San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-06-23
A HELLISH DEED
Of Strikers-General Tarsney Kid
mapped and Badly Treated.

mapped ana Badly Treated.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, June
23.-Adjutant General Tarsney was
kidnapped from the Alamo hotel a
few minutes after midnight, by
masked men, taken to the suburbs
in a hack, and there tarred and
feathered. Several unknown men
took part in the outrage. After the
outrage the adjutant general was
left lying on the prairie. "When
officers arrived General Tarsney
could not be found and up IL sais
morning he had not been. heard
from. A large posse is securing
the prairie in search of him. Off
GERS had arrived and he was cared
for by them. He is thought to be
not badly hurt, but he was suffer
ing from bruises caused by
rough handling and was ~
great mental anguish. The kidnap-
ping caused the greatest sensation
and eX element here as soon as
the facts became public, aud also
at Cripple Creek, to which place
the telephone company carried the
news. General Tarsney has been
in the city several days attending
the examination of the arrested
Bull Hill miners, for whom he and
Col. B. f. Montgomery, of
Cripple Creek, appeared as
the attorneys. At mid
night while only the night clerk
and porter were on duty, Tarsney
was called to the telephone. Ho
had spoken only few words,
when two masked men appeared
and upon his refusal to go with
them, he was struck viciously Il
blow on the head with revolver.
Tarsney staggered toward his
companions for assistance and was
seized by the masked men, and
hurried toward the street. The
clerk did not interfere. He had
been waraed to keep his
hans off by the third mask
ed man, who had suddenly appear
ed at the,dOor, in front OF the hotel,
where two hacks were standing
and four other masked men were
seen. The drivers, who, it was
afterward learned, had been intim-
idated, sat on the cab boxes, and
the victim was hustled into one Of
the vehicles, the masked men get
ting into them. The drivers were
ordered to be off and up the street,
and the party moved at a mad
gallop. In fifteen minutes the po-
lice, Captain Gathright and
Officers Tharlan and Henry were
on their horses and riding furious
ly in the direction taken by the
kidnappers, and their victim. The
officers had poor trail to follow,
and it was pitch dark, and they
only knew the masked party had
gone out OF town to the north.
1t was over an hour before the
facts became known. 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 three and four
miles out of town, and after re-
moving General Tarsney's clothes
had covered him over with tar and
feathers. Driver Sherman Crun-
ley says after the deed was done
Tarsney was left lying on the
ground and the masked men took
to their heels. They drove to the
Rock Island track and there dis
missed their drivers, not paying
them, but simply saying, "Good
Night, HOneyw That was the last
seen of the masked men, and the
drivers came into the city. Driver
Crunley says after the tar and
feathers had been applied Tarsney
was told to move on out of FL PasO
county; that he was not wanted
either in Cripple Creek or Colorado
Springs, and if he ever showed up
again he would meet worse fate
than a dose of tar and feathers.
There was a meeting OF twenty
five deputies sheriff at Antler Park.
at 10 o'clock and it is believed the
plot was Matched there.