Mystery Kid Stevens in Helena Bank Robbery Trial
James Daly of Union Bank & Trust Co Helena faced a dramatic case as 18 year old Charles Stevens stood trial in Lewis and Clark county for robbing the Union Bank & Trust Company of $40,000 via a fake holdup. The case, tied to the disappearance of Hart Fallon and the post office theft, features shifting stories and unresolved questions about Fallon’s whereabouts and the missing currency.
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James Daly
Union Bank & Trust Co
Helena
Montana
Charles Stevens
District Court of
Lewis and Clark County
Stevens
Hart Fallon
R. O. Kaufman
Fallon
Fallon Stevens
The
Law
Earl Fallon
Young Stevens
Kaufman
C. H. Fortman
Harles Stevens
Union Bank & Trust Company
Fortman
Daly
James Ford
George Blodgett
Edwards Street
Jaids
Burns Agency
Hettle
First White Woman to Enter Montana Revealed
A 19th century traveler details Mrs. Tom Brown as the first white woman to enter Montana, with Mrs. Miller as the second. The account traces their journeys from Red River settlements to Spokane, noting Brown’s death in Colville and Mary Lowry’s later Montana connections with the Mullan expedition and Missoula.
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Tom Brown
Montana
Miller
Antone Plant
Spokane River
Washington Territory
Red River
Spokane Garry
Iwan
Garry
Salt Lake
Deer Lodge Valley
Missoula
Walla Walla
Bitter Root
Spokane
Francois
Scotland
Selkirk
Colville
Hudson’s Bay Post
Prain River
Jocko Reservation
Tom
Brown
Mullan
Mary Lowry
Cook
Engineers
Regis Borgia
Florence
Idaho
Matt Craft
Craft
Thomas Haggerty
Lowry
Collins
California
Million Dollar Carruthers Hotel Bids Open in Billings
Bids to construct Billings new million dollar Carruthers hotel open this month with completion aimed within a year. Roy Carruthers Hotel Pennsylvania NY will head the company leasing the Billings hostelry from A H Barth. Plans go to contractors with bids due by April 1 and a Billings architect is consulting in New York. The venture plans a sinking fund to repay the original investment.
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Billings
Carruthers
Harry L. Blake
Roy Carrathers
Hotel Pennsylvania of
New York
A. H. Barth
Beaver Trapping Plan Around Giant Springs
Beaver activity around Giant Springs on the Missouri river near Great Falls prompted the Great Falls Park Board to secure a permit for trapping to halt tree destruction. An earlier unpermitted trapping is believed to have prevented further damage. The springs are the world’s largest cold water source with water emerging at high velocity from an area of about a quarter acre.
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Missouri River
Great Falls
Lewis and Clark
Montana January Toll Records 410 Deaths
January toll in Montana shows 410 persons died with six personal crisis reports. Communicable and respiratory diseases lead causes with 58 each, digestive 43, circulatory 39. Three personal crisis deaths were by firearms and one each by poison drowning and cutting. accidents include mines and railroads with four each and three homicides.
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Montana
State Board of Health
Also Mentioned on This Page
R. Lee Ward
Lester Loble
Wine and
Padbury
W. D. Rankin
Jeannette Rankin
A. H. McConnell
W. J. Anson
Lester H. Loble
Million Dollar Billings Hotel
Postum Cereal Co
Battle Creek, Mich
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