The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-13

/ at the races and was up near the bet
/ ting stand when the shooting occurred.
He was talking To James Haptlsie.
/ While they We're talking Baptiste
turned to the wicket of the little room
as if some one had called HIM lie was
at the wicket only a few minutes when
a shot was fired and Baptiste staggered
/ and fell To the floor and against the
/ wall. sullivan heard second shot
soon afterwards. The witness went up
/ to where Baptiste was lying.
/ Did you speak to him. asked MI
/ Stiyers.
| NO, he spoke to me first"
What did he say
/ HE said. 'sully, / am shot; my legs
/ are paralyzed
1 from which the shot came, but ne only
] saw the outer door swing as II some one
1 had gone through it.
/ Police officer James Lawson testified
/ that he was ON the beat ON Park street
when he heard the shots fired lie saw
| people coming out of the nj. K NJ and
| he ran in at the front door and out al
the rear and went up the alley 10
/ Broadway and saw Il crowd at the cor
ner Of Broadway and Academy street
i He went up and found n woman in
charge of a deputy sheriff.
who was the woman
Don't know.
Did YOU ever see her since?
| Il don't know"
Did you see her before that time
Not that ! know Of
The officer was in the pool room
short while before the shooting ana
saw d woman standing at the wicket Of
the betting stand, but he did not know
her.
Deputy Sheriff r H. Sidley, the next
witness said he left the sheriffs ottlce
4 about 5 minutes to . o'clock on the even
II .t1 IaF Ita
Hamilton street 10 Broadway and while
4 i'm front Of Medin's store he heard sew
eral shots fired. He started toward
Main street and saw a crowd coming
some one cried stop that woman.
i | didn't know what woman they meant
/ and | went out into the middle of the
/ street and tried to stop woman on a
/ bicycle. ! thought she had stolen some
thing. / then saw another woman run
and she had a revolver in her hand
supposed that was the woman they
/ wanted stopped. | ran diagonally across
the street 10 stop her thought the
woman was crazy. She tripped and fell
al the corner of Academy and Broad
way and ! laid my hand on her ana
took the gun away from her.
Did she make any kind of demon
stration toward YOU when you tired 10
stop herr" asked MI. Stivefs.
She told me to stop or she would
shoot"
What were her exact words
Il can't just say. ] think she said
I stop, or I'll shoot YOU sure as hell,
You say she carried the revolver in
her right hand what did she do with
| her left hand?'
she held up her skirts with H.
The witness said the pistol he took
from her was of a - or 3S-caliber and
contained one empty cartridge, three
We're loaded and one chamber was EN-
| tirely empty.
Did YOU have any conversation with
her al the time Of the arrest"
No: she acted as If she was in hys-
tefics and in a high state of excitement,
and | couldn't get anything out of her.
She asked me Ii | knew where her
purse was About L or ID minutes
later. at the city jail, she asked me II
+ she had killed him. | didn't know any
one had been shot and ! told her she
| had not
What words did you nse3''
Il said You never touched him.
What did she say
she said 1 am glad of that :
Mr.. Stivers asked the witness II he
| had not testified at the coronefss in
quest that Mrs, Baptiste said she was
sorry instead of glad.
Yes, / testified both Mays. She first
said she was glad and half an hour
later she said she was sorry. After she
Was brought up To the county jail she
was sorry she had not killed him.
What did she say to you about her
purse when YOU arrested her."
She said she had left II in the vine
room adjoining the pool room Of the
NJ. A. Nj.
In answer To further questions the
witness said the woman was in a high
~ nervous state of excitement.
In fact" said Mr.. Sidley. the wo-
man looked To me 10 he crazy.
i immersion
asked Mr.. Clinton on cross-examina-
ton.
The glare Of her eyes more than
anything else.
The witness said Mrs Baptiste asked
him why he had put his knee ON her
breast. No one had done SO. She made
a number of other statements that were
| not rational. She imagined that she
was crushed, thai her body had been
crushed and for month afterwards
she complained about the officer having
placed his knee on her breast When
she was being taken tn the county jail
she wanted the officers 10 allow her To
90 home. She said she didn't know
What they wanted her for.
Frank Flynn. bartender al the NJ &
NJ, testified that he had had several
conversations with Mrs, Baptiste on dif-
ferent occasions prior to the shooting.
During one Of the conversations she
complained that her husband was not
treating her right She said she VAS
sick all the time that he had sent her
10 Kansas City and she had hot heard
| from him Tor long time. She told
Flynn that her husband had treated her
so bad that she intended To shoot him.
She did not want to kili him, but Want
ed 10 injure him and make him suffer
for the way he had treated her. The
witness MAS al the hospital With Bap-
tiste about an hour after he had been
+ shot Iaut5Sfa made S8np statement