The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-27

lets ranch Saturday evening. He want
ed to come on to Butte, but Carr said
he was tired and was going to stay all
night. They stayed and slept in the
covered box, described. He was awak-
ened in the morning by the coverings
being pulled off the bed He looked up
and saw Quay and White. They
stepped back and Sheriff Pyle came up.
He held gun. at his side, and just as
he stepped UP the gun went off. Cohn
and Carr had not moved up to this time.
After the gun went off, Sheriff Pyle
commanded the witness to put up his
hands, and he complied and came out
The sheriff asked where Carr was and
the witness replied You've killed
Phil" Sheriff Pyle remarked that he
did not intend to do it, and witness
said: You had no business to have
your gun cooked" Sheriff Pyle replied
that he had the gun cooked for his own
safety. The witness said that neither
he nor Carr had gun. Cohn was asked
to illustrate the manner in which sher-
if Pyle held his gun, and being handed
the gun Sheriff Pyle had used, placed It
to his side and held it horizontally Just
above his hip.
Sheriff Pyle was T,xt called. He said:
Il came to Butte in search of Carr and
Cohn, for whom l had a warrant of
arrest for grand larceny for stealing
to securing party composed Of my
self, Deputy Sheriff Henry Aware, Dep
uty John White and George Quay, and
going to Boulet's ranch"
Sheriff Pyle repeated in detail and
exactly as previously described, the cir
cumstances leading up to the killing.
OF the shooting of Carr, he said:
II was watching to prevent an escape
of the men to the brush, when Mr..
White came and said Mr.. Aware want
ed me to change my position. On the
way toward the house we passed can
vas covered wagon box and Mr.. Quay
remarked that some ranch hands used
to sleep in there. l thought we might
get some information and told Quay to
waken them If they were there. gas
some distance away when he did 81,
and White turned and said some
thing to me as Quay called: Hey,
there, get up and come out; they want
you
/ went up and said we had better
hold them up. So saying, l stepped to
the tent, and holding my gun this way
illustrating by placing the gun to his
side), and called hands up, boys A
shot sounded simultaneously with my
voice. The gun went off by reason or
my holding my thumb on the hammer
to be prepared to shoot if necessary,
knowing Carr would shoot if he had
a gun and got a chance, and my thumb
slipped from the hammer. ! had no
| thought of having hit any one, and
knowing / was at a disadvantage if
they tried to shoot, threw in another
shell and called again to them To put
up their hands. Cohn replied: Mine
are up l said: Come out of there.
He came and l asked him: Where is
your partner?' Cohn replied: You've
killed Phil Cohn then commenced to
oh I tn
you are a friend of Cars and think it
pretty hard but I did not intend to
shoot, and / am exceedingly sorry. He
would have shot me though If he had
got a chance and l had to be on my
guard"
Replying to questions by the coro-
ner, Sheriff Pyle said he was not al all
excited and did not feel any fear. He
did not expect to shoot. as he did not
expect to be shot at. but he knew Carr
to be desperate and that he could not
take any chances Whatever, hence the
great precaution he exercised, which
resulted fatally for Carr.
The jury returned this verdict:
That deceased came to his death
at Boulets ranch, Silver Bow county.
Montana, on Sept. a. 1899, from the eff
| fects of a gunshot wound inflicted by
a weapon in the hands of William Pyle,
| sheriff of Beaverhead county, Mon
| tana and which weapon was accident
ally discharged"
From the evidence the jury further
| finds that at the time of the accident
| said Pyle was in the performance of
| an official duty, about to serve a war
rant on deceased. accusing him of fell
ony; that he had ample reason to be-
| lieve that deceased was armed and was
| a dangerous character, and that under
| the circumstances the possession of the
Il
necessary for his own safety"
| Undertaken Sherman received another
message from Carr's mother yesterday
| instructing him to bury the body here.
| Sheriff Pyle has informed Mr.. Sherman
that he will defray the expenses of the
| burial and it has been decided to hold
| the funeral tomorrow afternoon at
! O'Clock from the undertaking rooms.
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