The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-04
READY TO GRAB HIM
The Police Have Their Eyes on a
Man in the Helena Jail.
A SUSPECTED HIGHwAYMAN
II Is Believed He Is the Man Who
Held Up Meaderville Car. Shot
the Motorman and Attempt
ed TO XIII the Conductor.

The police authorities of Butte are
now convinced beyond the faintest
shadow of a doubt that the desperate
who held up a Meaderville street car
on the 18th of last February and shot
the motorman and attempted TO muir
der the conductor. Is in Jail at Helena.
sewing out a sentence for petit lar
ceny and as soon as his time is up he
will be brought TO this city and placed
on trial for highway robbery. The po-
lice did not abandon their efforts TO
run the lone highwayman down at any
time, and they are extremely gratified
that their hard work has, as they be-
lieve, been crowned with success.
On the day after the robbery the sus-
picions of the officers were directed to-
wards a fellow whom they had under
partial surveillance for some time and
IL turns out that they hit on the right
man. They watched him closely, but
before w. T. Hynes. the street car con-
ductor whom he attempted to murder.
could get a look at him he left this
city and went to Helena He had not
been there long before he was at his old
tricks on a minor scale and he was sent
up for petit larceny.
Knowing that he was safe in Jail the
police here have not been paying much
attention to his case for the last two
or three weeks. on Thursday. how
ever, Detective Meiklejohn went over
to Helena to look into the case a little
farther and Conductor Hynes accom-
panied him to see IL he could identify
the prisoner as the man who held him
up and attempted to kill him when he
showed fight. The police were positive
at that time that the suspect was the
guilty party. but they realized that 1t
would be waste of time and money
TO bring him to Butte unless the street
car conductor could Identify him. Mr.
Hynes set all of their doubts at rest
by giving the suspected robber a
prompt and positive Identification. AL
though the robbers face was partly
concealed by handkerchief at the time
of the robbery Hynes saw enough OF
his face to remember him by, and he Is
certain that the man he saw in the
Helena Jail is the highwayman His
convincing Identification settled the
matter and when the supposed high
wayman leaves the Jail at Helena he
will be met by a Butte officer and
brought to this city for trial.
The robbery with which he is charged
Is one of the most sensational that has
ever been perpetrated In Butte. 1t oc-
CURED near the Silver Bow mill about
1880 o'clock on the night OF Feb. II.
There were no passengers on the car
and Conductor Hynes was attending TO
the fire when the highwayman entered
and when he looked up he looked imto
the barrel of a big revolver which was
close up to his head. He grabbed the
gun and the robber fred The bullet
narrowly missed Hynes' head. passed
through the front door and struck the
motorman. o. Y Rheim. i'm the right leg
at the thigh. Rheim fell off the car
and seeing that further resistance was
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receipts. amounting to about $50 i'm sill
Yer. He had a 1925 gold watch In his
vest pocket, but the robber did not
search him and he kept the watch.