Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-30
YOUNG STHNDERG TALKS.
His Story Puts His Mother Back
In Jail Practically With
out Bail.
Dramatic Scene at Stenberg's
Bedside-The Case Grow
Ing In Interest.
From Saturdays Daily.

or automatically it matters not, is W
evident from the fact that Mrs. Stenb,
has been rs-arrested and put back in
jail under stricter orders than before til
no one be permitted to engage her in CO
versation. Only yesterday morning 9
vas released on bail from Sheriff LIoyG
care. Her bond was 8 5000 and her SUI
ties were Owen Williams, propri
tor Of the Metropolitan me,
market; and Mrs. Wolff, wi
has q circulating agency for Germa
publications. Whatever it was that Au
ust let fall, it convinced the authoriti,
that Mrs. Stenberg's bail should be il
creased. Judge Newkirk acceded to the n
quest Of the officers OF the law and raise
the bonds to $1,000. 1t 10 evident, fror
an overheard cont ersation between cour
sci for Mrs. Stenberg and Prosecuting A!
tornsy Lippincott hat il the defense &c
cure q $4,000 bond, one OF twice tina
amount will be demanded and that if tn
latter, is offered bail in the sum of see, OOl
viii be demanded and so ON to an amount
which the Queen Of England could not fur
nish. Mrs. Stenberg is practically hello
without bail.
Much to Mrs. Stenberg's surprise and un.
ieisned disgust she was escorted last night
up the hill again, and there she will remain
until Q jury shalf have passed upon the
{ question OF her guilt or Innocence. During
the few hours in which she mingled freely
with her ~neighbors she raj not idle in try
ing to create sympathy for herself, but in
several known instances her efforts were
more disastrous han successful. One of
her efforts was directed at her husband.
She called upon him at the Paragon hotel
and besought him to join with her in an
attempt to secure q reduction of bail
n . release from custody in the case of
her promising boy August. Strange as it
may appear, the man who thinks that
members Of bis own family conspired to
blow him into eternity by means OF giant
powder turned q deaf ear to his wife's
pleadings and assured her that no harm
could come to their affectionate and
dutiful son 80 long as he wal in the fatherly
care OF Sheriff Lloyd and protected by
stout iron bars erected by the strong arm
OF the law. Nothing could move Mr.. Stem.
barg from the position he assumed at the
outset. In vain did the loving and motherly
woman argue that affection for the children
should soften the heart OF the sufferer. He
could not see that the dutiful and flial
August would be harmed by a few DAYS of
idleness and nothing could change bis mind
In that respect. Mrs. Stenberg withdrew. !
She had made no attempt to ease his suf-
fering and the common place expressions
OF sympathy for the sufferer and OF horror
at the deed fell on the husbands ears as |
unnoticsd as drops OF water fall into the
sea.
just what the confessions OF August STEM.
berg are cannot be stated in full, in view Of
the fact that their publication at this time |
might retard, IL not defeat, the ends of Jus. |
ttce. No harm cal come, however, of the /
announcement OF this much: The bow
August has told that he procured the aueer
with which the holes were bored, and that |
he gave 1t to Smitzger. Much more, and all |
OF it damaging in the extreme to Mrs. /
Stenberg, Smitzger and the son, has been
learned, all OF it pointing to Smitzger as the |
arch-iend OF the plot. The brace used with |
the augur has been identified beyond a
question as one belonging to Stenberz and
had been used in the paint shop.
Despite the son'ssbraggadocio air and his
that although he ia a boy, thew"
can not make him tell anything, he is re.
as a fruitful subject for examine.
ion and will be cultivated accordingly.
There 10 a very choice sample of dungeon in
The county jail and into that the youupsteI
will be conducted and there he will ''wonder
What time Of day it is" until the facts now
n his possession are generously distributed |
among those whose duty it is to know
hem. The more hardened Smitzger, being
'ldsr and OF greater strength of purpose.
nay say what he pleases and when he {
hooses SO long az August maintains his 6
H00nNG1vAnaQ1 Smif1nor 10 N H. ELL
curse. One OF his f~alsifications was that
70 had spent several days and nights
nth q friendly clerk who worked on Park
treet and roomed on Quartz street, Theref
} no such person. l.,
When q reporter for The MINER called u
ast night on Mr.. Stenberg at the Paragon a
otel, the intended victim of the associated q
ssassins was resting quietly and in ap- p
esrance had wonderfully improved since L
night before. His left arm lying bare, 4
rcept Tor the saturated cloths, showed
eat bruises and burns, and his face. also
'vered with cloths, was not pleasant to
ok upon. He responded in a voice of in-l
'eased strength to the reporters inquiries | o
ter his health and when, after his wife's .,
Sit had been received, he was asked il he -
regarded Mrs. Stenberg as innocent, tf
said: II don't know about that" I'M
When the reporter asked if he had heard / al
at his son had confessed that he, August, =,
"a procured the anger, or bit, with which NC
Q holes were bored in the wooden wall. tn
ere was such q sudden and almost super. Va
change in the patients ap@pearance be
ID manner that the attendants as well as pl
Q reporter we're almost alarmed. Sc
4 knew i'll l knew itl", he exclaimed ex. 40
n in tones SO distinct and strong Jal
they seemed to come from some one LED
her than Stenberg. He shook his clenched bu
ht land at nobody present and delivered 10!
nself OF an accumulation OF explosives all
q anathemas and other oaths which pm,
lst have taxed the s~tenographic powers as
The Recording Angel, provided forgiveness hu
not precede the record of the sins. He Ing
up in bed, cursed Smitzger from the Use
tom OF his heart and called down the
18th OF the Almighty on his son August. w,
hen that thing went off under my head,"
continued excitedly, "the frst I
ng l saw was SmitEger with a board. He So,
1ck me On the head and said Take NO,
t. you and then August ~,
me With q board here, right here, on Vld
wrist and cursed me. I could see them fit
he room-Smitzger and August-and, pivt
q ! crawled out OF the room, that s;u
It said the first thing, August and WIN
tiger did this August and Smitaaer the
this Il could see them here" point. rad
TO his head, "in my mind, just as olain not
they were before me. 1 tell YOU. that Boo
ere is anything in s%piritualism Won is U
" whe did anything like this lust as gror
| as it is done. l saw them in nv brain VEN
plainly as I ever saw them. / knew
knew it,"
excitement and exertion tired tbe ri
rer, and he leaned back on the pillow. brpi
'usted, but yet breathing curses against sore
would.be murderers. He recovered corr
eli almost instantly, and with the cure
vehemeDce he had shown in his frat ante
latic outburst, exclaimed that he mon
= Lke 20 80 as ne was to help hang For
Eger to the nearest tree or burn bimI
Nature asserted itself again, and
'erg reclined once more. He soon re-
90 from his exertion and excitement. 1t
'sfore the reporter left the room he ping
apologiEing pleasantly and unneces- IN tn
Tor his indistinctness OF speech. 81 phys
move my jaw" he said, land all NV coult
are knocked upside down" II there less I
ne thing which Mr.. Stenberg's manner wrap
1t was that no persons engaged in Disco
tempt upon his life need expect from helpe
ny more mercy than was shown by helpe
wnen they concocted their plot OF bette