The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-12

blackened Butte's history was brought
to light yesterday when . distracted
mother, Aft two laws IT searching.
found the outraged and n, rdered body
Of her s-year-old daughter.
Mention has been made in the Stand
ard the past two mornings OF the
search made by the police for little Eth
Ell Gill. The parents Of Ethel Gill are
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Gill, who live in
an unnumbered, one-room little cabin
In h rear Of No. 3e8 South Ohio ave-
nue.. Ethel was the only child of the
Gills.
Thursday evening about $50 o'clock
Ethel Gill asked her mothers permis-
sion to go down to the warehouse and
get some more orangesI Some Of the
other girls In the neighborhood had in
troduced Ethel to the game of picking
up the specked and partly rotten or
anges which were thrown out Of the
warehouses In the vicinity of the North
ern Pacific freight depot. Ethel had
not been down there alone, but her
mother gave her permission, telling her,
however, to come straight back, as sup
per was about ready.
1t ID only a little walk from the cabin
occupied by the ellis to the warehouse
OF Lee w. Foster & Bro, where Ethel
was accustomed to get the range You
go south on Ohio avenue about half a
block to Platinum street. and q few
steps to the east brings you to Fosters
warehouse. At the east side of the
warehouse there is a roadway leading
to the Northern Pacific tracks, along
the south end Of the warehouse. There
is a plptfCrm along the south end Of the
warehouse on which Northern Pacific
CAFE were u~nloaded. II was on and
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was accustomed to get her half decayed
oranges n 1t was on this platform.
a little after $3.50 O'clock Thursday o
ing, that she was seen.
Up against the east side of the Fos-
ter warehouse. about 20 feet south of
Platinum street. is a, water closet. old
n seldom used. Opposite. across the
roadway, are piles of lumber. being part
of the lumber yard Of j. T. Carroll &
Co.
Mrs. Gill waited for her daughter un-
til a little after 6 o'clock Thursday even
ing. Then she became somewhat con
cerned. as her daughter was very
prompt, and always did as she was told.
She concluded to start down towards
the warehouse to meet Ethel. She got
down TO the warehouse and found a
number of men standing around and a
gcoc deal of excitement manifested.
A policeman. Sergeant Leyden, had
just captured a supposed burglar. He
was found concealed under a pile of
lumber directly across the roadway
from the old water closet referred to
above. In the same lumber pile was
found $3.50 worth of hardware which
had been stolen from the Ras Rochester
hardware store on Main street and from
a Helena hardware store, and for which
the police had been searching.
Mrs. Gill went up to Sergeant Leyden
and told of her lost daughter.
"Oh, she'll come home" said the SER
geant. "She hasn't been gone long"
That was a little after $50 o'clock.
Mrs. Gill returned HON and she and
her husband had supper. Then as the
shadows of night d~eepened. Inc no sign
came of Ethel, their concern deepened
to alarm. They up to the police
station and told their story. The police
were put to work and several officers
were detailed to hunt around through
n lumber yards and the depot yards.
They could find no trace of the child.
All day Friday the search was kept up.
Chief Mulholland and a corps of officers
hunted through all the cabins, prospect
holes. water closets M shaft holes In
the vicinity. but nothing could be found.
A photograph Of the missing girl was
shown to all the policemen m a photo
graph and description were posted UP
In the postoffice. Mrs. Gill also went
out to the race track. She and her u.s.
band knew the race people well, az did
Ethel, and 1t was possible she a gone
out there. But the people at the track
had seen nothing Of her.
Friday and Friday night passed with
out any clue to the girls disappearance
being obtained. Early yesterday morn
ing Mrs. GIL appeared At the police Of
fee. She said she thought her child
had had a stone lied around her neck
and she q been thrown down q shaft
which had filled up with water. This
shaft had been examined as closely as
possible. but Mrs. Gill said 1t had been
impossible to examine IL thoroughly,
and she thought it ought to be drained.
The mayor instructed the chief to use
all the men needed i'm the search and to
have the shaft drained. So Chief Null
olla got a team and went to the
water company's Office to borrow a pump
with which to pump out the shaft.
Meanwhile Mr.. and Mrs. Gill. and
some OF their friends renewed their
search. Rather, they repeated their
In h same places In which they had
searched the preceding day. They
went through the lumber yards and the
warehouses. They reached the Foster
warehouse n c more
II am going to look in that water clos
ct once more SAID Mrs. Gill, pointing
to the old closet which leans up
against the east wall of the warehouse.
There is no use," aid Mr.. Gin. 1T
has been searched several times, and /
looked in there myself"
But Mrs Gill went into the closet
while Mr.. Gill and the %neighbors wait
ed outside.
II had a presentiment." said Mrs. Gill,
as she told the horrible tale to a Stand
ard reported. II had a pres eminent
that h was there. j felt I would
find her there. ] looked in ard saw
a black stocking. 1 thought IL might
be an old stocking that had been
thrown in. But ! raised up M lid and
looked closer. I could SEE a white
sleeve. with a red cuff at the end. and
I knew ii was my child. CAV a
scream and rushed out. and tina. is al
/ remember"
The child's body was taken up to
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