Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1894-09-29
GLOYSTEIN NOT DEAD
Sheriff Pugh Finds Him IN East
ern Oregon.
HE PUT BLOOD ON THE HAT
He was Not Abducted, But Ran Away IN
the Night of HIS Own Accord.
and Changing His Name.

SPOKANE, Sept. 24.-Correspondence
Charles i. Gloysteln is alive. lie
was not abducted, but ran away in the
night Of his own accord. lie is now at
work on a farm near Moro, Sherman
county, Or The Pugh boys ferreted
oua his whereabouts, and Sheriff Pugh
has seen him face TO face and identi-
fled him beyond q shadow OF DOUBT.
Ever since Gloystein disappeared SO
suddenly and mysteriously the 3Oth OF
last July, the sheri1f's office has been
in close pursuit If any clue that might
lead to his discovery dead or alive.
Ten DAYS ago the Pugh boys struck q
lead that led them to believe G.oysteln
was still alive. A few days later this
grew 10 feeling Of conviction, and
acting upon this sheriff Pugh took the
q. r. e n. train last Friday for Sher-
man county in eastern Oregon. lie had
the assurance Of men who had been IN
that section that his man could be
found there, and he went to see tie
runaway face to face and cnargc him
with his inlamy.
Mr.. pugh stepped from the cars at
Grants, station on the banks OF the
Columbia, and from there drove to
Moro, county seat Of Sherman county,
reaching there after y mile DIVE at
IL o'clock Saturday forenoon. Gloy-
stein was passing under the name OF
Charles SIawser, and from the post
master the sheriff learned that he was
work ing ia Grass Valley. q mile from
Moro, for a man named Iampreys.
The Sheriff Confronts Gloystetn.
Mr.. Pugh drove out TO the place and
arrived there at l o clock in the after
noon. Gloystein was in the barnyard
hitcling a team preparatory 10 taking
a load Of hay to Moro. The sheriff
drove nj within Sd Gect Of the missing
man, whose back was turned toward
him.
"Charley G.oystein, is that you?:" he
asked.
Gloztein turned in flash, grew
deathly pale aud said:
"Mac! Mac! My God! My God.
Come here-l want to talk to you"
The two went aside where they
would not be overheard. Gloystein be-
gan to cry like baby.
"Charley," demanded the sheriff,
"why did you desert your family and
deceive Your triends?'
threats that had been made against my
life"
"Do You consider that was justjtica-
ton for your desertion of your wife
and five little children, and the suspi-
cion cast upon your neighbcr>"
He broke out crying again and said:
mo; | had not been gone q hours be-
fore i would have given everything |
mad on earth 10 be back with my fam
lily. But | have committed 70 crime
and car not he arrested.
"No, you can not be arrcsted,n re-
piled the sheriff, "but you have com
mitted crime that is " 3rse than muir
der"
81 know il, / know IT," said GIoy
stein, crying all the time like a child.
"If did my duty row | would kill
myself. There is nothing left for ME
in this world.h
Sheriff Pugh reminucd him that
that would only be adding another
crime.
Charley Gloystein, if you ever de
sert your family again | will hound
you to the end Of the earth.'
81 will never desert them again.
promised Gloystein. '1f Jennie Will
forgive HE and come TO me again | will
go far away ana send for her."
GIoysteiu would not return with the
sheriff, but went before the clerk Of the
court and made affidavit admitting
that he was Charles i. Gloystein and
had run away from Mica.
Gloystein's identity was only made
known to the clerk Of toe court and q
deputy sheriff, and they promised not
to divulge it. Gloystein's only chunge
was the wearing OF full beard.