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Show Peculiar Defense in Murder Case. Butte. J. P.. Sullivan, a well known saloonman of Butte, was acquitted by a jury on Friday of the murder of Joseph Saier in this city. Saier was shot by Sullivan September 8. 1908, and died two weeks later. The defense de-fense set up by Sullivan's attorneys was that Saier's death was not. due to the wound inflicted by Sullivan, but to defective surgery and medical treatment. This defense involved a number of doctors, and nearly disrupted dis-rupted the Silver Bow Medical society, so-ciety, charges being filed wilh the society so-ciety against several of its members and resulting in a hearing and damage dam-age suit. The doctors finally compromised compro-mised their difficulties. |