The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-12
THE BLACKLIST CRIME
IN BUT7ES HISTORY
Little Ethel Gill Outraged and Murdered and Her Dead Body
Thrown Into . Vault = The Supposed Brute
Believed to Be In Custody

the child had apparently fallen or been
thrown to the moor.
The Gills are California people. They
came to Butte first just about . ear
ago. ana Mrs.. Gill did the cooking At
the race track during the races last
summer After h races the ellis
moved back TO Oakland. where Mrs.
Gill cooked At the track during thew win
ter races About two months ago they
came again to Butte, Mrs. en- having
been engaged to cook for Finlen 4 Co.
at the track again this summer.
Ethel Gill was nine years old on
March % last. She was SIM all for her
age. n did not appear to be more
than seven ear of g She was Of
dark complexion, rather pretty. modest
In appearance and obedient in lifpo-
sltion.
me members Of the police are work
Or not they will unearth the psrpstrator
Of the foul crime cannot b told. Grim
inals have a way OF going scot free In
Butte and II nay be difficult to obtain
evidence sufficient to convict the GRIM
inal, even IL ne is found.
II am sure we have the man behind
the bars right now" said thief Null
holland yesterday.
Mr.. Mulholland refers to the burglar
uoaIICu SuuiiCS 0uiItup WIN Wao lOoAA0
concealed in Carrolls lumber yard, d.
rectly opposite the water closet, an hour
after the child disappeared. This man
was arrested at the time on a charge OF
b~urglarizing the hardware store and Is
now in h county Jail. The officers who
arrested him say there was blood on his
shirt when he was arrested. Oficers
searched him carefully yesterday after
noon. but all traces OF blood had then
Aioo ppoor rod Grnffh uyoo Araf MA caA In
the city jail and SOC after his incar-
ceration he was discovered trying to pry
the loo of his cell door by means of an
iron bar he had wrenched from his bed.
This showed greater anxiety to get
away than is shown as q rule by the
ordinary thief. After this attempt at
escape Smith was taken to the county
jail. Smith IL about 20 years OF age,
smooth face and slight build.
Mr.. AyreA manager Of the Foster
warehouse. said yesterday that he saw
the little girl on the platform picking
up the oranges Thursday evening. The
children are not allowed In the ware
house, but the specked are
thrown out to them. Mr.. Ayres saw a
man talking to the little girl on the plat
form as she was picking up the
oranges He thought he could identify
the man and will be taken to the county
Jail TO see him..
Mr.. Ayres, manager Of the Foster
warehouse. went to the county jail last
evening to see II he could identify
Smith as the man he saw with the girl
on the warehouse platform Thursday
evening when she was picking up
oranges. Mr.. Ayres was unable to iden-
tify Smith as the man and said the
man he saw was an utterly different
looking man.
Detective Murphy, however. unearth-
ed another witness in the person of j.
L. Thompson. yardman at the Carroll
lumber yard. Mr.. Thompson is the man
who first discovered the stolen hardware
under the pile of lumber. He notified
the police and they asked him to watch
and let them know when the man who
cached the hardware appeared in the
neighborhood. A little after s o'clock
Thursday evening Mr.. Thompson saw
Smith standing in the roadway between
the water closet and his cache under
the pile of lumber. He vas standing
about II feet from the water closet. He
looked excited and his and showed
bloody marks. His shirt front was
bloody also. Mr.. Thompson telephoned
to Sergeant Ieyden, who Immediately
came down. While Thompson was tele-
phoning Smith had disappeared. But
Leyden found him under the lumber
pile. as already related.
All the officers agree that there was
blood on Smiths shirt and clothes when
he was arrested n taken to Jail. The
police yesterday found beside the closet
a board about two feet long and eight
inches wide. on which were plainly dis
tinguishable bloody finger marks. They
also found some bloody lining torn from
a coat. The lining was close beside the
board.
Last evening Sergeant Leyden and a
deputy sheriff took Smith down to Tn
dertaker Duggan's to have him see the
body OF the o o girl and note the eff
feet The girls body had been washed
and all h blood marks had been re-
moved. Smith looked at the girl's body
coldly and ssolemnly, and then said: II
never did that act I may be bad, but
l never did that"
Justice Laurandeau, acting coroner,
will hold an inquest over the girls body
on Tuesday. 1t was deemed best to de-
lay the inquest In order that the police
might have time to gather evidence.