The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-12
TREMBLEO LIKE A LEAF
The Murderer of O'Connor Is a
Cringing Coward.
HE TRIED TO WAYlAY HIM
The Murder Was Deliberate n Cold
blooded-Salmon Would Have Been
Lynched IL the Mob Had Sc
cured Him.
Special Dispatch to the STANDARD.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Red Lodge, Sept. 11.-William O'con-
nor, superintendent Of the Rocky Fork
Coal mine, who was yesterday sho
down in cold blood by Tom Salmon,
ex-president of the Red Lodge Miners
union, died at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Additional details OF foul deed prove be-
yond question that 1t was a deliberate
p~remeditated murder and thai the cow
ardy assassin lay in wait the night be-
fore for the purpose of waylaying and
numbering O'Connor as he left his home
to come UP town. but was foiled by the
failure of his intended victim to leave
home.
The murderer, on being taken to Bill
lings yesterday to prevent lynching,
trembled till his teeth chartered and
otherwise showed evidence Of a cringing
coward when the death Of the assassin
ated man was nounce IT is certain
that if the murderer had not been re-
moved from the city a mob would have
torn him limb from limb and hanged
him i'm a public street in broad daylight.
The mines are entirely closed and not
n tap of work will be done or a whistle
blown until after the funeral, which oc-
ours Tuesday.
In all the churches OF the city to-day
the ministers dwell on the foulness of
the murder and stated from the pulpit
that the time has come In this COM
munity when such deeds of blood u
sease and r~ed-handed murderers be no
longer permitted TO escape swift and
condign r~etribution, the severest that
the law lnflicts.
Owing to the fact that the murder
was the outgrowth of a personal griev-
ance in connection with last summers
Miners union strike, and the further
fact that the murderer was a member
of the union, and up to two weeks ago
its president. the union held several
meetings for the purpose of disavowing
any connection with the commission of
the crime and to expel the assassin and
to pass resolutions ~denouncing the deed
and it's perpetrator thereof. The meet
ing was attended by nearly every menu
Der of the union, and by a unanimous
vote the following strong resolutions
were passed:
whereas. On the 10th day of Sep
i. TENDER, 1898, Thomas Salmon, a mem
: Der and former president of this union,
murderously shot William O'Connor,
superintendent of the Rocky Fork Coal
company, inhicting injuries which have
since resulted in the death of the said
william O'Connor; n
Whereas, Because of said Thomas
Salmon's recent prominent position in
our union. p~rejudiced or t~houghtless
persons might claim we are in sympa-
thy with the cowardly murder; and
whereas, Such deeds are decidedly
contrary TO and the opposite of all the
rules, laws, desires or interests OF our
union: therefore be it
Resolved. That we. as l~aw-abiding
citizens and members of this union,
hereby record our condemnation OF the
deed and of the cowardly assassin and
Utterly repudiate the idea that we,
either as an organization or as indi-
viduals. could look upon this dastardiy
act with any other feelings than those
of horror and detestation.
Resolved, That Thomas Salmon be,
and is hereby expelled from our union
and that his name be stricken from It's
rolls. which II, communicates and dis
honors.
Resolved, That our heartfelt sym
nathy and coincidence is 20
the bereaved wife and children. so sud-
denly and awfully bereaved OF a klnd
and loving husband and father.
Resolved, That as evidence OF our
rasnect for the deceased that we. the
Red Lodge Miners union, will attend
the funeral in a body. as further cyl,
dence hat the commission OF tire roni
murder finds full and open c~ondemna-
,,on nv every member of he union.
nd ont Of respect to the memoir OF
tbe dead superintendent, the union has
decided to entirely dispense with 'nis
wears celebration Of Labor day. wrlcn
had been previously postponed >nn'''
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