The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-09-22
DISTRICT COURT
Malcolm Hunter Gets One Year
Lantz To Be Sentenced Monday

| L TANK ElllOCC Ill one OF Jno NOrCn
Side saloons in our city, Sunday
morning June 18th, of this year, was
brought to trial last Wednesday at
Glasgow and the taking of the State s
evidence was continued for three
days. A number of witnesses were
in attendance in behalf of the defend
ant, but at the time of presenting his
defense, Lantz asked leave to with
draw his plea of not guilty, and
plead guilty to murder in the second
degrea. His request was granted by
Judge Tattan and he will receive
sentence next Monday, September
26th.
The evening of June 18th, Lantz
and Elliott had been drinking and
afterwards quarrelled, the quarrel
ending in fight in which Lantz got
the worst of the encounter. Lantz
then left the saloon and returned to
it early Sunday morning with gun.
After locating Elliott, Lantz began
firing at him. Elliott rushed toward
Lantz and received a bullet in the
region of the heart. Jim McDonough
attempted to take the revolver from
Lantz. In the tussle that ensued the
gun was discharged second time,
the bullet entering and passing
through the tleshy part of the arm of
Amos Riddle who was asleep in one
of the chairs. Elliott was carried to
a shack in the vicinity of the saloon
where medical aid was summoned
but he expired Monday morning
about 500 o'clock. Before he died he
made a statement to the attendant
physician, DR.. Clay, Sheriff Small
and County Attorney Dignan in
which it is said he placed all the
blame for the shooting on Lantz. At
ter the shooting Lantz was promptly
arrested, taken to Glasgow and lodged
in the county Jail,
The case against Malcolm Hunter
on charge of grand larceny was the
first case on trial at this session of
the district court and consumed three
days in the trial. The jury, continues
the Valley County News, deliberated
eighteen hours and brought in a YER
dict of guilty, fixing the punishment
at one years imprisonment. The
matter has attracted considerable
attention, the court room being
jammed most of the time. Able ar
guments in closing the case Monday
at an evening session were made by
John L. Slattery and Geo. E. Hurd
for the state, and Mr.. Sam Stevens OF
Great Falls, for the defense. All the
people connected with the matter are
we'll known in this part of the state,
several Glasgow men being interested
in an indirect way. 1t was claimed
by the attorneys for the state that in
April 1908, a horse belonging to NAL
colin Hunter was brought into Glas-
gov and sold at public sale by the
Glasgow Sale company, with which
lMr, Hunter was connected; that
John Lundquist of Bainville, bought
} the horse, that he arranged to have IT
taken to Bainville by one Dell Siep
herd, that at Nashua the first night
out, the horse was taken from thu
stock yards by Mr.. Hunter, taken tt
2 his ranch, disguised and put to work
and that later fearing that the hors'
l might be recognized, Mr.. Hunter tool
4 the horse into Dawson county an
:, shot it. Alvin H. Grover testified t.
: seeing a man whom he thought wa
Hunter taking the horse out OF tn
= stock yards at Nashua. Jack an
Bert Shufelt testified to seeing tn
}, horse in Hunters possession and t
the fact that Hunter disguised it an
~ put it to work with neighbors and pu
h it on a freight team going to Mile
q City, and Bert Shufelt and Grove
y testified to seeing Hunter shoot tn
horse in Dawson county, fifty mile
from the Hunter ranch. Grover ide1
u titled the upper jaw of a horse whic
II he claimed was from the horse i
'e question. The jaw was introduced
Il evidence, and considerable testimon
" was introduced in connection with i
'e endeavoring to determine the age
II the horse to which it belonged. Ti
~ defendant introduced evidence
another horse similar in color AL
8, with the same brand that had bee
,. sold by the Glasgow sale company
IS Dan Mckay, tending to show th'
t. there might be mistake as to tt
IL identity of the horse, and Mr.. St
vs phenson also endeavored to discred
t. the testimony of the Shufelts and NJ
+. Grover, by showing up their guilt
K knowledge Of the transaction, al
1e the fact that they might have hs
9rievances arainst Hunter which i