Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-20
THE BARTLETT
BURGLARY
It Would Puzzle the Brain of a
Sherlock Holmes.
$4,000 IN CASH WAS TAKEN
It Was Cached Between Mattresses and
Was Easy Money For
the Burglar

The enterprising burglar made a rich
maui last night. The home of Fred A..
Bartlett was entered early last evening
and $4,000 and two valuable rings, be-
longing to Mr.. Bartlett, were taken. Mr..
and Mrs Bartlett were absent at the
time, but arrived at their home, accom-
panied by Sam Lipscomb, a friend If the
family, in time to witness the escape of
the burglar n to send several shots
after him as he speeded out into the
darkness and liberty. The shots served
to bring out the neighbors and 70 notify
Officers Shea and McGiynn of the trouble,
ana although the search for the fugitive
hOusebreaker was at once instituted and
kept up with vigilance he is still at large
and the sleuth hounds of the law are
~non-plussed.
Mr.. Bartlett, his wife and friend ar
rived at their home about $50 last even
ing, after a visit to the Grand opera house
to purchase tickets. Before going out
Mr.. Bartlett had placed the none and
rings between the mattresses of a bed in
his bedroom. On their return they were
surprised to find the place brilliantly
lighted, and through the windows of the
second story they could plainly see the
shadow of a man as he moved abtut the
room. Mr.. Bartlett asked LipscOmb to
go upstairs and get a revolver. The two
/ men entered the house about the same
time, leaving Mrs. Bartlett on the porch.
The burglar in the meantime had taken
alarm and had descended to the kitchen
by a back stairway n was making a
frantic effort to escape. BY the time
Lipscomb returned with the gun the
burglar was in the back yard, and the
two men ran after him into the alley,
Lipscomb firing several shots as he ran.
An examination of the premises dis
closed the fact that the kitchen door had
been broken open with a hamme or AK
or some such instrument.
Mr.. Bartlett states that the burglar
fired one shot while he was yet in the
building, but the officers carefully in
spected the premises and failed to find
the mark of a bullet.
The officers say the burglar could 4Aot
have escaped at the east end of the alley
for the reason that Officer McGlynn was
stationed there to intercept him; Ohlcel
Shea was at the west end, and he could
not have gone out that a and his es-
cape across the lots between the alley and
Park street was out of the question:, FOR
the reason that the ~neighbors, Thoroughly
alarmed by the pistol shots, were Watch-
ing for Just such an occurrence. IL is d
Mystery that would give the gray matter
of q Sherlock Holmes NlOlell COW u
short time ago Bartlett took the pre-
En,inarv stems in the United States court
leading to voluntary bankruptcy. At the
meeting of his creditors he stated that
his assets amounted to but 5000, In DOCK
aooo,,nts He said he had sold his bust
noss to Ras Rochester who paid him
s6. 600. He was indebted to his wife to the
extent of SIS, 900 for money loaned MN
with which to conduct his business. he
paid her out of the money received from
Rochester. He also paid a $500 indebted
ness, which left nothing but the $2oo IN
accounts with which to satisfy MS creoi-
tors. The creditors have in the mean
time been endeavoring to get possession
of the money paid to Bartlett by Roches-
ter. .,
In the United States court at Helena
last week an order was made TO tne elec'
that Bartlett he enjoined from dlsposlhe
of anv property until the further oroel
of the court, and that Mrs. Bartlett DC
on TONED from %disposing of a ceraln Ger
tiGcate of deposit for $1,770, issued rep
r,,arv 6, 1899, and that Abe Mackel ne
annointed receiver in bankruptcy MS
bond being placed at So'ooo'