The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-07-09
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"A tragedy possessing peculiar-;f
not Observation-Disclosures occ,,r
red in the Hamblin neighborhood ear
~ tuesday, morning, when the BODY of
oiiie Mccartney, a farmer who has
resided there for ten or twelve years.
was discovered in a we'll. While tho
reported actions of Mccartney Tho
night before might lead one to believe
That he may have contemplated sui-
eide, n peculiar method in which he
met death has lead many people TO
believe that he met with foul plav
The story as brought to this CITY
by James Conner, a neighbor of Nc
Cartney, is as follows: Mccartney
had been brooding over financial mat
tiers for some time. Monday evening
he came over to the Common place and
stating that he intended to "get out
OF the country" gave Mr.. Conner a
bill of sale of all his farm property.
leaving there about 2:30 o'clock Tues
day morning. In the forenoon of that
day, Mr.. Connor went over to the
store at Hamblin, a couple of miles
distant, and at that time noticed Nc
C~artney's horse grazing in the neigh
borhood Of a we'll on the old Art Mer-
Ger place, one and a half miles east
Of Hamblin. Thinking Mccartney
was somewhere in the neighborhood,
he paid no attention to the matter un-
til his return. At that time he no.
ticed a large rock had been removed
from the cover of the we'll, 81 went
over to investigate. The we'll is about
48 feet deep and curbed all the way
down and in peering down he was able
to distinguish what looked like a pair
of shoes above the water. He immed-
lately secured assistance and with the
aid of a looking glass whereby the
light was reflected to the bottom of
the well, McCartney's body was dis
covered.
The diameter of the interior of the
curbing is only "a inches, so it hardly
seems possible that a man could have
been forced down against his will,
and a cash in the dead mans fore
head shows that he came in contact
with some sharp instrument. Whether
he received this blow and was render
ed unconscious and then dropped into
the we'll, or deliberately dived head
first into the we'll and struck the
curbing on the way down, is unknown.
A ~coroner's jury deliberated over
the affair for several hours Tuesday
afternoon. Three Of the men-Sum-
my Smart, Sam Olson and M. E. How
ard-were of the opinion that Ollie
Mccartney had committed suicide,
while the other three-E. M. Tone,
w. j. Artz and L. A. McNett-refused
to support this view, it being their
OPINION LHdC lie Ildu HHCI Will AooA
play. No doubt a thorough investi-
cation will be made by the officials
of McCone county.
The dead man was about "a years
old and was we'll known in the south
country. He had been twice married,
having had a divorce from his first
wife, who at present is said to reside
at Churches Ferry, N. D. The second
wife was in Circle at the time of the
tragedy and is soon to become a moth
err. He is also survived by three
brothers, two of whom-George and
Arthur-reside near Hamblin, and the
third at B~ascoville, Wisconsin. His
mother and two married sisters also
reside at the latter place.
The sad affair has caused consid-
cradle excitement in the country
where he was so we'll known, and it
is evident hat if he met his death by
foul play, all efforts will be made to
apprehend those. responsible for his