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Show KILLED AND ROBBED ! IN AtUM JOINT Such Is Believed the Fate of a Gambler W hose Body Was Found. BUTTE Mont , Jan 8.-R. G Shadwell. gambler and alleged murderer of "Red" O'Connor, whose mutilated body won found ln Chinatown early Sunday morning, morn-ing, was murdered and robbed In a Chinese Chi-nese opium den, uc.cordlng to detectives who have been lnv-stlgnt Ing the case today. to-day. It Is the theory of the police that n Chinaman und some woman murdered Shadwell as he lay sle-ping from the effects ef-fects of the drug In one of the fashionable Joints of the Chinese district Choked When Asleep. Shadwell had won M0 ut poker on tho night before tho met hip death and up to tho time he Is supposed to have visited tho Chinese den was In company with a woman of the half world, whom the police have located. Shadwell uppar enth' was choked whllw In alumbcr ajid Ids head hacked with an Icepick until life was extinct Tho corpse wus then dressed und waehed and the body dragged Into an allev Can't Find Scene of Crime. Every opium den In the neighborhood has been visited a number of times bj the police, but no evidence can be found to locate tho scene of the crime, so clovcr-I clovcr-I ly wus It executed. |