The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-05-27
LENNON IN HIS CONFESSION
TOLD HIDING PLACE.
ARE HELD AS EVIDENCE
Officers Believe Lennox Is the Man
Who Fired the Shot That
Killed Williams.

Two REVIEWERS, WIN one OF
which Charles Lennox swears
his comrade, James Martin,
shot J. R. Williams to death
in Silver Bow Junction Monday night.
Both revolvers were found in the
identical spot in which Lennox in his
confession had said they had been Sc
creted.
County officials consider the finding
of the revolvers a most important
link in the chain of evidence against
the men. The discovery of the re-
v~olvers also stamps with truth the
confession of Lennox.
G. H. Olmstead, division superintend-
ent of the Short Line road in Pocatel-
10, telegraphed to H. o. Wilson, the
railroad agent here, a description of
the pistols, the ammunition found
with them and the hiding place in
which they were found. This is the
telegram:
20. H. Wilson: Your wire of date
received. Located D. R. G.. car 12,O47
at Pocatello, and found one Colts
six-shooter, Al caliber, and 10 cart
ridges for m Cylinder and cylin-
der bolt removed, but with gun.
zone American bulldog, not mark
ed, but would judge it was a 90 cali
Der. Also all cartridges for that gun.
Also found n dirty white handker-
chief with blood stains on it. Z
"These articles were found, as in
dictated, between the lining and
sheathing of the car, in the south
end. Top board had been removed
and the guns dropped IN and the
board replaced. What disposition
shall be made of guns?" ]
Sheriff Furey sent an order to Po-
catello charging Mr.. Olmstead to have
the guns kept by the man who found
them, SO that the latter may come to
Butte and identify them and testify
to finding them.
The revolvers found in the car cor
respond as to caliber with the state
ment made by Lennox. He said that
Martin had a 80 caliber pistol and he
a revolver of Al caliber. The wound
that killed Williams was made by a
bullet from a pistol of 80 caliber.
When Charles Lennox confessed
that he and James Martin were guilty
of the murder of j. B. Williams yes
terday afternoon, but declared that
Martin was the man who fired the
fatal shot, he evidently believed that
by laying the blame at the door of
his partner in crime he was saving his
own neck from the hangman's moose.
However, if Martin hangs for u
der in the first degree, Lennox will
undoubtedly meet with the same pen
atty. The officials believe that Len
nox is the man who killed Williams
and that Martin was accessory both
before and after the fact.
Williams Statement.
When Williams was brought from
Silver Bow and removed to the St.
James hospital. after he received the
bullets in his back which resulted in
his death, he made a full statemen
in which he described both Lennox
and Martin as his assailants, and was
very positive that the taller of the
two men fired the shot that killed
him. Williams said: II was walking
S,D,o %ho co1o~p ~ Gi1uoy pnuy in tho
direction of the railroad track when
two men leaped in front of me from
out of the darkness. The taller of the
two men pointed a pistol at me and
said throw up your hands, l grab
bed the barrel of the gun and tried
to wrest it from the robber but was
unsuccessful. I then struck the short
man with my fist, but seeing that it
would avail me nothing to fight 1
turned and ran. I had gone but a
few feet when l was shot. l am sure
that the tall man did the shooting
because the other did not have a gun
and when I turned to run the tall
NAH was aiming at me-"
Believe Lennox Guilty.
AS Lennox is the tall mar to whom
Williams refers in his statement,
there can be but little doubt in the
minds of the officials that he instead
of Martin did the shooting.
In the eyes of the law it makes
no. material difference whether Len
nox fired the fatal shot or whether
Martin was the man who did the
shooting, but if Lennox actually fired
the shot that took Williams life and
believed when he stated that Martin
did it he was paving the way to his
own freedom, he deserves even a
wors punishment than Martin, il
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