Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-12
Arnold is in the Bosom of His
Family.
TELLS A STRANGE STORY
FOUND HimS elf in a Box Car at Logan
Monday and Walked Back
to Butte.

>. II. Arnold. the man who is supposed
TO have disappeared last Saturday, and
the mystery of whose absorption by the
atmosphere gave the sleuths of the city
endless trouble and his wife untold
anxiety, was found last night, or rather,
found himself, and the strange story that
ne tells is not unlike the cashing of a hop
dream. AT the time of Arnold's disap-
pearance he a some money in a Butte
bank, about $3.50, $66 coming to him from
the Parrot company, and a gold watch
and chain. The money and jewelry are
: gone and Arnold cannot account for
their disappearance, and it seems that
even at the time he represented to his
wife that he was going to the Parrot
office to draw his pay he had nothing
coming to him, and he had drawn the
money and squandered it several DAYS
before. 1t is very evident that Arnold
has a bad case of wheels or he and
Truth are not on speaking terms.
The police have been tireless in their
efforts to find the mar who lost and
found himself. They have hunted every
nook and corner of the city over. They
have delved deep into the prospect holes
and abandoned shafts, and at the bottom
OF every one have been agreeably sur
prlsed IN not finding the mangled re-
mains of the man they We're looking for.
1hey have been Spurred on by the tear
full anguish of Mrs. Arnold, who has
made the police station her Headquarters
since the disappearance of her husband
In consequence the officers are inclined
to believe that back of the disappearance
and the 2hSOrnfinn of tho n,nnnxy ic q
reason of some kind which Mr.. Arnold
does not care to talk about.
At 1870 last night a telephone message
was received at the city Jail, announcing
that Arnold had been found. Sergeant
McGrath and Detective Rey left immedi-
ately for Arnold's house, and on arriving
there found only the children at home.
The officers were told by the children
that their mother had gone to a MI.
F~1annagan's to meet their father. They
went to Flannagan's place and there
learned that Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold had
gone home. After considerable fitting
to and fro they finally managed to locate
Arnold, who did not want to meet them,
and his story was as follows:
He said he came up town Saturday
afternoon, and with a friend went into
the California brewery and drank a glass
of beer, the first he had touched in 26
years. He remembered going out of the
place at the broadway entrance ana from
that time his mind was a blank until he
aWoke a few days later in a box car at
Logan. When he left his home he had
$50 and a gold watch and chain on his
person, but When reason came to him,
miles to the east of Butte, his money and
his watch had disappeared. He had a
talk with the Logan station agent, who
invited him to partake of a meal. the
only meal he remembers eating from
Saturday noon until Tuesday night. This
meal was p~artaken of Monday morning,
and when it was finished he started for
Butte, walking the entire distance. he
went to Flannagan's place because he
was ashamed to go home until dark, on
account of the neighbors, who probably
knew of his disappearance. At any rate
he is once more in the bosom of his
family.
DE, Riuchart. dentist. HennessX block.