- The Helena Weekly Herald,' Helena, MT
28 April 1887, page 7 (edited):
Butte, April 27.-- At 12 o'clock last night, in the Branch Mint Saloon, Jack Rowand, a quarter breed Indian and for many years a resident of Butte, had an altercation with the barkeeper, who refused to be stood off for drink. Rowand was put out. Returning shortly he pulled a gun and shot at the barkeeper, the ball entering the arm and passing into the body of Joseph Bussier, the delivery clerk of M. L. Frank, and inflicting a wound from which Bussier died at 5 o'clock Wednesday morning. Rowand was arrested and today waived an examination. Bussier was a quiet, industrious man, with a wife and three children.
'Butte Semi-Weekly Miner,' Butte, MT
30 April 1887, Image 2:
The funeral of Joe Bussiere, the man murdered by Jack Rowan, will take place from his late residence on Galena, near Montana, at 10 o'clock this forenoon.
John A. "Jack" Rowand was tried and convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison for the killing of Mr. Bussiere, but, in May of 1893, was pardoned and released. It was later brought out at that Mr. Bussiere was a collector for a wholesale beer firm, was in the saloon on business and had had no connection with Mr. Rowand, whatsoever, and was simply in the wrong place when the shot was fired. About a month after her husband's death, a newspaper article stated that Mrs. Bussiere and her sister, Mrs. Garvis, had left for Montreal. It appears that Mrs. Bussiere's first name may have been "Georgiana."
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