Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1901-08-09
n coRoNER's INQUEST.
Developed the Fact That Constituted
Authority Had Been Openly Defied.

y coroners jury, consisting Of Walter
Anderson, Martin Golden, John Weaver
M. Q. Coon, Il. Fireman, Sanfrid Ren.
land, Richard Ruiter, B. E. Vail and r.
>. Chapple, was summoned yesterday
morning by County Coroner Kelley and
an inquest held at the court house.
Night Policeman j. H. McAllister was
the first witness called and he testified
as follows:
Last Sunday evening the proprietor of
the boarding house where the newly
married couple were stopping asked me
to put stop to the charivari Mayor
Larkin instructed me to quell the dis
turbance. When arrived at the board
ing house ] found a crowd of thirty or
forty Finlanders there and told them to
Quit their racket or they would get into
trouble. The next evening the board
ing house keeper came to me again and
said the crowd was disturbing his board
ers with another charivar. He wanted
the leaders arrested and the mob dis
persed, stating that the crowd we're de-
termined to force the groom to give up
$50 and intended to keep up the racket
until they got it. ] and City Marshal
Fleming went down there and stopped
the noise and cautioned the crowd not
to make any further disturbance. On
Tuesday night the charivari started
again and we arrested three Finlanders
and put them in Jail. On Wednesday
night Under Sheriff Gebo, City Marshal
Paddy Fleming, Mayor Larkin and my
self, with Terry Fleming W. J. Dccgan,
Ed Ricketts, Charles Bronson and Tom
Skelly, went to where the charlvari was
going on and found a big crowd of Fin
landers congregated there. There were
between seventy We and one hundred Of
them and all had pans and things. |
two and while had hold of one
Of them / saw that a man had Gebo |
down and was on top Of him. saw
Paddy Fleming there and thought two
was sufficient and so l turned and went
back and got another man. | started I
for Jail with them and hadn't proceeded /
more than twenty yards when heard
four shots | then turned my man over
to Charlie Bronson and went back to
see where the shooting was. found
Iebo and a Finlander lying in the brush.
Iebo was lying on his side and the fcl
ow had him around the neck, and Gebo
vas hollering for help | loosened the
hold of Gebo's neck and
dragged the man out. The night before,
The crowd threatened to tear the Jail I,
1own If the three men were not turned
oose. When pulled the man off he
'aid he was shot. He didn't make any
resistance. We didn't find any guns on
my of the parties arrested Henry |
came to me in the early part
II the evening and told me that there ,
we're two notices posted, ore on the
walk to the mine and the other at the
louse where the charivari took place.
He said they notified the Firms that
here would be another charivari that ]
hight and that the officers couldn't {
bother the crowd.
City Marshal Paddy Fleming was the /
lext witness called. He testified that on |
Tuesday night he was called upon by
dayor Larkin to put stop to the char s
varie. McAllister and myself went to ,
where the crowd was and told them to {
top the racket. They all quit but three t
nd we arrested those three and put Z
hem in the city Jail. All the rest of the c
followed US to the jail and G
old US we would have to let the three t
nen go or they would tear down the q