The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-23
IT MAY Be A MURDER
A Stabbing ARRAY in an East
Park Street Saloon.
RESULT OF A POKER GAME
It Is Said That b Winner OF a Jackpot
Aroused III Ire OF One of the
Alleged Gamblers and q
Drunken Row Ensued.

A stabbing ARRAY which may turn
out 10 be a murder occurred yesterday
morning about Z o'clock in the saloon
run by Joe Archambault at 100 East
Park street, known as the Golden Gate.
Con Maxi was stabbed by one OF the
men whom he designated as Jacob
Janeksela and Jacob Maxi. and nov lies
al ST. James hospital so weak from the
loss OF blood that he may not survive
his injury. The two men Maxi accused
were arrested and are now held at the
county Jail pending the outcome of the
injured mans case.
The stabbing was the elimination or
a drunken row. which grew q u OF a
gambling game. The " men whom
the injured Maxi accused are said to be
gamblers by profession. while the other
parties to the affair are laborers. Maxi,
the injured man. told the police that
during the previous night he was play
ing i'm a game OF poker in which Maxi,
the accused, also had a hand. He won
a fair-sized Jack pot from Maxi No. :
and the latter got sore and threatened
that he would "do up Maxi. the win
ner. before morning. The two Makis,
Janeksela and several other natives Of
Finland were drinking and c~arousing
later i'm h morning. when something
came up which precipitated the quar-
rel. the details of which none OF the
parties to the ARRAY would divulge.
Police headquarters was notified by
telephone about : o'clock Of the cut
ting and Officers Curley and TOTpey
were sent to the scene. When they
reached the saloon. the principals had
disappeared. The place looked like a
slauehtering pen. the officers said. n
injured man had lost a great amount
of blood. which had run over the floor,
giving the place a CHASTITY appearance.
The officers could get very little out OF
the men in the saloon concerning the
cutting. but the injured man was stu
there and he told the officers he had
been cut i'm a general miX-up. and
either Jacob Maxi or Jacob Janeksela
was the RESPONSIBLE party. The officers
had the injured man sent to the hos
pital and hen went In search OF the
men he accused. The two men were
found in a house in the Parrot fiat and
taken tn the city Jail and later to the
county Jail.
Maxi. the injured man. was taken to
Murray & Freund's hospital, where his
injury was dressed and later he was
transferred to st. James hospital. His
wound was "A deep knife wound in the
thigh Just below the groin. not neces-
sarily a fatal one. but he suffered
i RTtdllN lEtIn INT EuOths ilt ips' ~
much blood before he reached the hos
! pital he was very low throughout the
day and his death at any moment
would have ~occasioned no surprise To
his attendants. He was still reported
as very low at a late hour last night,
and his recover is problematical.
Janeksela, n of the accused. was
much intoxicated and wore a boasiful
air when taken 10 jail. He toasted very
loudly that he vas a gambler. and
seemed to take a great deal of pride In
the fact. To n reporter he told an In
g~enious story in giving his version Of
the cutting. He said several men were
playing poker and he n Con Maxi
stood looking on. Without any cause.
he said. Con Maxi attacked him with a
knife. To protect himself he seized his
assailant by the coat collar and threw
him on his back on the floor. falling
on top Of him. As he did so, Max
made a swinging thrust with the knife,
but he (Janeksela) rolled out of the
way and Maxi buried the knife in his
own flesh. Several witnesses who saw
the cutting were taken into cust'dy and
are being held. They stated that
Janeksela's story Is untrue and he was
the man who did the stabbing.