Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-11
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!. >BEABAO MAN
MARSHALL MAY BE KID ROBERTS
on THE SON OF THE OUT
LAW MCCARTHY.
is A MAN OF GOODNESS
AND WONDERFUL NERVE,
Testified in His Own Defense Today
Said He Was Trying to Escape
From Creech.

II there is anything in rumor, Attor-
ney M. L. Wines, VINO by order of the
court is defending Edgar Marshall for
the killing of Georgia Creech on the
morning of April 3, has a crimfna of no
mean proportions o n his hands. It is
alleged that Marshall is either kid"
Roberts, one of the men who held up a
Union Pacific train in Wyoming a year
or two 6 or a son of the notorious Bill
Mccarthy, who has been operating as an
outlaw in the southwestern country DUR
ing the last 20 years. At last accounts,
however. Mccarthy and his son were
doing business together, but those ac-
counts We're received some time ago, and
it may be possible that since then the
firm has dissolved partnership and each
has been lately going 1t on his own
hook. Whether the man on trial is either
of the supposed bad men, he ds as cool
a customer as ever sat in a court room.
So far as complexion or color OF hair
and eyes are concerned he does not re-
semble Bill Mccarthy, but in point of
build n height he does. Bill Mccarthy
is now about So years old and is short and
of medium stoutness. He has steel gray
eye and possesses more int diligence
than the average desperate. He be-
longs to a gang which did include Bill
Pugh, one Cassidy. Flat Nose George
and other equally desperate characters.
About six weeks ago Flat Nose George
was killed by three Wyoming sheriffs
for refusing to surrender when called
upon to do so. There was $4,000 reward
large. He is q man now possibly As
or so years old and knows nothing save
kill and rob.
Although not a large man, Marshall
is shifty and a hold his own in any
kind of a mixup. bout a month ago he
and Daniel Lucey, the convicted MUIR
derer Of Patrick L. Reagan, became in
volved in a quarrel IN the county jail
and 1t resulted in a knock down and
drag out fight between the two. lar
h however, got the better of the
conflict, notwithstanding Lucey is much
his superior in size. When the sheriff's
officers stopped the battle Marshall had
Lucey down. Marshall had a cut on the
back of his head and the supposition 10
that Lucey made 1t with a knife, IS the
handle of such a weapon with the blade
broken was found on the floor of the cor
rider. Both men are still occupying the
same corridor, burt are at peace with
each other.
+; Some Of the women who testified in
behalf of the state failed to corroborate
testimony given by them at the coron-
er's inquest on the body of the murdered
woman. Mamie Smith was one. At the
inquest she Is alleged to have stated that
Marshall snapped the hammer of his
gun in Creech's face while the latter
| was behind his bar, but yesterday she
testified differently. This morning she
admitted that since the killing Creech
and herself had INDUCED in trouble and
that at the time of the shooting she was
drunk. Her testimony closed the side
of the prosecution, and Attorney Wines
asked for and was granted an hour IN
which to onsult the prisoner on the line
of defense. Mr.. Wines did not state hat
he expected to prove in behalf of the
defendant, but it was suspected that he
would explode the theory that Marshall
was the man who struck Billy Patterson,
butted an OK off a bridge II broke the
bank at Monte Carlo.
/ Charles Blake, a bartender at No. 345
South Main street, was the first witness
called this morning. It was the saloon
in which he is employed that Marshall is
alleged to have robbed about 500 o'clock
on THE morning of the murder. While
the robbery was in progres Blake APP
peared on the scene to begin his daily
work and caught the man in the act.
He practically identified Marshall as the
man.
WAS there anything peculiar about
this defendant that enabled you to iden-
tify him % asked Mr.. Connolly.
Eyes; he was pretty nerVy."
"How long did you see him?"
about 10 minutes"
where was hep"
"In the saloon
"Who else was in the saloon?"
policeman butcher and a teamster."
Kittie Walsh testified that while pass
ing Creech's saloon on the morning of
the shooting she had seen a man with
a gun in his hand back out of the door
of the saloon. Creech was following
him.
On cross-examination the witness Tx
she roomed at 124 West Galena, street
and worked at the Casino. She did not