The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20
ARRESTED IN SPOKANE
Recent Butte CRATER Lands in
Washington City Jail.
SELLING FAKE ARTICLES
Deaf Mute Who Worked His Game in
Butte Is Up Against the Real
Thing-A Gang OF Pro-
fessional Beggars.


good graft in Butte few weeks ago
is up against it in Spokane, according
to the following from the Chronicle:
gang of professional beggars be-
gan to work the town early this week
Yesterday morning two of the gang
We're taken to the city limits and told
to move onward. They did So This
morning two more were let out Of Jail
on condition that they leave town at
once. They promised they would.
The two men arrested Tues lay night
were William knight and H. Muir
ray. They were cripples Each was
suffering from an injury to the right
foot and each carried a heavy cane.
They were just beginning to work their
little game and had secured only Ii
cents when they were taken to the
station, booked as vags, and run out
OF town yesterday.
Last evening the mauaeer Of Nato
torium park telephoned to the police
that man and a deaf and dumb boy
were selling some fake article at the
park and that they had been begging.
o1ncer Brusch went to the park and
placed the fellows under arrest At the
police station the man gave his name
as Charles Johnson, and the boy wrote
ms out on piece of paper as Willie
Black. Both had tickets from a local
employment agency and claimed that
they were intending to leave town this
morning to go to work at the Cascade
tunnel.
johnson said he had come here only
two or three days ago and that he net
the boy at Hope, Idaho.
Woo
carried on with the boy by means of
paper and pencil, the young fellow
seeming to be particularly bright for
one suffering from his affection:
How old are you?"
'Pll be II the 29th day of August"
Where do you live?''
Il have come from the Colorado
Springs institution. l am going to Sc
attic, where I have a sister"
How long have you known this man
you are wi.h?"
Il saw him up in the Cleveland lodg-
ing house"
How many days ago did you meet
him."
Il saw him last eve. also saw him
in Missoula and Sand Point"
The police We're satisfied that the
two were working together as graft
ers' and locked them up as vags. This
morning they We're released in time
to take the train to Cascade tunnel,
where their tickets showed that they
were to have employment.
That the two who were taken in last
night were connected with the two
cripples who were vagged the night
before was indicated by the following
words written on a sheet Of paper from
the tablet carried by the deaf boy. and
which was found in one of his pockets
crumpled up and partly scratched cut:
1.-THE - mot legible) tagged me
again.
He's all right.
Shorty and the other Grip got pulled.
Got let 60"
different from the lads, evidently hav-
ing been communicated to him by his
companion, Johnson.
In Charles Johnson's pockets beth
powdered and gum opium were found.
He also had SIS in silver. In searching
the lads pockets the principal articles
found We're a New Testament, a dec
of playing cards and a piece of soap
carefully wrapped up in a handker-
chief. He had $1.06 in dimes, nickels
and pennies. In a small grip which
he carried was found a package of
powder and some envelopes on which
was stamped the following:
Everlasting perfume and moth pow
der.
Kind strangers: Having lost my
speech and hearing through sickness,
l ana trying to sell the enclosed pack
age of Lavender Flour.
Price: Give me what you can. Re
specially submitted,
WILLIE BLACK"