The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-10
He DIED VERY SUDDENLY
Feared That Davis Had Been
Foully Dealt With.
DEATH DUE TO ALCOHOL
He Was Picked Up Out OF the Gutter
Beastly Drunk-It Was Thought at
First That He Had Been
Dragged and Robbed

Thomas Davis. a smelterman en-
ployed at the Silver Bow smelter, died
very suddenly last evening at his home
at "a North Main street. Meaderville,
under circumstance which prompted an
investigation by the c%orone as 1t was
first feared ne had been foully dealt
vita, but after the case had been in
quired into the conclusion was reached
that death was due to alcohol. Davis
was a man VINO, when he drank, drank
immoderately.
Day before yesterday he got paid off
and started in to drink. Yesterday
morning about s o'clock he was found
lying in the gutter in front of Pri-
deaux's saloon at Meaderville by Con-
stable William a. Ellsworth. He was
i'm a frightful state of in~toXication and
was picked up and taken to his home
and put to bed. Mrs. Davis. being con
siderably Disguised to think her nus
band would spend his earnings in drink
ing to such an extent. paid no atten-
ton to him till evening. At 5 o'clock
last evening she went to his bedroom
and gave him a glass of milk. He was
still very much supplied, but she at
Z 'tA1 At9 ~ Alt lAtNc AS
had taken and she did not dream of his
being i'm a serious way. She did not
visit him again till about I o'clock. At
h a time she went to his room, think
ing he would want something to eat,
and spoke to him. Getting no reply.
she bent over him and discovered he
was dead.
Mrs. Davis was greatly Mortified at
the discovery and at once summoned
hnn n hnRg aVa lf vr1anna ynnaAnInh
to a telephone and notified the coroner
Coroner Tremblay, accompanied by
Constable Charles Ray. went at once
to Meaderville, and on making in
quiries their suspicious were aroused
that death had not been entirely nat
ural, as they learned hat Davis had
been paid off the day before and had
been out all night. This, taken with
the fact that he had been found in
the gutter in front of the saloon. led
to the idea hat he might have been
%drugged and robbed. BY further inves-
legation, however. il was learned from
G. T.. Heron, who runs a grocery store
at Meaderville, that when Davis got
his check he came to his (Herron's)
store to get it cashed 1t was for $50.
and Heron gave him the money. Some
time a~fteTward, seeing Davis lying i'm
the gutter and thinking he might be
robbed. Heron sent for Davis son
John, and told him to get the money.
The boy found $40 i'm his fathers peck
cts and took possession of il. This did
away with the robbery theory. and
from the fact that Heron had seen
Davis in the gutter early in the even
ing and there was no other incentive
for foul play than robbery. Coroner
Tremblay came To the conclusion that
Davis a lain out of doors all night
and that death was the result of ex-
posure and the effects of liquor.
The body was sent to Sherman's I'M
~dertaking rooms. where an inquest will
be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Coroner Tremblay having decided to
let a jury pass on the case. The de-
ceased was a man in middle life and
leaves a wife and a family of children.