The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-16
ANACONDA NEWS.
LONG CHASE IS At AN END
Men Charged With Murder of
Cullinam Are Captured.
STOLEN WATCH FOUND
Its Presence in Their Baggage a Silent
Witness Against the Two Fug.-
tives Capture Effected in
Gallatin County.
STOLEN WATCH FOUND

When Clinton Dotson and Oliver Ben
son were captured yesterday afternoon
al $3.50 o'clock short distance south of
Central Park, in Gallatin county, the
peace officers of all Montana gave
praise.
1t is believed the two men are the
ones who murdered old Eugene Guilt
nam, pioneer and placer miner. near his
cabin in American gulch Monday, Aug.
Z, in vain endeavor to rob him of his
little fortune.
Tucked away in the mattress on
which the two fugitives had been sleep
ing in their wagon was found the gold
watch stolen from the murdered man.
1T is an 1S-karat gold watch" ran the
description, marked on the case No.
1l25, and on the works No. 2,54S 600.
These were the marks of identification
found upon the timepiece. No eXplana-
ton is offered by the men as to how
they secured the watch.
When the two men were arrested 4
third man was with them The evil
,ience so far gathered by the officers
does not implicate him, but he is held on
suspicion.
All three prisoners spent last night in
the Jail at BOzeman. They will arrive
in Anaconda at 1855 to-day and will
be placed in the county Jail
All the force at the command of Sher-
if Jack Conley has been at work on
the case since the crime was discov-
cred, Thursday, Aug. 10. The two men
arrested yesterday have been the goal
toward which all efforts We're directed.
They were traced from American
gulch, as they travelled in their wagon
by night and camped by day, down to
the road over the divide, thence on be-
yond Marysville, where the trail was
lost. They had several days start.
Sheriff Jack Conley went to the Wyo-
ming state line to intercept them if they
tried to get out by way of the Gallatin
valley While other officers scattered.
Yesterday morning Deputy Sheriff
Jack Robinson of Deer Lodge spotted
the men passing through Logan bound
toward BOZeman. He put the telegraph
wires in operation. Sheriff William j.
Fransham of Gallatin county, on re-
ceiving the news from Under Sheriff
Morgan by wire from Anaconda, set
out from BOZeman with Deputy Jack
Chapman and met Robinson on the
road The three surprised the fugitives
in camp and arrested them without a
struggle.
Ten minutes after the arrest Deputy
Sheriff Joe DAILY Of Anaconda, fresh
from Livingston on clue, arrived on
the scene.
When the three new prisoners arrive
here to-day there will be seven men
confined in the Deer Lodge county jail
charged with completely in the case.
Oliver DOtsOn, William Cachelan
William Glover and Gabriel Hilder-
brand are the names of the four
already in the Jail. They are all
residents of Washington gulch. were ar
rested Saturday, brought here and con-
q nf
John O'Brien, Dan Dee and William
Jones, the aliases being given out by
the sheriff for the purpose of preventing
the fugitives knowing their alleged &C
completes Were under arrest. Cache
liam, Glover and Hilderbrand are sup
posed to be merely witnesses.
A strong circumstantial case appears
to have been made against the two mer
arrested yesterday. 1t is believed from
the evidence in hand a conspiracy Il
murder Culhnam can be proved, anC
this, with the fact of the watch being
found in the possession of the men cap.
tured yesterday will give strong color
TO the belief that the men are guilty.
How Capture Was Made.
Details of the capture are given il
the following special dispatch received
last night:
''Bozeman, Aug. 15.-Clinton Dotson
Oliver Benson and a third man named
Ellis Persinger We're captured to-day
by Deputy Sheriff Robinson of Dee
Lodge and Sheriff William ]. Fran
sham and Deputy Jack Chapman o
RoZeman as answering the description
of the men who murdered Eugene Cul
Imam in American gulch, near Dee
Lodge, last week. They are now il
the Jail cage here and will be taken t;
Deer Lodge tomorrow morning.
Deputy Robinson was driving
through Logan this morning on tn,
supposed trail of the murderers jour
neying up the Madison and spotted tn,
men in the street. He immediatelS
telegraphed to the authorities here ant
to Deputy DAILY of Anaconda, who wa:
in Livingston.
Sheriff Fransham and Chapman
started from town about noon and me
Deputy Robinson at Belgrade, wher,
he had come post haste. They got {
double-seated rig and drove toward
Logan.
Just this side of Central Park the.
came across two of the suspects eat
ing their dinner, having just finished
washing some underclothes. Driving
close by, the sheriffs drew their guns
on them and told them to hold up theil
hands, which they did promptly. The,
We're both handCuffed. The third mar
was found at the Central Park stort
and also taken in charge.
Their effects were then Searched anC
the gold watch of their victim found il
the excelsior of mattress which Dot
son and Benson had been sleeping on
An old, used Winchester rife shell wa
found in a pouch in which Cullinan
used to carry gold dust, and also {
pair of shoes of about the size of thu
tracks found near the spot of the muir
der.
IAN except Persinger refused to talk
Persinger said he had joined the othel
two near Helena ard was travelling
with them seeking work.
Benson is a nephew of Dotson and
is of light complexion, smooth faced