Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-20

o11..ceS ~! TIE 70 De one lnAOne thou.
sand. This morning the county attor-
ney,s ofice was notified that Allen was
Cornelius Kelly. the chief asbuty' as.
companied by photographer F. L. Riley.
went out to Meaderville and had Amen
make an ante-mortem statement. The
man was very weak from loss
OF blood and was suffering intense pain,
but possessed all of his mental faculties.
In a faint, but clear voice he made the
Following statement and signed it:
Il was standing up in Meaderville, at
Mr.. Hastie's porch. Strasser put his
a1sand Hike this ~(indicating). and said: Il
Will nix yOu, you - ---!' I asked
him what he meant. and took off my
coat to fight like q a and hit him
once, and he struck me with a butcher
knife. a dagger. or something. Strasser
was right here by this house when l first
saw III He only cut me twice: his
wife did the most of It. His wife was
there. and his daughter. l told her (his
wife) that she was killing me. When I
hrst saw his wife she was right along
WIT him. coming home from the court
house. All had daggers. I did not have
any weapon. ! was coming from the
court house. l never had a weapon in
my life. not even a pocket knife. Strasser
came up and put his hand up this way
u~ndicating). I didn't see the knife at
that time. That was the first thing that
was said-'I will fix you. you -
-! He has only one daughter. I put
my hand into Strasser's collar; he was
trying to cut my throat. He told his
wife: Push it into him! Stick it, into
! He gave me the last stick with
the knife. She says to him. Run, Wash:
we have fixed him now!' She went down
the road n saw a man that came there,
ana SAID. We have fixed the - -
Bailey" N
Shortly after the statement had been
made, Allen complained of intense pain
IN the region of the left lung and vir-
tualiy prayed for death to relieve him.
he said he knew he was going to die.
Ihere were several persons in the room
at the time and among them was Mrs.
Alien, VINO was doing all she could to
make her husband easy. Besides his
wife he has five children, whose future
seemed to worry him greatly.
BEFORE leaving the house Constable
Ellsworth entered and Mr.. Kelly instruct
ea MN to at once arrest Mrs. Strasser
county Jail. Mr.. Kelly also instructed
Deputy Sheriff Joe Lozzeri. whom he met
to arrest the two women on
sight.
One Of the women in the room said she
had seen Strasser's daughter wipe blood
from her dagger with a handkerchief at
ter the assault and then hide the weapon
In the bosom Of her dress.
There were four witnesses to the ac-
tual assault, two of who mare girls.
Immediately after the cutting .Strasser
ran as instructed to do by his wife and,
going to the court house by a circuitous
route. surrendered to the sheriff. It
was not generally known last night that
Strasser's wife and daughter had taken
q hand in the stabbing or they would
have been placed under arrest. as they
are alleged to have spent the night at the
court house to escape supposed punish
ment at hands of the Infatuated p
lace of Meaderville.
This morning they returned to their
home and it is alleged that before they
had been there two hours the girl threat
ened to injure some of the children Of
those with whom her parents have been
w~rangling.
Allen is an Englishman about 40 years
old and has been employed as a miner at
the Moose mine. He has several relatives
in Silver Bow county, among them a
brother, who is a boss at one of the mines.
He has resided in Butte and vicinity many
years n a always borne a good repu-
tation among his fellowmen.
But little is known of Strasser. He is
said to be employed as a Waterman by
one OF the large mining companies. Dur
ing the last two years he has been ar
rested half q. dozen times for various al
legged offenses.