The Anaconda standard., 1899-02-01

knew Roe and says now that he feels
sure that it was Roe's voice that com
manded him to hand out.
There is most peculiar phase of the
hold-up. When the b1oodhounds were
brought up from Deer Lodge and let
loose at the station, the animals seemed
to take the trail at once. They ran
along the railroad track for a distance
of $50 or 200 feet, when they suddenly
swerved into a grove of trees, where
large crowd of people was congregated,
excited by the sensational news of the
hold-up. The dogs broke into the midst
of this crowd, sat on their launches
and howled. This was taken by the
persons in charge of the hounds as an
indication hat the animals had lost the
trail and were bewildered. They were
tried again with the same result.
1t is now believed by the officers
that the man who did the job was in
the crowd at the time the dogs broke
into it and that they yelped in his face.
In fact, it is said that one of the spec
tators at the time remarked some
thing about the robber being right
there in that crowd. It is generally be-
lieved that Roe formed one of the par
ty, but suoh is not stated positively
by any one who was present. If Roe
really is the robber and he was in the
crowd it is an indication that the dogs
We're far wiser than their masters.
Roe was engaged at the springs in
the asylum in putting in some laun-
dry machinery. He is said to have
been an expert at that business When
he had finished the job he asked DIR.
Warren, one of the asylum physicians.
for a letter of recommendation with
reference to the satisfactory operation
of the machinery. DR.. Warren prom
ised to give it to him, but did not do
so before Roe left town. A short time
after Roe's departure DR.. Warren re-
ceived a letter from Roe saying that
he left Warm Springs suddenly and
did not have time to get the letter, and
requested the doctor to send it to
him.
1t is not known whether Roe will
be brought directly back to Anaconda
by Detective Hunt or whether he will
be first taken to ST. Paul. AT any rate,
he will doubtless be returned here in
the course of a week. 1t is believed
here that Detective Hunts failure to
arrest Roe at once upon his arrival
at Lincoln week ago is due to his
desire to obtain some evidence that
will connect Roe with the robbery,
such as the exhibition or expenditure
hibition of the revolver. Whether
Hunt has obtained any such informa-
tion is not known.
Thus it appears that Sheriff Conley,
despite all his work. and the vigilance
of his deputies on the night Of the
robbery, could not have caught the
robber, if Roe really is the man, no
matter how closely they watched the
approaches to the valley, and they
might have watched till doom's day, for
their man was right at Warm Springs
all the time
1t is curious fact that on the night
of Saturday, Jan. IA, there We're three
crimes committed in this vicinity. The
first was the hold-up at Warm Springs,
the second was the murder of Robert
Hamilton and the third was the hold
up of Gus Peterson and Shorty"
Clark. If Roe proves to be the man
responsible for the Warm Springs hold
up, there is only one more of the mys-
teries of the night remaining unsolved
the hold-up of Peterson. Sheriff Con-
ley has caught men wanted for crime
as long as three years after the COM
mission of the crime. Perhaps Peter
sons and Clark's assailants are not
so very far away from the bars right
now.
Antlers at Montana laundry.