The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-20
HIS CASH is MISSING
II Cost nP. Petersen Two Hundred
Dollars TO Sec the Sights In Butte.
te Do~~ar Know Who rosk the Money.
bat Evidently sWsp<rts Ht. wife of
HaSin9 sssusethtag ten Is
with Inc Nobbery.

Sl&ftn tO tUe Stantfhfu.
BUTTE. sept. 1s.ICharlic Petersen. a
Swesle, 46 years old, for ~ years an EN-
ploye Of the Union Pacific railway oni-
pany, and faithful and sensible when he
is not d the influence of liquor. came
to town thrss, days ago from Helena. with
SaD i'm his inside pocket. Last night he
had Sl65 left. To-day hc and the police
have been looking all ovcr town for that
money and also for MIR. Pcttcrscn's gold
watch and chain. Mr.. Petersen claims
that he was shield up by highwaymcn
about 4 o'clock this mornings, i'm South
Butte, ON his way to- the Montana Union
depot. But he also admits that he
WAS pretty drunk and didnt
though that he was down ON the flats when
n man b him by the arm. and at
the m,,zz,c OF a revolver went through
and Ave dollars i'm silver, bs,sides - watch
and chain. All are missing.
shared in 10y several Of the police. that his
wife had quite a little to do with the loss
of his money. Mrs. Petersen IL a woman
of Nina, hut whose right name is Kittie.
She Is about rs years old and has bssn
f~S SHa5o shd S Sns came anne TO- Butte ~ Trim or.
Rosebud for a. couple of weeks and for
the. last night or two has been
Mr.. Petersen have not lived together rc-
GENTLY, and the Swede seems not Z. have
squad OF officers under Chief Marshal Me-
Arthur searched thoroughly Mrs. Peter
house ON Main street. Bedding. carpets,
pictures, bureau, ETC.. were all thoroughly
examined twice. Mr.. Petersen beine
had a warrant sworn out for one John
Doer, hut no arrests have yet been made.
n reporter this afternoon and de
MED having. appropriated her husbands
money or having been am a~ccomplicc
I'm mn, Nnn. H. 81. bic HI~xu ~ In
snid. 81 was with Npim from II O'clock
last night till 4 o'cldHk. this morning, i
" %ss h ns s about n NJ c, S. J b ana that he WANTED m,nS ala 3
Ruzxle the beer! AT last he got so drunk
that i was afraid he would get pulled in.
get him to give il to n policeman tn take
care of. Charlie I said, you have IA lot
OF money about ypn ; yoH IRE drunk. and
But, no. he was bound to hang OH tn that
wad himself. We went around to the Me-
bed; hut he Thought IN clerk was going
to rob him, and wouldn't stay there. Then
I took him tn my room, and thought he
room came in and he was a fraid she would
rob him.. Then I took him to IA lodging
streets and put him to bed. i waited in
the hall outside twenty minutes to tr sure
he wouldn't go out again, hut then found
was below in n saloon. Ala o'clock this
morning I left him, tired out and hoarsc
from DIeatI11lR WITH MN. i went tO DstI
and at o'clock. two hours afterward, i
was Weakened 10y IA squad of officers who
wanted to search my room. When they
got through l went to bed again, hut at 4
o'clock they were around again with Pet
tersen and searched once more. wish
now I had taken his money, SO il would
he safe. Being his wife, 1 have IA perfect
right To do that.
SCI was married to Pctterscn n few years
ago i'm the parlors of the Windsor Hotel,
Clinton, Iowa. I married him because he
is worth 10000 and i wanted some one to
take care of my child. But he WAS awful
mean, and I left him. Last May ] met
him and went to live with him at his home
i'm Pocatello. But he was fearfully Jealous
and thought I preferred young men tn
him. hut that IL not true. I work for my
living. On the second day of last July he
tried to hang me mt Pocatello. He twisted
one of these roller towels around my neck
and hung me up Ia Al lamp bracket All
that saved me. was the breaking of the
nails. You bet your life ! skipped "a
Ogden very quick. Ten days later | met
him again and we lived together fol
awhile, but lc was too Jealous. He l.
worth lots of money i'm Helena, and | am
entitled to one third of il as his Lawful
wife, spid il he doesn't look out l will ge'
it,"
Mr.. Peterson to-day telcHraphed Z,
Helena for $50 more tn tide him over his
present needs. He says he doesn't know
who took his money.