Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-05
He May Not Have Been the
Murderer.
DIFFERENCE OF OPINION
Coroner S Inquest Into Killing of Mrs.
Creech ELECTED Nothing New,
Last Night.

much-wanted individual. The conspic-
uity OF his absence grows with each sue
ceeding hour, as does also his chance
OF escape. He is not in the city. The
police are pretty sure of that, as every
lodging house and every nook n corner
of the town has been thoroughly search
ed. Chief of Police Laven had reason to
believe that he might have gone to Basin
and visited that little town yesterday,
but failed to learn anything a v that
Allison was not there.
The police are inclined to be of the
opinion that Allison ma not be the man
who murdered Mrs. Creech after all.
They say that If he committed the bur-
glary Of the South Main street saloon
he is a man of extraordinary quick ac-
ton.
Officer William Schmidt fixed the time
of the murder earlier than it was at first
supposed to have been committed. He
say he was rear the corner Of Main and
Park streets when he heard the shoot
ing on Mercury. The 5 O'Clock whistles
were blowing. When Schmidt arrived
! the woman. although shot through the
heart. was not yet dead. Schmidt
helped to carry her to a sofia. Schmidt
looked at his watch and noted the time
as sos. He is Of the opinion that the
shooting occurred at 5 o'clock. or posi-
bly, a minute or two before that hour.
If Officer Schmidt is right as to- the
time, Allison had just one hour and As
minutes to get away and break into the
saloon a block or two down the street.
Officer Schmidt also says that almost
Immediately after the shooting four of1
GERS were in the saloon, including OFF,
GERS Laughlin. bowling. Radmilovich
and himself.
The inquest on the remains of Mrs.
! CrQAoh was hold 1aCt niphf AZ Charnnar nc
n at it's conclusion the Jury returned
a verdict to the effect that the deceased
had com to her death from a gunshot
wound, inflicted by a person unknown to
the jury
Among those who testified were Ed
ward Keife. DR.. P. J. Sheeran, Joseph
Creech, Nellie Thompson. Mamie Smith,
Kittie Walsh, Arthur Sprague. Police
men Bowling, Schmidt and Ferns
JosephoB Brown. n Joe Kingsley. the
young yna,s.who fixes the guilt on Ed Al.
lison, the fugitive.
Edward Keife testified that he and a
friend named Mcmahon were in. the sa.
loon drinking about S o'clock Tuesday
morning, when a song and dance ma
tried to ring in" Creech, the proprietor
of the place, demonstrated with the
dancer, who then went to a stranger who
was sitting at a table in the rear of the
saloon. The stranger made a remark te
pAiC IN ~ lAe SlltCI CIIdI IL THEY
talked that way to him they would
have to show him." The stranger ther
walked to the end of the bar and re.
marked that he was looking for trouble
Creech said something and the strange
drew his CUR and snapped it in Creech's
face. Then he went out the front door
Witness then described the shooting OF
Mrs. Creech. and his story was prac.
tically the same as that published Tues.
day in the Inter Mountain.
DR.. S~heeran's testimony was relative
to the autopsy.
The testimony of Joseph Creech, thu
husband of the murdered woman, wa.
very similar to his statement published
In the Inter Mountain.
Nellie Thompson said she was drink
ing with Kiefe when Kingsley, tn,
dancer. tried to ring in" on the drinks
This provoked trouble between Creecl
and a stranger. The stranger drew hi
gun and backed out the front door. Sh'
did not see the shooting of Mrs. Creech
Joe Kingsley, the dancer, in his testi
mony, fixed the responsibility of tn,
shooting o n Allison, and his testimon,
was the same as his statement publishe,
In Tuesdays Inter Mountain.
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