The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-08-19
Run TO THEIR LAIR.
Gold Thieves of Alaska Cap
tured by Strategy.
HAD BEEN STEALING FOR YEARS.
The Detectives Gained Their Csandsnee
By Offering 10 Jefn wtsh Thsn
in Their Scheme.

The arrest Of the rnsn who stole the
ehioFination gold from tie TrssdwsEl rnsne
In Alaska some time ago has developed
tue fact that . systematic robbery has
been going on there for sevsra. years The
follo.ing story Of the robbery aud arrest
In taken from the Alaska Asaiae Record OF
August g.:
a robbery that occurred last winter.
whereby the Alaska Tread vel Gold Min
Ing Company lost several hundred dollars
and which az that time Vas considered
mild attempt AZ thsering, has assumed
startling proportions. Systematic nlching
OF precipifatss has been gosng on Tor years,
and the audaeity Of the principals IN ths
affair Is equailed oniy By the sagaoity dis
played by the celebrated Pinkerton slsuln
hounds from Chicago
"for ahous three years prior TO the vim
ter OF 1888 the company owing and opsk-
Ating the largest stamp mill IN the xcri1
Tor The reduction OF ore from the famous
Treadsels mine. has been 81 ioss TO sc-
count for . discrepancy that has at various
times been apparent in the returns from
their chlorknation works ADJOINING the
mil. through which the suiphurets pass
% final treatment By simple method
an accurate account of assays II kept, and
the returns from the chiorinailon WORKS
under ordinary circumstances are e.
pected to tally Herewith During the
spring Of is90 q peroeptible falling on IN
the amount Of precipitatss returned was
noticed, and again shortly thereafter.
The continued loss became perplexing.
and no amount OF care and expert knowi-
edge could divine the cause. After un-
told efforts 10 stop the disappearance OF
the precious yellow metal. suspicious were
aroused and evidence was found pointing
clearly 10 a solution of the problem--roo-
berry.
@During the month OF May. 1885,. . man.
Mr.. Lee Davis. was assigned 10 duty IN the
mill Arrests followed. The drug store
Of Chris Feuhr, on Douglas island. was
closely watched night and day. 1t was in
charge of Frank yurgens. formerly In the
employ of the Treadwell mill, the owner
being absent in San Francisco. visiting the
Mid winter fair.
LAST March Jurgens Was caught In the
act Of giving preci pilates bath In nitric
acid and about 81. 100 in gold recovered.
Requisition papers we're sent TO California
and Feuhr brought back 10 Alaska on a
charge OF being an aecompllcs. Jurgens -
in jail and Chris Eeuhr Is under 5000
bonds TO appear at the next term OF the
Federal court in juneau the coming win
Ter.
''Mr. Lee Davis had been in the employ Of
the IreadwelI company about three weeks
when another man, w. II. sayers. applied
for work and received an assignments in
the mill. Six weeks ago these men re-
signed to go prospecting. They stopped
At KiIlisnoo aud the result Of that pros
pecting trip is the arrest of two more OF
the principals in the robbery. Charles
Hubbard and a man named Schsll.
Gaining the confidence OF the men at
Killisnoo liz Was an easy matter TO suggest
a plan % continue the suFreptitioas steal
ing of prscipitates from the colonization
works ~ Douglas Island and in the end
the detectives. hy promising immunity
from punishment, succeeded in incrimi-
mating these men, one Of whom has since
given the full details of the affair and
agreed to turn states evidence At the trial.
Several other arrests are yet to be made.
and the most sensational disclosures may
follow.
at is claimed that the Treadweil COM
pany are losers to the extent of $1,000 10
SIS. 600. While it Is alleged that several
thousand dollars worth of precipitates
were taken by Jurgens, il appears to have
been stolen Ia small lots at different times.
while prscipttstes to the amount OF from
$7,00o TO SIC, 900 seem 10 have been stolen
nj one time by Hubbard and Schell. When
the arrest was made at killlsnoo $1,000
was recovered and a cache OF the balance
located.
"Jurgens, Hubbard and Schell were
formerly employed at the Tresdwel mill.
The detectives brought the prisoners from
kiIlisnoo on the topeka"