State v. Won

On the morning of the 10th of April, 1925, a murder was done in the city of Butte in a rooming-house on West Mercury Street, known as the Grady block, kept by one Peter Pavicic, where white women and Chinamen roomed, and where China-men came “to buy drinks.” The record discloses that a Chinaman, alleged to be Louie Won, the defendant, was seen entering room 10, occupied by Dolly Druary, about midnight. About five minutes after 2 o’clock screams in room 10 brought thereto Elsie Brown and Helen Miller. The Druary woman was on the bed and the Chinaman was choking her. He hit her in the face and…