The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-05-26
REVOLVER USED IN KILLING j. r.
WILLIAMS STOLEN FROM THE
GARRISON PosToFFICE.
TENDS TO FIX CRIME ON
MARTIN AND NOT LE:NNOX
Martins Remark to a Fellow Prisoner in
the County Jail Further Shows That
He Fired the Shot---lmportant Evi-
dence Against the Accused Man Sc
cured by Under Sheriff McGuIoan.

Under Sheriff McGu;<,n has Just COM
pleted digging up some exceedingly sensa-
tional evidence III the Williams murder
case. He has discovered where lcunuNs
revolver came from, and the discover, goes
to iastcn the shooting OF Williams more
strongly upon Martin
The revolver from which the bullet
issued that killed Williams was a weapon
OF 32-calibcr according To the results of
the autopsy and the examination OF the
wound III the murdered mans back. The
investigation just finished hy Under
Sheriff. McGuigan shows, according to a
statement made unguardcdly hy Martin to
prisoner in the county Jail. thai l.ennox's
pistol is the Colts revolver OF .l-ealibcr
FUND in the box car in which the two
prisoners tried TO make their way out OF
the country after the murder
Identifies Revolver.
Martin told the prisoner that Ienn0x
had stolen the Il -caibcr Colts from the
postoiicc at Garrison. The prisoner trans
mitted this information 10 the under
sheriil The officer wrote to the Garrison
postoice, and today he received commit
nication from A. II, Schcnk the assistant
postmaster of the town named, that seems
conclusive OF the fact that Martin spoke
the truth i'll the tale he told his fellow
captive.
Mr.. Schenk wrote the officer that on
May II OF IS his ~ Colts revolver was
stolen from his desk in the Garrison post
Office and has never been recovered. He
sent with the letter the top of a iI-calber
Colts cartridge box and description of
the pistol, in order To identify the pistol
recovered from the railroad car.
The description tailed with the descrip-
tion OF the latter given in the dispatch Of
Division Superintendent Olmstead of the
Oregon Short Line at Pocatcllo. where are
now the revolvers used by Martin and
Iennox.
Lcnnox would not II FIRST tell by what
railroad route he arrived in Butte, but
when he confessed TO the hold-up and
murder he said that he had been in Salt
Lake week before coming here. and il
is believed he and Martin Travelled 10
gethcr good deal before reaching Butte.
Fixes Crime on Martin.
Martin made no secret about having
come from Portland by way of Garrison.
Martin still processes TO disbclieve the
statement that lcnnox confessed and re-
fuses to say anything further about the
murder Of Williams. He sticks 10 his
FIRST story that he and lcnnox were in
the refrigerator ear when the shooting Of
Williams occurred, and had no hand in
it, and he says he viii not talk any more
till he has had an attorney appointed by
the court 10 represent and advise him
Neither he nor Iennox has sent ont
communication yet 10 any place or per
son. Up TO date they have preferred to
face their trial for murder without the
assistance Of relatives or friends, provid
ing they have any Of the latter.
The discovery that lcnnox was the
owner Of the n caliber weapon fixes the
ownership OF the 81 on Martin, as an in
ference resulting from his own admission,
and establishes a first class basis for the
conclusion that he was the man who took
Williams life which accords with Len
nox's confession and accusation.