The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-22
JOHN |NCL|S
NOT GUILTY
OF Assault In the Second
Degree
UPON JAMES M'CABE.
Jnrv Returns Verdict of Acquittal After
Having Been Out All
Last Night.

The trial of John Inglis, charged
with assaulting James McCabe with
a knife, July 6, commenced in the
district court Wednesday morning.
But little trouble was had in securing
jury. One delinquent was fined
$40 by the court as reminder that
the business of the court must not
be needlessly delayed, and the follow
ing twelve were sworn in to try the
case: Robert Daily, Cyril Hellman.
Arthur North, Albert Mutt, A. A.
Schonfeldt, Frank O'Palka, John Koe-
mig, E. H. Clingen, Henry Branden-
berg, Jesse Yenne, A. McAfee and
Andrew Kreiger.
w. N. Noffsinger was counsel for
the defendant, John Inglis, and Grant
Swaney assisted County Attorney
Gray in the prosecution.
The first witness called was the
plaintiff, James McCabe, who stated
he was "a years old, and had lived
in Smith valley for seven or eight
years, five years of which he had been
acquainted with John Inglis. On the
9Th of last July he was coming from
Frank Addeman's ranch, riding on
a moving machine and half mile
from the ranch he met John Inglis
and Roy Truman, who wanted to
fight. They asked him to fight and
he accepted the invitation. He caught
hold of Inglis and attempted to hit
him with his fists. He did not know
Inglis was armed, but was soon made
aware of this fact as Inglis began to
use a pocket knife on him in very
vigorous manner.
The first blow he received from the
knife was in the lungs, and it stunned
him so that he could make no effort
to get out of reach ofInglis' thrusts
He had received nine wounds before
he managed to secure a stick to de-
fend himself and then he hur.
ried back to Addemon's ranch half
mile away to have his wounds
dressed.
DIR. Macdonald was sent for and
ordered him to the h ospital where he
was under care for ten days. He
stated he was a strong, healthy man
before he received the knife wounds
but now was weak and not entirely
recovered.
The attorney for the defendss't
tempted to show in his cross-eXamin
tion, that McCabe had two months
previous to the assault threatened tc
Inglis, to settle all the difficulty with
an axe The questions in the main
were objected to by the prosecution
and sustained by the court.
DIR. A. D. Macdonald was the mex,
one on the stand. He had attended
McCabe and found him very weak
He was covered about the body will
knife wounds, there being nine o1
them all told five of which had to be
sewed up. McCabe was suffering from
the thrust in the lungs, had coughet
up considerable blood and was bleed
ing internally. This was about the
only dangerous wound of them al
and was particularly bad on account
of the chance of dirt entering the
cut. He ordered McCabe taken to the
hospital. The cuts healed up rapid
ly, and at the end of ten days he was
discharged. The doctor pointed on
the wounds and explained his treat
ment of them to the jury, McCabe
having removed his clothing for this
purpose.
Frank Addeman was sworn an(
testified that he tried to stop the
bleeding of McCabe's wounds with
cotton and cloths and had sent fol
the doctor. The two shirts, boil
bloody and cut, which were worn b,
the plaintiff had been in his posses
sion ever since and he brought then
into court, and submitted them a.
evidence. He stoutly denied that hi
was assisting in prosecuting Inglis.
Daly's life, work and death.
John IngNs, the defendant, stated
he was returning home from Seda1
on horseback accompanied by Ro;
Truman, the boy who was made al
accessory to the assault. They me-
McCabe, who was riding on NOV
ing machine. McCabe jumped from
the machine, and saying: 'You d-n
- I've got you now," caugh