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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1901
Page
1
W A Clark secures the short term senate seat with 57 votes as labor backers push him past yesterday’s tally. Crowds fill the Auditorium and Helena bars celebrate with champagne and a band procession through Main Street led by Clark and officials.
In Paterson New Jersey the defense in the Jennie Bosscheiter murder case rests on a theory of a drunken drive and absinthe influence. McAlister Death and Campbell testified they acted to help the woman not harm her, denying an assault, while the state presented confessions and opposing testimony. The trial's close is expected with a summing up tomorrow and filing of jury instructions by Judge Dixon.
The funeral of Fred Alexander, the man burned at the stake yesterday, was held today with only the undertaker and assistants present. A coroner's jury was impaneled to view the remains before interment, and an inquest is pending as evidence is gathered. No arrests yet. the mayor says it is a state case. Miss Thole retracts claim she testified Alexander assaulted her, saying she cannot be sure.
A mob of masked men on horseback forced the Leavenworth jailer to surrender Charles Letcher a Black inmate tied to the Forbes murder case. Jailer Glenn resisted and officers arrived, averting a violent outcome while turmoil over the nearby county jail subsided.
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