The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-29
COLORADO OUTRAGE.
Adjt.-Gen. Tarsney, Of the State Militia
Kidnapped and Tarred and Feathered b,
Masked Men.

Au1t.-Gen. Tnrsney, Oh the stare Miiitias
Kidnapped and Tarred and Feathered by
Masked Men.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, June 25.-
Adjt.-Gen. Tarsney, of this state, said
to be brother of Congressman Tars-
ney, of Missouri, and ex-Congressman
Tarsney, of Michigan, was kidnapped
from the Alamo hotel few minutes
after midnight Saturday morning by
masked men, supposed to be ex-deputy
sheriffs, taken to the suburbs in hack
and there tarred and feathered. The
outrage was the direct result of the re-
cent Cripple Creek miners war.
Gen. Tarsney had been in the city
several days attending the examina-
ton of the arrested Bull hill miners,
for whom he and Col. b. T. Montgom-
cry, of Cripple Creek, appeared as at
torneys.
At five minutes past IL o'clock call
came over the telephone of the Alamo
hotel for Tarsney. The clerk sent the
night porter, the only man in the hotel
office, to call him. He appeared in
very few minutes and stepped to the
phone. He had hardly spoken word
into the receiver when two men, with
masks on their faces, entered and one
advanced on Tarsney while the other
remained near the door.
"We want you," said the first masked
man, as the general turned on hearing
footsteps.
"What do you want?' quietly asked
Tarsney.
"We want you to come with us, was
the reply.
'But l don't want to go anywhere" /"
returned Tarsney, at the same time
making an effort to retreat.
At this the masked man lunged for
ward. pistol in hand and struck Gen.
Tarsney vicious blow with the weap-
on while the masked man near the
door advanced to his companions as
sistance. Tarsney staggered toward
the office counter, but was ruthlessly
seized by the two masked men and
hurried toward the street.
In front of the hotel two hacks were
standing and four other masked men
seen there. The general was hustled
into one of the vehicles, the masked
men scrambled in, and the drivers
were ordered to be off, and up the
street the party moved at gallop.
The drivers of the two hacks first
brought the news to town. 1t was
that the masked men had taken their
victim to a point near Austin bluffs.
between and miles out of town, and
covered him over with tar and feathers.
Sherman Crunley, one of the drivers,
told the following story: MY brother
and 1 own the hacks. Shortly before
midnight, two men came to our stand
and said they wanted to engage two
hacks for drive. They did not wear
masks then. They told me to
drive in front of the Alamo. L saw
the struggle inside the hotel Office and
knowing that something unusual was
up 1 started to drive away, but was
stopped by men with masks on their
faces and pistols in their hands. After
they all got in the hack. l was told
where to drive to for the first time.
They compelled me to whip the horses.
On arriving at a point near Austin
Bluffs they all got out. They made an
awful lot of noise and kept on swear
ing and making threats. Several times
on the way out heard them threaten
Tarsney's life. think they had Tars-
ney's clothes off by the time they or
dered the hack stopped, at least did
not see many clothes on him when l
first saw him on the ground. They
had bucket and brush, and the deed
was soon done"
A few minutes later Tarsney was left
lying on the ground and the masked
men re-entered the carriages and were
driven to the Rock Island tracks. There
they dismissed their drivers, not pay
ing them but simply saying, Good
night, Johnny"
Gen. Tarsney uwas found about 25
miles from the scene of the outrage
and taken to Denver. Gov. Waite has
offered reward of $1,000 for the
capture of the perpetrators of the deed.