Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-28
GRAVE CHARGES
Brought Against Labor Leaders
at Butte, Montana.
DID THEY KILL EDITOR PENROsE7

Testimony Worked Up by Detectives
Alleged Threats of the Accused Against
a Journalist Who Denounced Labor
Men A sharp Game Played by the
SIeuths Resulting in Nothing Direct,
but Chain of Circumstantial Evil
dence More Loss Complete.
BUTTE, Mont, July 2S.-Great excite
ment was aroused here yesterday by the
arrest of three men. charged with the MUIR
der of 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 Trade and Labor Assem-
bly,, president of the Butte Workingmen' IS
union, and member of tho Miners I'M
ion; Eugene f. Kelly, secretary of the
Trade and Labor assembly, and formerly
secretary of the Miners union; Phil
Hickey, past secretary of the Miners
union, and a member of that organization.
The Detectives Theory.
The detectives have worked on the
theory that Penrose had been killed by la
Dor men, whom he had abused in his paper
Detective Ryan worked himself around as
miner and labor advocate, and secured
board with Mrs. Mary Kelly, mother of
Kelly. Thus he became intimate with
both Kelly and Deeney, who room together
there. He went around with them about
town. Meanwhile other detectives had
been working up other clews, and the re
suit is a lot of cireumstantial evidence
which the detectives considered sufficient
to warrant the arrest.
The Arrest of the Accused.
On Saturday morning Sheriff Lloyd
went over: 20 Helena and obtained requisi
ton papers for Phil Hickey, who had
moved to Boise, Idaho, soon after the
murder. Hickey was arrested at IL a. m
and at Il Deeney and Kelly were arrested
as they were coming out of the Acquisi
ton mine where they work. When told
that they were placed under arrest neither
said anything or inquired what they were
arrested for
said to Have Threatened Penrose.
Deeney and Hickey are said to have
| made threats against Penrose on account
of articles written in his paper about
them and Hickey is said TO have declared
that he would get even with Penrose be
fore he left the city. Hickey ran for city
| marshal last spring, and was accused il
Penrose's paper of having sold out for
! few hundred dollars. The evidence col
| lected by the detectives is substantially a.
| follows: a. I. Allen, of Helena, is re
| ported to have picked Deeney and Kell!
| out in crowd as the two men he saw a
| the corner of Montana and Galena streets
few minutes before the murder wa
committed.
Putting This and That Together.
| 1t is also claimed that the iron found il
| the billy is similar to that used in the Ac
| QUESTION mine, and that the shovel handl
! from which the wood of the billy was Gu
! has been found near the Acquisition mine
! Another point is that the three men ar
rested are identified as having bough
| black cloth and cord a day or two befor
the murder, and woman testifies tina
she saw black cloth drop out of Kelly
pocket the day before the murder, an
! that he nervously and hurriedly pickle
it up.
Found IA False Esard.
| y false beard was found on the scene o
the murder, indicating, perhaps, that Pen
rose pulled it from the chin of the muI
derer during the struggle. 1t is elaine
that in the beard are a few hairs CORE
spending in appearance to those on tn
real beard of Deeney. The apartments c
Deeney and Kelly have been searched
but the only thing found is a 3S-caliber IT
, volver Smith 6 Wesson, the character c
gun supposed to have been used in til
| murder