The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-03
RAISED THE ALARM
There Seems to Be No Doubt That thl
Officers Were Notified.
ALL HANDS TO THE RESCUE
They Hurried to Thompson Camp
BELLS Home From Every Quarter
Detective MeikleJohn Boldly !
Effects the Capture.

A drunken and probaly harmless ole
shoemaker created quite a furry of ex.
element across Missoula gulch yester.
day morning.
The shoemaker was Felix Carivon
who works in the shoe shop at No. 81
East Broadway, and who is steady and
innocent enough except when drink
ing. He seemed to have been making
New Years calls and kept it up all
night. About o'clock yesterday
morning he tried to make the call OF
the season I the residence of Thomp-
son Campbell in West broadway,
across the gulch. He called at the
kitchen door and the servant girl
| opened the door.
Give me all the money you've got,
and give 1t up right awayl"- was Car
ivons stern command, or at least that
is what the girl thought he said. She
| screamed and called to Mrs. Campbell,
who was up stairs. Mrs. Campbell
screamed also and both ran ont of the
front door together, leaving the drunk
en- shoemaker in full possession of the
| kitchen and of the whole house. ,frg i
| In front of the house was the Met
ropolitan meat markets delivery wag-
| on, with Dave Watts. the driver, on
| the seat The women told of their adj.
venture to- Dave, who took them to the
residence of j. III. Monteath across the
street. He got a six-shooter at the
| Monteath residence and running to the
/ rear OF the Campbell house, guarded
the back door Another delivery wagon
happened along just then, and the
| driver of that guarded the front door.
In the meantime a telephone message
had been sent from Monteaths resi-
dence to the Office of Mr.. Monteath at
the Inter Mountain, and also to the
~ of W AIo.
the Union Pacific, who rooms at the
Campbell residence, and who keeps a
Winchester rifle, a six-sho0ter and a
jug of whiskey in his room. On re-
ceiving the message Mr.. Maze notified
Officers Gabert and Smell, at the corner
of Main and Broadway, and they start
ed at once for the scene of the trouble
Mr.. Monteath went to the city Jail, got
Jailer Coulter, Chief of Police Tebo,
and Officer Barnaman and they also
started for the west end in the hack
While the officers were speeding fast
toward the Campbell residence City De-
tective Dave Meiklejohn effected the
capture. Dave lives near there, and
someone ran to him with the news of
the daring burglar in the Campbell
house. MeikleJohn ran to the Camp
bell house, entered the back door and
found the man standing near the stove
steadying himself by a chair.
Throw up your hands!" said Meikle-
John, pointing his revolver. -.
The intruder raised his hands. and
the officer grabbed him by the throat.
When the other officers arrived, he was
searched and found to have $3.50 in
money. and watch on him, and no
weapons. 49, =. - !
At the police station the arrested
man gave his name as Felix Cariyon.
When arraigned in policre court he
caarnad 10 I'd 8
what was going on. When the charge
OF burglary was read, difficulty was
experienced in making him under
stand. He finally said, mot guilty."
Carivon is a heavy, thickset man,
about 90 years of age, and looks like a
workingman rather than a burglar. A
Standard reporter had a little talk with
him before he was taken back to Jail
When asked what he entered the house
for, he seemed greatly surprised, and
said he didn't know he was in any
house. He was still stupid with LIQUOR
and his breath seemed as though he
had celebrated four New Years DAYS
all in one. He said he had been out
all night. and had nearly frozen to
death. He said he was a shoemaker by
trade, and worked in a shoe shop in
East Broadway between Main and wy
oming.
The Standard reporter then went to
Jack VOLTS shoe shop at No., So East
Broadway
Yes, 1 know the Frenchman," said
Mr.. Wolf. He wouldn't. harm any,
thing. He works for me, but hasn't
shown up to-day. He sleeps in the shoe
shop, but din't sleep here last night.
He was here up to o'clock last even
ing. and hadn't drank drop up TO that
time. He is as steady and honest an
OLD man as L ever met. If he got into |
&c kok.,
what he was doing. He has worked |
for me about three weeks, and came |
here from Salt Lake He used to have
shoe shop of his own there. He /
never would drink anything. have
several times asked him to have a glass
OF beer. but he always refused, saving
that ever since his wife died he lost his
head when he began drinking, and
didn't know what he was doing. He
must have started drinking late last
evening and kept IL up all night and
got crazy. l VIII swear that that old
fellow would never try to commit bur-
glary or anything else. He had con-
siderable money when he left here"
City Detective Meiklejohn said: THE
fellow doesn't look TO me like a bur-
glar. He looks like good working
man. He evidently got drunk and
wandered in there scarcely knowing
what he was doing"
Andy Davis says that some man
Knocked at his door about 4:3O O'clock
yesterday morning, and on his asking
what he wanted. the man said he was
freezing TO death and wanted TO get
warm. Mr.. Davis told him to clear out.
johnnie Gillie says a man visited his
place also early in the morning. but
was frightened away. II seems ifkelv
that the shoemaker, drinking until he
lost mis- senses, wandered across the
gulch, nearly froze to death. as he sail.
and startled the residents of the west
end IL is not surprising that me w.
men should have been much frirhtenea
at the intrusion of the drunken man
as tramps and hoboes have performed
so many unlawful acts in that seetien
lately as to terrorize the women. Nv