The Anaconda standard., 1898-03-15
usual notice to the account of the said


| in city of Anaconda, Deer Lodge coun-
| ty. contiguous to the county of Silver
| Bow, but which said paper has gen.
| eral circulation in the city of Butte In
| the county of Silver Bow and which
| deyotes the largest part of its space
| to affairs of Silver Bow county, also
! published on the morning of Jan. II.
| 1898. in its regular morning edition
what purported to be the facts of the
| said murder, in manner which was
! calculated to attract wide attention,
and did attract wide attention. to the
| account of the death of said Patrick A.
Largey, and circumstances surround
/ ing the same, which said Anaconda
/ Standard is widely circulated and uni
versally read by the people of both An
aconda and Deer Lodge county and
! Butte and Silver Bow county, which
said facts, or purported facts, as set
up in the said issue of the daily Ana
/ conda Standard, were facts which will
be proven, as you petitioner verify be-
/ lieves, on the trial of the said cause.
THAT the said Patrick A. Largey for
/ IL years prior to his death had been
resident of Silver Bow county, engaged
| in many enterprises which attracted
public attention through the press and
| otherwise. and was generally known
| throughout the said county of Silver
! Bow by the residents and citizens of
| said county.
THAT Immediately after the killing
of the said Patrick A. Largey, and be-
| fore the issue of any of the papers here
| inbefore referred to setting out the
facts, or alleged facts, or the said
crime, the report of the said killing
| spread rapidly and widely throughout
| the community and was the universal
| topic of conversation throughout the
said city, and for many days there
after, and was discussed and comment
ed on as probably no other criminal
case in Montana ever was before, and
people formed and expressed their opin-
ions very generally and fully during
| that time as to the guilt or innocence
of the said Thomas J. Riley.
'That all of the daily papers hereto
| fore mentioned are newspapers of
wide and general circulation through
out Silver Bow and Deer Lodge coun-
ties; that the editions of the said pa
pers containing the accounts of the
killing aforesaid of Patrick A. Largey
were unusually large detailing all the
| facts very fully as they actually oc
Cured at the time of the killing of
| the said Patrick A. Largey, taxing the
facilities of the said different news
| paper plants, and the said editions be-
ing exhausted rapidly by the public
| sales of the said papers. That for sew
eral days following the said murder,
each and all of the said papers con-
tanned what purported TO be additional
| facts in regard to the said murder. each
and all of which later issues of said
/ papers were widely circulated and read
! by the people of Silver Bow and Deer
| Lodge counties.
THAT in addition to the full accounts
of the said murder and the facts and
circumstances surrounding the same. in
| the news columns of the issues of said
papers heretofore referred to, each and
all of said papers. in their regular edi-
! tions Immediately succeeding the said
| crime contained prominent editorials
commenting upon what purported to be
the facts of the said tragedy, all of
which editorials, as well as the news
accounts heretofore referred to. were
generally and widely read by the peo-
| pie of the city of Butte and the county
of Silver Bow. and by the people of the
| city of Anaconda and the county of
| Deer Lodge That both the said daily
Anaconda Standard and the daily
Butte Miner. in their issues of the said
| 18th day of January, 1898. contained
! what purported to be an interview with
the said defendant, Thomas J. Riley. in
which he is alleged to have admitted
| the facts as substantially charged in
| the information herein set out
/ And your petitioner further al
| Ieges that even If a jury should be Sc
| lected in said county of Silver Bow.
qualified to sit on the trial of said
| cause. which your petitioner denies,
such jury could be had only after end
| less trouble and enormous expense. and
| that the efforts to secure said jury
which would be prolonged and tedious
| in the opinion of your petitioner.
would tend only to attract further wide
| attention to the merits of the case and
cause further discussion of the same,
| and instead of increasing the probabi1-
/ ity of securing a qualified jury would
diminish such probability 10 a great
| degree.
/ And your petitioner, after carefully
| investigating all of said facts, believes
| and so alleges and charges the fact to
! be that by reason of the wide and ex-
tensive circulation of the said newspa-
| pers and the prominent and conspicu-
Gus advertising of the said case and its
| merits before the public OF the said
issues of said papers. as Enthusiastically
evidenced by the increased number of
| papers sold on the said dates and
! further by reason of the public and uni
| yersal discussion of the merits of said
| case by all classes of people through
out the precincts of Silver Bow and
Deer Lodge counties. it will be utterly
/ impossible to secure a fair and impair
/ tial jury to try said cause.
"All of which said facts hereinbefore
| set forth, your petitioner alleges are
/ true according to his best knowledge,
| Information and belief.
In support of the allegations of this
| petition your petitioner herewith sub
mts affidayits.
/ Wherefore, your petitioner prays
/ that the said cause may be transferred
i to some county in the state of Mon
tana where the causes upon which this
/ petition is based do not exist"
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