St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-08
ENTIRE PLOT REVEALED.
Names Of Those Implicated
in the Dirty Work q
Given. :.
SHERIFF AIDED THE MOB.
Deputies and Other Men OF
High Standing Mixed 8
Up in It.

DENVER, Aug. THE News says
today: Joe r. Wilson, the Ell Paso
county deputy sheriff who was captured
by Adjt. Gen. Tarsney in Missouri, has
made a full confession and given to
Chief of Police Armstrong the names of
all of the men connected with the out
rage committed in Colorado Springs
few weeks ago. Wilson was brought
back to Denver at noon yesterday by
Officer Cross, and he spent last night in
the city Jail. On the train going to the
Springs in the morning he weakened
and told everything that he knew of the
affair. I
He confirmed the story that murde-
er out of the Ell Paso county jail was
allowed to help put tar and feathers on
Tarsney.
Every detail of the tar and feathers
affair is now in possession of the Den
yer officer, and however high position
the offenders may hold, they will ulti-
mately be brought to justice. Wilson's
confession clearly illustrates one point
that is, that the crime was committed
by the political enemies of Gen. Tars-
ney, and that the criminals were not
the outcasts of the Bull Hill army, bnt
men of higher standing in the COM
munity.
Sheriff MIXED UP in 1t.
According to Wilson's story the men
engaged in the disgraceful enterprise
were Sheriff Bowers, his deputy sheriff,
Bob Mullins, Capt. Savton, of Troop N;
Sergeant William Bancroft, of Troop A;
Deputy Sheriff j. n. Wilson; Deputy
Quackenboss, Sherman Crumsley,. Wal
ter Crumsley, ''Shorty" Allen, Smith
Shellenberger. and perhaps one OF two
others, including woman. The police
now have three confessions-those Of
Wilson, Parker and prisoner in the Ell
Paso county Jail, who is being held as al
witness to a murder committed in Grip
pie Creek. These men will all be
brought before the grand jury now Sit
ting in Colorado Springs. Is
The conspiracy was germ born at
Gillette, and which continued to grow
until Tarsney was found unguarded in
the Alamo hotel. The deputy sheriff at
Divide heard the false report from Den.
yer that TarSney had uttered the re.
mark: II hope that every man in Bow
ers' army Will be shipped home in a
coffin" The night the militia arrived
at Gillette and camped near the depu=
ties, Wilson, Allen and others, backed
up by Bob Mullins and members Of the
company from the Ell Paso club, ar.
ranged a scheme to ,
Kidnap Tarsney
hn ht,t fnr
scheme was abandoned. On the day
that Tarsney appeared at Colorado
Springs for the purpose of assisting in
the defense OF the Bull Hill prisoners,
the conspiracy to kidnap him was
formed. 1t was freely discussed in the
country Jail and the sheriff's Office, and
when once it received official support,
it progressed.
A signal was agreed upon. 1t was an
nounred' also most publicly that all who
desired to take part in the plot should
meet in saloon on TETON street, and
enter with their right hand stuck in
the vest. According to Wilson's story,
Sheriff Bowers furnished to Deputy
Sheriff Quackenboss tar. and Mrs.
Quackenboss prepared the fearthers,
ripping open a large pillow. Bowers,
in addition, ordered the release of the
Cripple Creek murderer and ordered
him to follow Deputy Sheriff5 ALE II
and Shellenberger.
Deputy Sheriff Bob Mullins hired the
hack from the two CrumSleys and Or
dered them to drive to the Alamo hotel.
He paid them i'll advance. Wilson
headed the party, which went into the
Alamo hotel, and he confessed that he
was the man who showed the gun in
TarSney'S face as he came down to the
office to answer the telephone. Ban
croft, Allen and Smith were the other
men In the hotel Office. SaXton, Bob
Mullins and the others waited outside.
Wilson described the drive out to the
open prairie, and he said that the
Most Horrible Threats
were made against Tarsney. He was
told that he was being driven to place
of execution, where he would be tortured
to death. His captors gleefufly told
him that they would first quarter him
and then chop off his head. TarsneY
asked for his life, as any man would
under the circumstances. On arriving
at the place of torture, Tarsney was
dragged from the hack by Alien, Ban
croft and Wilson, and told to strip.
When he was informed that his lire
would be spared. he shook hands with
his prosecutors and thanked them.
Wilson said that he got tar on his
| hands that night, and so did SaXton,
| Bancroft, Allen and the rest. The
| general was lett alone, nearly crazy, to
wander over the fields. Chief of Police
| Armstrong confirms the report thai
| Wilson has made full confession, as
related in the News. Wilson is young
man, the son of a Missouri FARMER, at
whose house he was captured last week.
He was deputy sheriff at Colorado
| Springs, where he resided for sew
| eral years. He left the city a
day or two after the outrage
OIL the adiutant general. Gen. Tarsney
has identified him as the man WHO
poked revolver in his face at the
Alamo hotel, aud who daubed the tar
on him, and who led him from the scelfe
of the outrage after the other conspiral
tors departed. -
Chief of Police Armstrong did not ar
rive at his office until nearly noon today.
He said it was true that Wilson had
confessed. but added: $50 far as i
know Sheriff Bowers is not implicated
in tue outrage by the confession" T.