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

t~erville. also had several narrow es-
capes- In neither case were the dyla-
miters ever discovered
They Did the Right Thing.
Here are a few sensational cases Of
murder and the suicide of the muir
derers:
On the 18th Of November, 1891,
Charles J. Price shot and killed his
friend. p. J. Cunningham. 1t was one
of those dense, smoky nights for which
Butte winters are famous from Silver
Bow creek to the river Styx. Price and
Cunningham had been intimate friends
and had been more or less intimate with
the same woman The two men met
on Main street. near the Union Pacific
Office, and without a word OF warning
Price whipped out q u and shot u
killed Cunningham. There were many
people n the vicinity Of the murder
and heard the shot, but no n saw the
killing. as it was impossible in the
dense sulphur smoke to see farther thar
two or three feet. Price, however, was
caught n subsequently, convicted Of
~manslaughter or murder In the second
degree. While awaiting sentence he got
out of Jail during the noted jail break
under Sheriff Lloyd's administration. In
the course of time he was recaptured
and committed suicide in Jail.
In May. 1856, a mar named Potter
shot and killed Joe Henderson and then
committed suicide. Henderson was run
ming a general merchandis store on
Broadway. the site of the present post
Office building. Potter claimed hat
Henderson owed him some money for
el~ectioneering for him at Phoebe sew
eral years prior to the murder, where
Henderson held the Office Of county
clerk. Henderson refused to pay him
and one morning Potter hung arou i'd
the front of Henderson's store with a
sawed-off shotgun concealed under his
coat. When Henderson opened his
door Potter walked in and blew his
head off. The murderer then ran out
the back door and hid under the STAIR
way. and when pursued he used the re-
mainder of the load in his gun to kill
himself. Potter was buried with his
clothes on and without ceremony. A
few days later il occurred to some one
that he might have had some letter or
valuable in his pockets n the body
was exhumed and a letter, which Pot
ter had written to the public. was found.
He gave many reasons for killing Hem
derson. 1t is said that besides money
there was also a woman in the case.
On March II. 1895, Officer Fred Parlln
was called to Wyoming alley to quell a
fight there and when he knocked on the
door of the cabin for admittance some
ms opened IL and shot him dead. The
men in the cabin ran out and dis
persed. One of them, Roderick u.
Judge. supposed to have been the muir
derer, was chased to the southern part
of the city. He took refuge under a
sidewalk and when discovered he shot
and killed himself. One of his partners,
Edward Edwards, was bound over to
the district court. but was afterwards
released.
On the Fourth of July, 1898. Thomas
Coombs killed his young wife at an
East Park street boarding house by
cutting her throat with a razor. The
murderer then took a dose of poison.
from the effects of which he died soon
after his arrest. The murder was a
particularly cruel one. The woman was
scarcely more than a girl. Coombs had
married her but n short time before for
the purpose. as he claimed. of protect
ing her and good name, she hav-
ing been betrayed by another man.
Jealousy was the cause of the murder.
Coomb provided himself with a razor
and poison. He rushed into her room
and caught her as she was dressing.
Taking hold of her hair ne pulled ner
head back and cut her throat.
Thomas Leen shot and killed James
Shea at Centerville on Sept. 16, 1897,
and when several witnesses to the muir
der attempted to take him Leen stood
them off with his gun and, walking
down street a short distance, he turned
the weapon on himself and sent a bull
let through his head. Leen blamed
Shea with being the cause of his los
ing a job at a mine where he had been
employed.
A Case of Jealousy.
II was a case of jealousy that
prompted Charles Buise to attempt
the murder of Waldo Whipple on the
cath OF January. 1898. Buise and Whip
pie were variety performers and with
the woman in the case roomed In a
house down on East Mercury street.
After shooting whipple. Bulse killed
himself Whipple. however. recovered.
James Cosgrove, a young miner,
while on a drunk with Ruby Raymond,
a divorced woman and concert hail
worker. took her to. Boulder, where
they were married. When he Sobered
up and realized what he had done ne
concluded to make the best of a
bargain and tried to reform his wife.
but his efforts ended in failure And
made life miserable for C~osgrove. She
finally left him and went back to the
concert hall business and instituted a
suit for divorce. Her husband had be-
come infatuated with her and induced
her to return "a him. She played him
false. however. repeatedly. and one lay
he went to her room i'm the Key West
house and fired two shots through her
head and then killed himself.
Adolph Schwade. an old n well
known German, was brutally murdered
some time about the 18th of May OF
last year..
THE famous willard affair occurred