Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-23
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sTANIsLAUS o'BYRNE WAS THE
DEAD MAN.
HE HAS NO KNOWN FRIENDS,
County Authorities Promise an Epi-
den1ic of Marriages, or Of
Arrests.
Livingston. February

Livingston, February %, 1901.
frank 0. Fifield returned this morn
snS from Bozeman, Where he was sent
yesterday afternoon by H. J. Horn, su
peflnte.dfnt of the Montana division OF
the Northern Pacific, to see if he were
able 10 Identify the body of the man
killed la st Sunday morning at the wes>
end of he Muir Tunnel. AS predicted
an fridays Inter Mountain. the body
turned out to be the remains of Stanis-
laus O'ByIne. Mr.. Fifie.d's dentifca-
Ito nof the remains was posi- tive and
complete, and not a doubt now remains
as to the identity of the deal man. rhe
remains We're inferred at Bozeman The
manner in which the dead man was
finally identified was shreWd piece of
work on the part of John .iunn of this
city, aided in the details by the news
paper men Of Livingston. The only
thing found on the body was 4 memo-
randum book. When Coroner Finlay of
Gallatin county looked at the took he
@aid:",This is of no earthly use to us
in the endeavCr to Identify this body.
There is anne in the book, and it is
hardly possible that anyone would rec
ognize the handwriting in which inc
few scarcely Ineligible entries in it are
made MIR. Gum, however, was not
80 sure of this; and accordingly he
brought the book to Livingston when he
returned. In the front OF the book, on
the inside of the cover, was an entry
made in lead pencil long time ago, the
only part of which could be deciphered
was Nolan Bros With this clew MIR.
Gum went to the store of Nolan Bros.
in this city, and With the aid of mag
nifying glass the rest of the entry was
made out. 1t showed that on certain
date the firm of Nolan Bros had paid
to some one SIS. Nolan Bros cash ac-
count showed that on the date in the
book $75 had been paid to c. c. Fifield.
Then all was clear sailing. Mr.. Fifield
identified the book as one which he had
given man named O'Byrne, CIR O'Brien,
as he called him. Then the work Of find
dn out who O'Byrne was commenced. He
was traced to the court of Judge Bender,
where he had sued Fred Bother for
wages due him. On the complaint was
his signature. 'Stanslaus O'Byrne."
From What can gathered of OByrne's
past life, he has no relatives living. He
made the statement once to a friend in
this city that his parents were dead. He
said they had died when he was a. child
and that he had been raised by Bishop
Vaughn of London, England. He
claimed to have been vestry boy to this
ecclesiastic for number of years of
his early youth. He was an ardent Epis-
copalian, and when here he would dress
himself up i'll the best he could procure
and attend church whenever opportunity
afforded He was about "a years of age.
The story that Dennis OLeary, a Sec
rion hand at the tunnel. told at the in
quest, sattled all doubts in the minds of
Livingston people as to the identity of
the dead man, even before Mr.. Fifield
went to Bozeman to look at the re-
mains. OLeary testified that the man
who was killed had told him when pass
ing through the tunnel that he had
worked in a livery stable at Livingston
an that he had been kicked by horse.
OByrne worked for Bill Miles & Bros.
and last summer was kicked by a vicious
colt. He also told O'Leary tat he had
just been discharged from the poor faln,.
which was also the case with O'Byrne
The dead man was always sober and in
dustriccO working whenever he could
get u.le chance. People who know him