The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-16
REVENGE OF AN ARMY GIRL.
Causes the Arrest of a Kansas Methodist
Episcopal Minister.

A Salvation Army girl is responsible
for the arrest and conviction of Meth
odist Episcopal minister in Wichita
Kan. The preachers name is fuller
Rhoades and before running away
from home five years ago, he was
known everywhere throughout Wichita
as quiet. respectable fellow, the son
of wealthy and influential parents
For five years nothing was known Of
his existence, but early last month he
returned. and to the great surprise Of
all of his former associates, he proved
himself to be a regularly ordained
Methodist Episcopal minister of the
gospel. To-day he stands an accused
and confessed outlaw, with record
worthy of most any desperate who
preys on the lives and property of 9TH
ers in the far West.
The ceaseless bounding of a revenge
full woman, a Salvation Army lassie,
brought the outlaw preacher to bay
1t last.
At the time of his arrest the after
noon of Nov. IS, Rhoades, dressed in
the familiar garb of a Methodist min
lister, was preaching on one of the
main streets of Wichita.
Humiliatedly the divine followed the
officer. When the warrant upon which
he was arrested was read to him he
broke down and sobbed. He was
charged with being an outlaw, and spe-
cific deeds which he had committed
We're set forth.
He was dumb for while, but soon
after he had been incarcerated in the
county Jail he made clean breast of
it. He confessed that he was guilty
of the charges made against him. He
had hoped by the good he might do
in the ministry to atone for the evil
he had done as an outlaw. But he had
been found out and was a wretched,
ruined man.
A few days before his arrest Rhoades
had come to Wichita from South Da
kota. He told his parents and all his
friends that he had come from New
York, where he had been studying for
the ministry during his five years alb
sence, and had just recently been Or
dained.
He had not been in New York at al
so far as can be ascertained When he
ran away from home he went direct
to the wilds of the West and became
! member of one of the worst gangs
of outlaws that ever rode over the In
dian territory. 1t became known as
the Williams gang. Bill Williams
| was it's leader for nearly three years
and bill" Williams was none other
than fuller Rhoades,
Eventually the gang was broken up
and the leader fled to Jamestown S.
| D. There he became repentant one
| night while listening to the appeals Of
| the local Salvation Army. He yielded.
| joined the army and became as earnest
| a Christian worker as he had been a
| desperate outlaw.
! In the jamestown band of Salvation
| lists at that time was a young lady.
Irene Anderson, Who aspired to the
! leadership. So piqued was she at
| Rhoades' promotion over her that she
! left the army and started out in search
of evidence against him that might
blacken his character.
Back to the Williams gang she traced
| him and after she had succeeded in
getting nearly his entire record as an
outlaw the revengeful woman returned
to jamestown.
Rhoades had gone. Bound to run
him down, she followed on his trail.
and after a long search she located
him in this city. In the meantime he
had Joined the Methodist church and
| became a regular minister
1t was Irene Anderson who notified
the officers and swore out the warrant
for his arrest She is assisting the
| prosecution in every way she can.