Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-28
ASSAULT ON GEN. TARSNEY.
Masked Men at CoIorauo
Abduct Prominent State
Official.

Abduct a Prominent State
Official.
Colorado Springs, Col, June 25.--AoJ,'-
Cen. Tarsney was kidnapped from tne
Alamo hotel a few minutes after Hiu-
night by masked men, taken TO the SUI,
nrbs in a hack, and there tarred anu
feathered. Several unknown men loon
part in the outrage. After the assault
the Acknowledgement was lett lying on
the nrairie. When the officers arrived
Cen. Tarsney could not be found, ana up
to 8 q. m. he had not been heard from.
large posse is securing the pralrle III
search of him. The kidnapping caused the
createst sensation and excitement here
as soon as the facts became pubic, ana
also at Cripple Creek to which place the
telephone company carried the news
Gen. Tarsney has been in the city Tor
several days attending the examination
of the arrested Bull Hill miners, tor
whom he and Col. B. Is. Mont
gomery of Cripple Creek appeared
as attorneys At five minutes
past II o'clock a call came over the tele-
phone for Tarsney. The clerk sent the
night porter, the only other man IN the
hotel office, to call Gen. Tarsney. tie
appeared in very Few minutes anu
stepped up to the phone. He had hardly
spoken a word into the receiver when
two men with masks on their faces en-"
tered from the street. One hastily adj
yanced on Gen. Tarsney, the other re-
naming near the door, just inside OF the
office. :, s,.oa
man as the general turned his face from
the phone on hearing footsteps. Inc
oil
only witnesses. -, $500,
Tarsney. ., >,
ave want you to come with U.S. was
"But / don't want to go anywhere re-
turned the general, at the same time
making an effort to release himself.
At this the masked man lunged Tor
ward, pistol in hand, and struck zen.
Tarsney hard blow with the weapon;
The masked man near the door advanced 2I
to his companions assistance, ana lars
new staggered toward the office counter.
He was ruthlessly seized by the, two
masked men and hurried toward the
street. The clerk did not Interfere re
had been warned to keep his hands on py
a third masked man who nad sudoehly
appeared at the door.
In front of the hotel two hacks were
standing. -Four other masked men were
seen there. Drivers, who 1T was AFTER
wards learned had been intlmldated, SAT
on their boxes and the victim was hustled
into one of the vehicles, the masked men
scrambled into them,- the drivers We're
ordered to be off, and up the street the
party moved at a mad gallop. In fifteen
minutes Police Capt. Gastright and Onl-
GERS Harland and Henry were on horses
and riding furiously in the direction
taken by the kidnapers and their victim.
The officers had poor trail to follow; 1t
was pitch dark and they only knew that
the masked party had gone out OF town
to the north. 1t was over an hour before
the facts became known. Inc drivers OF
the two hacks first brought the news to
town. It was that the masked men had
taken their victim to a point near Austin
bluffs between two and three miles out
of town, and after removing Gen. lars
ney's clothes had covered him over with
tar and feathers.
Sherman Crunley, one of the drivers.
told the following story: MY brother
and l own the hacks. Shortly before
midnight two men came to our stand and
said they wanted to engage two hacks for
drive. They did not wear masks then.
Alamo 1 saw the struggle inside the
hotel office, and knowing that some
thing unusual was up started to drive
away, but was. stopped by men with
masks on their faces and pistols IN their
hands. After they all got in the hack,
L
time They compelled me to whip the
horses On arriving at q place near Aus
tin bluffs they all got out. They made an
awful lot of noise and kept on swearing
and making threats. Several times on
the way out I heard them threaten Tars-
ney's life I think they had Tarsney's
clothes off by the time they ordered the
hack stopped; at least | did not see many
clothes ON him when l first saw him on
the ground. They had a bucket and a
brush and the deed was soon done
Tarsney was left lying on the ground
and the masked men took to their heels:
They drove to the Rock Island tracks and
there dismissed their drivers, not paying
them, but simply saying, Good night,
johnny" That was the last seen of the
masked men and the drivers came on to
the city.
Driver Crunley says that after the tai
and feathers had been applied Tarsney
was told to move on out of Ell Paso coun-
ty: that he was not wanted in either
Cripple Creek Or Colorado Springs, and
that # he ever showed up again he would
meet worse fate than dose of tar and
feathers. There was a meeting of TWEEN
ty-fve deputy sheriffs at Antlers' park at
10 o'clock, and it is believed the plot
against Gen. Tarsney was Matched there.