Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1891-05-08
AFTER JAY GOULD.
A Fan attic Goes to New York to
Extort Money From Jay
Gould.
He Claims to Belong 20 Relig-
icus BODY Called Followers
Of Christ.
Your Money or Your Life.

Your Money or Your Life.
NEW YORK, May 6.-Inspector
Byrnes arrested a lunstic threatening
to kill Jay Gould unless ne was bought
off with a large amount Of money.
He imagines. or pretends 70 imagine,
himself vice president Of a band Of
world refOrme:s, styling themselves
ChTiest's followers, and to be doomed
70 carry out the decree Of the order.
The mans name il Charles J. Dixon
and be comes from Pueblo, Col. That
there lie method in his madness is
shown ky the following story Of his
campaign against the Wall street
millionaire. 1t was yesterday morning
that Inspector Byrnes received q tel
egraLn from Gould's house. requesting
him to meet the railroad magnvte at
his Wall Street office. The inspector
went down as requested and soon after
bis arrival, DR.. Mum, Jay Gould's
physician, came In. He told the in
spectOr that the man who represented
himself TO be Charles J. Dixon came
TO his house the night before with an
introduction from q friend in Pueblo
and told him q long story, which he
repeated In ell lite de6sils. He was,
Dixon had said, a member of an organ
izAtion known As Christ's Followers,
very powerful in this country, and had
been made a deputy by the arch coun-
ell to kill Jay Gould. He thought
however, that the matter might be
fixed. In the year lsSs he had
been engaged by certain newspaper
men to carry copy and through their
employment he got into the order. A,
the end Of year or so he wa= asked TO
axe the last degree and did so. This
Was the way Of it. He went to the
Owls Head. on one Of ths lakes, by
order Of the society, and that night
kneltin a circle Of fifty masked men
unknown To him and took an oath TO
become one Of Christ's followers and
obey the laws Of the order. Its pur-
porn was the equalization Of money and
property, there being too many rich
and too many poor people In the coun-
try. It's methods, as will appear, were
original. Dixon YVES ordered to pro-
ceed to New York, obtain an inter-
view with Jay Gould and demand
81 200. 600 down, s., 100000 in ten years
at the rate of half a million a year. and
still another s., 900, 600 in the next de-
cade, unless Gould died in the mean
time. In this case, Dixon was TO de-
mand the setting aside of ali his pro-
perty for charitable purposes, except
one million for eGch member of the
family. That was the limit. Dixon
said unless Gould consented to his
terms he would be killed. If neither
happened he (DixOn) would catch il
from Christ's Followers and would
have to die. He got his Pueblo friend
TO give him an introduction to DR.
Mum, Gould's ply sican, on a pretexl
that he was going to New York for
medical advice. Since he had been
here, IL had oconrred to him that II
might fix things with the order for
$50, 900 down and 500, 900 for charity
saying Gould was an old man and
could not live long anyway. But thai
was the cheapest. In anticipation Of
the refusal and possible failure to kill
Gould he had his own life insured for
IS, 600 for the benefit Of his family and
rather than to suffer death at the hands
of Christ's Followers had determined
to kill himself. He would go to Hart
ford, shoot of his own pistol, tear his
watch chain and scatter his papers in
the road to make it look robbery.
Then shoot himself with another re-
volver to complete the fraud, thus his
insurance would hold good. DIR. Mum
listened to long story and arranged
to have the man meet him aqain last
night. At that meeting Inspector
! Byrnes and one of his men were pres
ent unseen. At the end of the inter
view they arrested the man and took
him to the police headquarters. To-
day he was committed to await exami>
nation ~ to his sanity. He is crazy Of
course, but a very dangerous lunatic
He was not armed when arrested, but
arms were found in his trunk. He is
a strapping fellow six feet in his stock
ings and about IS years old. To In
spector Byrnes he repeated the story
he told the doctor and says he was
vice-president No. II" in the order.
All the commands sent to him from
headquarters were signed, be said,