0 WIltH III iblAC1piAAN SF~A -
Silver Bow canyon was reached Regan
was attacked without warning. 1t was
one theory that the two men met a
gang OF hoboes and were held up, re-
sulting in Regan's death, but it is diff
cult 10 reconcile this idea with the fact
that Sullivan has not shown up TO re-
port.
There are other reasons for suspicion
being directed toward Sullivan. II was
learned at Gregson, and the fact came
out at the inquest that a man who an
swers the description of SULLIVAN ana
who said that was his name, appeared
at Schiffman's saloon near the b., A. q
p. depot at Gregson yesterday morn
ing. His pants were wet from the knees
down, one leg of his pants was torn as
it might have been by climbing through
a barb wire fence, and his face was all
scratched up. He ordered a drink and
fell into conversation with a couple or
the men in the saloon. They drank
heavily and he got pretty tull. me
man said his name was Sullivan, and
during his conversation he said he got
the scratches on his face in a fight
with a brakeman. He displayed a lot
Of money was very free With IL.
After spending some time in the sa-
loon he went TO the b., A. & =. depot
and purchased a tickct for Butte. but
failed to catch the train. He had a
Z russell NdllSt WIN hllit "HAGi IL itAN
in the B., A. & =. station. This was ex-
amined by Sheriff Regain and his depu-
ties, and a package OF envelopes were
found, on one of which was a spot Of
blood. The grip contained laundry,
which had been done up at the c.. o. d.
laundry and which bore the same
laundry mark, il was said, as that
found on the shirt Regain wore. The
man disappeared from Gregson without
anyone seeing him go. From what lie
now known II Ia supposed the atrocious
murder was committed for the paltry
sum of about 500, although subsequent
DEVELOPMENTS may show that Regain
carried a much larger sum of money.
Michael Regain. the brother of the
dead man. said when seen last evening
that he thought his brother had about
800 with him. He said, however. that
his brother had a deposit check FOR
$500, and did not know whether he
cashed II before leaving or not, but
thought the check was left in Pats
trunk.
This will not be determined till tn,
coroner opens the trunk. II is supposed
the murder was committed about j
O'Clock Friday night, from the fact
that are known. The water in Silve
Bow creek was at its highest shortI,
before 10 o'clock, and that hour began
receding very rapidly. This fact wa
learned from Jake Jacques. who live
at Hackney, a side station on the Mon
tana Union, about a mile from tn.
Scene of the crime. His house Is oil
the banks OF the creek and he had &C
casion TO notice the stage of the waite
from the fact that Il carried out
bridge for him. Jacques said he say
two men go past his place on the Il
, A. & p. tracks soon after 10 O'Clock
l The B., a. & =. is quite a distance fror
his house and as he could only see ther
: by the moonlight he could not tell any
thing about their appearance. II Re
a and his partner walked from Butt
they would nave had about time {
/ reach the spot where the crime wa
z committed by 10 O'Clock. provided the
z left at 6 as supposed.
Deputy Sheriff Bart Shea came bac'
to Butte last evening and with Deput
|, Sidley drove to Rocker and Silver Boy
! and posted the officers as to Sullivan
! description. He is described as a ma
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