The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-15
WERE TOO SUSPICIOUS
How the Train Robbers Were
Captured at Dillon.
II WAS THEIR UNDOlNG
Wore Their Guns All the Time, but at
Critical Moment When the OH
GERS Came They Were
Unarmed.

Sheriff Pile of Beaverhead county,
whose deputies captured Bud Nolan
and Dave Putty. the two Union Pacific
train robbers who were caught near
Dillon and who have just been taken
back ito Wyoming for trial.. was in the
city yesterday. Sheriff Pile gives an
interesting account of the circum-
stances leading up to and attending the
capture of the two men, bringing out
some new points which have not hith-
erto been related.
1.-THE two robbers owe their capture
said Sheriff Pile, "to too much caution
on their part up to the day of their ar
rest and to a lack of it on that par
ticular day. They were working for a
rancher at Medicine Lodge named T. B.
Craver. They came to Craver's place
afoot and asked for work He hired
them and put them to work 1t struck
him as mighty singular that they wore
their guns constantly, but he did not
give the matter any very serious
thought till one day they poked their
guns in his face The men slept in an
outbuilding, and one morning they
oversight and were not up when it
came time to go to work. Craver con-
cluded to go and call them, and did so.
he pounded on the door and had his
breath taken away a second later when
the door opened and the two men stood
there, each with gun pointed at him.
They evidently thought it was an Off
Ger knocking on the door and were
plainly confused when they saw it was
only their employer. Thew apologized
and made some lame excuse and Cra-
yer, who is pretty nervy man himself,
did not let them know his suspicious
had been aroused. He appeared to take
the incident with so little concern that
he completely disarmed their suspic-
ions, but he knew very well they wore
their guns all the time, and from this
circumstance he knew they were men
who had done something wrong and
that they were looking for officers all
the time.
''Crayer, at the first opportunity, sent
In word that he had a couple of sus-
picious ehara cters at his place. l was
away at the time and the under sheriff
Bob Moore. soon got his party ready
and went out. They suspected they
were going after some of the train rob
hers and were prepared for fight, but
good luck favored them. For the first
time since they had been at the ranch
the fellows went to work unarmed and
at their mercy. No trouble was expe-
rienced in making the arrest, as there
was no show to make a fight which
they undoubtedly would have done if
they had their guns"
Sheriff Pile stated that Under Sheriff
Moore and the men who were with him
will divide $1,000 for making the cap
ture, that being the amount of the re-
ward offered for the two robbers.
Sheriff Pile tells of an attempted jail
break at the Beaverhead county Jail at
Dillon last Sunday which came very
near being successful. w. H. Gordon,
a counterfeiter who is supposed to
have made the dies from which the
Schrickengost counterfeit dollars were
made and who was captured while at
work on a set of dies, is held at the
Dillon Jail awaiting trial. He has
very small hand, which enabled him to
reach through the grating and saw the
lock on the door of the main corridor
with a saw some one had passed in to
him. He had the job completed when
the trick was discovered.