The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-01

dence for the purpose of fixing certain
dates testified to by different witnesses
A number of articles of wearing APP.
parel and "bric-a-brac," as the county
attorney designated the numerous eX'
hibits, were also put in evidence, and
We're objected to by The defense, the
objections being overruled. The two
blood-covered stones with which Rea-
gan's head had been crushed We're also
introduced.
Mr.. Connolly then secured permission
to indorse upon the information the
names of three new witnesses. HestoJ
McMullin, B. Merwin and Richard Spet-
tigue, the men who composed the crew
of the Standard paper train on the
morning of Sept. 3 last the train from
which, according to the testimony of a
number of witnesses, LuCey claimed "a
have been thrown while going from An
aconda to Butte. Lucey also claimed
that the conductor and brakeman tried
to rob him and then threw him off the
train into the creek. Mr.. Merwin, the
conductor of the train, was first called
to the witness stand and said that at
no time during the month of September
was a man put off the train, and no
man was ever thrown off the moving
train.
Did you ever assist a brakeman to
rob a man on your train and hit him
over the head with a coupling pin?'
No, sir
The question and answer were oh
iected to and ruled out. but the same
testimony was brought out by other
questions. The witness said that on his
arrival in Butte he received message
to stop in the Silver Bow canyon on his
way back and pick up dead body.
Spettigue and McMuilin. the brake
men on the paper train, testified 10 the
Ia
did not know Lucey and to their knoWI-
edge had never seen him until they saw
him in court.
Pete Walsh. one of the county jailers,
testified about giving Lucey pair of
overalls, at his request, during the time
he has been in jail. Afterwards, when
a search was made for the pants he
wore where arrested, he said they had
been thrown out. but portion of them
was found hidden in one of the cells.
That concluded the states case and
Mr.. Cason made a statement to the
jury to outline the defense. He said
they would show. as other witnesses
had testified that LuCey and Reagan
started to leave town and on the way
to the depot met a man named Gill;
gan, who was introduced to Lucey by
Reagan. Arriving at the depot they
found that the train had left. Lucey
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old soldier, to whom he owed small
sum of money. He would go to Ana
conda and see the man and meet Gill;
gan and Reagan there the next day.
and together they would go to the
Occur dAlene. He gave a brakeman
so cents to carry him to Anaconda on
a freight train, and when the train got
to the canyon it was slowed up and
he was thrown out and into a pool of
water which accounted for his wet
clothes when he showed up in Gregson,
and also accounted for his bruised face
and hands When he was thrown off
he lost his hat and satchel and the next
morning he went back to the place and
found the articles. Before leaving
Butte he was with a man named Cole
man. and the two had number of
drinks and Coleman saw him display
his money, and the two talked about
going to the Occur d'Alene. After he
found his hat and satchel he proceeded
on to Gregson. arriving there early in
the morning. He remained there until
about noon and drank a great deal.
He had no recollection of buying a
ticket back to Butte and did not re-
member that he left his satchel in the
depot He did not make the state
ments attributed to him about having
come from Anaconda. He left Gregson