Burton Wheeler Declines to Prosecute Frank Little

Burton Wheeler, the federal district attorney for Montana in 1917, describes his interactions with Anaconda Company executive Con Kelley and L.O. Evans. Wheeler describes going to the sixth floor of the Hennessy building and telling Evans why he would not arrest Frank Little, and describes the feeling he had the night Little was murdered. | Creator: Address to Montana History Class, November 27, 1972. | Date: November 27, 1972 | Source: Montana Politics Oral History Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, University of Montana | Rights: Contact the source for information about copyrights and usage.
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