The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-27
THINK He is THE MAN
Quinn Arrested for Selling Whis-
key to Indians.
EVIDENCE VERY STRONG
Others Besides Those IN Custody Sup
posed to Be Implicated in the KILL
ing of Ambrose-Quinn Pro-
tests His Innocence.

Missoula. Nov 26.-True to their pre-
dictions, the county attorney and the
sheriff last night landed in Jail man
who is supposed to be the fellow who
has been supplying whskey to Indians
around the city. His name is Michael
Quinn. He has been living in town for
three or four years and the officers feel
confident that he is the man that they
have been looking for so long. Quinn,
himself does not discuss the case at all
except to enter positive denial that
he has ever given or sold any liquor
to Indians. He is well known about
town and when it was made known to-
day that he had been arrested. charged
with this grave offense, there was gen
eral surprise manifested. The partic.-
lars of the evidence against him the
officers are keeping to themselves. but
they seem to feel that there is no doubt
of the guilt of the man.
There have been no new developments
in the murder case, which resulted from
too free use of the liquor that the In
dams obtained from somebody, since
the confession of Lolo, which was pub
lished in the Standard to-day. Lolo's
confession, is in the hands Of the county
attorney and there is no room for any
doubt that he will be punished for the
crime. The county attorney is unwill-
ing to give to the public any of the
details of the confession until he has
secured additional facts concerning
some others who are supposed to be in
directly implicated in the matter, but
there has leaked out enough of the
story of Lolo to indicate that his ac-
count of the killing shows that it was
the result of a desperate fight, in which
he worsted Ambrose. 1t does not ap-
pear that the killing, according to the
story told by Lolo, was a deliberate
murder. but the leaving of the body of
the dead Indian after the fight gives the
case a bad appearance.
1t will be remembered that the muir
dered Indian was left lying where the
camp had been and that the other reds
fled in different directions. The body
was found by the mother of Ambrose.
who was ignorant of any trouble and
had returned to the camp near the Chi
nese gardens expecting to find her
friends there. All that she discovered
when she reached there was the dead
body of her son. This she took with
her to the reserve for interment. Her
arrival at the reservation was the first
intimation that anybody had received
of the murder Indian Agent Smead
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two Of the Indian police to assist in
ferreting out the mystery of the crir 4.
For two or three days these police. Wlth
the sheriff's officers, secured the country
around Missoula and arrested several
Indians who We're known to have been
in the dead mans company on the day
that the murder was supposed to have
been committed.
Among those arrested was the wom-
an Little Mary, who lives on the ISL
and above the big bridge across the
Missouri river. 1t was certain that she
knew something about the affair,
though she denied this and until last
night maintained a close silence. She
was a woman with whom all of the
Indians connected with the case had
been en- terms of intimacy and when
they We're in town they visited her
place. 1t was known that she had seen
the men on the day of the murder but
she would not admit that she knew
anything about the death of Ambrose.
AS the circumstances connected with
the case were gradually discovered by
the officers, the latter began to hold the
theory that Little Mary was more close
ly connected with the case than was
at first supposed. The woman evidently
became alarmed lest she should be dt-
rectly connected with the murder in
the minds of the officers and last night
she told the story of the killing, in
volving Lolo in her tale as the prin-
cipal. When the Indian learned that
the woman had revealed his secret, he
admitted his guilt and told the sheriff
how the killing came about.
Lolo is we'll built full-blooded Flat
head Indian, apparently about "a years
old. Ambrose was a few years o'dar
and the two We're good friends. Aside
from his confession made last night,
Lolo maintains characteristic Indian
silence and will not discuss the case
From the fact that Quinn was arrested
so soon after the confession of Lolo
1t is thought that the latter must have
implicated him in some way. Quinn
however, insists that there has been a
mistake and that he is innocent. The
charge will be made against Quinn in
the federal court, as the penalty is
greater than in the state courts.
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