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Click here for newspaper accounts of the murder trial Free Press, November 5, 1914 TRAGEDY AT COTTONWOOD - Fight in Railway Bridge Crew Results in Death of One Man As a result of a shooting scrape at the rock crusher near Cottonwood, Wednesday morning, Joe Markus, a member of the railway bridge crew is dead and H.J. Smith, the man who did the shooting is being held in the county jail. Very little news as to the cause of the shooting is available at this time. The man who did the shooting and his victim are strangers who have been with the bridge crew, working along the railway line over in that section. Early Wednesday morning they became involved in an altercation and retired to the gravel pit, a mile and half from Cottonwood where the shooting occurred. Shortly after the shooting the wounded man was rushed to the hospital but died shortly after arriving there. Smith was placed under arrest and brought over to Grangeville Wednesday forenoon. He has employed Judge Scales to defend him and upon advice of his attorney refuses to make a statement for publication. The date of the preliminary has not been set. It is stated there were several eye-witnesses to the shooting. The two men are from Spokane and very little is known of the past of either. click HERE to read about the murder |
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