The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-18
ARE DETERMINED TO LYNCH uN-
NAMABLE BRUTE.
WESTERN MOUNTAINEERING
Walter Jackson in stsvensvilIe Jail
Charged With Crime Revolving
Beyond Belief.

Missoula, Aug. 1.-Two hundred
men armed to the teeth and ready for
any emergency, r mobilized at Ste.
vensville, prepared ito march on the
Jail at Hamilton at a moments notice,
to deal out summary vengeance to
Walter Jackson, the man who lis charg.
ed with having outraged and muir.
dered little Fonnie Buck on last Thurs.
day evening. A crowd OF at least 100
men from MissOula, it is said, is ready
to join the Stevensville vengeance
committee, and two hundred more men
from Hamilton may join in any effort
that would result in Kidding the world
of the covering prisoner in the Ham
ilton Jail.
Sheriff Is Prepared.
Ready ito meet such an attack, Sher-
if Pond of Ravalli county, stands at
the head of 100 heavily armed depu-
ties, sworn to die if need be in defend.
ing the frail jail and the charge within.
Excitement is intense throughout Ra-
valli and Missoula counties and the
situation is critical in the extreme.
Hearing at Hamilton.
Jackson's preliminary hearing has
been set for Thursday before Judge
Sedgwick of Stevensville, but as the
people are wild with indignation in
the town where the dead boys family
resides it has been deemed best to
have THE hearing ait Hamilton instead.
jackson, the prisoner, has been posi-
lively identified by Miss Vivian War
ner, a young lady of Stevensville,
who saw him carrying the Buck boy
out of town ON the afternoon OF the
tragedy. She took particular notice
of the man on account of his repulsive
appearance, she says.
Walter Jackson is said by the Off
GERS to be one of the SONS OF a family
of degenerates. His father was for
some time a member of the Salvation
army of this place, but his reputation
was not OF the best. The mother is
almost an imbecile, lit us claimed.
Anderson jackson, a brother, was ar
rested in Missoula last spring charged
with assaulting the little Baker girl.
The child afterwards recognized her
assailant on the streets, but at the
trial which followed lit was held that
she was too young ito be a RESPONSE
BILE witness and Anderson Jackson
was discharged.
The crime with which jackson
stands charged is the most heinous
in the history of western Montana.
The little son of John Buck of Ste
vensville Disappeared last Thursday
afterOnon and later was cen in Jack
sons company, going in the direction
of the river. The little fellow was
crying and seemed to be greatly dis
tressed. 1t vas the general theory
that the boy had been kidnapped, al
though what object the kidnaper could
have had seemed a mystery, as the
boys father is a poor man.
Mystery Is Cleared.
The mystery was partially cleared
yesterday morning at 10 O'Clock, how
ever, when the dead and mutilated
body of the boy was found half sub
merged in the mud of a marsh along
the river bank not far from Stevens
willie. Yesterday afternoon a coroner's
inquest was held, the jury returning
a verdict that Fonnie Buck had come
to his death through shock causing
CONFUSION, caused by am assault COM
mitted by one Walter Jackson"
The news spread like wildfire. Jack
son., in mortal dread, started in the di-
rection of Hamilton, accompanied by
two friends. Hearing that the country
was rising against him he turned
back towards Stevensville, where Off
GERS Of that town arrested him. Lynch
ing parties began to form and he was
spirited away to the Jail at Hamilton.
Sheriff Pond ait once swore in a large
body of deputies to protect the prison
err and these have camped in front Of
thn iail pranarad tn dn 4hpir dufv at all