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Show FOUL MURDER AT BUTTE. A Drunken, Demented Blan Snoots and Kills the Alleged Seducer . of ms-AVife. . At about half-past 6 '"o'clock Friday night persons fn the vicinity of the corner cor-ner of Main and Granite streets heard several shots fired in quick succession, the reports coming from the wholesale department of O'Rourke's liquor store in the Matthews'building. A moment later a man with a smoking j pistol in his hand emerged hastily from the side entrance of the liquor store, rushed west down Granite Gran-ite street, and turned into' the alley. Here he was overtaken by officer Dwyer and taken into custody, still holding the smoking smok-ing revolver ia.'nia hand. ' Innnirv 1a. veloped the fact that a murder had been committed, the victim being A. Grussey, and the murderer Antoine Ludwig. Lud wig had come up from Silver Bow during the afternoon,' Dr. Beal having given him passage in his wagon. After reaching town Ludwig had filled up on bad - liquor, and several times before evening had expressed his determination of killing Grussey, before 8 o'clock. Nothing much was thought of the threat, as it was supposed to be the frothing pf a drunken man. : : How- well he made good his threat the sequel proved. . Grussey was warned by two or three persons to look out for Ludwig, Lud-wig, as he threatened murder; but, like others who heard of thtf threats, he anticipated an-ticipated noserious consequences. Shortly before tbe shooting, Grussey, who owned the Anheuser beer saloon, recently started in connection with O'Rourke's liquor establishment, es-tablishment, stepped from -the saloon into the wholesale department, about one-third of the original 6tore-room having hav-ing been : partitioned , off for that purpose. pur-pose. Here he sat down at a desk, with Jerry Sullivan sitting near by. A momentiater, Ludwig, grasping a pistol, came in at the side entrance, which is just back of the point where the partition joins the north wall, and is close to the door opening from the saloon into the wholesale department. Stopping just inside this inner door, Ludwig opened fire on Grussey. No warning was given and no. word; uttered" on either side. Grussey was unarmed. As to how many shots were fired there is some uncertainty. uncer-tainty. Mr. Sullivan thinks there were five, and others say the same. Only four, however, of the bullets took effect. Any one of the wounds it is thought was sufficient to produce death. , The prisoner was visited in jail . by the coroner's jury for the purpose of having the witnesses identify him and to hear any . statement he might desire to make. He acknowledged acknowl-edged the crime, said he intended to kill the s of a b , and hoped he would die. The. verdict was that it was a deliberate murder. The reason he killed Grussey, as :. stated by the murderer, was that the happiness, of his domestic- life had been ruined by Grussey, who stole the affections of his wife and broke np his' home. The two men were in partnership in the restaurant business in Butte two or three years ago, in the room now occupied occu-pied by the United States restaurant. During this partnership an improper intimacy, in-timacy, the prisoner alleges, came about between Grussey and his (Ludwig) wife. His wife has since left him and he has bottled his wrath until he could bear the thought of his digrace and wrongs no longer. The murder was the result. Butte Inter-Mountain, 26th. |
