The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-01
FOR N|AETY-N|NE FEARS
Frank Carson Sentenced for the
Murder of Dahlman.
HE MADE NO COMPLAINT
He Appears to Be Satisfied That It Was
Not First Degree-General Sur
prise at the Resignation
of e. r. McNeill.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Boulder, April 29-In the district
court this morning Judge Parker an
nounced sentence on Frank Carson in
accordance with the findings of the
jury at his trial for the murder OF
Henry Dahlman in February last, the
sentence being confinement in the peni-
tertiary al Deer Lodge for the period
of 80 years. On the prisoner being ask
ed if he had any legal reason to offer
why sentence should not be pronounce
ed. he answered that he had none. He
bore himself with complacency under
the ordeal, and probably in considering
the chance of a conviction for murder
in the first degree he is perhaps salts
fled with, conditions. He makes no
complaint of any unfairness in the trial
and he was certainly defended very
ably. There was a large crowd in at
tendance at court, it being expected
that Judge Parker would deliver some
thing of lecture to the prisoner, but
there was nothing more than the form
alities usually observed in such cases.
Sheriff Sherlock and a deputy left this
afternoon with the prisoner, going to-
Deer Lodge by way of Butte. The sem
tence of SO years is not quite so for
midable as 1t appears, for by provisions
of the statutes the time is materially
lessened by good conduct, the credit
increasing month each year up to six
and then six months Of each year is de-
Quoted after that. This will bring Car
sons total time of confinement to- a
little less than 81 years, but it can hard
lxyI no 49, -, "a
as it would make his age "a years at
the end of the sentence, he having
given his age as "a years during the
progress Of the trial, though it Is quite
commonly supposed that he is a few
years older than that.
There Is quite general surprise here
in learning of the resignation of Z.
r. Mcneil from the office of county sur
veyor. He has served in that capacity
about six years, first short appointve
term, then two full terms and this
much of the year on third term. He
now takes a position with the Great.
Northern Railway company. his resig-
nation from the county office to take
effect May !. His first work for the
company will be on the new line being
constructed up about Benton, being a.
cutoff to save distance and to lessen
grades: His family will continue to re-
side in Boulder.
Airport will case, but not called to the
stand on account of the withdrawal OF
the will by the proponents, as mention
ed in the Standard, is Mr.. Mclaughlin
from Chicago. His presence recalls
some famous mining frauds that origi-
mated in Butte not long ago and culmi-
mated in Chicago-the fraudulent deeds
by which the notorious swindler Fegen-
Bush sought to- obtain title to the Min
ME Healy mine in Butte-this Mr.. Nc
Laughlin having been the notary who
was called to write the deeds in Chi
cago and take Acknowledgements in the
transfer from Brand to Mrs. Fegen-
Bush. He tells that the nature of the
case aroused his suspicious. A lady
came to his office and wanted the work
done. She said an old miner who had
lost his health in the mountains was in
Chicago on his way to Europe to be
treated for throat trouble. He had a
mine for sale, and she, through ac-
quaintance and friendship. was going
to buy it for 81. 900 without really know
ing it's value. She wanted the notary to
come to the house to witness the mans
signature, as he was sick. The hour
named was near dusk and there could
be no light in the room on account of
the patients eyes. The signature of
Brand was obtained (the man simu-
lating sickness in bed being Fegen-
Bush) and the notary observed that
| ttle IHd1l > IldDuS were very WILLIE , )1G
| and in fact unusually well formed and
| beautiful, which would be a peculiar
| condition for a man who had lost his
| health mining in Montana. When the
| matter came to be investigated later
! and the Pinkertons were at work on
the case Mr. Mclaughlin gave the de-
| scription of the man to the chief of de-
| tectves, who at once recognized the
| party as Fegen-Bush, or as he was
known to other crooks and to the police
| and detective forces as Monkey Char
| ley" The scheme of obtaining title by
| forged deeds to the Butte mining prop
| erty, which was a factor in the trial of
| the recent will case here, was frus-
| trated Fegen-Bush was not punished
| for that however, but was afterward
| apprehended for a swindling game in
| New York, to escape the serious conse-
| uuences of which he answered to an
| indictment in Colorado which promised
a less punishment, was sentenced to a.
number of years in the penitentiary.
but was pardoned out after a few
months, possibly one of the cleverest
"crooks" in the whole country.
The many and varied complications
| in the settlement of the affairs of the
old timer Jack Airport would make the
| foundation of a novel of great interest.
|