Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-27

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HELD FOR MURDER.
Sheriff D. T. Curren returned from
Helena last night with the two prison. {
ers, Thomas Long and William Mcln-
torh, who are suspected of being the men
who killed Louis Radigan. They We're
arrested in Helena a few days ago n
locked in separate cells, each one
charges the other with the murder, but
neither one knows that the other mas
been telling anything, and they rode
from Helena to Missoula shackled TO-
gether without the knowledge that each
one had ~"squealed' on the other, ana
they were not allowed to do any talking
on the way. Mcintosh was quite talk
ative while in the Helena Jail, but has
grown sullen and refuses to have any
thing to say about the murder now. re
! told a very straight story about how he
and Long came to Missoula on a train
bearing United States army cavalry
horses. After lounging around the sa-
looms a while they went across the Hig
gins avenue bridge with Louis Radigan,
who had a bottle Of whisky. Long
struck Radigan over the head with q
stick, and in attempting to push him
in the river, was himself pulled in and
had quite a struggle with the old mar
in the water. Here is where Long took
Louis hat. his own floating down: the
river. ".t = -5s o .@s-t
All this happened in broad daylight
at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. and
they came up toWn aand went around
drinking in the saloons and spent tina
81, all the money they got for the muir.
der. They We're arrested in the evening
on the charge Of vagrancy and locked
up for the night, and were taken before
Justice Hayes in the morning, who gave
them thirty minute to leave town, and
they struck out and walked to Bonner.
Mcintosh claims 10 have shown Officer
Larson Radigan's watch and was. just
going to tell everything when he was
told that he could go, and he
struck out. He has this story
pretty straight, as he has told it to three
or four different people without leaving
out or adding anything to it. Now he re-
fuses to have anything to say about it
and seemed nervous while he was being
searched at the jail last night before be-
ing locked up. Long has told about the
same story excepting that he charges
Mcintosh with the murder and accounts
for his wet clothes, which he changed in
a saloon after coming up from the river,
putting on a pair of pants belonging 10
Mcintosh, by saying that he fell in the
river and was obliged to swim across
to the south side in order to get out. He
is very cool headed and didn't show the
slightest nervousness while being
; searched at the Jail last night.
There was a large crowd at the depot
to meet the train and get a look at the
prisoners, and the sheriff got Off above
the depot and brought them down On the
opposite side, thinking to avoid the
crowd and push on the platform, but
some one discovered them and a rush
fnllowed and about $50 people trailed
alone with them to the jail. The 800
reward offered by the local lodge of the
Western Federation of Labor will go to
chief of Police Travis of Helena, should
the prisoner be convicted. Long has
three brothers working in the smelters
in Anaconda.
John ellis, who was proprietor of a
hotel at Blackfoot and well known in this
city. was taken i'll a few days ago&whiie
on a visit here and died yesterday after
noon at 4:O O'Clock at the residence Of
his father-in-law, on the corner of Higgins
avenue and West Spruce street. Mr. Gillis
was an Old-timer in the west, having lived
in Montana for Is years. He leaves a wife
and daughter 4 years old to mourn his loss.
Coroner Bien has charge of the remains
but as yet no arrangements haveN beeh
made for tho funeral.
This is circus day in Missoula ahALth4
town is crowded. Every available ,roong
of the visitors VIII poured into the city
during the past two days., and the sleep
ing capacity of every hotel and lodging
house is filed to OVERLOOKING, and the halls
in the hotels are filled with cots. The
Indians from the reservation are. not all
here yet. but they are expected befafe the
circus leavs. ?
A warranty deed was filed YESTERDAY
afternoon in the Office o. the county clerk
and recorder for record, which conveys
from Henry A.. Lambert and Geneyieve
Lambert, his wife, of Missoula, to John NJ.
Evans lots 10 and 20, in block ID of River
side park addition to the city of Missoula.
Consideration, $50.
Adrian Swanson, through his attorney.
Charles H. Hall, yesterday afternoon filed
papers in divorce proceedings against Anna
Swanson on the grounds of desertion. Mr.
Swanson is a travelling machinist. makina
headquarters at Missouia.
Ed Landry. who was arrested Thurs
day night for begging and abusing tl,os4
who would not give him n was
turned loose on Friday. He was rear
rested on the same charge, but again set
free.
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