The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-29
ANACONDA news.
DREADFUL WORK OF HATE
Joe Heslop and Ed Burns Come
Together With a Terrific Crash.
TWO FRIGHTFUL SLABS
One Man in Jail and the Other in the
Hospital With Chances OF Life and
Death About E~qual-Result
of a Bitter Feud.

Two passionate. fiery tempers came
together yesterday with a serious clash,
and two well-known, popular mel are
in very sad ~positions-one in Jail, the
other in the hospital, with the chances
OF life and death about equal
Yesterday forenoon, just before IL
o'clock. Joseph Heslop stabbed Ed
Burns two times in the region of the
heart. The trouble occurred in the en-
CINE room of the refinery and there are
two stories, similar except in one es-
sential detail. 1t is certain, however,
that the affair is the result of a feud of
several weeks standing.
Heslop's story is in substance as fol-
lows: Burns is employed in the engine
room as oiler. Heslop is the engineer.
Heslop was engaged in stringing a wire
from one engine lever to another a few
yards distant. The room also being used
as a dynamo room, there is more or less
electricity to contend with. In order to
insulate the levers so as not to form a
current by means of the wire about to
be strung, Heslop had procured a piece
OF heavy one-inch rubber hose and was
about to cut off pieces of the required
length to place over the levers where
he was to fasten the ends of the wire.
His large pocket knife was open in his
hand when the trouble arose. In order
TO measure the distance between the
levers he a taken a long stick and
was about to begin measuring. He put
1t down for a minute while he fixed
something else, and in the meantime
Burns picked up the stick and threw it
out of the window.
II am using that stick" said Heslop.
land l don't ant you TO throw it
away" Heslop went out and brought the
stick back again n laid ii down and
continued his work. He soon after
wards heard a noise which attracted his
attention and, looking around, he saw
Burns in the act of breaking the stick.
What do you mean by breaking my
stick?" Heslop asked Burns. Il will
report you to the superintendent if you
don't behave yourself"
Report me, will you?" said Burns.
who rushed saVagely at Heslop and
struck him between the eyes with his
fist.
BE careful, Ed; I have a knife" said
Heslop.
II don't care for you knife" said
Burns, who quickly grabbed up the
starting bar" used in starting the big
engines. a piece of iron three and a half
feet long by half an inch thick and
about three inches wide With this bar
Burns struck at Heslop, who lodged the
blow, which was aimed at his head, and
received the force of it just above the
small of the back.
In an instant Heslop fell upon his
adversary and stabbed him twice, as
stated. Heslop went over to the office
and told Timekeeper Walsh what he had
n asked to be taLe~ into Gus
tody. The sheriff's office and the hos
pital surgeons were at nee notified and
the company ambulance ordered. Dep
uty Sheriff McGuinness went to the
office and took Heslop to Jail. He also
took charge of the knife n starting
BAR. Drs. Spelman and Mckenzie Were
soon on hand and accompanied Burns
the hospital.
Burns story is similar insofar as
II relates to the stabbing. He, however,
that he struck Heslop with the bar
he was stabbed. and not before.
as Heslop says. Burns says he was
up the debris around the en-
left there by the carpenter repair
crew, and among the trash was the
over which the trouble arose.
Burns said but little, as he was not able
to talk much after Heslop stabbed him,
and there was but one eyewitness. |
Barnum, another oiler, who
was at the opposite end of the engine
room. He did not know whether Heslop
held in his hand a knife or a wrench.
was all lone in a short time.
Both men have many friends among
the employees at the works, and the case
promises to be bitterly contested in the
courts. 1t was only last Saturday
the men had some words on Park ave-
nue., in front of MacCallum d Cloutier's
store. Witnesses say that Burns abused
by calling hin vile names.
Burns friends say he Is a quiet, sober
industrious man. not quarrelsome
nor assuming. Heslop has as many
friends who emphatically declare that
would not hurt a man unless he were
absolutely forced to do so in self-de-
Stories of both sides of the affair
lead an observer to infer h
jealousy was the whole cause of the
Heslop, they say, is a good
engineer and a faithful employee. Burns
s said to be ambitious and anxious to
De in charge of a big engine, and has
studied hard to acquire the necessary
He applied for and was re-
'ently granted a license to run an en-
zine. This fact, no doubt. stirred up
jealousy in both men. However, this is
,nly the supposition of the friends of
both men. Heslop's wound is not be-
ieved to be serious.
The real cause of IL all will come out
n the court preliminaries. Heslop has
w. b. Rodgers to defend him.
rhe county attorney stands ready to
axe the statement of Burns. No in
formation has been filed.
e. Burns is not a brother of the state