The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-29
SKIPPED WITH THE CASH
A Dishwasher Makes a Shady
Haul From the Yukon.
TILL AND MONEY NABBED
The Young Man Decamps and officers
Capture Him in Butte = His
Work Is Very Bold,
but Coarse

An energetic but dishonest dishwasher
endeavored to make a cleanup on the
Yukon without joining in the stampede
to Alaska. He did his work in way
not adopted by the Industrious and
daring seekers of hidden wealth. Early
Sunday morning, a dishwasher en-
ployed in the Yukon restaurant on
Main street. stole the cash box of the
house and decamped in a hurry with
$50 belonging to the proprietor of the
eating house. He is a young fellow
named Claude Weymer and announce
ment of his act was not published be-
fore in the hope that suppression of
the news would aid the officers in their
search for the thief.
Mrs. Webbing, wife of the proprietor,
took the till containing the amount
stated into the kitchen, intending to
take it to a place of safe deposit.
When her back was turned the culprit
grabbed the box and skipped out the
back door. The case was given to the
police, who worked on it until yester-
day. when the man was arrested in
Butte.
officer Frank O'Brien returned late
last night from Butte with young Wey-
mire and another young man named
Frank Hill, who appears to be equally
guilty with Weymire. The boys We're
locked up in Jail and young Weymire
to his share in the robbery, and his
story was told to the police in a
straightforward manner which gives 1t
a semblance of truth.
He told the story of the ROBBERY
substantially as related above except
that he implicated Hill, who, he said,
had been on the outside of the restau-
rant and urged him on. He said that
he had at first only intended taking 81
from the money-box, but that Hill,
who was at the window, told him to
take the whole thing and he did so.
After securing the box containing the
money the two boys hit the b., A. & T.
railroad track for Butte. They walked
the entire distance and arrived at noon.
Weymire fitted himself out with new
suit of clothes. and these he had on
when found. Very little money was
found on either of them.
The story of the chase and capture of
these two youngsters is one in which
Officer O'Brien a~serves the greatest
credit AS soon as the robbery was
reported to him he suspected that Wey-
mire, whom he at that time supposed
to be the only person implicated in it,
had gone to Butte with the swaS.
OBrien got on his citizens clothes and
took the paper train for that city. He
searched Butte high and low all day
Monday and all of Monday night, lodg-
ing houses, saloons and other resorts.
Finally, yesterday morning, he was
told that Weymre had a sweetheart at
Woodville, and he determined to watch
the Montana Central trains for that
place closely. With this end in view he
dropped into a restaurant near the
depot and made few casual inquiries.
He was in luck, for he was Informed
that the man he described had been at
the restaurant. and that he made his
headquarters at a certain shooting gal
lery, but that he would surely come
back to the restaurant again. OBrien
solicited the services of officer James
to watch the shooting gallery while he
himself kept the restaurant covered.
Weymire and Hill showed up at the
shooting gallery early yesterday morn
ing, and Mr.. James took them along.
Since leaving Anaconda 0'Brien has
had but four hours sleep, and had it
not been for his stubborn vigilance and
determination to have his man, the
two would at this time likely have had
several hundred miles between them
and Anaconda.