The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-20
CAPTURED THE THIEVES
Miller and Worden Charged
With Grand Larceny.
STOLE A BRASS PLUNGER
One Was Caught Dead to Rights in the
Act and the Other Was Appre-
hended by the Oflcsrs
Shortly Afterward.

Grand larceny is charged against
Joseph Miller and George Worden, two
men who were arrested yesterday
| morning for a somewhat unusual thfev-
| Ing undertaking. They attempted to
away with a heavy brass plunger from
the yards of the Butte & Boston Smelt-
ing company, got caught in the act and
one was captured on the spot and the
other apprehended few hours later
The brass plunger is valued at $1s7,
and 1t is supposed the purpose was to
sell 1t to a junk dealer or melt it up
and sell the brass. Another unusual
feature of the case is the fact that a
horse and wagon was stolen to carry
| away the plumber and an interesting
side Of the matter pertains to the cap
ture of Miller. who gave the arresting
officer the slip and had to be fired at
couple of times before he would quit
The first that came to .the attention
OF the police was when John Hipp ap-
peared at police headquarters at an
early hour and reported that some one
had gone into his barn at 5SS Colorado
street, hitched UP his horse to wagon
With which he gathers up junk, and
driven the outfit away
Not long afterwards Captain Waters,
Waterman at the Butte & Boston
smelter, appeared and asked assistance
to find one of two men he had caught
IN the act Of stealing brass pIunger
from the smelter yards. In giving his
account of what happened, Captain
waters said that during the night he
saw a horse and wagon driven into the
yards. He watched to see what was up
and saw two men begin loading the
plunger into the wagon. He waited till
they had it loaded and were about to
drive away, and then advancing with
gun In hand, ordered them to surren-
DER One of the men jumped and ran
ana he fired a couple of shots at him.
put ne got away. The other man sat
IN the wagon and submitted to arrest
Captain Waters drove his prisoner to
the county Jail and turned him and the
rig over to the sheriff.
captain Waters said he would know
the man who got away and officer Me-
G1i1c was detailed to go with him on a
search. They located the man in the
vicinity of Hips place, and Officer
McGillic arrested him. He was con
siderably under the influence of LIQUOR
ana on the way to Jail begged to be per-
m1tted to get drink. Officer McGillic
thought ne looked as though he needed
bracer and went with him into a sa-
loon on South Main street While the
man was getting his drink, some one
called the officer aside to sneak to him
ana the prisoner took advantage of the
opportunity. He dashed out Of the door
and the officer followed. calling him to
matt He did not obey and the officer
TOOK shot at his feet, which only
served to increase his speed and ran
up hallway leading upstairs over the
THOMAS grocery store. AS he went un
the stairs Officer McGillic again called
hf1f t1,or
again unheeded, and the officer getting
tired of the chase, fired another shot,
this time taking a little better aim.
Inc bullet flew dangerously close to the
fugitive and caused him to stop sud-
denly on the stairs.
WHAT do you want to shoot at an
honest workingman for?" he inquired
sullenly.
Officer McGillic nearly tainted, but
managed to reply with the interroga-
ton.
What did you want to run for?"
Ihe FELLOW replied, because I did not
want to get mixed up in trouble
He was taken to JAIL where he gave
the name of Joseph Miller, who. it
transpires, was arrested some time ago
for getting caught while attempting to
maui away stove from the place of a
secondhand dealer in Park street. At
that time he cleared himself by swear
ing he was an expressman and had
been hired to move the stove by a
party who claimed to have bought it.
captain Waters positively identified
Miller as the man who got away from
him at the smelter yards
Worden told the same kind of a story |
Miller did on the former occasion, that |
ne was merely a hired man. He said |
ne had been sitting in the Klondike
saloon the night before, when a man
he did not know came in and ;nn,,irol i
OF the bartender if he knew of a man |
VINO wanted to earn dollar He said |
ne was hard up and jumped at the
rhance. The man had said he wanted |
assistance to load some junk and he |
went with him to help him, not know
ing 1t was stealing undertaking. Both |
men We're held for grand larceny
1t transpired that the horse and
wagon Captain Waters captured was
the rig stolen from Hipp.
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