The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-12
ARNOlD'S LITTLE FAIRY TALE,
Dragged at the California Brewery, He
Woke Tn ut Logan

JONI Afnolo VINO brought misery to his
family by disappearing Saturday under
circumstances which led to the belief that
he had committed suicide turned up last
evening with an interesting fairy story to
account for his having absented himself
Police headquarters were notified early
last evening that Arnold had come to life,
and as the informant of the police said
he accounted for his absence by the fact
that he had been drugged and robbed
Sergeant McGrath started out to investi-
gate He found Arnold was at the house
OF John HI. Flanagan. on the Nine Mile
road, and went there. Flanagan told him
Arnold had left his house to go home and
Sergeant. McGrath went to the Arnold
home at 1881 Utah avenue. only to find
Arnold was still at Flannigans. Sergeant
McGrath being somewhat nettled to think
he had been deliberately misled, nasmuch
as the case was one for police investiga-
! ton If the man had really been drugged
| and robbed. determined on seeing Arnold
and went back to Flannigan's, where he
found Arnold had this time really left
about 10 minutes before.
| 1t appears thai Arnold had gone to
F1annigan's butcher shop at South Butte,
Flanagan being friend and had told
! him he did not like to go home in daylight
Flanagan accordingly took him to his
home and, returning for Mrs. Arnold
kept the two at his house till dark and
then drove them home in his wagon. Ser
geant McGrath could not understand the
occasion for so much mystery and retrac-
ing his steps went again to Arnolds
house, where he a last found Arnold who
gave this account of his disappearance:
He said he went into the California
brewery Saturday afternoon about 3
o'clock with a friend named Vrooman and
got glass of beer From that time his
| mind was blank till the following morn
| ing, when he came to and found himself
| in box car at Logan. He was awakened
| by the Logan station agent who asked him
| if he knew where he was. He replied
| Butte" whereupon he was Informed he
was at Logan and was invited in to have
| something to eat.
"All of which was just like a station
| agent on finding a man in a box car
| commented Sergeant McGrath in retelling
| the story.
Continuing. Arnold tod Sergeant Nc
Grath he had walked all the way in from
| Logan, arriving last evening just before
| dark, without having had anything to eat
since leaving Logan, more than two days
| ago. He repeated what Sergeant Nc
| Grath had already learned about his GO
| ing to Flanagan and telling him he did
not want to go home in daylight, which
| led the officer to inquire what he had to
| fear in going home in daylight. and to
which Arnold had no answer to make.
Arnold told Sergeant McGrath that he
| positively took nothing to drink except
| the one glass of beer and that from the
| fact that he became Immediately uncon-
| scious and he was minus his watch and
money when he came to his senses at
Logan. he had concluded he had been
drugged and robbed.
So improbable a thing as that a man
could be drugged into insensibility in SO
| public a place as the California brewery
in broad daylight and carried off and put
| in box car without any one being the
wiser. led Sergeant McGrath to make fur
| Their inquiries in which he elected the con-
| fession from Arnold that whereas he told
his wife when he left home Saturday noon
| that he was going to the Parrot Smelter
| to draw his pay, he had already drawn it
a week previously and had it concealed
about his clothes Sergeant McGrath also
learned that Arnold had mortgaged the
| piano for $50 without his wfe's knowl-
| edge. From the fact that Arnold did not
appear to be at all unbalanced mentally
| and from all the circumstances, Sergeant
! McGrath came to the conclusion, which
| he did not hesitate to express. that Ar
| mold had either got drunk and spent his
| money or had gambled it away and in
vented the disappearance scheme be-
| cause he was ashamed to go home and
face his family, or, if neither of these
were the case, that there was some motive
| behind the scheme.
| Whether or not Mrs. Arnold had a pre-
moniton that her husband was about to
| turn up is not known, but she appeared
at police headquarters yesterday and in
| formed Chief Mulholand that she had
reached the conclusion her husband had
not committed suicide, but that she be-
lieved he had gone away to hunt work.
There is an inscrutable mystery sur
rounding the whole affair which the police
| will endeavor to fath0m