The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-26
BUTTE News.
It IS STILL A MYSTERY
Investigating the Death of Joshua
l.. Carlisle.
NO DIRECT TESTIMONY
He Was Probably Alive Saturday Even
ing, According to Two Witnesses.
Drowning the Cause OF
Death.

Doubt still exists as to the time when
Prof. Joshua L. Carlisle received his
fatal fall into Missoula gulch. Coroner
Julien and a jury inquired carefully
into the case at an inquest, held al
Richards undertaking rooms, last
evening, but it was impossible to es-
tablish to a certainty just when the
fatality occurred.
j. X. Heslet, who was one of the wit
nesses, told of Professor Carlisle COM
ing to his house, some IS yards from
the scene of the fatality, at o'clock
Saturday morning, Mrs. Jennie Storms,
who lives on the east bank of Mis-
soula gulch, and from a window of
whose house the discovery of the dead
man was made, told of hearing a per-
son groaning violently 80 minutes af-
ter Professor Carlisle awoke Mr.. Hes
let Both were very certain of the day
and hour, and their testimony would
seem to offer pretty strong circumstan
tial proof of the time, but two othec
witnesses were quite positive the music
teacher was alive Saturday evening.
The jury being in doubt. fixed the date
as being either the 22nd or card. With
regard to the cause there seemed lit
tie doubt. though there was no direct
testimony, and the jury decided it to
have been drowning.
Miss Sheba Storms of GA West Park
street was the one to discover the pres
enCe of the dead man in the gulch. she
and Miss Twohy were together in ner
ROOM on the west side of the house,
Sunday afternoon, looking out of her
window, and they saw what appeared
TO be the body of a man in the gulch
They called a third girl, Miss Mazel
and went down and investigated. They
found it to be the body of a man. Wit
ness had not looked out the wind )w
to the best of her recollection, Def IRE
that day and the day before, and he
body might have lain there for some
time and she not have discovered it,
Miss Mamie TWohv gave the same tes-
timony, and Miss Nellie MaZel told of
substantially the same circumstances.
Mrs. Jennie Storms, mother OF the
first witness, whose house stands on
the east bank of MissOula gulch, tes-
titled that she was awakened Satur-
day morning by the sound of a voice
or voices. She had to awaken her son
early, and she got up to see what time
il was 1t was 4:30 o'clock. She went
back to bed, and mmediately heard
heavy grooming. She got up and looked
out but could see nothing, and she
concluded some one must be sick and
got up to ascertain if it was any OF
her family. She found it was not and
concluded it must be a member of an
other family living in the house, but
on inquiry during the day she found
no one in the house had been i'll the
night before. The place where deceas-
ed was found was close enough for her
to have heard a person groan that faI
away.
While McNulty a 15-year-old boy,
testified that he and another boy, Will
lie Mclaughlin, We're asked by young
ladies' to go down in the gulch and see
if the object was really a man. They
saw il was and witness and the other
boy went at once to a telephone ana
notified Undertaken Richards. Willie
Mclaughlin testified to the same facts.
]. X. Heslet, whose residence is at
COL West Galena street, testified that
Professor Carlisle rang his doorbell at
o'clock Saturday morning and in
uuired the way to the Butte hotel. He
gave the direction and Professor Car
Isle started toward the gulch. Wit
ness called him back, but he imme-
diately started off south and when wit
ness called TO him again, he replied:
"Oh, this is dead easy for me-" and
kept going. He disappeared behind the
next house to the south, Professct
Carlisle was very heavily intoxicated
at the time. The house of the witness
is he said, about rs yards from the
place where the body was found, and
Professor Carlisle could easily have
wandered around to that point by the
time Mrs. Storms heard the groans
she testified to.
j. H Mylus was one of the first tc
go down into the gulch when the body