The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-05-25
Denver Arrests Lead to Startling
Developments.
A SUBMIT AT BUTTE, MONT
The Gang Appears TO Have Operated at
Three Different Points at the
Same Time.

Denver, May PA peculiar circum-
stance in connection with the arrest of
James Charles Corbett, George w. AL
len, Mrs. Gertrude Corbett, Mrs. Mamie
Allen and Mrs Mile Hyland for coun-
terfeiting and for having counterfeit
money in their possession, is the fact
that at about the time Mrs Hyland left
Butte Mont, for what she claims was
a visit to relatives in Colorado, the
United States authorities were engaged
in the task of ferreting out and appre-
hending an equally bold gang of spuri-
Gus coin makers in that city. About
March l, Butte officers received a letter
from William HadloW of that city, in
which information was vouchsafed that
band of regularly organized counter
feiters was operating there and that if
guaranteed immunity from punishment,
he would divulge the names Of the mem
bers, their hiding place and other useful
knowledge. In this arrangement the
officers temporarily acquiesced and the
result was that Hadlow wrote more let
tiers detailing that the band consisted
of about half a dozen men and giving
their names. Their rendezvous he said,
was in cave on the outskirts of town.
AT this point secret service agents of
the government were called into the
case. A detective was sent from Wash
ington. Before the detective reached
the scene, Hadlow had disappeared
from Butte and the ken of Montana
authorities. 1t was then that the news
was flashed over the country that he
had been detected by his pals in his act
of betrayal, and that, in revenge for
his perfidy, he had been waylaid and
killed. Officers were at that time
searching abandoned prospect holes
and caverns about Butte.
The sequel proved that the search was
Ill advised, for shortly after reaching
Butte the secret service agents succeed
ed in unearthing the mystery of Had
lows disappearance. 1t was learned
that he had taken voluntary flight from
Montana. On March q his whereabouts
were discovered and he was arrested by
government officials at Oswego, N. Y.
From that city he was taken back to
Montana, and a Silver Bow county
grand jury indicted him for counter
feiting.
In the meantime the agent at Butte
had been at work, and in conjunction
with local officers, had effected the ap-
prehension of Sanford w. Currier and
c. F. Nelson, two other members of the
band. In addition, it was learned that
there were many others connected with
| the lawbreaking confederation and even
to this time efforts are being made to
run them to earth. Currier and Nelson
are under indictment, along with Had
| low. The story of the cave was proved
| to have been a fabrication on the part
of Hadlow.
1t was about the date of the arrest Of
Currier and Nelson that Mrs. Hyland
left Butte on visit to her step-sisters,
Mrs. Corbett and Mrs. Allen, in this
city. That was not her first visit, how
ever, for on frequent other occasions
she came to Colorado for the same
ostensible purpose. Before she became
Mrs. Hyland she was Mrs. Jack Thomp-
son., Hyland is a saloon-keeper.
Developments in the now famous case
in this city point strongly to the fact
that the Butte mint was an offshoot Of
the Denver headquarters, and while it
is not openly averred by the depart
ment that Mrs. Hyland was a member
of the gang at that point or that she
acted as a go-between for the Butte
and Denver operators, her detention was
largely on suspicion that she might have
been. 1t is also claimed that there was
a sub-mint in Cheyenne and the recent
finding of moulds and spurious coins
by officials Of that place is recalled.
Mrs. Hyland is out on bonds of 500 to
appear at the preliminary hearing be-
fore Commissioner Capron next Satur-
day, while Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Cor
bett are under $500 bonds.
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