Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-12
FRANK MAYS
DEPOSITION
SAW KEYS ENTER AND LEAVE
LODGING HOUSE AT TIME
OF MURDER.
KEYS TOLD HIM THAT He
HAD JUST KILLED A MAN.
May Had Loaned Keys a Razor Which
Was Found in the Prisoners
Possession.

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state against Thomas Keys. charged
with the murder of Thomas Graham in
the Free Coinage lodging house, on West
Galena street, on the 9Th of last month,
was taken before Justice Nichols today.
The prosecution was represented by T..
F. Kelly and G. P. Connolly and the de-
PENDANT by Edwin M. Lamb, the city at
torney.
May is the man who claims to have
loaned Keys a razor on the day OF the
shooting; who says he saw Graham
Keys engage in a fist fight in the street
in front of the lodging house; who says
he saw Keys enter the lodging mouse
where Graham was 20 minutes later and
witnessed his exit five minutes after
wards; who alleges he loaned Keys a
razor earlier in the day and when the
latter came out of the lodging house fol-
lowed him to the corner of Galena and
Dakota streets and asked for it's return;
who says that Keys, instead OF giving
him the razor. drew from his pocket a
revolver and asked him if he wanted 1t,
adding that he would do we'll to keep
away as he had just killed a man.
After detailing the alleged circum-
stances of the affair in a general way
MI. Kelly took the witness in tow.
Have you had any other conversation
with Keys in regard to the razor?"
Eyes. sir. And he drew a gun from
his pocket and asked me II l wanted II.
He was then drunk
May said he had followed Keys to the
corner of Galena and Dakota streets and
asked him for the razor. Keys aid he
had lost it and told the witness to keep
away as he a just shot a man.
May further said that Keys turned
north in Renshaw hall alley. At the
time Keys told him he had just shot a
man, witness sal he did not know any
one had been shot.
IT went back to the lodging house and
saw the crowd coming out said he.
zone man made h remark: He is
dead I then went over to Main street
and told policemen who asked me to
return with them. About two hours
after the shooting I saw Keys sitting
on a barrel at the corner of Park street
and Renshaw hall alley. We had no
conversation"
"Could you identify the razor?"
Eyes, sir. I ave seen it since I
loaned it to Keys. After Keys was ar
it was shown me there I described it to
the officers"
what kim of a. gun was it Keys
showed you?"
1T was nickel-plated, with a dark
rubber handle 1t looked like a Smith
& Wesson. Keys had it in his right coat
pocket"
Are you positive Keys is the man
you saw fighting with Graham in the
street,"
Eyes, SIR"
Where were you born?" asked Mr..
MI. Lamb on cross-examination.
Buffalo. N. Y"
"How old are you?"
"TWenty-three years. Ny fathers
name is John May and he lives at 837
Michigan street in that city. My mother
has been dead about twelve years. Last
summer I drove team for Orman &
Crook on the Northern & Idaho Pacific
road. I arrived in Butte on the 9th of
May, coming from Helena, mostly on
foot"
"Have you ever been arrested for any
crime?"
II was arrested In Helena in March.
but have never been in the penitentiary
or convicted of a felony"
when did you first see Keys?"
ION the Sth of May. I was sitting in
front of the Free Coinage lodging house
and he asked me to loan him my razor.
"Did you take a drink with him that
day."
Yes. sir"
"What did you drink"
"Alcohol from a bottle in the posses
sion of Keys"
did you ever go by any other
Nance"
mo, sir"
The razor alleged to nave been taken
from Keys at the city jail was submit
ted to May and he said it was the one
he had loaned Keys.