The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-06

/ DIR. Alexander, the next Witness tes-
titled that he attended Currie az the
| Jail and elsewhere after he was injured.
He found him suffering from compress
sion of the brain. He exhibited pieces
| of skull which were imbedded in and
| pressed against Currie's brain. He
| described his treatment Of Currie, and
| the removal of fractured segments of
skull. He said that Currie died of
hemorrhage of the brain, produced by
| the injury to the brain and skull. In
the cross examination he said there
| was one fracture with radiations, and
that it was 10 inches from end to end
of the injury to the skull from the
| eye to the back of the head.
The deposition of Michael Connors,
who is out of the state, was read, as
to the interrogatories in chief, by Mr..
Connolly. According to the interro-
gatories the deponent was at Mrs.
| Deckers house on Mahoney street,
near Hesley's house, with Currie and a
F., man named Counnehan, on the night
Of the alleged murder. They drank
beer at Mrs. Decker's with Mrs. Deck
er and Mrs. Hesley. Currie left the
house and the witness followed and
nehan and Mrs. Hesley with Mrs.
Decker. Hesley let him into his house.
He went out for beer, and Mrs. Deck
er. Mrs. Hesley and Counnehan came
into Hesley's, and the party drank to-
gether He left Currie at Hesley's
house and went outside and sat down
on an old wagon. Half an hour later
he saw Hesley in front of the Copper
State saloon in the same locality, and
Hesley struck him over the head with
a stick of wood, and knocked him down.
saying: This is another of them, and
I'll fix him, too" He went into the
saloon to wash himself and found Cur
RE there. Currie was washing himself
also. Currie said: I'm after having
then, and never spoke again. The wit
ness next saw Currie at the underta-
ker's. In the cross-interrogat tories he
said that he heard Mrs. Decker say
at Hesley's that it was time to go
home, but that he did not hear Hesley
say it was too late to play the flute
that Currie put to his mouth and then
threw on the floor. He did not know
| what Currie stayed behind for after
he left Hesleys. He was sure he was
struck by Hesley with a club and
knocked down.
| Fred Clifford, roofer who lives on
Ohio street in Hesley's neighborhood
was in bed on the night Of the al
legged murder.
II heard somebody on the street yell,
| Stop him. stop him. and I ran to the
door. I saw one man pursuing an
| other down the street at a run, with
a stick of wood in his hand. The man
in front was bare-headed, and the stick
of wood was thick stick about two
and half feet long and two and a half
| inches wide" said the witness.
| The witness dressed partly and ran
after the men. He found them down
the street, with a third man standing
between them. The two men were
| Hesley and Currie. They were three
or four feet apart. The third man was
talking to Hesley and telling him not
| to strike Currie. The witness saw Hes
| ley strike Currie lightly on the ribs
| with the stick. Some one told Currie
| to go away from there or he might get
hurt. Currie started away, Hesley fell
! lowed him, and the witness followed
-" wien hen 7 reached the ctrner near the
Copper State saloon I saw Hesley strike
| Currie with the stick Of wood and
knock him down and then strike him
twice more with the club Hesey came
back and began to tell me his troubles.
Just then Connors came along, and
Hesley said, Here's another of the
clique; I'll fix him, too And he
struck Connors with the club and
knocked him down." said the witness.
! Where did Hesley first strike Cur
rie?" asked Mr.. Connolly.
| on the right side of the head. l know
he struck him on the head, and I
! judged on the right side"
What was Currie doing when Hesley
struck him."
| He was running away"
In the cross-examination by Mr. Kirk
the witness said that the electric light
was about 80 feet from the scene he
described, and the time about midnight.
He did not know the third man talking
to Hesley and Currie, and has not seen
him since the events testified to.
Mrs. Celia Decker was the next wit
ness. She did not see the tragedy. She
| said that Currie and his two compan-
! ions came from Hesley's house to hers,
close by, on the night of the tragedy.
She never saw Currie in Hesleys house
before that night. The three men
brought small pint bottle of whiskey
| to her house and left it there. Coun-
| nehan was pretty drunk. Mrs. Hesley
was at the witness house when the
men arrived. They all went to Hes
leys All the witness saw at Hesley's
| was that when Currie tried to play on
| the flute Mrs. Hesley meddled with the
| flute. Mrs. Hesley took the flute from
| Currie's hands and 'meddled" with it.
The witness went home, taking the
| hats of Counnehan and Currie. The
| men followed her, and she gave them
the hats and told them to go straight
home. They returned to Hesley's, and
she saw them no more that night. The
people at Hesley's house had a little
beer, but Hesley was not at all under
the influence of liquor.
Under cross the witness
said she told Currie and Counnehan not
to return to Hesiey's house, for they
would get into trouble. But this state
| ment was stricken out as not having
been made in the presence of the de-
PENDANT. The men came to her house
between 8 and 9 p. m. and she left Hes
ley's at 10. Some of the whiskey was
drunk at her house, but she did not
know that Mrs. Hesley touched it.
WAS Currie drunk?" asked the court.
He didn't seem to be, but he
couldn't play the flute" answered Mrs.
Decker.
IN ask you another question. What
do you call drunk?"
staggering over, I suppose" said the
| witness with a laugh.
| On the night of the killing F. w.
Stouder, the next witness for the state,