The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-09-02
Accompanied by Little Daughter Was
Going to Iowa-No Reason
ls Known.
From Fridays Daily Gazette.

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here this morning may never be
known.
It was shortly after 6 o'clock this
morning when No. 4, a Northern Pa
ciic %eastbound train, arrived at the
station. Just as the train was slow
ing up the inmates Of one of the
DAY coaches were startled by a pis- |
tOl shot and the screams of a little |
girl. Instantly the sleepy eyes OF the
other. passengers were directed to-
ward the seat from which the shot
had apparently been heard and they
saw a nan fall backward against the
window, while a revolver dropped
from his hand. Several, among them
the brakeman, ran to where the man
was and found him bleeding from a
wound in the head. He was uncon-
scious and breathing heavily.
AS soon as the train came to a
%standstill the brakeman ran onto the
platform and began to call for the po-,
lice. Officers Mowre and Salisbury
were at the station and responded to.
the call. They entered the car and
hound the wounded man in the posi-
ton already described. With the as
sistance of the trainmen they remoy/
ed him onto the platform and placed
him on the stretcher which is kept
in the baggage room for use in case
of an emergency. Realizing that the
man could live only a very short time
at best, the policemen notified DR..
Chapple, the coroner, who fastened
to the station and under his directions
he was removed to ST. Vincent's hos
pital.
Before the arrival Of the doctor and
pending the mans removal Officer
Salisbury took possession Of the eff
fects found on him and had the little
| girl who had been the mans COM
panion taken to the Driscoll hotel.
The child said she was 6 years old.
In spite of her youthfulness she was
bright and intelligent. Naturally she
was very much frightened, but for all
that told a remarkably straight and
coherent story. She said she was
the daughter of the man who had shot
himself and that her name was Inez
Carey and that she and her father
had been on their way to Iowa to
visit her aunt. She also said that
she had several sisters and a moth
er who lived on a ranch about four
miles from Butte. /
Fastened to a ribbon wound a num-
Der Of times about her neck was a
leather tag IN which was written,
"Tnez Carey to Bertha Carey, Algona,
Iowa. This was taken off and given
to the officer. In reply to questions
the child said that her father had
put the ribbon on her night before
last and told her he did SO because
she might catch cold. This was all
she could tell of the affair.
The wound inflicted upon himself
by Carey was pronounced fatal by
the doctor as soon as he saw it. judy
ing from its location the man had evil
IDENTIFY attempted to shoot himself in
the forehead, but the shaking of the
train caused him to miss his aim,
as the bullet entered the head slight
ly above the line of the forehead and
emerged a short distance behind the
point of ingress, tearing away por-
tons of the skull and causing the
brain to be exposed, parts of which
oozed out and mingled with the blood
in. which the body was drenched.
At 9:15 o'clock Carey died and his
body was turned i've to P. H. Smith,
the county undertaken. Coroner
Chapple summoned a jury and after
viewing the body an adjournment
was taken until 1880 this evening,
when the inquest will be held.
The effects taken from the per-
son Of Carey by Policeman Salisbury
consisted of a railroad ticket from
Butte to Algona, Ia, issued to D. G.
Carey, a pass book of the Caplice com
pany, Butte, also issued to the same
party, a sales slip of Campana Bros,
Butte, showing the purchase of some
groceries by Carey and which was
dated August %, a memorandum OF
the number of a Colts revolver, 1872.
519; another giving the number Of a
12-guage Winchester shotgun, 145,
761; $14.16 in cash, a half pint flask
of Social, Club" whiskey, from which
only a very small portion had been
taken, a Colts revolver, 41-calibre, q