Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-03
John Meeham ReSentS a Kind
Offer With His Fist
AND THEN USES HIS TEETH
Victims Nose Almost Torn Fr0m His
Face--A Charge Of Mayhem
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street called at the county attorneys
office today and secured a complaint
charging John Meehan, a resident Of the
Second ward, with the crime of mayhem.
McGowan's nose presented a horrible Up
pearance, having been almost severed
from the face, then sewed on again by
DR.. Renick and held partly in place by
bandages.
If the story he told the public prose-
cutor is true, and there is no reason to
believe otherwise until the matter is in
vestigated in the courts, Meehan might
be classed as an migrate. MCGOWAN said
he owned some property in the city and
by occupation was a miner; that he had
known Meehan twenty years and on
numerous occasions had befriended him.
About 8 o'clock last evening they had
met in West Granite street and McGow-
an began to give Meehan some advice
which he considered would, if followed,
rebound to his future welfare. He dwelt
upon the evil effects of indulgence in
gambling and strong drink and offered to
loan him, without interest, a sufficient
amount of money to build a home and
thus escape the far-reaching tenticles of
the rent octopus. Meehan refused to ac-
cept the money on the conditions named,
and MCGOWAN then offered to let him
have the total sum at 81 a year. Meehan
refused the offer and also the advice on
the evils of going against other mems
games, n when he thought MCGOWAN
had reached the limit in the way of Offer
ings he answered by striking his would
be benefactor a blow on the left ear with
his fist. MCGOWAN says he attempted
f0 nv 0Eryox fnoro hic oCcof1orf h,rt tho
latter followed n clinched him. With
out further he grabbed Nc
Gowan's nose between his teeth and held
to it with the tenacity of a fighting bull
dog. MCGOWAN e~ndeavored to choke him
off, cut Meehan retained his hold as long
as possible. When the breakaway oc-
Cured Meehan's teeth were deeply i'm
bedded in the flesh and McGoWan's nose
was literally torn away.
The injured man further stated that
Meehan had a wife and two children and
for that reason he did not like to prose-
cute him, but at the same time the act
was one which he did not intend should
go UNPUBLISHED. The complaint was filed
in Justice Bliss court.
The trial of a suit involving a claim
for wage alleged to be due for work
performed on the East Morning Star
mine during the latter part of 1897 and
the early life of 1898, was commenced in
Judge Clancy's court this morning. The
title of the action was l.. G. Pearson VS..
John Frederick, but Adam F~arraday
seemed to be the principal defendant.
The plaintiff alleged that he had worked
125 days as a machinist at the property
and had not been paid in full for his SER
vices.
The defense admitted the performance
of the work, but claimed that when Pear
- 1>D~or1 rryov1y / = wa q with flN rlo
standing that he was to receive his wages
only in case of a strike of pay ore. The
plaintiff denied that any such agreement
had been made He said he had been en-
ployed by Mr.. Levoy, the foreman, and
while the matter of the amount of money
he was to receive per day had been de-
cided upon, there was nothing said about
the alleged conditions under which he
should get it.
w. T. Hedley testified to a conversa-
ton he had with Adam Farraday who
owned the lease on the property some
time in March Of 1898. He said he kept
a boarding house. Pearson was one of
his bOardeis and was in arrears. Far
raday had old him he expected to me-
gotiate a loan and would then settle
with Pearson. He wanted witness to
take him as security.
Outside of the fact that it was shown
that Pearson had been paid a portion of
the money due him and that the money
was the result of a loan negotiated by
Adam F%arraday, this was all the testi-
mony for the plaintiff and the defense
went to the front.
Foreman Levoy testified that he had
employed Pearson on the bedrock pay
principle that is, if pay ore was struck
in the mine he would be compensated to
a degree commensurate with the labor
performed.
William Guedalhofer testified that ha
had worked as a blacksmith at the mine
and a man named Jones, also an en-