Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-03
STABBED HIM
! IN THE BACK
Murder0uS Assault by Four
Men Upon Geo. Ryan.
NINE SEVERE WOUNDS
O%ccurreda 70 ii O'Clock This Morning
-Newsboy Was an Eye
Witness.
NINE SEVERE WOUNDS

AS the result of an attack by four men
whose identity is at present unknown,
George Ryan, a miner is in the Sisters
hospital suffering from nine severe knife
Wounds in the back.
The affair." occurred shortly after 4
O'Clock this morning on East Park street,
in front of the Denver restaurant and
the only eye witness was a little news
boy, named Thomas McDernott, who was
out selling the morning papers. The
trouble is supposed to have commenced in
the Original Mug saloon, at Nc. 10 East
Park street.
During the early morning Ryan and a
friend who is known as Lame Jack"
were at the bar taking a drink when four
fellows, who We're in the rear of the sa-
loon, came up to the bar and attempted
to ring i'm on the drinks. Ryan re-
marked that he was taking a drink with
a friend n the bar keeper also rebuked
the men for their forwardness. 500 af-
ter the fellows went out and in a short
time Ryan bid all good bye and said that
he guessed he would go to bed.
Instead of doing SO he started east on
Park street and when opposite the Dem
yer restaurant met four men. presumably
the ones with whom he had the words
in the Mug saloon. They attacked Ryan
and the newsboy. who had his attention
attracted supposed that they were mere
~ striking at Ryan with their fists, until
after Ryan had been knocked down sev-
eral times. He saw M of the fellows
put a knife into his pocket. Ryan a
into the middle of the street where he fell,
his assailants in the meantime making
off down East Park street.
Assistance was soon at hand and Ryan
was taken to the police station and medi-
cal assistance was DrS.
Alexander and Swartz responded, and
when they arrived the foo of the city
Jail looked like a slaughter house. 1t was
oun that the injured man had nine
stabs from a thin bladed knife, some of
them apparently quite deep, and all in
the back,
Ryan who was quite weak from loss of
blood was removed to the Sisters hospi-
tai where he is now resting easily under
the influence of opiates. The character of
the wounds are such that it can not now
be determined whether any of them
reached a vital spot, but the physicians
are under the impression that if some
unforeseen complications do not arise
that the nan will recover. Shortly after
the stabbing, three men were brought in
o n suspicion.
They gave their names as Matt Matti-
son, Madd Madison and Gus Erickson.
They were found in the ne%ighborhood
shortly after the affair and brought in by
officer Welch. While they have not been
identified they have been mixed up in cut
ting scrapes before and will be held pend
ing an investigation.
The cutting is supposed to have been
done by a mysterious Findlander who
was in the saloon when Ryan and his
friend were taking their drink. The po-
lice are working on the case and hope be-
fore night to have the men who commit
ted the assault behind the bars. Ryan is
a young man, 25 years of age, and for the
past five years, during his residence in
this city has worked in various mines.
His last place of employment being at
the Bell mine. Prior to coming to Butte
he lived in Virginia City. Nevada. He
has a brother here, VIM. Ryan, who is
also a miner, and they roomed together at
the Van Ness house, No. q West Quartz
street.
Ryan has always borne a good reputa-
ton and even when drinking was not
known to be quarrelsonle.
About an hour after the Ryan stabbiDg
Thos. Besant, a miner employed in one OF
the mines on the hill, reported at the 20
Ilce StalloH ana eXnfDlteu a large rent in
the back of his coat, which he said a man
had done with a knife at the corner Of
Park and Arizona. The fellow that Be-
SAINT said committed the attack on him
was n of a party of -four and the deed
was done without the slightest provoca-
ton. Immediately after cutting his coat.
The fellow ran, while Besant came to the
police station and reported the affair. His
description of his assailant tallies with
that of the fellow who cut Ryan.
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