Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-05-01
MADE BAD Nancy.
DOUGHERTY AND MULLIdAN ARE
CONSIDERED DESPERATE MEN.
KILLED TWO MEN IN BUTTE
Leader of Counterfeiting Gang Has a
Bad Record-story of Desperate
Saloon Fight-Went to the Occur
d'Alenes-Quite an Old Man-His
Companion Much Younger.

charge of passing spurious coin on va
rious saloonkeepers, will be tried in the
federal court. They are now in the
county jail awaiting hearing before
United States Commissioner Woods.
The coins alleged to have been passed
by the men We're If the $40 q .nomina =
'ti"n; Of white metal. gold pl, ell.
Among those who acc epted the coins
were Pat ONeill. who keeps a saloon
at 65 East Park street: the proprietor
Of the Mint saloon at 1OS North Main
street and Mr.. Smith. who conducts a
refres,hment stand at the corner of Park
and Main streets. The two men under
arrest are said to have visited the places
named in company with J. B. Price, who
has an interest in the O'Nei'l saloon
They left one coin in each rlacc.
Mulligan and Dougherty were arrested
in room 30, of the Curtis block, in West
Park street. and when searched at the
city Jail. Mulligan's pockets yielded s24
and those of DOugherty $3.50. 1t is
claimed that Dougherty passed the bogus
coins, taking care to slide them across
the bar instead of having the dull ring
on the top of the bar betray their char
acter.
Price Must Give Bond.
Price says he did not know the coins
were bogus. and when called upon ty
the police department told just how the
play came up. H. VIII be rel liral 20
give bond oinsure his testimony against
the accused men.
Dougherty is known as Billy" Dough-
erty and is said to be bad man with
gun or knife. In 1885 he killed two
men in n saloon in East Galena street
but was acquitted when brought to trial.
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proprietor of the house.
Prior to the killing he and Dougherty
had some trouble and the latter was
told to keep out of the house. On the
evening Of the tragedy Dougherty en-
tered the saloon ostensibly to witness
an athletic exhibition, which Cory had
advertised would take place in a room
at the rear of the saloon.
Cory was behind the bar when Dough-
erty came in, but on seeing DOugherty
came out and reminded him of the stay
out" order. Dougherty refused to leave
and Cory drew a revolver and began fir
ing at him at close range AS soon rs
the firing commenced Dougherty drew
a large knife and went at Cory.
The room was crowded with men who
had been attracted by the athletic eX-
hibition announcement. When the
shooting onened the crowd stampeded
but one unfortunate named Harrington
failed to avoid one of Dougherty's vi
cious slashes at Cory and was disem-
boweled, dying the following day.
Revolver and Knife.
Corey emptied his gun at Dougherty,
but the latters knife was always loaded
and it performed deadly work on Cory.
When the smoke cleared away it was
found that Cory had been stabbed in at
least a dozen places and Dougherty
had not been touched. In view of the
fact that Corey was firing point blank
at Dougherty's breast it has always
been supposed that Dougherty was
wearing "chest protector" having sup
piled himself with it in anticipation Of
trouble with Cory.
Some time later a shooting ARRAY oc-
CURED in the old Board of Trade
gambling house and saloon at the
southeast corner of Main and Park
streets and Dougherty is credited with
having had hand in it, but such is
not the case.
The shooting was done by Tony La
van. a faro dealer, and Billy Sheern
while the games in the room We're in
progress. Dougherty and his white
bulldog were present at the time, but
it was no fight of theirs. The bulldog,
however, was struck by a bullet and
killed. In that fight three men We're
shot, but they all recovered from the
effects of the wounds.
~ Killed His Partner.
A year or two later Dougherty went
to the Occur d'Alene country and
opened a saloon with a man named
Young. They quarreled and Dougherty
shot and killed Young, kicking his body,
it is claimed, after the bullets had been
fired into it. For that crime he was
convicted and sent to the penitentiary
for ten years. BY behaving himself in
prison his time was shortened. When
released Dougherty came to Butte and
has been working on and off as a miner.
He is now about fifty years old and
grey.
Mulligan is about thirty-two years old
and was formely employed as
''bouncer" at the Combination gambling