The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-15
DUE TO NATURAL CAUSES
Thomas Condor Dies Suddenly
in q Small Cabin.
REFUSED TO SEE A DOCTOR
Had Long Been . Sufferer From Stomach
Complaint. Which Finally Resulted
in Death-Evidence Adduced at
Coroner's Inquest l. Meeger.

The dead body OF Thomas Condor
was discovered late on Wednesday
night by a man named John Adams. in
a cabin north of the Montana Union
railroad tracks, near Warm Springs
creek. Adams at once came to the city
and notified Coroner H~ardenbrook. who,
after viewing the remains and h sur
roundings, ordered it removed to En-
rets undertaking rooms.
Yesterday afternoon Coroner Har-
denbrook empaneiied the following per-
sons to act as "a coroner s jury to in
quire into The death OF Condor: Thorn
Is Boland. q. O.. Vineyard. James
Smith. II. ID. Crosswhite, =. w. Haynes
and George Elston.
The hrst witness was John Adams, a
laborer. He said that he was quite
well acquainted with Condor and often
visited him in his cabin. On Tuesday
he began vomiting n nothing that
was gwen him would lie on his stom-
ach. All of Tuesday night the vomit-
ting continued, The witness said he
spoke to Condor several times bou
getting a doctor, but Condor would not
entertain the proposition for a NOM
ent. condo told the witness he did
not want any doctor, as he would be
all right again in a day or 80. Condor
was lIeQutulIy tdhtu Will NOIIlittius
spells, and a them a number OF
times before. They always took him
the same way.
The witness left Condor about 7:30
o'clock on Wednesday night and went
away for a few hours. About 10 o'clock
he called again m found Condor dead.
Adams went out and got another man
to stay with the les man and he came
to the city and notified the coroner.
In answer to questions put by the
Jurors the witness said that london
had been sick all day. Inc that as soon
as he took anything he would ave to
throw II up again. The witness said
that Condor a not been drinking
much. He was taken sick In the same
way about two years ago. and a to
be sent to h hospital at Deer Lodge.
At that time, as was h case during
his last illness, Condo refused to have
a doctor called in to attend him. on-
don. said Adams, had been suffering
from the same complaint for years, and
had occasionally been very sick, but as
a general thing he had been able to be
about. He had been confined to his
room only for a few days prior to his
death. He was out on Monday and a
complained of taking cold. The cabin
in which Condor lived belongs to a
man in Butte whose name is O'Neill.
There was nothing In the cabin of
NaioS 81 laI as <hdoliio
Charles Mack was the next witness
called. He said he was a laborer and
was acquainted with m He had
dropped in to see him about 1880 o'clock
on Wednesday evening. Condor was
lying in bed and appeared to be very
sick. The witness said to him.: IT
think you are getting worse" to which
remark Condor replied: II think / am
all right" That was all the CONVEX
sation the witness had with the dead
man. He did not know that Condor
ever drank too much, but he would
probably have taken a drink IL he had
had the money to pay for il.
Mack a been a frequent visitor at
Condon's cabin, and Condor had al
ways complained of some sort of a pain
In the stomach, and he was constantly
talking about his ailment.
The witness said that Condor had
always claimed to have a pension COM
ing from the government, but had new
err received 1t. The tines thought
that Condor had two cousins some
where in Montana. but he did not know
where.
This concluded the testimony and the
Jury after a short elaboration rendered
a verdict that Condor had come to his
death from natural causes so far as
could be ascertained from the evidence.
Nothing has beer learned concerning
Condon's relatives. II is said that some
of his people reside in Omaha but moth
ing is known as to their address. Con-
dor was about SO years of age and was
a survivor of the civil war.