02 May 1905
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1905
Page
1
Nearly 100 killed or wounded in Warsaw as troops disobey orders and fire on a march of workers with red flags. Civilians, including women and children, stranded amid volleys, bombs, and chaotic street clashes across multiple districts.
Jury faces verdict over death by one’s own action with emphasis on Nan and the defendant Vince. Readings center on responsibility, guilt, and the implications of the accused’s actions.
Abraham Levy closes defense for Nan Patterson in a five hour argument claiming deliberate murder or death by self destruction, insisting no manslaughter verdict possible and accusing the prosecution of unfair tactics. He stresses the suicide theory and questions witnesses while urging jurors to ignore a letter as evidence of disloyalty.
Rioting worsened in Chicago as 1,500 new strikebreakers entered the city to take union jobs and 200 former boys joined the effort. Non-union drivers carry rifles. injuries mount as police and federal authorities monitor escalating confrontations. Roosevelt plans to receive a petition from Chicago strikers on May 10.
The Jay Gould gold mine near Helena has been sold to the Standard Ore company for 75000 dollars. The mine, once a leading local producer, had been idle after a supposed vein loss but was revived after the Standard lease and bond in 1898. H. F. Steece serves as superintendent and company president with Lyman S. Brown and J. P. Woolman among officers.
The body of 18 year old Peter Solburg was found in the woods near Lake Whatcom amid reports of a gunshot wound to the head. Authorities deem it an apparent self inflicted death with no known motive.
Reading, May 1 Judge Ermen Trout granted a new trial for Samuel Greason who with Mrs Kate Edwards was condemned to hang for the murder of John Edwards the woman's husband The new trial rests on Mrs Edwards confession that she alone killed her husband
Sheepmen report about 200 square miles of range burned in Valley county as prairie fires from the Canadian line threaten settlements. One blaze ran 60 miles from East Fork Poplar River to Poplar agency while others felled timber and hay near Dore and along Redwater and Missouri River margins.
A small sail boat with five prominent travelers including Joseph Zimmer of Ocean Park capsized off San Pedro during a squall. Zimmer, 24, attempted to swim to shore and drowned. Four others, Mrs Anna Lowe, Miss Irene Lowe, Edith Baxter, Ernest Conroy, and James Pennie, clung to the hull and were rescued by a steam launch.
Montana Supreme Court upholds ruling not to prohibit Judge Bourquin from hearing a motion to strike the defendants' answer in the Boston and Montana Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining Co case. The suit seeks 5.75 million dollars for alleged ore value theft from properties.
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