The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-16
DID ANY ONE GET Cut UP :
Rumor of Stabbing ARRAY Sets
Officers to Chasing.
ALL WITHOUT RESULTS
Circumstantial Stories Told OF Deadly
Fight, but Everyone Had Heard
Them at Second or
Third Hand.

Out of depths as yet unfathomed there
arose a rumor last night that set two
deputy sheriffs, five policemen and sew
eral newspaper men chasing madly
about the city.
Have you heard about the cutting
scrape?" was the question that started
the chase. Policeman Percy ingalls, was
the first officer to hear it.
mo; what cutting "scrape?" said he.
IT don't know much about it except
that negro man and woman were
badly cut up and one of them may
die"
Then other officers and newspaper
men, too began to receive inquiries.
Some one said the cutting had been in
the east end. Night Chief of Police
O'Brien and Officer ingalls, set off on d
bicycle tour through the east end that
resulted fruitlessly.
Some one told newspaper man that
the negro man had been taken to the
city hall and the woman to the hos
pital Then some one else said it was
| the woman who had gone to the city
| hall and the man to the hospital. In
| quiry at both places developed the fact
any such case.
Deputy Sheriffs Joe Daily and Joe
Stevens started out and secured the
town for hours without securing any
information. All the policemen We're
notified and they went on a still hunt
without results.
H r. Burg said he had heard some
| newsboys talking about seeing the cut
| ting, which they had said had taken
place between two men near his store
| and had seen one of the men carried
| to the city hail. There was another
rush to the city hall, only to receive
| the same reply-nothins heard Of the
| case.
| Another man said he had heard the
| fight had been between two colored men
| at the colored club on Oak street
| Night Chief O'Brien and a newspaper
| man hurried there to find the club en-
| gagged in a general condemnation OF
| many Montana towns because the sa-
looms therein would not sell drinks owe,
| the bar to colored men. No one knew OF
any cutting scrape.
A Main avenue merchant had heard
| some newsboys talking of case
! Newsboys and all small boys promptly
| were elevated to positions of import
ance A reporter tagged one named
Williams who, for the moment wa!
engaged in peddling gum. William:
|
stabbed white man. Two newsboy:
named Taylor who lived in Front ave
nue. had told him about it.
Night Chief O'Brien and Officer Steb
bins hove in sight. Then. piloted o!
| Williams the two officers and the re
porter descended upon the Taylo
household. The Taylor boys had hear'
of the case from another boy, who's
name they did not know.
HE said it was near the st. Law
renee house and he saw, the man fall
Do you think he was murdered. Mi
OBrien?" .,
This was all the boys knew. At tn
st. Lawrence was d dearth of informa
ton.
Physicians were rounded up, but non
of them knew of anybody being cut u
badly enough to require medical atten
ton. No drug store had been Gale
upon to furnish material for patchin
up a cut man.
A young man said he had heard som
one talking of the case at the Broile
restaurant. Inquiry was made at tn
place with the same old result.
And here the chase ended.