The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-02
MULCKEY IS CAUGHT
His Call for Mail at the POStofice
Gave Him Away.
he SAYS HE IS INNOCENT
Deputy Marshal Vinson of Spo-
kane Surprises the Idaho Sus-
pect in a Saloon-He VIII Face
the Music. He Says.

Jack Mulckey. the Idaho stage rob
| Der who was in Butte a few weeks ago.
| but gave the police the slip, has been
| arrested at Spokane, to which place he
| went after leaving Butte, when he
| learned MAT his presence in the city
| was known to the police. Mulckey not
| long ago completed n term in the Deer
| Lodge peniteptary The Spokane
| Chronicle of last Thursday gives the
| following account of his arrest and the
| circumstances that led up to it:
a liatle before noon to-day United
| States Deputy Marshal Vinson strolled
| leisurely to the owl saloon on Howard
| street and glanced around careIessly.
! Then he walked up to a well-built. eld-
| erly man, who was standing near the
counter, and quietly placed a hand on
| his shoulder, saying:
Il guess you'd better come with me
now Jack"
Had a bullet struck the elderly stran-
! ger he could not have wheeled quicker;
he turned towards his captor a face that
was the color Of ashes--slared at him
moment-1len jabbed his fists deep
down into his pockets looked down at
the floor, and answered in a low voice:
''Au right; just as YOU say"
Then the story goes back a little. 1t
was on the night Of oct. 2S and Ed Ma
thieson, the stage driver was whirling
over lonely road near Boise, Idaho,
carrying mail from Nampa to Silver
City. AS the stage struck an upgrade
he checked up the horses a lbttle, and
just then something cleaned IN the
dim light and a deep, bass voice growl-
ed up:
Hands up, there! Quick. d-n you"
There are a few men who can con-
duct a debate successfully while look
~ faAr. = hat I
chester. Stagedriver Mathieson couldn't
and he didn't try. He climbed down off
The box and stood meekly by at the
side of the road. Two men came out of
the shadows. One held the horses
heads and the other went Through the
contents Of the coach in quick order.
He found the mail sack, in which, ii is
said, there was $1,000 or more That
seemed to satisfy him. His partner told
Mathieson 10 climb up, handed him the
reins and with two shining rifles point
ed at his bead, MathieSon exchanged a
courteous good night with his inter-
viewers and rove away.
The whole country was in a fever the
next morning and consts bles, marshals,
detectives and sheriffs fairly swarmed
IN the country around Nampa. Mathie-
son gave a vivid description of the rob-
bers and the officers were sure they
recognized both-one as James Tate,
the other as Jack Mulckey an ex-con-
vict, who had completed four years
sentence at Deer Lodge a short time
before and was living at Boise with his
wife and baby. The marshals We're sure
Tate was one robber and Mulckey the
other; but where were they?
At last Deputy Marshal Dryden got a
clew that Mulokey was in Butte. He
hurried 10 fhe Smoky City, but his man
had left town the day before the officer
arrived-some said en- route to Cripple
Creek, others said TO Spokane Dryden
chose the latter. He arrived here about
two weeks ago and spent four days in
tracing phe wanderer. He finally went
home, after warning the local officers
that Mulckey had been in town, trav-
cling under the name of Oliver p. SAT-
fen, but that he had gone to British
Columbia.
Watch sharp for him." urged Dry
den, FOR he's likely to come back"
SO this morning when a well-built
stranger, perhaps so years of age. with
hair and mustache just streaked with
gray. walked up TO the postofiice WIN
dow and asked il there was any mail
for Oliver Saffen?" he was spotted inn
mediately. lie was given a letter from
Boise, tore il open and out fell the pic
ture Of a plump, laughing baby-7his
own child's photograph. He read the
letter hurriedly and then strolled down
no the Owl. lie did not notice Marshal
brakes brother. who entered the Sa-
loon little later, AMI did not see Sam
Ninson until both officers were upon
him, and escape was impossible.
At the marshal's office Saffen freely
admitted that he was the missing
Mulckey. burt earnestly protested that
ne knew nothing OF the stage robbery.
He declares his willingness to go back
to Boise without a requisit.on and earn
estly insists that he Is willing to stand
trial The Idaho officials, however, are