The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-28

| struck him over the head with a coup
ling pin. and after getting his money
away from him they threw him off the
train into the creek. To show how i'm
possible it would be to throw him from
the train into the creek, there will be
testimony to show that the creek is
| from SO to so feet from the railroad
track and there is a wire fence between
| them. After Lucey had told his story
in the saloon he set up the drinks and
produced a $50 gold piece, which Mar
| tin could not change, and Shffman was
called to change it and he got up out of
bed to do so.
by other witnesses it will be shown
! that the night before, before leaving
Butte Reagan got to the bank too late
to get out any money which he had on
deposit and which Lucey knew he had
| there, and Reagan went to friend and
borrowed $25, the friend giving him a
| SIS bill and a $40 gold piece. Lucey re-
manned in the saloon and drank until
he became intoxicated and stayed there
| until or 9 o'clock, when the report
was brought down from the canyon by
some section men from Dawson that
they saw a dead body in the creek.
They left the body there and reported
the circumstance. Their suspicious
were first aroused by the finding of a
necktie and hat farther up the creek
and back of that were some large
pieces of rock saturated with human
blood and on two of the stones there
was coagulated blood and human hair
| kere clinging to them. The doctors
| who eXhumed and examined the body
| last Sunday will testify that the hair
| were Reagan's and that Reagan was
| killed by mis- head being crushed; that
| there were no other injuries on the
| body and that it was utterly impossible
! for railroad train to have struck and
| killed him without breaking other bones
and inflicting other injuries than a
| crushed skull.
1.-THE person who killed Reagan was
alone with him there in that canyon
between II o'clock at night and
| o'clock the next morning. The evidence
| will show that there was a struggle,
| and after Reagan was rendered insen-
sible he was dragged through the wire
| fence and the defendants torn clothes
We're evidences of his contact with the
| fence. When Reagan had been dragged
| through, large rock was used to crush
his head and finish the work of the
murderer The body was then dragged
to the creek, into which it was thrown.
The creek being rather hi"h at the
| time, the body foated down the stream
| about a quarter of a mile to the place
where it was found by the railroad
| people.
I'VE will then establish another link
| in the chain of evidence When Lucey
| was arrested at Cripple Creek he had
| had on the identical pair of pants he
| wore when seen at Gregson Springs
| and the rents in them, seen at that
| time, were still there and had been
sewed up. He had the same pants on
| in court when the information against
| him was read to him. Afterwards in
| Jail he asked the jaiier for a pair of
| WI oiV n h.
out the knowledge of the sheriff, and
| when inquiry was made for the pants
afterward, it was discovered that the
leg on which there had been the tear
had been cut off and in some way dis
posed of. Another part of the pants
in which there had been another tear
was cut out and the remainder of the
pants were hidden in the Jail. The only
way in which the missing portions
| could have been disposed of was by
| cutting them up into small pieces and
| throwing them into the closet, and
| Lucey Is now wearing the pants FUR
nished him by the jailer.
after word was received in Butte
| from Gregson about the murder, the
| then acting coroner went down to the
canyon and removed the body to Greg
| son. 1t became rumored and bruited
| around Gregson that body had been
| found in the canyon, and Lucey and
man named John Gilfeather and Mar
! tin went over to the station to see the
| body, but the station agent would not
let them see it until after the coroner
| arrived from Butte. The impression of
the witnesses is that Lucey suggested
that they go over and see the body.
Lucey had introduced himself to Gill
feather as Dan Sullivan. When Lucey
heard that the coroner had arrived and
was holding an inquest he mysterious
~ disappeared from Gregson; that the
last seen of him was when he was go
ing behind a woodpile. He was after
wards traced to Stuart, where he
drank and took up with colored man
who is now down South somewhere.
1.-THE next day the two turned up in
Anaconda and Lucey made inquiries
for a certain party who kept a saloon.
He was directed to the party, and he
told the man that he had just arrived
from British Columbia, The saloon
man made inquiries concerning several
friends in British Columbia, but Lucey
could tell him nothing about them. He
asked for a newspaper the Standard,
but they did not have a copy, and
gave him the evening Inter Mountain,
which contained on the front page an
account of the murder. The defendant
read the account and then stood for
eight or nine minutes in deep brown
study, looking out of the window. He
was spoken to several times. but paid