The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-07
4 CLEAN BREAST OF i.
Highwayman Henry Clark Tells Of
His Experience While n
This City.
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According to Els Story the Girl
Was Only a Little Brag-
CART.
he Goes to Deer Lodge a Convict. While
She Goes TO Spokane = Free
Woman.

Just four weeks ago Helen Forslund'
alias Charlie Miller, and Henry Clark,
were arrested charged with the commits
sion OF q number Of highway robberlee.
The city ID now clear OF them. Yesterday
morning Clark was taken to the Deer Lodge
p%enitentiary, to serve out q sentence OF
forty years. Later IN the day Helen Fors-
lund also, left the city, bnt as q free woman
and in company with her sister. 1t was
quite generally known that the girl would
90 to Spokane yesterday, and there were
probably d hundred curious people at the
Northern Pacific station to see her. Ao-
oompanied by her sister and q gentleman
she drove to the depot. arriving there about
five minutes before the train started. She
had discarded the brown suit and boys
hat, and had on a dark skirt with red
stripes and jersey bodice, and little hat. n
wore q veil. Some OF the police officials
were at the depot and bade her good bye.
She seemed very much pleased with the
idea that she was going to Spokane TO meet
her father and mother.
Before leaving the county jail for the trip
to Deer Lodge, Clark had q long CONVERSE
ton with Special Policeman Geo. Brock,
during which he told much that could never
have been gotten out Of him before his con-
%yiction. He admitted holding up Richard
con and Ray and shooting Grogan. Ihe
girl, he declared, war nowhere near him at
the time Of the holdups. When questioned
as to her whereabouts on the night OF inc
Glogan shooting, he did not seem anxious
to talk, leaving the i'm pression that she wat
with him as she has all along said she was.
II did not mean TO kill the officer he said.
s'He had me covered with his revolver and
! when he grabbed my big gun, pulled the
other and fred with the idea, not OF Killing
him, but Of shooting him through the hand
NY little gun pulled very hard and That ls
why it missed his hand and hit him in thu
breast. There was no time from the minute
met the officer to the time !
fired that he could not have shot me through
the body
Speaking Of his capture Clark said h
looked through the window when a.
knock came on his door and saw the OIL
GERS outside. He then opened the doc
leading to the other room and looking on
in that direction, saw several more officers
IT knew what they were after" says CLARK
land jumped back into bed and pretended
to be asleep. MY first idea was to stant
them of, but thought Of the glrl. haa :
not been for the girl I would have made
fight and either driven the officers away Q
been killed. When asked why he did no
keep at his trade of ,naohinist,, OZARK SAL
it was on account Of his health. he va
troubled with lung disease and could no
stand the work. IT never expect 70 lily
my sentence OUT he continued. ~ WI
not last over two years at the most. stl
it was no moro than ! looked for"
by the way" he exclaimed, smilingsly
IT have a laugh on the policemen. Yp
people have been searching along the rail
road track for the gun tho girl says 81
threw away at the time she was caugh
The fact is she never had a gun in all "
time she was with me. There we're but ~
guns in the party and I had them boil
The girl took no part in the hold-ups.
did tho work myself and gave her Richard
sons watch.". .