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Show Deputies Deny They j Shot Into Crowd: i BUTTE, Mont., May 4. John A. Temploton, a deputy sheriff, testified! yesterday at the inquest into the! dean of Thomas Manning which resulted re-sulted from a bullet wound received during a clash between officers and striking miners sympathizers here April 21, that ho saw tho first shot fired from a window of the Simon's boarding house, overlooking the scene of tho disturbance. The shot, he said, apparently was directed at officers trying to disperse a crowd. Templeton testified that he saw several sev-eral deputy sheriffs fire into the air with sawed off shotguns, but that no .shots were directed at the crowd. The first testimony on behalf of the strike pickets was given by Mrs. Cath-erin Cath-erin Dougherty, who declared she saw Anaconda company "gunmen" shoot into the crowd of strikers after some one who was later was told wafe Roy S. Alley, of the Anaconda, ojf the Anaconda Ana-conda company, had waved his hands and said "go to them, boys." "A dark, short, stout man with glasses fired the first shot," she said. nn |