St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-28
The Arrested Men Are AQ
Officers of Labor Or
ganizations.
Detectives Weave a Chain OF
Evidence While Working
In the. Mines.
Evidence Is Cipcumstantial
and the Sentiment of tho
Town Divided.
Special to the Globe.

| Special to the Globe.
| BUTTE, Mont, July 27.-The city OF
| Butte was thrown into an uproar to-day
by the arrest of three men charged with
the murder of Hon. w. j. Penrose On
| June 10 last. The men arrested are all
prominent in labor circles-W. E.
Deeney, vice president of the Silver
| Bow trades and labor assembly. preSi-
| dent Of the Butte Workingmen's union,
and member of the miners union;
| Eugene E. Kelly is secretary of the
trades and labor assembly, and has
| been secretary of the miners union;
| Phil Hickey has been the secre tary
| of the miners union aud is a member
| of that organization and the trades and
labor assembly. The arrest of these
| men was made at the instance of Pink
erton detectives, who have been em-
ployed by the city to work up the case.
The detectives are
C. EIcGiII. of st. Paul,
| superintendent of the Northwest bu-
reau of the Pinkerton agency; C. w.
Wilson, assistant superintendent, and
cago on June 10 and reached Butte on
the eve of June %. Wilson accom-
panied him and McGlll has been here
tbs past week. Tne detectives. after
canvassirg the situation, adopted the
theory that PenrOse had been killed by
labor men whom he had abused
in his paper. Ryan worked him
self around as a miner and
labor advocate and secured board
at the boarding house run by Mrs. Mary
Kelly, mother of Kelly. Thus he be-
came intimate with both Kelly and
Deeney, who room together there. He
went around with them about town.
| Meanwhile the other detective had been
working up other clews. and the result
is lot of circumstantial evidence which
the detectives considered sufficient to
warrant the arrest. The arrest was de-
cided OH last Friday night, and on Sat
urday morning Sheriff Lloyd went over
to Helena and obtained requisi-
ton papers for Phil Hickey,
| who had moved to Boise, Idaho.
soon after the murder. The papers
were obtained. and it was arranged
that the men in Butte should not be
arrested until the receipt of
A Cipher Telegram
from Boise announcing the arrest of
Hickey. The cipher dispatch was re-
ceived at II a. m, and at II Deeney and
Kelly were arrested as they were COM
ing out of the Acquisition mine,
where they work, fr dinner.
When told that they were
placed under arrest, neither said
anything or inquired what they were
arrested for. They were locked up in
separate cells at the county jail and no
reporters or loungers have been allowed
to see them. Both had known that they
were suspected of the murder, and both
have frequently said that they could
prove conclusive alibis. The sentiment
in the city is divided as to the guilt Of
these men. None of them ae men who
would be suspected of such deed.
Deeney and Hickey are said to have
made threats against Penrose on ac-
count of articles written in his paper
about them, and Hickey is said to have
declared that he would get even with
Penrose before he left the city. Hickey
ran for city marshal last spring, and
was accused in Penrose's paper of hav-
ing sold out for a few hundred dollars.
The evidence collected by the detective
is substantially as follows: A. L. Allen.
of Helena, reported to have picked
Deeney and Kelly out in a crowd as the
two men he saw at the corner of Mon
tana and Galena streets few minutes
before the murder was committed.
Allen says be was looking for friend,
and addressed the two men, suppoSing
them to be policemen, as one of them
carried a short club. They answered
gruffly, and when he apolOgiZed, saying
he supposed them to be policemen, one
of them answered:
Thank God Am Not n Policeman.
It's also claimed that the iron found
in the billy is similar to that used in
the Acquisition mine, and that the
shovel handle from which the wood of
the billy was cut has been found near
the Acquisition mine. Another point
is that the three men arrested are iden-
titled as having bought black cloth and
cord in Rose Perkins store a day or
two before the murder, and
woman testiies that she saw a
black cloth drop out of Kelly's
pocket the day before the murder, and
that he nervously and hurriedly picked
it up. A false beard was found on the
scene of the murder, indicating, perhaps.
that Penrose pulled it from the chin of
the murderer in the struggle. 1t is
claimed that in the beard are few
hairs corresponding in appearance to
those on the real beard of Deeney. The
apartments of Deeney and Kelly have
been searched, but the only
thing found there was a 3S-caI-
iber revolver, Smith &5 Wesson,
which is the character of gun supposed
to have been used in the murder. Labor
men here scout the idea of the arrested
parties having anything to do with the
murder. They claim that money has
been used to secure the evidence in
order to strike a blow at organized
labor. Cornishmen, on the contrary,
friends of Penrose. are making wild
threats, and fears are entertained that
Hickey may be roughly dealt with when
he arrives here with the officers to,
morrow.
Mcknight Out on Bail.
HELENA, Mont, July 27.-The habeas
corpus cas- of j. Ii. Mcknight, editor of
Russell Harrison's Helena paper, the
Journal, was up before the supreme
court to-day. The hearing was adj
ti ND O-Ha