The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-24
MOORE IN FOR 70 YEARS
Hot Water Slim" Gets the Right
Medicine.
HE WAS FOUND GUILTY
Judge Clancy Gave Him the Limit,
There Was Absolutely No Doubt
of His Guilt-Will Keep His
Partner Company.

John Moore. alias Hot Water SLIM
will go to the penitentfary to-day to
keep company with his robber partner,
Patrick Quinn, under a sentence of 20
years. Moore, who had been on trial
for participating in the Copper State
, saloon robbery on last Christmas morn
ing, was found guilty by a jury last
| evening and Judge Clancy at once SEN
fenced him, giving the limit, which is
| 20 years. There had never been any
| doubt of Moore's guilt since his ar
rest and the fresh bullet wound in his
| leg which he is supposed to have re-
| ceived during the fusilade in the sa
| loon after the robbers were caught in
| the act of hold-up At the conclusion
of the trial it took the jury but little
| more than an hour to decide on a YER
dict, and when Moore heard that it
was all off with him. he asked to be
sentenced at once, and the court ac-
commodated him.
j. e. Ledford, proprietor of the sa-
| loon in which the hold-up occurred was
recalled as a witness for the state when
| the trial was resumed yesterday morn
ing, and testified that Moore had been
in his place several times a few days
before the robbery.
j. w. Connolly a clerk at Mullins
boarding house, at which place Moore
was arrested, testified that Moore
stopped there from the 31st of Deem
Der until Jan. Is. when he was ar
rested. A man named Mike Quinn,
supposed to have been the fellow who
went by the name of John w. Mackey
and a participant with Moore and Pat
Quinn in the robbery, came to Mullins
boarding house and engaged a room
for a friend, who he said was suffering
from rheumatism, and a short while
afterwards Moore put in an appear
ance. He was limping badly. After
he had been there four or five days
Connolly asked him how his rheuma-
tism was getting along and he said it
was better. He said he caught it in
| the Never Sweat mine. The witness
had not heard the mans name and
asked him what it was, and he said
his name was John Tobin On the day
he was arrested his friend Quinn dis
appeared and hasn't been seen since.
j. j. Haggerty, proprietor of the Flor
ence hotel, testified that the defendant
| had stopped at the Florence a short
time before the robbery and he wore
the old, long waterproof coat which
his partner Patrick Quinn, had on at
the time of the robbery. Mr.. Haggerty
identified the coat positively by a long
tear in the back.
officer Pat Leyden said he saw Moore
| on the streets about two weeks before
the robbery and he had on the same
| coat.
Deputy Sheriff P. H. Sidley testified
that after Moore was arrested he had
him stripped in the jailer's office and
looked for bullet wound which he I'M
derstood Moore had in his left leg, and
found it just where he had expected
back and a little above the knee. Moore
said he got the wound at Walkerville
on Christmast night while walking in
front of the Brick saloon. Sidley asked
him who shot him, and he replied
You know pretty well who fired the
| shot,
Did you know who fired the shot p"
asked Mr. Connolly of the witness.
II guess l did,
"Who did,"
MY brother-in-law fired a shot
and"
| The witness was interrupted by an
objection before and he was not per-
mtted to finish the answer. Mr.. Sidley
said in answer to further questions,
that he told Moore if he was hit by the
shot fired at the Brick saloon he must
have been in the ceiling. as the shot
was fired in that direction. Moore said
there was no one present at the time
| he was shot.
Officer Fogarty testified about the
long coat which was worn by Patrick
Quinn at the robbery.
A man named Ferguson, one of the
managers of the Workingmen's Home
lodging house at the corner of Main
| and Platinum streets, testified that the
defendant. under the name of James
G. Fair. accompanied by a man who
gave his name as John W. Mackey,
came to the lodging house on the 18th
of last December and slept there fire.
quently up to Christmas morning, when
they came in at about o'clock and
slept till near noon. After they had
left a, big blotch of blood was found on
the sheet of the bed occupied by Moore,
alias Fair.
officer Lougkrin was recalled and
questioned further concerning the coat
and the surroundings of the Copper
State saloon, and his testimony closed
the case for the state.
Attorney Taylor told the jury that
eve most emphatically deny that this
defendant is the man and that a mis-
take has been made" He said it would
be shown that Moore got his bullet
wound at some other place and that it
was a physical impossibility for him
to have been on the scene of the rob-
berry.
w. D. Fenner, a real estate man,
was the first witness and testified con-
corning a map he had drawn of the
city in the vicinity of the scene of the
robbery.
Thomas Mcdonald the next witness,
testified he had known Moore for two
years. He said he saw Moore in the
| California brewery at 3 o'clock on
Christmas morning, and he was help
lessly drunk. The witness said he had
also seen Moore at the same place about
7 o'clock the evening before. Mcdonald
said he had never known Moore to pos
sess a coat such as the one which fig
ured in the robbery.
On cross-examination by Mr.. Con-
molly, the witness said Moore did not
see him at the brewery on Christmas
morning and he could not tell how he
came to be subpoenaed. but on further
examination Mcdonald said Mnore's at
torney came to him. because he was a
friend of Moore's, and asked him if he
| could testify that he saw Moore that