The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-22
CHARGED WITH ASSAULT
Proceedings Against B. F. Dick
inson, Walking Delegate.
THE COMPLAINT is FILED
Cammans Swore That Dickinson Threat
ened His Life, and Asked That
He Be Put Under Bonds to
Keep the Peace.

Proceedings to have Boyd F. Dickin-
son, walking delegate for the Clerks
assembly, placed under bonds to keep
the peace were begun yesterday in JUS
tice Harrington's court in the filing of
a complaint charging Dickinson with
II. Cammans, who swears to the com
plant. Accompanying the complaint
was filed an affidavit by Cammans al
leging that Dickinson threatened the
life of Cammans and that the latter is
afraid he will carry out his threat. The
substance of the affidavit reads:
THAT at various and divers times
during the last past II months the said
defendant has made threats against
the life of this affiant; that on the
evening of the Goth day of January,
1899, in the ante room Of the Miners
union hall. in said city, county and
state, the said Boyd F. Dickinson made
an assault upon this affiant and made
and uttered threats against afflant, say
ing, among other things: I wanted to
kill you and will kill you YETI That
the said words were uttered in the pres
ence of the following persons, to-wit:
James j. Leahy, Dan Mcdonald, Will
lam Hogan, M. Butterfly and John
Maher; that affiant has reason to be-
lieve and does verify believe that the
said defendant, Boyd F. Dickinson, I'M
less required to furnish security to keep
the peace, will carry out his said threat
against the life Of aff1ant."
Back of the proceedings are two
stories, both Of which We're related to
Deputy County Attorney Roy Alley by
Cammans when he asked for the is
suance of complaint against Dickin-
son. The one upon which the complaint
was based was directly the outgrowth
of the last Labor day celebration. 1t
appears that some of the members of
the Silver Bow Trades and Labor as
sembly got it into their heads that some
one got rake off from the moneys
expended from the treasury of the as
sembly for Labor day, and started in
agitation for an investigation as to
how the money was all spent. The agi-
tation developed such proportions that
an investigating committee was APP
pointed. Cammans and Dickinson are
both delegates to the assembly and it
CHANGED that Cammans was named on
the committee and was made
secretary. The committee held it's ses-
sion Friday night and Dickinson was
summoned to testify. On appearing
before the committee he refused to give
testimony because Cammans was on the
committee and proceeded to apply to
him all the vile names at his command.
A miX-ups enSued in which Dickinson
got his arm around Cammans and the
latter drew gun but was unable to
use it as Dickinson was on his back
and held him too tightly. The appear
ance of the gun caused scattering of
delegates, but a few remained and
separated the combatants, taking Cam
mans gun away from him. 1t was
during the struggle that Dickinson is
alleged to have uttered the threat en-
bodied in the words attributed to him:
II wanted to kill you and 1 will kill
you yet"
Mr.. Alley had thus far been unable to
find in the story any warrant for such
an assault on the part of Dickinson,
and inquired further, asking what had
TRANSFERRED in the past to engender such
feeling on Dickinson's part. 1t was
then the whole cause of all the trouble
came out, and like in the case of the
man who committed suicide by jumping
into the bay, there was a woman at the
bottom of 1t.
Cammans related that earlylas spring
he met with serious accident in which
he sustained a broken arm, and which
caused him to be laid up for some time.
1t CHANGED that he lived in the same
house with Dickinson and his wife, and
Mrs. Dickinson nursed him back to
health. By and by Dickinson acquired
the conviction that his wife was paying
more attention to Cammans than was
necessary, and succeeding events did
not tend to appease his jealousy The
breach widened and eventually Mrs.
Dickinson applied for divorce on the
grounds of cruelty. which was in time
granted. Being without means of sup
port after the separation, Mrs. Dickin-
son accepted employment with Cammans
at his place of business in East Broad
way. Cammans said Dickinson appar-
emily holds him responsible for his es-
arrangement from his wife, and for the
past eleven months has lost no oppor-
tunity to make it interesting for him,
although his relations with Mrs Dickin-
son had never been anything but pro-
per, and he had never given Dickinson
any cause to be jealous of him.
Mr.. Alley granted complaint for
third degree assault, took his affidavit |
in support of his application to have
Dickinson bonded to keep the peace,
and upon the documents being filed in
Justice Harrington's court, a warrant
for Dickinson's arrest was issued.