Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-22
BUTTE LOCALS.
|RATE HUSBAND
dubbed a Caller With Fatal
Results.
A CoQUETTISH WIFE
Jack Currie Died at the Sisters Hos
pital This Morning and John Hes
ley is Charged With Murder.
A %C0QUETTISH WIFE

Indiscretion on the part of Mrs. John
Hesley, who resides on Mahoney street,
on the Hesperus lode, resulted in the
death of John Currie, a young miner, at
| the hands of her husband. Currie died
at the Sisters hospital about 10 o'clock
this morning from a broken head, the
result of his encounter with the i1ate
Hesley about IL o'clock last night. Hes
ley is in the county jail, charged with
murder.
The composite story of the unfortunate
! occurrence is that Currie and a friend
named Mike Connors came from Ward
ner, Idaho, about five days age. Currie
knew Mrs. Decker, the mother of the
notorious girl by that name. The
Decker home adjoins that of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hesley, and Currie and Connors met
Mrs. Hesley through Mrs. Decker, and
had visited Mrs. Hesley several times
of late. Last night Currie and Connors
called on Mrs. Decker, where they re-
manned until 10 o'clock, and about that
hour the hostess suggested that they take
They left and went to Mrs. Hesley's
home. incidentally it should be men,
toned that Mrs. Hesley has a daughter
about Is years of age The o were
seated in the kitchen, drinking beer,
when Hesley came home from work. He
sat Town and drank some of the beer,
speaking civilly to the visitors, until,
Mrs. Hesley says, Currie winked at her.
Hesley saw it and was Infatuated. He
knocked his wife down and drove the
visitors out of the place with a chair.
After administering a few kicks to his
coquettish wife he ran outside and, pick
ing up a ound piece of wood, about three
inches in diameter and perhaps two and
one-half feet long, a very formidable
weapon. he rushed after Currie and Con-
nors. They had zone but a few yards
away when he overlook them. He struck
Currie a terrific blow on the head with
his club. and as he did so he said:
You are another of this clique that
think because I live on Mahoney street I
keep a -- house. TIL show you!"
He also struck Connors The blow
that Currie received was delivered with
furious force, Hesley using both hands.
Then Hesley returned to his home and
used the same weapon on his wife, with
disastrous but not serious results.
Currie. assisted by Connors, walked to
the Copper State saloon. on South Ari-
IONA street. a distance of several blocks,
arriving there about l o'clock. He
dressed his wounds and bathed mis- face
and walked out IN the sidewalk, where
he stood for a moment, when ne fell and
became unconscious. He was taken into
the VINE rooms OF the saloon. A few
minutes later Officers j.. G. Byrne and
Con Murphy arrived at the saloon, and
the bartender told them of Currie's con-
dition. The mail wagon happened to be
passing about that time and the officers
loaded Currie into it and he was taken
to the city Jail. City Physician Alexan-
der was called in and pronounced the
man in a very serious condition.. His
head was crushed in over the temple, and
back of the injury to the temple was a
fracture six inches in length. He was Of
the opinion that the man would die, but
thought the operation of trephining
might save him. and caused his removal
to the Sisters hospital.
Hesley was arrested at his nome a
short time after the occurrence and was
taken to the county Jail. He told the of
ficers that he was employed at Heinze's
smelteG, and when he went home last
night he found that his wife had been
drinking and no supper awaited him. He
reprimanded his wife and left the place,
not returning until about 10 o'clock,
when he found Currie and his friend call
ing on his wife and daughter. About IL
O'Clock he suggested to the men that it was
time for them to take their departure.
Currie said he would not go until he a
spoken privately to Mrs. Hesley. This
ansered him, he said, and he drove the
men out Of the place, using a chair to do
so, and then, picking up a piece of stove
wood, followed them, striking Doth of