The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-15

still In the yard. He went over and
found the prisoner Smith between the
two piles OF lumber acting peculiarly.
| When arrested and left in charge Of
one of the employees of the yard. while
the officer looked for plumber. he broke
away. but was recaptured n hand
| cuffed to a wagon while the witness
completed his search. While handcuned
90 the wagon wheel he made an EFFORT
TO slip out Of the handouts. When ar
rested M appeared ruffied and excited,
! as though he had had a scuffie. On the
way to the station he kept telling how
thirsty he was and was evidently very
feyerish. The witness saw blood oil the
mans shirt. 1t appeared fresh and did
not look as IL it had dropped there from
his nose. but rather as II IL had been
rubbed on the shirt. When asked how
he got the blood on his shirt he said he
had a trouble with a Swede. Asked
by Mr.. Yancey IL the man appeared as
n he was going after the cutlery when
the witness saw him., Sergeant Ley
den said he was going away from II.
Ariin Ayres. an employe of Fosters
warehouse. testified that Thursday
evening. just before s o'clock. he saw
a man talking to a little girl on the
platform. The witness did not know
the murdered child. but from his de-
scription of the child on the platform
II was undoubtedly the same child. The
witness saw Smith, but did not think
he was the man he saw talking to the
child. as he did not walk the same and
was too light. though I'm other respects
he answered very well. The man went
TOWARD the old Clubhouse. The wit
ness said, from his investigation after
the child was found. he believed
had been murdered in a barn adtoin-
found. as he found sheets of blood I'm
the stable where a board had been
knocked off the side Immediately in
front of the old closet. as though to en-
able the parties TO get out to the closet
without being seen.
Under Sheriff Murphy stated that.
hearing the police suspected Smith. ex-
amined his clothes and his person.
Blood was found on his coat, but no
other tell-tale signs. as his outer shirt
had been washed. He questioned Smith
and he contradicted himself several
times and talked very peculiarly.
The police yesterday arrested two
more men as suspects. They are after
the short. stout man. One OF the men
is J. w. IlifY. an old offender who has
served n term in the penitentiary for
forgery. He was arrested Friday
morning for exposing himself to wo-
men and was fined So. 1t occurred to
the police that Ilif fitted the description
and learning some further damaging
facts concerning him 1t was decided to
arrest him that he was the man who
tried to entice a couple of little girls
into the warehouse the night the Gill
child was killed. Ilim comes of a good
family and has a brother who is a
Methodist preacher at Salt Lake, the
r. C. Iliff who is one OF the most prom
inent divines of the Mormon capital.
The other man who was arrested
yesterday gave his name as Henry Gal
ahan and he lives out near the city
dump. He answers the description of
the short, stout man and has been seen
conducting himself improperly at
times. On one occasion he attempted
to entice three little girls into a boxcar.
and a brother OF one of the children hit
him over the head with a beer bottle.
The three little girls all live in the To-
cality OF the GIL home. and last even
ing they were taken to the city Jail
and identified Callahan as the man who
insulted them. He was k to the
county Jail to be held as a suspect. The
authorities have not yet had the bloody
thumb prints found on some pieces of
boards near the scene of the crime ex-
amined and compared with the thumb
prints of the suspects. but this will be
DONE. as the officers do not intend to let
any little circumstance skip by nno
ticed which may help determine who is
the guilty party.