The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-18

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The Mysterious Prize Fight.
G.. III. Ward. known as "Parson"
Ward. was killed in n brutal prize
fight at Crystal Springs. now Thorn
tons. on the 18th of December. 1889. ami
the man who killed him. Jack Gala
CHER. escaped because the sheriff re-
fused to arrest him unless someone
would first make n complaint against
him. Ward was a carpenter and did
some work for Gallagher on n building
on Park street. They got into a dis
pute over a small bill for extras pre-
scented by Ward and Gallagher chjl-
lenged him to fight IL out. They went
to Crystal Springs with several friends
and a number of sports N fought lJ5
rounds with skin-tight gloves. In the
Goth round Gallagher broke his arm. but
his second would not let him quit. BON
men were so badly used up that they
lad TO be assisted TO their feet at the
call of time. In the 9th round Ward
struck Gallagher a blow that turned
him around like a top and his fist 1c-
cidentally LANDED on the point OF Wards
Jaw. knocking him senseless. 1t took
five or ten minutes to bring Ward back
to consciousness and then he was push
ed into the ring again n eight more
rounds were fought, and in the last
Ward received a blow on the temple
which killed him.. Gallagher had been
knocked dow 50 times IN the first IS
rounds, and when the fight ended II was
not expected that he would live. How
ever. he was spirited out of town and
was never seen in Butte after that, but
he recovered from his injuries.
One Of the most horrible crimes ever
committed I'm Butte was the butcheryo Of
two old and helpless Chinese gardeners
in their cabin north Of the Butte, Ana
conda a. Pacific railway track on South
Montana street about three years ago.
One of the victims was China Joe. 80
years old. a ~well-known character on
the streets of Butte. For the purpose
OF robbery some iends had entered the
cabin during the night and with an axe
literally chopped Joe and his companion.
Pink Hoch. to pieces. The police never
obtained the slightest clue to the muir
derers.
Four or FIVE years ago three Chinese
gardeners living in n cabin near the
Columbia gardens were brutality muir
dered and their house robbed. The DO
sition OF the bodies indicated that one
OF them was shot and killed as he re-
sponded TO n knock ON the door. An
other was shot while lying in a bunk
smoking opium and the third was killed
after a desperate struggle. No trace Of
the murderers was ever fOurd. The
man Fredericks who attempted To -ob
"A San Francisco bank and killed the
cashier. for which he was hung. boast
ed that he. s~ingle-handed and alone,
killed the three Chinese. Re was in
Butte about the time of the murders.
No crime ever committed in Silver
Bow county produced a greater shock
to the community than the assassina-
ton OF Editor w. j. Pcnrose on che
night of June .. 1891. Although the
..,.l,- .,- ,.r,p,gst,I ,aa,Iv .irnt
years ago the crime l. stlll fresh in the
public mind. II was a smoky night and
Penrose was on his way home and when
he reached the corner OF Montana and
Galena streets he was shot down and
killed. The cause Of the murder has
always been a mystery, but the gerer-
ally accepted theory has been that IL
was an assassination by personal or
political enemies of Penrose. Several
arrests were "a but no case could
be made against the accused and the
murder remains one Of the unsolvsd
crimes Of Butte.
The Case of Jordan.
William r. Jordan. one Of the most
courageous and efficient officers the
city of Butte ever had. was shot doNr
while in the discharge of his duties
on the night Of June "a. 1892. Jordan
was O N South Idaho street n caught
several men in the act Of burGlariZ-
ing a house. When discovered they
started to run. The officer commanded
them to stop and one of them TUNED
and fired at the officer. killing him in
stantly. Another policeman heard the
shots and ran to the scene and met
the murderers coming from that direc-
ti0n, running as fast al they could.
The policeman let them run and they
escaped. \ long time afterward ono
] INrn MI HiaIaN alias kalN WAS mr.
rested for the murder on information
furnished by another crook. n be-
cause of the u~nreliability Of the teS-
timony of the chief witness for the
state, Hickey was acquitted at the
trial.
one night In 1857 a new sporting pa
vilion on Park street was thrown open
10 the public. A fellow named Dough-
erty got into the place and started a
row. The proprietor. whose name Is
not recalled. tried To eject him and
was killed with a knife in the hands
OF Dougherty. The ride then
grew wild and slaehed abou him ut
every ms within reach. and stabbed a
man named Harrington. who afterward
died in a hospital. Dougherty had
friends and they tried to effect rs es-
cape. but he was arrested n tried
for the double murder and was acduit-
ted. Later he went to Idaho and killed
another man there and was sent TO the
penitentiary and a few years & was
~pardoned.
In November. 1889. Joe Bsrr'ere. a
Canadian Frenchman. shot and killed
his wife. who was running n one-wo-
man den Of il-fame on Galena street.
The generally accepted story OF the
AFFAIR was hat Barriere demanded
money Of his wife and she refused To
give il to him. whereupon ne shot ard
killed her in the presence OF their
child. Barrlere's defense at his trial
was an alibi. and the jury took IL as
an excuse for turning him loose. II
was one Of those cases that gave en-
phas's to the saying that law and
Justice Is on the side of the hest law
yer. Barriere was ably defended.
Iuke Hardinr was an old wood shop-