Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-31
INTENDED TO KILL HIMSELF

ander Murray, attempted suicide IN the
county Jail last night, and had it not
been for Joe Shafer, another murderer,
who occupies a portion of Neary's cell,
the state would now be out OF a job so
far as his case is concerned.
The means employed by Neary to take
his own life consisted of the ever popular
morphine. Just what quantity of the
drug he swallowed is known only by him
self, but it was certainly sufficient to
have piloted him safely over the n
had there not been interference. AS
stated, Neary and Joe Shafer were in the
same cell. About 10 o'clock the latter's
attention was called to Neary's heavy
breathing, but he paid little heed to it
then. Shortly before II O'Clock Neary
quit breathing entirely and Shafer made
an investigation. He found him virtually
dead and notified Jailer Walsh. In a
few minutes all the inmates of the place
had been aroused and We're Offering their
services as assistant revivers. DR..
Siever was called, but before he had pro-
ceeded far DR.. Sheeran, the county phys
ician, who had also been summoned, ar
rived with a stomach pump and began
active operations on Neary, who had
then been unconscious for some time.
Neary's stomach was first relieved of its
contents, after which artificial respira-
ton was resorted to and kept up several
hours before the patient showed signs of
returning to earth. Four of the other
prisoners performed the work under the
direction of the physicians. At 4 o'clock
this morning Neary was pronounced out
of danger and the physicians left.
About 10 o'clock Sheeran called on
Neary and found him about as we'll as
ever. Neary admitted having taken the
poison with suicidal intent, but refused
to tell where or how he procured the
drug. The suppOaition is, however, that
he gathered it together in bits. He is
not a morphine tiend. but there are sew
eral of this class in the Jail, and to pre-
vent them from becoming insane it is
necessary to keep a supply of the drug on
hand for their use. They evidently gave
Neary some Of it.
Joseph Groslee of Meaderville was one
Of a long list of people with grievances
that called on the county attorney to-
day. He wanted ONE advice as to how
he Should proceed in a matter concerning
the regulation of alleged abuses in his
household. With tears in his eyes, Gros-
lee stated that last night his wife had
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neighborhood and there had a hilarious
time drinking. At midnipht he had gone
after her, but She and the gay widower
bolted the doors and tainted him from
within the house. About 3 o'clock the
wife had returned home.
The unfortunate man was told to take
a stuffed club and welt the WidoWer.
May Fairfield has fl led an answer and
cross-complaint in the divorce suit where
in she is the defendant and Frank Fair
field is plaintiff. She denies that in Aug
ust of 1898 she bit, beat and scratched the
plaintiff or called him vile names; denies
that on the 18th of this month she bit hin
on the right forearm and otherwise abus.
ed him. She also denies that she drink:
Intoxicating liquors and is not a fit per
son to care for their two minor children.
In her cross-complaint she alleges tina
after their marriage in 1886 they lived il
Anaconda until May q, 1897, on which
date the plaintiff left her and came t,
Butte: that on June 20 of that year she
too, came to Butte and began living will
the plaintiff again. On the 29th of De
cember 1898 she alleges he again left her
that he is an able-bodied man and i
capable of earning a good living for he
and the children, but instead of spendin;