The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-07
BUTTE POLICE ARREST EIGHT
MEN IN C JkNECTi, N WITH
o,BRiEN'S DEATH.
NECROPAWNS BLOODY HAT
Seven "Dope" Fiends Occupying
Shack Near Shaft Whens Remains
Were Found Are aiken Into Custody
and Colored Man Is Also Under Sus-
acknowledgements Of Man Traced
Special to The Daily Missoulian

Special to The Daily Missoulian.
Butte, July 6.-There were few new
developments in the case of the man
found dead in the shaft back of the
Halfway saloon yesterday and it has
been practically settled that his true
name is John O'Brien. He has been
identified under three names. OBrien,
Redmond and Jones. All insist that
their Identification is correct However
it seems certain that the murdered
man has brother in Missoula who
works in the railroad yards during the
day and attends school at night.
The police have traced his move
ments up to Friday, when he was en-
gagged with a party in drinking. This
was on Friday and at that time the
man is said to have had only $1.5o in
his possession. Under the belief that
number of dope fiends may be in
duced to tell anything that they knew
about the murder seven OF them were
taken into custody this afternoon
charged with vagrancy. They are v.
H. Hudson, William Cooper, Eveline
Roberts, Horace Logan, James Brice
and Jennie Roe. They all occupy a
cabin in the locality of the mine. The
man was attired in new blue serge
suit, the coat having been taken off,
folded up and thrown into the shaft
with the body. The pockets of the
trousers were turned inside out and
no money or valuables were found.
Some letters found in the pockets Of
the coat show that he served his ap-
premiership as a machinist in Belfast,
Ireland, and received a certificate dated
October 25. 1907. 1t stated that he
was found honest, reliable and atten-
tive to his duties in the four years he
was In the employ of the firm of Fir
burn, Lawson, Combs. Barbour Co. and
that he left of his own accord. He is
referred to as James Jones. The espe-
cial feature of today's developments is
the fact that yesterday a negro
pawned derby hat to a saloon keeper
near the scene of the murder, getting
$3.50 for the hat. 1T was covered with
blood and the negro has been arrested.
1t has now narrowed down so that
only a few men are under suspicion
as being participants in the murder,
and the police are morally certain that
they have the right man in sight and
will probably make some definite
charge in the morning. The opinion
prevails that a dope fiend was respon-
sible for the murder. The disclosures
of the autopsy shows that an internal
hemorrhage was the cause Of death.
Late last night an effort was made
to locate the man who is supposed to
be a brother Of the victim of the
murder in Butte. Inquiry at the Of
flee of the yardmaster of the North
ern Pacific brought no information,
as the railroad officials had no
knowledge of any yard man in their
employ, who might bear either the
name of John O'Brien or James
Jones. None of the depot policemen
have any knowledge of the man. Of
ficer Whiteman states that one day
last week man, who professed to
be stranger in the city, asked him
If he knew any man Z by the name
of John O'Brien, The officer de-
scribes the stranger as being a large
man, with a heavy mustache. This
man may, or may not, have been
concerned in the affair at Butte,
either the victim or his brother