The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-22
WHITLEY The OUTLAW
Capture Of q Notorious Desperate Who
Is Wanted In Pierre.
Interesting Accounted Pioneer Days
In Western Dakota Towns-A
Bad Man In Tow Of Guard
ConIey of Deer Lodge.
sp,cIal Correspopdepce of the STANDARD.

Special CORRESPONDENCE Of the Standard.
BUTTE, July 2l.-James Conley, one Of
the guards Of The Deer Lodge p~cnitentiary,
passed through the city to-day enroute for
Pierre, s. d., with one OF the hardest men
In the West AS a prisoner. The prisoner
is ~variously known as James Carroll.
Clark and 'Whitey," by the last name he
is perhaps best known of all. "Whitey,n
To all appearances, is a perfect albino,
having absolutely white hair and pink
eyes, peculiar TO that people. The crime
for which he is now unCer arrest was
committed at Pierre in the fall of 1880, and
a month or two before the Chicago 4
Northwestern railroad cached the place.
Pierre was then undoubtedly a "dead
tough" town, and almost rivaled Jules
burg and Cheyenne when those places
were in the height Of their glory. Shoot
ing scrapcs and murders were almost
daily occurrences and attracted only pass
ing notice. Matters finally became so bad
that the reputable portion of the citizens
decided TO take the law into their own
hands. This decision was promptly fol-
lowed by the death of a famous outlaw
known as "Arkansaw." "Arkansaw" had
killed his man under some show of justi-
t~icatioI, n as the man whom he killed
was also "a desperate and outlaw the COM
munity felt glad at his taking of. This
tthDDihthtu aThiIiSa" iii it DtCotnt
"A terror to the community. His reputa-
ton soon caused HIM To have a ban Of
followers of a like type. Among these
was "Whitey," who was more han anx-
ious to follow the example of his chief and
kill somebody.
The opportunity presented itself one
night at a dance house. "Whitey" was
present and drunk enough To be quarrel
some and abusive and tried in every man
ner TO pick "A quarrel, fiourishing his revolt
yer and swearing and yelling after the
most approved manner of his kind.
Among those in the dance house was a
mere youth known only as "the Kid,"a
harmless fellow who desired TO pose as a
reckless and bad man. After "Whi-
tey" had exerted all efforts 10
get up a, quarrel, he finally
approached 1.-THE KID and declared that
he would kill some one before he left the
place. With senseless bravado 'the Kid
opened his shirt frontand dared whitley
tn shoot. Without saying a word, and
quick as n flash, "Whitcy'' drew q re-
volver from his belt and shot the foolish
youth through the breast. 1.-THE Kid"
dropped dead TO the floor, and Whitley"
now realizing hat he had done, left the
place and was never seen in Pierre there
after, although search was made for him
IN every direction and kept up for weeks.
His escape was made easy, as ready as
sistance was given him by the ''bull
WIhtthtTs anu Ilule SkiilltTsF WHO
were SO thick on that locality, being EN-
ployed by the large freighting outfits then
plying between Pierre and Deadwood and
among whom were some of the toughest
characters that ever escaped the rope.
The spring following the shooting a man
appeared at Deadwood who exactly
answered the description of whitley" as
far as height, eyes, hair and general APP
pearance went. He also was known
as "Whitey'' and was considered
somewhat of a tough character. This
closencss of description and the character
of the man caused n gentleman now n
resident of Butte To think hat in the
"Whitey'' at Deadwood he had the orig
inal of that name wanted at Pierre.
Placing himself in communication with
Sheriff Comford of Hughes county of
which Pierre was the capital, the gentle
man referred Ia finally decided to arrest
the fellow and take him To Pierre for trial.
He did SO, but after his arrival at Pierre
IL turned out that he had arrested the
wrong man and the prisoner was released.
So close, however, was the resemblance
that "A numbe of persons who knew the
murderer declared the prisoner To be the
right man. In this, though, they were
mistaken. The "Whitey" wanted had q
small scar under one eye, something the
one under arrest dill not have.