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- Daniel's Death Record: Montana Death Index #83-6
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The Anaconda Standard (MT) -- Monday 06 Apr 1903
WOMAN BRUTALLY BEATEN WITH POKER
When Daniel Arbour is arraigned before Judge Boyle this morning it is more than probable that he will get a severe punishment in the shape of a jail sentence, as Judge Boyle has no use for a man who will strike a woman and Arbour is charged with brutally assaulting Mrs. John Hayes, awidow, who lives in Cabin 35 on the Hesperus lode. The woman was so severely beaten with a heavy poker that she isnow confined to her bed under the care of Dr. Ignatius Donnelly. Arbour is a prisoner in the cityjail. According to the story of the Hayes woman, she has been feeding and lodging Arbour for years. She said she has made every effort to get rid of him, but without success. Frequently, she claims, Arbour has assaulted her and threatened her life.It appears that when Arbour returned home late last Saturday, he was in a state not bordering on absolute sobriety. He became angered at the Hayes woman and a quarrel followed. Inorder to emphasize the end of his argument, Arbour caught up a pokerand, it is said, belabored the head and shoulders of the Hayes woman, finally knocking her to the floor. The screams of the woman attracted the neighbors, and Arbour made himself scarce. The neighbors say that the Hayes woman was badly hurt and they sent for Dr. Donnelly. He found three ugly wounds made by the poker. One was on the scalp, a second on the forehead, and a third over the right eyebrow. There were several bruises on the shoulders in addition. After the wounds had been dressed,the woman grew so weak that it was necessary for her to take to her bed. Complaint of the assault was made to the police yesterday by the neighborsof the Hayes woman, and Policemen McGillie and Farrell went in search for Arbour. After several hours,thealleged brutal assailant of the Hayes woman was arrested. Being unable to furnish bonds to secure his release, he was locked up to await trial. If the Hayes woman is not in condition to comeinto court this morning to prosecute Arbour, the casewillhave to go over for a few days.
The Anaconda Standard (MT) -- Thursday 09 Apr 1903
MUST FACE ASSAULT CHARGE -- Arbour, Alleged Brutal Assailant of Woman, Will Be Prosecuted to Full Extent of Law
Daniel M. Arbour, who was arrested last Sunday charged with committing a brutal assult with a poker upon Mrs. John Hayes, a widow who has kepthouse for him for a long time, was yesterday formally charged at the county attorney's office withsecond degree assault. Dr. Ignatius Donnelly, county physician, who has been in daily attendance upon the woman, is the complaining witness. Although still confined to her bed, Mrs. Hayes is resting easily and gradually recovering. The complaint was filedin Justice Corrigan's court in Walkerville, where Arbour will be arraigned and thence probably taken to the county jail to await preliminary examination. According to the complaint, the Hayes woman must have suffered brutal abuse at the hands of Arbour. As a result of the alleged attack with the poker, she bears three ugly wounds upon her head and face and several bruises over her shoulders. It is declared the woman was knocked to the floor by the blows of Arbour. This was the return for several years of unrequited care she had given the man. Assistant County Attorney Culerian [sp?], who issued the complaint, said that the defendantwould be punished to the full extent of the law.
The Anaconda Standard (MT) -- Wednesday 15 Apr 1903
HER HEAD BRUTALLY CUT -- ALLEGED ASSAILANT OF MRS. JOHN HAYES MUST STAND TRIAL -- Daniel M. Arbour is Bound Over to the District Court on a Charge of Assault as a Result of Examination Before Magistrate
The evidence brought out yesterday in the case of Daniel M. Arbour, charged with second degree assault, tended to show that the alleged beating of Mrs. John Hayes, on the night of Saturday 4 April last, was most brutal and inhuman. The victim of the man's alleged assault, with a poker, it was said, was in the Walkerville justice court yesterday offeringas her strongest testimony against the defendant the three-inch long scar on her forehead, which plainly showed where the sevenstitches had been taken. She testified that Arbour administered the blow that cut herhead open. As a result of theexamination, which was held by Justice Patrick Colligan, Arbour was bound over to the district court on $500 bonds. His attemptto secure bondsmen was futile up to a late hour and he was confined to the county jail. Mrs. Hayes, the victim of the alleged assault, told a pitiful story of abuse upon the witness stand. She said that for eight years she had been housekeeping for Arbour down in herlittle home, 35 on the Hesperus lode, and that until lately the friendliest relations had existed between them, but that on the Saturday night in question, he came home under the influence of liquor and for some imaginary grievance attacked her. Her face was turned, she testified, whenthe blow was struck, and she did not know what happened after that. Mrs. Nellie Williams, one of the neighbors, thentestified that she entered the house and there found that Mrs. Hayes was confined to her bedand very weak. There were clots of blood, she said, all over the floor. Dr.Ignatius Donnelly was summonedto dress the wounds. He gave evidence asto the serious nature and told of the force of the blowthat must have been given to inflict such a deep cutwith a blunt instrument. There were several wounds, he said, and a number of bruises on the woman's headand shoulders. The worst was, he testified, over the right eye, extending in a halfcircle from a point between the eyes and up and aroundthe temple. The skin and flesh, he said, was laid back over the eye. Arbourmade no defense and was bound over to the district court and committedto the care of the sheriff's office to await trial. An information will be filed against him within aday or two.
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Perhaps Daniel just could not stay out of trouble . . .
The Anaconda Standard (MT) -- Tuesday 05 Sep 1911
"GIVE ME THE PAPERS," SAYS ASPIRANT, BUT GETS BLOW
In an argument over "the woman in the case," Dan Arbour, 856 East Mercury, and John Hart were yesterday taken to the city jail, Arbour on an assault charged preferred by Hart, who in turn was accusedof breaking inwindows in Arbour's cabin after thewoman had left Hart for his rival.At the station, Hart displayed a badly bruised head, the result of blows from a blunt instrument wielded by Arbour, he said. "Give me the papers" is the remark credited to Hart when he met his rivaland the womanearly yesterday. Evidently he did not get the papers or the woman, for he beat a retreat under punishment and the police were called. Both men are willing to be jailed to appear against each other this morning.
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1852 - 1914 (61 ans)