Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-13
A PRECIOUS PAIR.
The Highwayman Who Shot OF
ficer Grogan of Helena Ar
rested on Information
From his Female pal.
A Graphic Story of the Exploits
of the Precious Pair.-Tre
Assassin fully Identi-
fed BY the Officer.

From the Helera Journal Of Satur>
day we clip the following interesting
account Of recent events occurring in
that city:
The drama that has cen enacted In ]
Helena within the last few days In |
which q lcne highwaymsn has pro-
duced almost reign Of terror in the |
minds OF the people, came to a singu
lar end yesterday, and the details OF 1t
are as curious ss if Ned Buntline had
worked them out for blood and thun-
ber dime novel. The first robbery Of
the series WIS that of Conductor Rich
ardson, who found himself confronted
bv a man smaller than himself, armed
with two very large sized revolvers.
IL quick succession came the shooting
Of Officer Grogan, and the robbery
of Bob Rap of silver watch the same
night by tue highwayman.
Every officer Of the force naturally
felt hunor~bound to chase down the
scoundrel who bad probably mortally
wounded Oficer Grogan, and when
Messrs. Gibson andBack were on duty
at the Northern Pacific depot yester-
day they caught sight of a young look
ing person, whom they regarded with
suspicion. This person has short hair
with a perfectly smooth face looking
like a hoy Of Is or II, short in stature
and rather thick set. On approach
ing this IeTson and asking his name
aud occupation the boy replied IN 5
decidedly soprano voice that bis
, name was Charlie Miller. The sc-
count was gwen in rather a nervou.
/ style, end excited sufficient suspicion
? in the minds Of the officers to cause
them 10 arrest the boy. On searching
the pockeis of the male attire theil
surprs Sc was great TO find the RolC
i watch taken from Richardson il
one of the pockets, and the supposed
to be-boy was Immediately taken Il
= jail.
Soon after arriving there was fur
ther search made and also a turtle
N discovery. The boy turned out to b
II a full grown woman. When the de
II tective exclaimed: why, you aie
III woman!p Charlie Miller said with
III good deal of righteousness: well,
N took You a good while to find it out.
iN The woman ha1 been ia jail but
II short time when she requested Eel
III geant Nicholson to send a note fac h.
IA 70 Henry Clark, III Ewing stres
III The note was written in Swedish, al
when translated by Detective WP'te
was to this effect:
Henry Clark-I sm in jail, come
n CHARLIE MILLS
Sargent Nicholson immediatly su
a pe,;,ed that it would be worth while
follow up this clue carefully, and sc
Detective WALTERS to deliver the "a
sivs. He went, of course n citizel
: CLOTHES, and Officers Vanesse and q
Iaghan waited on the outside to wal
Inc premises. The woman who ca
TO the door admitted that Henry Cls
was there and In bed. Detective w
tiers delivered the note and rs be did
Clark asked what they had arres
Charlie Miller for. He wss "
cool and collected and showed
eigns Of being disturbed. Detect
Walters uold him to come with him |
he would find out. At this Clark
turned TO the bedroom to get
clothes, as he sal and made dire
for the bed. where he had large re'
yer concealed. The signal had
given to the officers outside, and 4
rushed in and seized him and hur
him of to the city jail. He was
allowed TO see the woman, but
taken into the Jail room and searcl
In his coat pockets were boxes {
-calibre cartridges and a mask m
OF a woman's black stocking with
holes cot out and hanging In sr@g
fringe at the lower end. He con
q. ued to be very quiet and self
sessed, did not protest his innocs
nor make any comment except TO
"Wen, this is pretty.". He
locked up In the new cage, and
geant Nicholson talked with
girl TO md out what she knew Al
81 Clark.
THE woMAN's CONFESSION.
In her talk to the sergeant an
subsequent conversations with re
tiers of the Journal the girl mad
- clean breast Of the whole matter,