The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-03
THEY DENY THE CHARGE
Putty and Nolan Protest Their
Innocence.
LOOKS BELLE THEIR CLAIM
Putty Admits That He Killed a Man in
Texas-Has Two Bullet Wounds
on His Body-Tryng to
Prove an Alibi.
Special Dispatch to the Standard.


Helena, July 2.-Deputy United
States Marshals Meiklejohn and Hall
arrived from Butte late last night.
bringing Dave Putty and Bud Nolan,
the two suspects arrested in Beaver
head county and held to the United
States circuit court by the commission
er at Butte. They were locked up in
the county Jail until they are taken be-
fore Judge Knowles July 6, when the
district attorney will apply for a war
rant of removal.
Both of course deny any connection
with the Union Pacific train robbery,
They talked freely to the Standard re-
porter. Putty says he is 90, while No
Ian claims to be 2G. Both were rather
surprised when told of the message
from Marshal Grant of Texas, saving
they were bad men and had been in
number of scrapes. Putty admits he
killed a deputy marshal at Paris. Tex.
He says the officer attempted to ar
rest him without warrant and he
resisted. killing the officer, whose name
was Thurlow. He was captured for
this after being shot BY Deputy Mar
Shal Barnes, who made the arrest Af-
ter lying three years in jail waiting
trial. he was tried and acquitted. Soon
afterwards he was arrested on
charge of horse stealing. He claims to
have put up bonds of $500 to appear for
trial when wanted, but left the state
before being tried. He says if taken
back to Texas he can secure an acuuit-
tai
Nolan admits that he is also wanted
elsewhere for jumping his bail He
was under bonds for selling malt liquor
on an Indian reservation in the Indian
territory.
Both are hard-loOking individuals,
and despite their protestations of inno-
cence, their looks belle their claims
Putty has the scars of two bullet
wounds and knife wound on his body.
Both admit they were in wyoming
when the train robbery occurred bu1
claim they We're a hundred miles away
They say they left Omaha together
May 20 to work on the Union Pacific.
On the train coming out We're two other
men who We're also going to work for
the company. They did not want to
come as far West as their passes read,
and succeeded in exchanging passes
with Nolan and Putty. The latter took
the names of the parties on the passes
and worked under those names for sew
eral days for a railroad contractor by
the name of Ferguson at Painted Rock
Wyo. One night, While at supper in the
grading camp, they heard of the train
robbery at Wilcox, June 2, one hundred
miles distant Shortly afterwards they
went to Idaho, and then to Medicine
Lodge creek, BeaVerhead county, where
arrested. They claim they can easily
prove an albi by the testimony of Fer
guson, the contractor, and will do so
whenever their cases come to trial in
Wyoming.
IT.,
against them is a similarity of the
brand of powder used at Fergusons
grading camp and some of the uneX-
ploded sticks of giant powder found
near the wrecked train. 1t is said that
the government has even stronger ev-
idence against them, which Will not be
divulged until their cases come up for
trial in Cheyenne Both men very in
dignantly deny that they told Under
Sheriff Moore of Beaverhead county, as
has been reported, shortly after arrest
ing them, that if they had got hold of
their guns matters would have been diff
ferent mo, We never said anything
of the sort" said Putty to the Stand
ard representative. why, if we wanted
to get away we could have done SO
easily enough when they We're taking
us in a wagon from Medicine Lodge to
the railroad Why two of them fellers
sat in the wagon with their backs to-
wards us, and their guns stickin' out O
their belts, where we could have grab
bed them if We had wanted to. We
did not want to make any break cause
we knowed we were innocent and would
be cleared
The officers who were present during
the interview afterwards said they be-
leved the two men to be bad in every
sense of the word, and if not guilty of
the train robbery they We're mixed up
in some equally bad scrape.