Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-04
WAS VIOLENT
AND ABUSIVE
OPPOSITION CT MRS. JOHN MAR
TIN. SISTER OF JOHN CUM
NINGHAM.
TELLS ABOUT TRIP
yellowstone PARK,
&c recame So Ugly That She Was
Compelled to Leave the Party and
Come to Butte.

TIE deposition of Mrs. Josie Martin of
DaF"s. TEXAS. in the case of the state
against l.. L. Felker. charged with the
mur.eG of John c. Cunning ham. was re-
ceiNad by the Clerk of the court today.
1t was taken before Edward NJ.
EroWdtr, a notary public of Dallas.
Mrs. Marin is a Sister of the murdered
man. Last year she came to Butte and
accompanied Cunningham and his WIFE
on a trip Through the Yellowstone park
but on account OF her bro,hers actions
While on the "trip she left them in the
park. returned to Butte and then pros
ceedel to her Texas home.
In her deposition she says she has
known Felker since the middle of August
of last year. and had known Cunning
ham Intimately pretty much all of her
life UP to the last eleven or twelve years.
He was two years oder than she.
We were born she says. IN Ar
monk, New York STATE. When l was
about years Old our family moved to
Barb oursvile. W. Va. where we resided
about twelve years. We then moved to
Michigan. On our way we stopped at
Columbus. Ohio. n few months During
all of this time I knew Cunningham in
tima,e.y. We resided in Michigan about
five years. About twelve years ago my
brother came to Denison, Texas. l never
lived Wa,h him there. but about ten
years ego l came to Texas. About that
time my brother left ana went to WASH
ington state. l saw no more of him
until about the middle of August, 1900.
at which time I went 30 Butte to visit
him and his IA nily. l do not know any
body in Denison, Texas. who knew my
brother, except my other brother. Harry
c. Cunningham. of Salt Lake City, who
lived at Denison most of the time John
lived there. l do not know What the
reputation of my brother was in Texas.
l think he lived in Den. son about two
Years. He was always quick tempered
easy TO irritate and quick to fight. Dur
ing my visit to Butte and our subse>
quent trip to the Yellowstone park
found him to be more violent than I had
ever known him before. He was more
irritable ana would often become very
angry and violent without any seeming
cause. He was very abusive TO his wife,
little boy and myself on said trip. He
often cursed US ana sWore at US and
was abusive to the team of horses he
was driving. On one occasion he threat
ened to drive over into a canyon with
us. We were out on the trip about four
Weeks ana almost every day he would
take on one of these violent and abusive
spe Is. Some lines he would abuse his
W.T. and sometimes me. His abuses
finally became so violent and unp!eas-
ant to me that l left them at the park
AMI Wpnt to Butte. where / spent one
day ana then came back to Texas.
While on the trip through the park my
brorher told me of having had trouble
with man he said was drunk at mis-
p ace of business. l do not know of any
threG he made against the defendant,
l.. l.. Felker My brother and myself
We're on friendly terms until l went TO
Butte but since then l have not felt
SO friendly towards him, his abusive and
violent conduct towards me on that oc-
c=sion bltnS responsib Die for my change
OF sent ment. Under the present circum-
stanc I cannot but feel friendly to-
ward my brother, for l have long since
forgiven him for his harsh and cruel
trea ment towards ME during our park
trip.