The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31
IS STILL At LIBERTY
Hunt for the Austrian Brute Is
Unsuccessful.
He is BEING CONCEALED
His Countrymsn Are Supposed to Be
Guilty OF Keeping Him From the
Hands of Justics-A Corrected
Description Given.

Great Falls, Oct. 30-Although the
officers have kept up vigorous man
hunt through the day, John zupanch-
ich, alias GRAMMAR, alias Sutphon, the
Austrian brute who murdered Frank
Marhar yesterday morning, is still at
liberty. 1t seems to be a fact that he
IS still in the city and that he ate his
supper about 1880 yesterday evening in
the house where the murder was COM
mitted, or at an Austrian house near
by. The officers found his bicycle
there, which he had left behind, but
| they found no GRAMMAR. 1t seems equal
ly positive that his countrymen in the
city are concealing him. The county
commissioners, however. have offered
| reward of $500 for his capture, and
cupidity may accomplish what lack of
humanity has hitherto prevented. The
people of Great Falls, most of whom
knew nothing of the crime, this after
noon are stunned by the brutality of
the deed and the callousness of those
who must have witnessed it.
Last night the christening of babe
IN the koncilga house, the probable
scene OF the murder, proceeded as if
nothing more serious had occurred than
the killing of a stray cur. The house
was crowded with guests; there was
plenty to drink, plenty Of cigars to
smoke; the gathering had just as good
time as on the previous night, barr
ing the presence of the angel of death.
That little feature was lacking, but the
guests could joke over the quaint cpl
sode Of Sunday night. It furnished a
topic Of conversation, not depressing,
rather amusing.
The Koncilgas talk freely of the MUIR
der to-day. though their stories do not
agree much better than on yesterday.
The man adds to his story that after
Cranzar had cut Marhars throat both
went back to the shack and Marian
there attacked Cranzar with his fists,
but was speedily conquered. 1t is likely
that a man with a cut in hts throat
large enough to admit a mans hand
would not put up very interesting
nght. The woman adds nothing to her
tale save that both men were sober at
the time of the murder
The body at $50 yesterday forenoon
was still timber, and the physicians ar
que from this that Marhar must have
died two or three hours before, that is,
at or 1880. But Joe Thompson says
ne was dead when he stepped out Of
the house between and o'clock, so
this opinion sheds no new light on the
atrocity. The inquest vas postponed
until tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock,
when, it is hoped, the officers will have
the murderer on hand
All through the day they have been
running down clews without success,
and tonight a large posse of special
orncers VIII be sworn in by the sheriff.
close watch will be kept on every
Austrian house and resort in town, and
unless GRAMMAR has skipped out this af-
ternoon he ought to be caught before
morning. Since yesterday the sheriff's
once has obtained additional inforrna-
ton about the murderer and has issued
the following printed description:
Great Falls Mont, Oct. 80. 1885,
Corrected description of the Austrian
who murdered raan at the B. & M.
ADDITION yesterday morning: Name
john Supannion, alias GRAMMAR: height,
D feet to inches; weight, IFS pounds:
light hair. very thin, nearly bald on
top of head; sandy mustache droop-
ing; wears soft brown hat or black
cap age, 80; looks sidewise at YOU and
shows whites of eyes; has fresh cut in
palm of right hand; wore dark suit,
black shoes Arrest and wire.
Mont"
$500 reward for above man."
The cut on the right hand is not GER
tain. Mrs. Koncilga said Cranzar's
hand was cut presumably by the bot
Tie, but as there We're buckets of blood
around there just then, she may easily
nave been mistaken.
The last murder which occurred with
in the city limits was on March II, 1895,
when Harry Grove shot and killed d
fellow railroad employee on the railway
bridge across the Missouri river He
was sentenced to five years in the pen
ana was pardoned out by Governor
Smith about year and a half ago.