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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1908
Page
13
Eighteen bodies are alleged in a case involving a sheriff in Fernie. Authorities report serious charges tied to the investigation. Local officials, including Prisey Com Ass and Ke Winston, are mentioned in connection with the inquiry.
Special dispatch reports Deer Lodge county Sheriff Thomas J. Fleming faces grand jury action on alleged abuse involving girls from Miles City reform school. Letters by three girls describe improper advances and intoxicated encounters during travel and at the reform school, with Superintendent Price and wife as witnesses. Fleming denies wrongdoing and says he will respond when possible.
Lying under a prison building for four days a prisoner heard the alarm bell for an escape as 75 guards scoured Marin county. Charise Ross a Russian exile serving seven years for burglary was recaptured while trying to flee. An inmate from Saghalin hid a coffin like shelter under an old shed and escaped in worn clothes after shedding prison stripes. He soon vanished then returned inside the walls when hunted.
The Montana State Bar Association convened in Butte with wide attendance as members debated defective laws court procedure and the practice act. Speakers analyzed Supreme Court rules and criticized courts while urging reforms.
Aug 4 New York reports Count Zeppelin's airship embarked from Lake Constance for a 21 hour journey to Mayence and Friedrichshafen. After a propeller issue it resumed, circled Constance, then headed north along the Rhine toward Basel and Strassburg, with repairs made near Mainz before continuing toward Friedrichshafen. Also reported: death of dramatist Bronson Howard at Avon by the Sea and death of Senator William Boyd Allison in Dubuque Iowa, with details of his long public career and health.
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