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Show FORCED 10 Kill FOKB FARTHER ANACONDA. Mont.. Dee. 30. A special to the Standard from Philips-burg, Philips-burg, Mont., says : I "After a cold night's walk of 20 miles. William A. Lockaby, a sub- ! contractor on the bl irrigating ditch I being built near Hall, reach, d here J curly this morning and gave hlmseif j up to Sheriff Kennedy, asserting th;U ! he had Idlled his partner George A. j Miller, yesterday afternoon. Acco.d- Ing to is story, the two men had I agreed to dissolve partnership und Miller, after receiving $10o hi ensh. I left the ctrup and took the train at Hall for Drummond. There ho 13 bo lieved to have become considerably under the Influence of liquor. Acting upon some Impulse, he re turned to Hall on the afternoon train and walked out to the camp. I.ocka-bv I.ocka-bv claims that after Miller's arrival at. the tent occupied by the partners, he started to prepare a meal lor Miller, and that when he went for wood to replenish the fire. Miller followed him outslJe. and picking up an ax, made an attack on him. Lockaby managed to d'.dsre the blow and ran back in'o the tent, followed by Miller, who still brandished the ax. The puisued man picked up his revolver, re-volver, and turning, fired a shot, which struck his assailant's watch pocket, shattering the wa'ch, but neither Injuring nor stopping the man. A second shot took effect in the left sld, penetrating the lungs, while a third entered the bodv on the right side. Immediately after the shooting Lockaby rnn out to the men working several hundred yards away, fold what h had done and started for Hall, where h toll his story lo the sheriff horo ovor the telephone, and started on foot fir Phlllpsburg. On his arrival, ar-rival, County Attorney Moore hastily organized a party nnd went to thu camp, where they found Miller's body In the tent. Both hand were clutched clutch-ed tlchtly ovor tho handle of the ax. -co |