The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-27

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how much. She put both amounts il
a purse and placed the latter in hel
stocking. She also had some percent
age checks. The witness did not
again see the deceased after that time
G. D. Taylor, the officer notified Of
the suicide, described sthe position OF
the body as he found it. The revol
yer was lying on the ground by the
side of, the body. This was Sunday
between 9 and 10 o'clock. To all APP.
p%earances death had occurred several
hours before. A stranger notified him
Of the suicide. In turn the stranger,
he said, had been notified by a couple
of women. From a night officer the
witness had learned that about 4::3O
or 5 o'clock Sunday morning three
shots were fired in the direction of
the red light district. Investigation
had revealed nothing.
H. M. Baker went to the Hub" Sat
urday night shortly after IL O'Clock
and saw the deceased there and dane
ed with her. When the witness left
her, about 4 o'clock Sunday morning,
the deceased told him3he would never
see her again. Shortly before that
when the witness and deceased were
out Of the house deceased was crying
and appeared distressed. She gave
as a reason that she had seen some of
her schoolmates the evening before.
The witness knew nothing of the sui
eide until told of it%late Sunday morn
ing. While they were together the
deceased showed him a nickle plated
revolver which she drew from her
stocking. Early in July, the witness
said, he had heard her threaten to
take poison. All the money he saw in
deceased possession was SIS.
Peter Peroe recognized in the body
that of a woman whom he and Pat
Lotus while they were fishing found
on the railroad track three or four
months ago in a comatose condition
and removed to4a place of safety. AT
forwards witness and Lotus prevent
ed her from jumping into the river;
from the railroad bridge, despite re
peated attempts on her part to do so.
G.. S. Davis saw the deceased last
FRIDAY and Saturday in company with
a young man cleaning a house until
lately occupied by a colored woman.
The last time he saw the man was
Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Early Sunday morning, shortly before
the fire alarm, witness heard a couple,
a man and a, woman, talking near his
house, in the rear of the Three
Deuces." They were quarreling and
the woman ran off. The man wanted
to know where she vas going and she
replied it was none of his; 49, bust
ness. To this the man said she would
better be careful where she was. go
ing. and Immediately afterward wit
ness heard three shots fired. After
the first shot witness heard a woman
scream. Although the witness did not
see the parties he was satisfied that
they were the dead woman and the
man whom he had seen cleaning
house, as he recognized their voices
from hearing them talking Friday and
Saturday.
w. H. Montgomery saw the deceas-
ed about IL o'clock Saturday night
with Hobart. At that time she exhib-
tied two rolls of money.
frankie Hatch, a fellow boarder of
the deceased, saw the dead woman
Sunday morning at about 4 O'Clock
when she left the house saying she
was going out to mail a letter. Baker
was with her. Shown the note sup
posed to have been left by deceased
witness said it did not look like the
decased's writing, as she wrote a very
good hand, although witness had never
seen her write, except with a pen. The
note is written IN pencil. AS far as
the witness could Judge the deceased
was in a cheerful frame of mind Sat
urday night. She had heard the de
ceased say she would try to kill her
self sometime when. drunk, as she had
done before.
Several other witnesses were ex-
amined, but no facts materially differ
ing from those previously adduced
were brough out, except that Frances
Fairness, a boarder at the Hub con-
tradicted Davis story that the dead
woman had cleaned house or done any
other work last Saturday afternoon.
Miss Fairness testified that the de
ceased had been a great reader and
had spent all of Saturday afternoon
in the parlor of the Hub reading a