The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-09

A portion of the dead mans brain also
lay in the pool of blood. From here the
track was followed by the blood and
the footprints by a circuitous route to
the road, where the track was lost.
There was but one conclusion to be
reached from what could be seen, and
that was that whoever was responsible
for the murder met or overlook his man
in the road, killed him and carried the
body along the track; had to stop to
rest, laying the body down where the
pool of blood was found, and then car
rying it again till the gully was reached,
and there, supposing it was hidden from
sight the body had been searched and
left.
From where the body lay the same
foot track that led up to the spot led
away in northeasterly direction.
About so feet from the body the dead
mans cap was found, where it had APP
parently been thrown by the murderer
as he went. The cap was plain wooden
one, without ear coverings, and was a
blush black in color. The track turned
from where the cap was found and
went northwest till it struck the road
and was again obliterated.
No evidence was found anywhere in
the vicinity to indicate what sort of an
instrument the murderer had used, and
the only other thing found Of any kind
was slip, such as is ordinarily given a
customer at a store when an article is
purchased on credit. The charge slip
was found little way from the body
and was from the Paxson & Rockefeller
drug store. 1t showed that Jesse Silver
man had purchased 20 cents worth of
limewater from the PaXson & Rookie
Teller store on Jan. 6. Until it was
known who the Jesse Silverman was
1T was thought this might furnish a
clue, but it was learned the purchase
was made by Jesse Silverman, a we'll
known citizen, and the presence of the
slip in that locality was explained by
the fact that the charge slip had not
been given to the purchaser, but had
been thrown into a waste basket and
with lot of rubbish had been hauled
out and dumped on the prares by a
garbage man and the wind had doubt
less blown it where it was found.
While the officers We're at the scene
quite number of people congregated
who live in the locality. Some of them
thought at first that the body was that
of a man named Boyle, but after a more
careful inspection all concluded he had
not been known in that particular COM
munity.
After the officers returned to the city
County Undertaken Tachell was noti-
fed by the coroner, and he went out
and brought in the body. 1t is that of
a man of about five feet, 10 inches in
height; weight about 1870 pounds, ruddy
complexion, brown hair and moustache
and about IS years of age. On the face
was a weeks growth of beard After
the body had been made as presentabla
as might be, the public was admitted.
The news of the murder spread rapidly,
and during the rest of the day and
evening, steady stream of men poured
in and out of the undertaking establish
ment. More than a thousand people
looked at the corpse, but only one pre-
tended to identify the body, though
several thought they had seen the man
in life. The one whose name the un-
dertakers attendant failed to take for
the authorities said he was very posi-
tive he had known the man, who, he
said, was George Pearson a black
smith, from Eureka, New This man
said he had known the deceased we'll
for years in Nevada, that he came to
Butte only few days ago, and that he
met the deceased in the Silver Bow
brewery, Main street saloon, the day
of his arrival. He said the deceased
told him he was broke, and had had
very little to eat for DAYS. The au-
thorities place little or no reliance in
the Identification and feel it is a case
of mistaken identity, as in the box-car
murder case, when several reputable
citizens so positively identified the body
as that of man who the next day
turned up very much alive The
grounds for this belief are that the
man who made the identification could
not accurately describe the clothing of
the dead man, and said he was positive
Pearson Wore shoes. whereas there
We're none on the dead man, and again.
the story that the man had had nothing
to eat for days did not coincide very
well with the finding of enough money
on the dead man to have paid for at
least one or two good meals, though
the condition of the body, the stomach
of which was greatly sunSen in, would
in the opinion expressed by Undertaken
Tachell, tend to strengthen the fasting
part of the story. Numerous of those
who viewed the body were sure they
had seen the man somewhere, though
where or who he was they would not
attempt to say, with the exception of
Frank Stromburg, who used to live out
on the west side. Stromburg said he
thought the body was that of a pros
pector who used to be seen frequently
going and coming on the west side
and he had once met the man he re-
ferred to, but it was a long time ago.
and he could not remember his name.
This is all any of the large number of
people who have seen the body have
been able thus far to say as to its
identity, and more convincing proof
will have to be forthcoming from the
man who identified the body as Pear
son before the authorities will accept
his identification as authentic, as they
are convinced the man had been in this
section longer than few days.
The time at which the murder was
committed is another thing that is diff
fcult to settle, though the best judg-
ment is that the man was killed some
time Saturday night. Mr.. Callahan
states that he came to town Saturday
evening to attend the installation of
officers of the G. A. r., and went home
after the ceremonies. He saw no one
or heard any one on either track, mt
from the fact that the road is much
travelled and the body lay where one