April 12, 2024
Montana Territory Prison Document 1880 Black Soldier 18th inf. Ft. Assinniboine
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This listing is for a very interesting 135 year old Montana Territory, Fort Benton, Choateau County 2 page + 13 copied pages of research documentation of the Judgment and Commitment to the Territorial Prison for one Black Soldier Albert Brown a Corporal with the 18th Infantry stationed at Fort Assiniboine (Assinniboine) for the crime of "Assault with the intent to commit Murder" and sentenced to one year at hard labor in the Montana Territorial Prison. On the first Monday of November 1879 Corporal Albert Brown and other soldiers from the 18th infantry stationed at Fort Assiniboine went to Sam Sowers's Excelsior Saloon in Fort Benton for few drinks. Corporal Brown ended up drinking a bit more than he could evidently handle as he become so unruly in the Saloon that owner Sam Sowers politely escorted him outside. Being separated from his soldier friends and suffering the embarrassment of being ejected from the Saloon did not set well with Brown. So to revenge himself for this treatment he pulled his issue revolver and returned to the saloon and placed the barrel of his pistol at the head of owner Sowers. Sowers reacted by reaching up and grabbing the barrel of Browns pistol to divert it from his head. Just as Sowers grabbed and diverted the barrel Brown fired. The shot missed Sowers's head but received the charge directly in the palm
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