The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-11-21
cORONtR'S INQUEST
DEVELOPS LITTLE
INQUIRY INTO DEATH or cAAs.
cRiSWELL is HElO-SES-
SION CONTINUED.

West Front street Friday night. lost
his life from the effects Of morphine
administered by Louis Clark. was
brought out yesterday at the inquest
held before Coronsr w. d. kendrick
AT his office on East Pine street. but
whether the drug was administered
with malicious intent will not be de-
ciacl until Monday evening. as the
inaussition was adjourned to that
time To await the results of the an
alysis Of the dead mans stomach and
the securing OF several more wit
ncsses.
The inquest convened Mt o'clock
yesterday afternoon. the first witness
to be called being Louis Clark or. as
he stated his name on the stand. Ole
Forman. He stated that he. together
with Criswell. Frank Sullivan and
Sidney Mangnall. had been employed
on the government ditch at Dixon.
They had come to town separately.
hut met Friday afternoon In til. Ex-
change saloon. They got to drinking
and Criswell confessed that his nerves
were unsettled. and asked Clark to
get something to fix him up. Clark
chased SO cents worth OF morphine.
He returned TO the saloon. He did
not remember anything more. until he
awoke in Jail the next morning tyes-
teriay). He did not know where he
had purchased the drug nor how
much he obtained. He thought II was
given to him In a paper. He did not
remember how much he had given
Crisweil nor how he had administered
II to the man. He did not remember
placing the drug In any liquor lie
stated that Ole Forman was his true
name, stating that he had been told
that he gave the name of Louis Clark
when placed under arrest. He took
some Of the stuff but did not know
how much. He was not in the habit
or taking drugs. Criswe.l had been
drinking. but he could not say wheth
or or not the man was drunk. He
did not recall making any statement
al the time Of his arrest.
Throughout his examination Clark
appeared to be somewhat morose and
forgctful. probably due to the effect
Of the drug which he had taken the
previous evening. When asked II his
apparent lapses OF memory were not
due to unwillingness TO talk. he an
swcrel no.
Pete Mcdonald. night chief Of po-
lice, was called next He testified that
he had just left the police station
about . o'clock on the evening of No
vember 10. tFridayl. when he met
man who told him that an officer was
wanted at the Shamrock saloon. He
went there and found man, who he
afterwards heard WAS criswell. lying
In stupor. Mr.. Borman. one of the
proprietors. told him that the man
had been ..doped" by another named
Clark. Mcdonald placed Clark in the
care Of Borman and went after
doctor, but when no returned the
man was dead Clark was then placed
under arrest and taken to the police
station. on the way 10 the station
the officer asked Clark where he got
the drug. The man answered Il got
the snow up here" pointing up Front
street The said he got 80 cents
worth. Clark had been drinkin. evil
IDENTIFY. but he was not drunk. He
walked all right
Sidney Mangnall, who had been
with the party. was mex, called To
the stand He gave his occupation as
a locomotive fireman, but said that
he had been working with the other
men on the ditch ut Dixon. lie had
met the other men. crisweil, Clark
and Sullivan. In the Exchange saloon.
on West Front street They had sew
eral drinks and crisweli complained
that he was not feeling well. that his
nerves We're unstrung. Just then
Mangnali left the saloon, going IL
Isr har af
gene about % minutes and when he
returned Clark showed him some
white stuff in an envelope, and asked
him IL he wanted shot" Clark
told him II was SNOW" lie refused. |
and the men then went tn the sham
rock saloon. further Down Til. street.
There Clark and crisweil took an
other dose Of the drug. drinking il
in whisky which MAS fixed by the
former. This WAS somewhere around
s o'clock the first aose having been
taken by the two men about o'clock.
The men had intended To go To Spo-
kane, and Mangnall had tried to get
the others To stop drinking. but they
refused. He did not notice tina, the
drug had any effect on either of the
two men. although after while
-
down. That was about all that Mang-
nall knew OF the case.
Frank Sullivan. in charge of the
crew of which the other men were
members. testified. He had been with
the party. but did not see Clark give
Criswell the drug. He did not know
that Clark had done So. All of the
men had been drinking and. with the
exception Of Mangnail. Mere some
what under the influence of liquor. /
Neither crisweli nor Clark were too
drunk 10 realize what they We're do
ing. He had noticed Criswell when !
he became ILL., but that WAS all the
light he could throw on the matter.
The inquest was then adjourned to
meet At 80 o'clock Monday evening.
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