The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29
WAS NOT HER HUSBAND
Zagur the Man Who Assaulted
Mrs. Christian.
HE MADE A PLEA OF GUILTY
The Judge Will 1nvestigate-Christia
Would Not Prosecute Until He
Could Find Out Whether
His Job Was SAFE.

Because of her imperfect command
of the English language, as we'll as
her inability to comprehend suffering
intense pain while questioned, il was
made to appear that the woman was
suffering from injuries inflicted by her
husband, Steve Christian, Sunday af-
ternoon. 1t has developed, however,
that Mrs. Christian was not assaulted
by her husband, but by a man named
Zagur. Now that the affair has been
aired in the press, friends of the fam
lily have appeared and manifested a
desire to give the facts straight. At
the time of the assault, and when
call was made at the Christian house
hold, the suffering woman was the only
person who volunteered any informa-
ton, and this was distorted by badly
broken English and incoherent utter
ances, so that when the woman con-
tinued to say my husband" when
questioned as to the author of the
trouble, it was supposed that she and
her husband had clashed, with the re-
suit that the wife came out with bro
ken ribs and bruises.
1t is explained by intelligent neigh
bors that the children of the Chris
tians and those of the Zagurs engaged
in a quarrel; that Mrs. Christian, like
many other mothers would do under
similar conditions, jumped in on the
side of her offspring. Then it is told
that John Zagur took a hand and
knocked Mrs. Christian down and
kicked her. Zagur was booked as Ia
gan at the Jail, and assuming the con-
clusion arrived at from the unintelligi-
BILE story of Mrs. Christian to be cor
rect, it was supposed that the man had
given a fictitious name under arrest.
Mr.. Christian was working in the
mine when the trouble occurred. Yes
terday a friend urged him to prosecute
the case against ZaGur, but Christian,
who is also lacking in many things,
|, demurred and assisted that he would
lose his job if he went about trying to
make trouble for other men. He said:
wait till l go and see if my job is all
right, then I'll go after the courts"
Zagurs brother was Killed in an Aus
trian dance in the Parrot corner last
winter. John Zagur was at the dance,
and it is said that had he not run away
he might have saved his brothers life
They tell 1T that as soon as he saw that
his brothers life was in danger he
made his presence scarce, because he
knew that his own life was in as much
danger as was that of his brother. who
stayed in the melee till the end
Zagur pleaded guilty in the police
court yesterday morning, but the
judge, instead of imposing a light fine
as the prisoner had evidently expected
to receive, held the matter pending
further investigation.
Later in the day Mrs Christian came
up town and explained the case and
demanded prosecution. In the after
noon Zagur, who was In the meantime
out on $25 bonds, was called into court.
The judge ordered that the defend
ants bonds be increased to 500. Sen
tence will be pronounced this morning.
she had no right to done that" ex-
claimed the prisoner. She hit me on
the shoulder. She had no right"
stop right there, SIR thundered the
court None of that here. You'll ex-
plain this matter later"
Zagur affected not to realize the SER
iousness of the offense committed upon
the woman, who is badly bruised. A
friend started out in search of bonds,
while Zagur went below.