| Show TRAGEDY NEAR DILLON JL SHOWMAN murdee MURDERS 33 MS nis ASSISTANT tho the butte miner hiner of the ath has the following dispatch from dillon prof 0 A lewis who la Is well weli known in eastern montana having traveled through that section with a maglo magic and slight blight of hand perform charged with the commission of a terrible or chimu ime near this city yes yeb derany A beautiful young lady known on the thu bills as eva traveled with him and assisted him in the performances she was about sixteen years of age and he claimed she was his daughter they arrived in dillon two weeks ago coming with their own wagon and team and went into camp about two miles below the city about yesterday afternoon lewis was waa seen by some carpenters who were working near by carrying the young lady lidy toward the bridge which crosses the river near their camp the ul spectacle grouted their suspicion that something was wrong and running to the spot they were horrified to nud bud the lifeless body of the girl with the whole top I 1 of her head blown blow noff onn off they took lewis into custody and carried the body backo bacio back to 10 the wagon where they found a shot gun with one barrel discharged and the inside of the wagon cover spattered with blood and brains when first arrested I 1 lewis acted crazy and talked incessantly in almost incoherent languages the drift of which lemed to be that eva wanted to die and be an angel and now she had her wish A coroners inquest was held upon the body and a verdict returned that the girl came to her death by a gun i shot wound inflicted by A C cleala CL lewig lewis ewig ewla today to day lewis was taken to view the corpse he seemed ter terribly rilly affected sad nad for the first time since his arrest threw onn off his appearance of insanity but finally as he lle gazed upon the corpse he broke out into a I 1 frenzied appeal to the dead girl to speak and say that he did not commit the terrible deed he bays says that she discharged the guc guu her ber herself beit helf that it was lying in the trunk in getting some article out of which she bhe accidentally discharged it killing her instantly that hearing the report he rushed to the wagon and raised the body in hu hb arms the thought flashed aeres across his mind that he would be suspected of the murder and bia bib first impulse was to conceal the body he impulsively started towards the river when the carpenters came upon hirn him and took him into custody upon searching the effects of 0 lewis and aud tho the girl letters were we found which prove that she was not his daughter but a mies eva clerk of chicago whom he had engaged V to 10 travel with him bho was h highly ig J y accomplished and a fine musician there thera wab was strong talk yesterday evening of lynch lug the th pris ener gner but no attempt was made to do ao fio the lab iab j all Is strongly gaurd gaurdet gaur dod ded edt eds |
