Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-01
SAID to Be One of the Recep-
ton Robbers.
SHADWELL TO HAVE A STAY
Ut ExecutiOn--Friday the Day Set
For Him TO Shuttle OFF,.
Brown Released

Crooks n alleged crooks are being dis
posed of at a rapid gait in Judge Clancy's
court. During the last week about a doz-
en- eases ave passed the trial mark n
another was called up this morning. 1t
was that of the state against John j. Ma
son, charged with having been one of the
three men who on the night of July 8, 1898,
held up Charles Warren, and several 9TH
er people at the Reception road house
about a mile south of the city limits.
Warren was the bartender at the house.
After a jury had been selected the
county attorney stated what he expected
to prove. He said he would show that at
ter the robbery the robbers had gone
down the road in the direc-
ton of the Fountain road house,
which had also been held up about fifteen
minutes later; that Detective Murphy had
seen Lacey, one of the accused men, at
the race track and suspected him Of be-
ing some sort of a crook. His move
ments had been watched and one night he
and Mason and a man named Wilbur
Travis had been discovered in a room to-
gether; that Travis was an innocent
party and told of a gold watch having
been hidden between the bedticks by
Lacey and Mason; that the watch he'd
been found and identified as the one talk
en- from Warren at the Receptions, that
one of t he men who robbed the Fountain
house had a crooked finger which would
be seen on Mason's hand.
Charles Warren was first to give testi-
mony. In substance he said:
II was the bar tender at the Recep-
ton. Along about IL o'clock 1 stepped
outside and ran squarely into three guns
IN the hands of as many masked men. One
of the men took charge of me, another
went behind the bar and began helping
himself to the money while the third en-
tered the parlor where there was a man
and woman. They robbed the man of a
watch, the bar of $50 on $40, the Chinese
cook of a watch and myself of a watch
valued at about 500. When the men left
they took a southerly direction"
The watch taken from Warren was
placed in evidence and identified by its
peculiar inscription.
r. w. Bell, proprietor of the Fountain
road house, testified that about 1920
o'clock three men had entered his place
Of business, which is a few hundred yards
from the Reception. '"They were masked
and two of them carried a gun in either
hand. One spoke to me and placed his
hands on the bar. | was looking for some
mark of identification and noticed that he
had a crippled index finger. I afterwards
saw a finger just like it on a man at the
Z CITY jail. Mason is the same size and
build as the man that had the crooked
finger"
Friday is the day set by Judge Clancy
as the one on which G. r.. Shadwcll is to
pay the death penalty for the murder of
Martin O'Connor in this city 1856 lays ago,
but the execution will not take place as
per setting. A few days ago the appeal
papers were filed in the supreme court
and that body is probably examining
them now. The fact that they have been
filed is virtually equivalent to a stay of
execution. Sheriff Regain has been noti-
fled of the appeal and will not make any
preparations for the hanging unit after
it is decided.
James j. Neary, who swallowed a dose
of morphine in the county Jail light be
fore last and came within a short head of
dying from the effects of it, states that
his intention was not suicide; that he had
a bad toOthache and was ailing generally,
and took the drug to alleviate the pain.
AIio III ' a 8 dtlith al httItc
of divorce from John Rovana on the
grounds of cruelty in Judge Clancy's
court this afternoon. An Interpreter had
to be employed to place the trouble be-
fore the court.
Thomas Brown was discharged from
custody today by Judge Clancy at the
request of he county attorney. The
charge against him was assault in the
first degree. One night last fall Brown
got full of whisky and while in that con-
dition attempted to carry some lumber
away from a lumber yard in the southern
part of town. A double load was too
much of a handicap and Ben Baker, the
Waterman, caught him at it. He called
upOn Brown to surrender, but the latter
replied with a bullet. Baker is some
thing of a gunner himself, and although
he did not wish to kill anyone he con-
Guided to wing Brown. He fired two shots
and one of them passed through Browns
left arm. Brown then surrendered. In
skiing the judge to dismiss the action
Mr.. Connolly said he doubted if the case
could be prosecuted to a conviction and
he therefore thought it best to ask for a
dismissal.
They are here-the blue-coat coll