Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-28
.LuCEY TELLS
SOME THINGS
About His D0ings Before and
After the
MURDER OF PATRICK REGAIN
But There Are Others He Does Not
Say Anything About
Court Notes
OF PATRICK REGAIN

fdlTlck ftSdn, mas given Oul his III
airy following the finding of the body
of Regain. He says he was in various
| places, but the sheriff has reason to believe
his story is not true. Last evening one
of the attaches of the sheriff's depart
ment talked to the prisoner and, among
other questions, asked him If he did not,
after the murder, return to Butte. Lucey
answered in the negative. His questioner.
however, has been informed that he
was here. The man hat told him about
it says he has known Lucey from child
hood-knew him in the old country. He
told the officer he had seen him here after
the commission of the crime and he was
not mistaken.
Lucey says that on Sept. 3, the day of
the murder, Regain introduced him
to a man named Gilligan, and he left
them together at South Butte. He was
going to Anaconda. He had intended to
go to the Occur d Alene, but Gilligan had
come from there and his talk Of the place
caused him to change his mind. He had,
he sair, walked parto f the way to Stu
art on the night of the murder. He ad-
mitted having been at Gregson Springs,
and claimed that the satchel he had left
there was his own and not Regan's. In
"a III ~" AC SoiAiS ~ 5O W SAS
name of Sullivan. Lucey said he deserted
from the regular army a few years ago
and assumed it because it was the name
of his mother.
The sheriff has the satchel left by
Lucey at Gregson and it has been posi-
lively identified as the property of the
murdered man.
In making his explanations Lucey did
not say why, when arrested, he had given
his name as Regain to the officer that took
him into custody. Several weeks before
Lucey was captured Under Sheriff Muir
ply and several deputies discussed the
probability Of Lucey assuming a name
other than the ones by which he had been
known. Mr.. Murphy then said it was
characteristic of a murderer to assume
the name of his last victim and in all pro-
liability he would be found travelling un-
der the name of Regain. Sure enough
when the arrest was made and the officer
asked his name he promptly answered
"Regan.'
Four boys-Walter Mcleod, Dan Sui
Ivan, George Wickman and Ford Col
man-were arraigned in Justice Smiths
court yesterday afternoon to make their
plea to a charge of having burglarized
M. Fl. G~oldwater's junk shop in the
southern part of the city. They said they
were not guilty, but gave the court some
information which may lead to the ar
rest of the right parties. A constable
started in search of the other alleged
offenders, leaving the other four in court.
AS there was no officer present to take
them back to the county Jail Roy S. Alley,
the deputy county attorney, volunteered
his services and started with them. The
boys were chained together and while
marching along displayed symptoms of
humiliation. Mr.. Alley noticed their en-
barrassment and, concluding that they
were not entirely void of the instincts of
humanity, asked them if they would run
if he removed the chains. ooh, no. said
one, 1--WE will not rum" and the chains
were taken off. The boys marched along
like soldiers and did not give their GUS
todian the least trouble.
In the matter of the divorce suit Of
Frank Sweitzer against Lizzie Sweitzer,
in which a decree was ordered issued by
Judge Lindsay a short time ago, Kittie
Sweitzer, widow of the plaintiff, present.
ed a motion in court today to nave the
decree amended by inserting after the
word "heretofore' the words land now
in line fourteen, and inserting the word
dissolved" after the word thereby" in
line fifteen in order that the decree may
conform to the prayer of the complaint.
The motion will be heard May 20.
The court house boys received a chal-
lenge from the dry goods house clerks
today for a game of baseball and it was
accepted. Geo. p. Porter issued the chal-
lenge in behalf of the former and Ernest
Hardcastle received it. The contest will
take place on the 18th of May. A warm
time is expected.
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