The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-07-31
No Doubt that They Murder
ed Winters
LATEST PARTICULARS
Assassins Were Concealed In Pig Pen.-
People Around Landusky Are
Up In Arms.

The latest particulars of the assas-
sination of Jim Winters Thursday
morning at the door of his cabin near
Landusky. makes the deed even more
startling than the first reports gave
it. The men who did the shooting
were seen and there is not the least
doubt in the minds of the people who
live in the Landusky district but that
the deed was committed by Kid Cur
ry, and that he and his accomplices in
crime have been hiding with friends
in the Little Rocky country since the
holdup of the Great Northern July 3.
The Leaders correspondent at Har-
lem yesterday sent in the first exact
account Of the tragedy which has been
published and it will be OF interest as
showing with what daring the assas-
sins went about their deed of blood,
The dispatch is as follows:
Harlem, July 27.-The latest news
brought in by the stage from the
scene Of the killing Of James Winters
confirms the belief that the murder of
Mr. Winters was the work of the Cur
ry gang, and an investigation of the
shooting shows it to have been a lit.
tie different from the first reports,
which Of course were tinged with the
excitement of the murder just COM
mitted. AS first told the men were
about one hundred yards from the
house in the brush, but the facts is
they were not over 70 feet from the
house when they shot Winters and
were hiding in a pig pen. Their trail
was very plain from the place where
the shooting was done and it was fol-
lowed for some distance until it
crossed small muddy creek and was
lost. One of the murderers wore a
NO. 10 shoe of the long pointed style
and very narrow, the second of the
men wore a No. Z shoe, wide and
round-tOed. Seven shots were fired
altogether, two of them being fired at
Winters, striking him just above the
navel, and the other five shots were
fired at the men who came out to as
sist Winters. J. Nicolavaus, who is a
friend of Winters, who has been visit
ing him, attempted to get shot at
the murderers, but was forced to get
into the house himself with several
bullets singing about his ears.
ION the ground in the pig pen,
where the shooting was done, there
was found seven Winchester cart
ridges, 30-40 calibre, and evidences
that the men had been waiting there
for some time before they began
shooting. After doing the shooting
the gang went to the new fence, which
Gill and Winters had just put up and
mounting their horses rode leisurely
away in northwesterly direction to
the Slippery Ann Butte, where fur.
ther traces Of them were lost.
William Blackwell, James Hint!s and
Fred Roberts, all of Landusky, found
the trail shortly after the murder ;.n1
started in pursuit, losing the trail at
Slippery Ann Buttes. Roberts and
Kinds gave up the chase, but Black
we'll determined to push on in the
hopes of running across the murder
ers, and has not been heard from
since. No word has come from Stock
Inspector Lund or Deputy Sheriff
Coatsworth, of Benton, since they
struck the trail, and they also are out
in pursuit. The people of Landusky
are up in arms and such excitement
has never been known there-the
Winters killing being the last straw.
Should any of the Curry gang show
up anywhere in the neighborhood now
they would receive quick reward
at the end of a rope"
The Benton Press of last Saturday
has theory in regard to the matter
and speaking of the murder says:
"The story brought from Landusky
is to the effect that there were three
men cached in the brush at Winters
spring and that two of them did the
shooting. Afterwards they mounted
and rode up the creek, but were only
seen for a short distance and were not
pursued. The people Of Harlem and
most Of those at Landusky are firmly
convinced that the murder was the
work Of Harve Curry and his partners
in the Wagner train robbery. Their
theory 10 that after crossing the Mis-