The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-02
.STAYBERG WAS HELD UP
Sandbaggsd and Robbed on South
Main Street.
FIRST OF THE SEASON
The Highwaymen's Victim Was Shock
ingly Maltreated - His Head a
Mass Of Bruises-A Long
Time Unconscious.

John Stayberg lies on a bed of pain in
his apartments at 745 South Main
street, his head mass of bruises and
gashes, as the result of the Inauguration
Of the holdup season Saturday night.
To obtain the two or three dollars he
had in his pockets, footpads sandbagged
Stayberg and, while he lay unconscious,
maltreated him in a shocking manner
His lips are swollen until they are at
least an inch thick, there is a nasty
cash two inches long under his right
eye, and there is scarcely a spot one
could touch on his whole physiognomy
that is not cut or bruised and terribly
swollen. 1t was the first holdup of the
season-in fact. the first reported TO the
police for nearly a year--and Stayberg' S
treatment was somewhat of a new de-
parture in the ho1dup line here. 1t has
not been the rule for highwaymen who
have operated here to ill-treat their VIC
Tins so scandalously. If this is the line
the fall of '99 holdups has mapped out
citizens who have occasion to be out af-
ter night will deyoutly hope that they
may steer clear of them.
The holdup occurred almost IN the
heart of the business center, at the
Stayberg lay unconscious for about two
hours. He does not know just where,
but he supposes in the street, yet no
police officer came to his assistance,
and so far as known the department
knew nothing about it until a friend
reported the case to headquarters yes
terday afternoon.
Stayberg is young man who arrived
in the city few days ago in search of
employment. With his young wife he
took rooms at 745 South Main street.
He attended the performance at the
opera house Saturday evening and
started for home Immediately after the
show. He went down Main street and
when just below Galena he received a
blow from behind, which rendered him
unconscious. He knows nothing of
what occurred after that beyond what
his condition tells him must have taken
place, though he thinks that at one time
he had a dim consciousness OF being
carried. He thinks he was on the street
when he came to and recovered con-
seriousness sufficiently to find his way
home. He was covered with blood from
head to foot when he reached there,
and his wife was nearly frightened into
spasms when she heneld his sorry
plight A physician was at once sum-
moned to dress his injuries, and yes
terday he was resting easily, though he
still suffered from conclusion from the
effects of the sandbagging and his In
juries gave him most excruciating pain.
Stayberg was fortunate in one thing.
He only had between 81 and So with him
at the time. The footpads took that,
even to the last nickel. ....
An acquaintance Of Stayberg's report
ed the matter to the police yesterday
afternoon, but as Stayberg did not see
his assailants there is nothing to work
on. The fact that Stayberg thinks he
felt himself being carried leads to the
supposition that he was carried off from
Main street and left, but he feels sure
he was on Main street when he came to
between l and 2 o'clock in the morning
and found his way home. Still, he is
not certain, as his mind was still much
clouded, and he can recall nothing with
any certainty.