The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-07-19
DEATH OF POPLAR INDIAN
IS INVESTIGATED AT HELENA

Eagles of Poplar, an In d l a n
brought here to testify in federal
court, was killed at 2 o'clock this
morning when he fell from a win
dow of the Laird hotel at 5712
South Main street. White Eagles,
who had been drinking heavily,
suffered a fractured skull and
other hurts.
David REM, also an Indian and
a friend of the dead man, said he
had engaged a room and put
White Eagles to bed. The latter,
who was one of a party of four
that came here from Poplar, had
been drinking, REM said, but was
neither noisy nor unmanageable.
After REM stepped out of the
room White Eagles fell to his
death.
Coroner David T. Berg was i'm
mediately summoned. He ordered
the body removed to a mortuary
and said he would notify the In
dian bureau. IT, y, DR.
Berg said today, White Eagles
had gotten UP and in staggering
about had fallen through the win
dow, which is flush with the floor.
The body is at Opp & Conrad's.
Helena, July 13.-That the death
of Jerome White Eagle, Poplar
Indian who was killed at 2 o'clock
yesterday morning when he fell
from a second story window of
the Laird hotel at 57M South
Main street, may have been due
to violence instead of accident is
indicated by newly discovered
evidence, County Attorney G. ".
Padbury, Jr., said today.
Mrs. Herman Freyler, Jr., a
waitress employed at the Eddy
cafe, who was on her way to her
apartment at the Montana hotel,
1862 South Main, is quoted as
saying that she heard loud voices
and sounds of a scuffle in a room
at the Laird about lao o'clock.
From the opposite side of the
street she said she looked up at
the window and saw a man back
ing toward it, followed by another
who was striking at him. The
first man backed to the window
and either was pushed or fell
through it, striking on the pave
ment below.
Mrs. Freyler, it is said, then
saw a man and a woman run down
the front stairs and look at the
body, after which they hurried up
stairs again. She is unable to
say whether the man who accom-
panied the woman to the street is
the man she saw in the room
from the window of which White
Eagles fell.
Because of Mrs. Freyler's state
ments, Investigation of the case,
which at first was thought to be
accidental death, has been reopen
ed. The first step was taken last
night when George La Page Inc
Eva Edwards, p%roprietors of the
hotel, were arrested by the police
and turned over to county auth
critics. They are being held in
the county Jail on a complaint,
filed in the court of Justice OF the
Peace J. H. Brass, charging vag-
rancY.
The Edwards woman has told
County Attorney Padbury that she
was directing David REM, also an
Indian and a friend of the dead
man. to the bathroom when they
heard a crash. They rushed to
the front room, looked out of the
and saw White Eagles
body on the sidewalk. They then
went downstairs. looked at the
body and notified the police.
White Eagle, she said, had been
drinking and apparently had STUN
bled through the window. La
Page was in the rear of the build
ing. she added, when the accident
occurred.
z, who early yesterday
morning had told police he had
put White Eagles to bed, las left
The city, it was said at the sheriff's
office this morning.
yrvL:4. UroaJoc oapna hara DC a
witness before the federal grand
Jury on a case involving alleged
sale of liquor to Indians on the
reservation at Poplar. He was &C
.ompanied by George Chicken
Cloud, also of the reservation, and
Charles Aggens, Indian agent.
The body of White Eagles is at
The Opp and Conrad mortuary.
Attorney Padbury and
Coroner David T. Berg are con
their investigation.
Helena, July ia coroner's
ury here Monday night was I'M
bile to determine the for
he fatal fall of Jerome White
eagle from his hotel window here
asst Thursday morning. White.
an Indian of Poplar, Roose-
-elt county, was here as a wit
.ess in federal court. David REM,
Who occupied the room with him,
5 to be brought back from Roose-
cit county for questioning.