The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-01
MILK MAN Was Hello UP
HE WAITED TILL MORNING
Tho Highwaymen Got Away With Sixty
Three Dollas-They Held HIM Up
With Guns on the B.. A. q
p. Tracks.

1t transpires that william Witty
was not the only one of Butte's citi-
zens who looked down the muzzle of a
gun Tuesday night and in obedience TO
h command OF the festive highway
man, elevated his hands and gave up
his money. though with reluctance to
part with IL. without a murmur in pro-
test. b. Bernard. the milk man. had
nearly the same experience as Brick
layer Witty, and lost nearly the same
amount of money. He was held up by
two masked men and separated from
$63 on the B., A. a p. tracks. just west
OF Montana street. early Tuesday even
ing, but the matter was not reported
till yesterday. as Bernard vas too thor
oughly frightened by the experience to
come back up town and inform the po-
lice and took the advice Of the hold-ups.
not to turn back. and went home and
waited till morning to report the rob-
berry.
Bernard is Interested In a milk rancn.
which Ii located just north of Silver
Bow, but he lives in town and has the
milk brought to his home here. from
whence the delivery wagon are sent
on their various routes about the city.
III to"h a - fto tht -
mine. on the west side. and In going
home afoot from uptown. he is in the
habit of proceeding down Montana
street to the b.. A. a. p. tracks. where
he turns west and follows the track
to his home.
Bernard had been uptown Tuesday
evening collecting. He had s63 I'm his
possession. which he had collected,
when he started home b. 3 o'clock.
Az naIal ba fp0k the rotfa dpxp Mon
tsna street out the b.. A. & p.
tracks. He had become so accustomed
to going over the route without being
interferrec with. that the thought OF
being held up was very remote from
his mind and he went along heedlessly.
thinking only of business matters. As
he turned down the railroad track he
a TO pass a humble OF box cars
standing on a siding. Suddenly his
mental calculations of his profits of the
month just ended were rudely inter-
rupted by two men who stepped out
from behind the cars. Before he could
recover from his surprise at seeing the
men so close In front OF him. he was
gazing down the barrels of a brace of
guns. which, in the moonlight. looked
to the startled milkman like a pair of
cannon.
Bernard's hand went up very readily
in compliance with a command of one
Of the men. and while the spokesman
held Bernard covered. his companion
in crime proceeded to reduce the milk
mans November profits by depriving
him of the 1853 he had collected. The
Job done. Bernard vas gruffiy ordered
to move on and not turn back, n he
obeyed. He did not care to take a
chance of meeting the highwaymen
again by going to the police. so he ven
home and contented himself with re-
porting his loss to Chief Mulholland
in the morning. Bernard told Chief
Mulholland that both men wore masks
and gave as good a description of them
as he could. but that was very indefi-
mite. officers were detailed to work on
the case. but there is little hope of pap
turing the hold-ups. The police are al
so working on the Witty hold-up. hut
with equally little hope OF success.
1t has been a long time since hold
ups have been as frequent as Of late
and the officers are straining every eff
fort to put a stop to IL. Fro the fact
that when persons are held up they
are generally too frightened or too bad
~ ratified to be able to remember the
exact appearance OF the highwaymen
IL is a difficult matter to catch them
and about all the police can do is to
rid the city of questionable characters.
which they are ~endeavoring to do. arc
during the last few days a large num-
Der OF vags and suspicious appearing
characters have been arrested, who will
be run out of town.