Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-06-23
AN ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE.
Adiutant General Tarsney, Of Colorado,
Kidnapped and shamefully
Treated.
Probably the Work of Disappointed
Cripple Creek Deputies-A Dark
Stain Upon the Centen-
nial State.

Colorado, Springs, June 23.-Adjutant
General Timothy ). Tarsney was kidnap-
ped from the Alamo house shorthly after
midnight and taken to Austin Bluffs, five
miles northwest of the city, where he was
tarred and feathered. The perpetrators
of the deed are unknown. Gen. Tarsney
and his law partner retired at midnight,
after spending several hours discussing
the cases of the Cripple Creek strikers
arrested for participating in the recent
trouble at Cripple Creek. Gen. Tarsney
had been conducting the defense OF the
miners as their attorney. Shortly after
the two men had gotten into bed the
bell boy knocked on the door and stated
that party from Cripple Greek wanted
TO talk with Tarsney at the telephone.
The adjutant general
SLIPPED ON HIS CLOTHES
and walked down to the Office.
Tarsney went directly to the telephone
and just as he lifted the trumpet to his
ear two men entered from TETON street.
One of them went directly to him and
holding pistol close to Tarsney's head
said: "We want you"
Tarsney turned and made move to
defend himself. Immediately the weapon
was brought down heavily on his bare
head. He staggered, but started again to
resist, when the first masked man was
Joined by another, while third stood at
the doorway, compelling the clerk and
the boy to keep quiet.
rApuNry WAS TuEN RETZED
by the five men in the party, who picked
him bodily up and carried him to hack
ouside the door. Three men then piled
| into the vehicle with him, while two Others
Jumped into a second hack. One man
sat on each seat with the drivers, who
were compelled to drive furiously through
| Cucharas street to Webber and thence
north. Revolvers we're kept pressed
against the ribs of the drivers, who were
/ constantly urged to "move faster" Sher-
man Crumley, owner of the hacks, drove
the first vehicle, while Jean Mckinney
handled the lines of the one which fol-
J lowed. By direction of their seat mates
the drivers went straight out to WebbeI
street,
| ACROSS PIKE's PEAK AVENUE,
one block north of the base ball grounds
where the road leading off to the north
east toward Austin Bluffs was taken
This was followed out across the Santa
Fe and Rock Island tracks and past the
Otis residence, which stands alone on TIE
plains, A half mile beyond this building
the hacks stopped and the several men
aliRhted and went to the barb wire ferce
by the side of the road. Several posts
were broken down, the wires pressed flat
on the ground and orders given te
every one to get out, including the pris
oner and the drivers. The latter were
told to hitch their horses and come along
with the rest of the party. Gen. Tarsne!
was then carried through the pasture to
point half mile from the road and al
most a mile from any building. Two
men carried between them large can
FILLED WITH LIQUID TAR.
When the leaders thought they we're ia
enough so that no cry could possibly b.
heard from the road the party stoppe'
and proceeded with the work for whicl
they had come.
Crumley, one of the drivers, tells wha
happened in the following language
"One of the men set down the can of ia
! and another drawing six-shooter toll
Tarsney to undress. A rag was the
pulled out of the tar can, dripping wit
the fluid, with which he was struck tim
and time again, the cloth being frequentl
dipped in the can. In this manner Tars
news back, arms, tho base of his heat
face and body we're thickly covered wit
tar, after which the victim was LIBERAL
sprinkled with feathers.
TARsNEY WAS LEFT
lying on the ground and the masked me
!; took to the hacks. They drove to tn
} Rock Island track and dismissed thei
} drivers. not paying them, but simpl
, saying: Good night, Johnnie Tha
was the last eeen of the masked men an
! the drivers came on to the city. Afte
+ the tar and feathers had been apple
5 Tarsney was told to move on out of L
Paso county; that he was not wante
: either in Cripple Creek or Colorad
Springs, and that if he ever showed u
there again he would meet with wors
fate than dose of tar and feathers"
There was a meeting of twenty-fv
deputy sheriffs in Antler's park at l
l O'Clock last night and it is believed tha
!the
PLOT AGAINST GEN. TARsNEY
' was Matched there. The officers were il
: formed of the outrage an hour after
occurred and started to prevent the Law
lessness, hut were unable to follow tt
J. tracks in the darkness and up to th
Q hour the white cappers have not bee
9 identified, nor has Gen. Tarsney bee
found.
SPECIAL TRAIN ORDERED.
= Denver.-At 1O:4O this morning Go
! Waite announced that he had ordered
special train to 60 to Colorado Spring
q He did not say what the purpose of the o
;. der was, but it is understood at the stat
: house that he will start as soon as p0sf
u BILE for the scene of last nights outrai
b on Adjutant General Tarsney. It
rumored that Gov. Waite will also ser