The representative., 1894-08-15

DerS OF bOWer'S Army lie Sh1pueu
Home in Their Collins.
DENVER, Col. Aug. Joe r. Wilson,
the Ell Paso county deputy sheriff who was
captured by Adjt.-Gen. Tarsney in Mis-
souri,, has made a full confession and given
to Chief of Police Armstrong the names
of all of the men connected with the out
rage. committed in Colorado Springs few
weeks ago. Wilson was brought back to
Denver at noon yesterday by Officer Cross,
and he spent the night in the city Jail. On
the train going to the Springs in the morn
ing he weakened and told everything that
he knew of the affair. He confirmed the
story that a murderer out of the Ell Paso
county Jail was allowed to help to put tar
and feathers on Tarsney.
Every detail of the tar and feathers af-
fair is now in possession Of the Denver
officers, and however high a position the
offenders may hold they will ultimately be
brought to Justice Wilson's confession
clearly illustrates one point-that is that
the crime was committed by the political
enemies of Gen. Tarsney, and that the
criminals were not the outcasts of the Bull
Hill army, but men of higher standing in
the community.
According to Wilson's story, the men en-
gagged in the disgraceful enterprise were
Sheriff Bowers; his deputy sheriff, Bob
Mullins; Capt. Saxton, of Troop A; Sergt.
VIM. Bancroft, of Troop A; Deputy Sheriff
j. r. Wilson, Deputy Quackenboss, Sher-
man Crumsley, Walter Crumsley, Shorty
Allen, Smith Shel!enberger, and perhaps
one or two others, including a woman The
police now have three confessions-those of
Wilson, Parker and a prisoner in the Ell
Paso county Jail, who is being held as
witness to murder committed in Cripple
Creek These men will all be brought be
fore the SIand jury. now sitting in Color
ado Springs.
The conspiracy was a germ born at Gil
lette, and which continued to grow until
Tarsney was found unguarded in the Alam?
Hotel. The deputy sheriff at Divide heard
the false report from Denver that Tarsney
had uttered the remark, Il hope that every
man in Bowers army will be shipped home
in a coffn.' The night the militia arrived
at Gillette and camped near the deputies,
Wilson, Allen and others, backed up by
Bob Mullins and members of the company
from the FL Paso Club, arranged scheme
to kidnap Tarsney on the spot, but for
some reason this scheme was abandoned.
On the day that Tarsney appeared at
Colorado Springs for the purpose of assist
ing in the defense of the Bull Hill prison
ers, the conspiracy to kidnap him was
formed. 1t was freely discussed in the
county Jail and the sheriff's- office, and
when once it received official support it
progressed
signal was agreed UPON. 1t was an
nounced also most publicly that all who
desired to take part in the plot should
meet in a saloon on TETON street and enter
wit oi roht in, rlo
According to Wilson's story, Sheriff Bow
ers furnished to Deputy Sheriff Quacken-
boss tar and Mrs. Quackenboss prepared
the feathers ripping open a large pillow.
Bowers, in addition, ordered the lelease of
the Cripple Creek murderer and ordered
him to follow Deputy Sheriffs Allen and
Shellenberger. Deputy Sheriff Bob Mullins
hired the hacks from the two Crumleys,
and ordered them to drive to the Alamo
Hotel. He paid them in advance. Wilson
headed the party which went in to the
Alamo Hotel, and he confessed that he
the man who showed the gun in Tars-
ney's face he came down to the office
to answer the telephone. Bancroft, Allen
and Smith were the other men in the hotel
office. SaXtOn, Bob Mullins and the others
waited outside.
Wilson described the drive out to the
open prairie, and he said that most horrible
threats were made against Tarsney. He
was told that he was being driven to
place OF execution, where he would be
tortured to death. His captors gleefully
told him that they would first quarter him
and then chop off his head. Tarsney asked
for his life as any man would under the
circumstances. On arriving at the place of
torture, Tarsney was dragged from the
hack by Allen, Bancroft and Wilson and
told to strip. When he was informed that
his life would be spared he shook hands
with his prosecutors and thanked them.
Wilson said that he got tar on his hands
that night and so did SaXton, Bancroft,
Allen and the rest. The general was left
alone, nearly crazy, to wander over the
fields.
Chief of Police Armstrong confirms the
report that Wilson has made a full con-
fession, as related in the News. Wilson is
young man, the son of a Missouri farmer,
at whose house ne was captured last week.
He was deputy sheriff at Colorado
Springs, where he resided for several years
He left the city a day two after the
outrage the adjutant general. Gen
Tarsney has identified him as the man who
poked a revolver in his face at the Alamo
Hotel, and who daubed the tar on him and
who led him from the scene of the outrage
after the other conspirators departed.
Chief of Police Armstrong did not arrive
at his office until nearly noon today. He
said it was true that Wilson had confessed
but added $50 far as I know Sheriff Bow
ers is not implicated in the outrage by the
confession.'
TARSNEY CONSPIRATORS WE'RE
OATH-BOUND.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, Aug S.-Dr
J. +. Reed, who was pointed out to the de-