Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-06-30
rARsNEY IS rARREp.
Also Given Coat of Feathers Outrage
on n Colorado Oficial.

on u COtOrhuO OWctuls
COLORADO SPRINGS, COL, June CO.
Adjt. Gen. Tarspey was taken forclbly
from the Alamo hotel by a gang of
masked men about o'clock a. m,
placed in hack and driven several
/ miles from town, where he was
beaten, tarred and feathered and
left lying unconscious on the
prairie. This is the story told
by the haclmen. Police Off
GERS secured the country, but
could find no trace of the missing
man, who finally turned up at Palmer
Lake. % miles from Colorado Springs.
| Adjt. Gen. Tarsney is associated with
Col. b. +. Montgomery in the defense
of the striking miners arrested at
Bull Hill, and it is thought by
some that the outrage was COM
mitted by villains employed by
some of the defeated mineowners.
Others surmise that the attacs on
Gen. Tarsney grew out of the old fight
between Gov. Waite and the police
, board. AT that time Gen. Tarsney rep
, resented the governor and the A. p.
A. element was very bitter in
its threats against the adjutant
| general who is a man of very
strong characteristics and undoubted
courage. Another theory is that the
assault was the work of deputy
sheriffs who were opposed during the
Cripple Creek strike by the state mill
tia, as it was Gen. Tarsney who car
ried Gov. Waites orders to Gen.
Brooks.
At 1905 o'clock a call came over the
telephone for Tarsney. The clerk
sent the night porter, the only
other man in the hotel office, to call
Gen. Tarsney. The latter appeared
in very few minutes and stepped
up to the phone. He had hardly
spoken a word into the receiver when
two men, with masks on their faces,
entered from the street One hastily
| advanced on Gen. Tarsney, the other
remaining near the door, just inside
the office.
We want you," said the first masked
man, as the general turned his face
from the phone on hearing footsteps.
The second hotel clerk and porter were
the only witnesses.
What do you want?" quietly asked
Mr.. Tarsney.
I'VE want you to come with u.s." was
the reply.
but l'don't want to go anywhere, y
returned Tarsney, at the same time
making an effort to retreat.
At this the masked man lunged for
ward, pistol in hand, and struck Gen.
| TarSney n vicious blow with the
weapon. The masked man near the
door advanced to his companions as
sistance. Tarsney staggered toward
the office counter. He was ruthless'y
seized by the two masked men and
hurried toward the street. The clerl
did not interfere He had been warned
to keep his hands off by II third masked
man who had suddenly appeared at the
door.
In front of the hotel two hacks Were
standing. Four other masked mer
were seen there. The drivers, who, il
was afterward learned. had been in
timidated, sat on the boxes and the
victim was hustled into one of the We
hicles, the masked men scrambled into
them, the drivers were ordered to be
off, and up the street the party moved
at mad gallop.
1t was over an hour before the fact:
became known. The drivers of the
two hacks first brought the news tc
town. 1t was that the masked mer
had taken their victim to point neal
Austir Bluffs, between. 2 and mile.
out of town, and, after removing Gen
Tarsney's clothes, had covered hin
with tar and feathers.
Sherman Crunley, one of the drivers
told the following story:
MY brother and own the hacks Shortl,
before midnight two men came to our stan'
and said they wanted to engage TIVE
hacks for drive They did not wear mask
then. They told me to drive In from
of the Alamo. saw the struggle in
side the hotel office and knew tina
something unusual was up l started
to drive away, but stopped by mel
. with masks on their faces and pistols in theiI
hands. After they all got into the hacks wa
told where to drive to for the first time The!
: compelled me to whip the horses. On arriving
: at point near Austin Bluffs they all got out
, They made an awful lot of noise, and KEEP
on swearing and making threats. Severa
times on the way out heard them threate
, Tarsney's life. They had Tarsney's clothes o
by the time they ordered the hack stopped; a
least did not see many clothes on him whe
first saw him on the ground. They had
bucket and q brush, and the deed was 500
, done"
A few minutes later Tarsney wa
left lying on the ground and tn
masked men took to their heels. The,
drove to the Rock Island tracks ant
] there dismissed their drivers, not pay
I ing them, but simply saying: Good
] night, Johnny" That was the las
! seen of the masked men, and the driv
ers came on to the city.
Driver Crunley says thai after th
g tar and feathers had been applied Tars
. ney was told to move on out of E
( Paso county; that he was not wante'
either in Cripple Creek or Colorad
! Springs, and that if he ever showed II
t again he would meet a worse fate thai
a a dose of tar and feathers.
t Some of the men wanted to Kill
4 Tarsney, but their leader held them il
Y che elk. Tarsney thanked this man an
4 shook hands with him. A citizens
naatinp has been called to denOunc