Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-27

hope who was in charge was compelled
to shell out all the money he had with
him, at the point of two guns. The rob-
bers had anticipated a haul of Sc, 700, the
pay roll of the company the men sought
to rob. After the robbery was commit
ted and the perpetrators had escaped they
were looked upon as being ready to make
a desperate fight and the officers were
g! the trail ready to get the drop first.
An opportunity presented itself yesterday
AFTERNOON at 3 o'clock when Bert Hillman
was ~coVer at a meal in the Broiler
restaurant on East Commercial avenue.
While he was eating Deputy Sheriffs
w. L. Nixon and Lewis Bancroft of Idaho
and Policeman Ingalls, walked in on him
n with drawn guns ordered him to hold
up hGs hands which was complied with
without any hesitancy. The prisoner was
put in handcouffs, taken to the Jail and
searched. Hillman carried a gun. The
officers got the drop or him and he quiet
~ submitted to arrest. AS soon as he
was safe behind the bars the officers re
doubled their energies to locate the other
robber, Dan Hawkins, who was arrested
about midnight by Night Chief of Police
O'Brien and officer Stebbins in the abode
of May Williams, a resident of Main
Vile. Hlllman when searched at the Jail
had $54 on his person and Hawkins $3.50.
The latter is the bad man of the two.
His gun was out of repair and he assured
the officers who arrested him that this
was the only reason why he did not do
business with them. A few hours be-
fore arrested he made a gun play in a
Ma1nville saloon with his crippled re-
velver. The Lemhi county officers made
a record for themselves by following the
robbers over mountains and plains day
and night on horse back until they ran
them to earth in Anaconda, assisted by
the officers here. Hillman has expressed
a desire to return without requisition pa
pers. Hawkins is more stubborn.
Bert Hillman and Dan Hawkins, the
Gibbonsville hold-ups, will accompany
Deputy Sheriffs Louis Bancroft and w.
L. Nickson back to Idaho without requi-
sition papers. Hillman consented to do
so yesterday. Jail life has a}redy proven
a burden to them. Harkins, who was
drinking and c~arOusing since he struck
Anaconda. had an un%quenchable thirst
this morning and begged for a drink of
whisky, a luxury the prisoners are not
given except on specific occasions. He
so dry that he promised to return
with the officers if they would set 'em up
and the same was done.
The following telegram put the Ana
conda officers on the trail last Satur-
day:
"Divide, Mont, Nov. %, 1899.
Sheriff Conley:-
"Gibbonsville hold-ups left Lamarsh
at noon today for Anaconda in light de-
livery rig, Bill Calvert Of Lamarsh driv-
ing them. w. H. PUIE, Of Dillon
AS soon as this telegram was received
all of the officers turned out Mr.. Cal
vert was found and when shown the tele-
gram and given a description Of the men
n said they We're the parties and accom-
panied the officers on their long hunt over
Anaconda. Mr.. Calvert says the men
came to his place on foot. representing
themselves as farm hands who mad been
working in another part of the Big Hole
valley. In conversation With them he
spoke of coming to Anaconda in a few
lays and they offered and gave him S.
each to come in Saturday, as they We're
anxious to come, there being no more
work for them.
The officers searched saloon after
saloon and dozens Of boarding houses on
Saturday evening, but could not find
them. The boarding house of Peter Mar
ron on Commercial avenue a block west
of the city hall and county Jail was
where they stopped. to the surprise Of
Mr.. Marion, who afterwards found out
alleged highWaymen We're his guests.
Had Sheriff Conley received the telegram
from Deputy Sheriff Puie of Dillon earlier
n the evening he could have driven down
the valley and intercepted them on the
way in. Under some pretense the men
got out of the rig in the east end Of
Anaconda and then wandered up town.
Manager Hope of the mining
at Giboonsville. who was held IN, offered
reward Of 5000. to which Policeman
Percy ingalls, will lay claim to his share.
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