The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-09

Howell had said, the night before, that
he would get even with some one II 1t
| took him all his life; that he had risen
very early that morning, loaded his
! Winchester rifle carefully. and gone IN
| the direction toward the place where
| the orphaned son of Tom Rowing had
! made his CHASTITY find.
The Murdcrers Flight.
| 1.-THE bloody deed once done, fear o.
| detection and punishment followed the
| glutted passion for revenge. and How
ELL adding theft to his greater crime,
| had fled on a horse which he had stol-
| en-. the savage part of his nature salts
fed with the result of his act of ven
| geance, but forgetting that
Revenge. at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself rHcoils'
MIR. Moule determined then and
| there to have poor Toms murderer
hunted down and brought to Justice
and well has he kept his word. lie eA-
| amined the fatal spot and its @urrouna-
| ings; he found the place where .he as
! sassin had lain in ambush awaiting the
| coming of his victim; he was able TO re-
construct in his mental vision the en-
tire scene-Rowling, all unconscious OF
his deadly. peril, passing here ana there
in the alfalfa field, testing the ground
with his spade to see If it was sil1i-
GENTLY moist, and the cowardly Howell
following in his footsteps, the soft
earth giving no sound to betray the
wretchs presence until having secured
a point of vantage within 30 feet of the
object of his unreasonable hatred, when
he put a bullet through the foreman's
back and second shot through his
brain.
Sheriff John D. White promptly sent
H.. tSf
crime far and wide, in the state and cut
of it, but without avail. Time went on,
the SHOWS came, winter passed and
Howell was still at large. But where?
Was he somewhere in the bleak re-
gions of Wyoming, in his old haunts
in Colorado, among the cowboys of the
Indian territory, or on the ocean, per-
haps already in some far distant land?
Private Detectives Begin Work.
cat length Mr.. Moule learned through
an acquaintance in Billings of Theirs
detective agency. and last March, al
most discouraged by the failure of the
state officials, he gave the case into the
agency's hands, and its men were at
once set to discover and follow up the
murderer's trail. AS Howell never
spoke of his past nor of his relatives
with sufficient definiteness to locate any
of them, the task assumed was not an
easy one. The search was begun along
the Burlington line, among the SHOWS
of Wyoming 1t was extended into the
Hole in the Wall in the Big Horn
mountains. that noted resort Of the
worst thugs and criminals; it includ-
ed the Custer battlfield and the tough
camps in the adjacent hills; it stretch
ed through Colorado, it covered the In
dian territory, it secured the cattle
ranches, great and small, of the Texas
Panhandle, and away on the border of
the Gulf of Mexico six words of q.
thoughtless relative gave the first clew
to the fugitive's location.
after doubling and redoubling on his
tracks he had hidden himself securely,
he doubtless imagined, in the wild and
rocky Businesses of the queens domin-
ion on Spray river. British Columbia.
And here he had the additional secur-
ity of an unknown alias. At the first
assurance of certainty as TO Howell S
presence in this far region, thither sped
Thiel's agent in the pursuit; but the
quarry was as wild as the mountain
goats of that district and he was off
again at the first breath of alarm, and
without a moments warning. An in
cautious registration at the hotel in
Banff, under the assumed name of S. o.
Bean, gave almost certain indication OF
his being there, the o which he used IN
this signature and in signing his true
name being identical in the handwrit-
ing.
For months the search was seeming
ly abandoned, but this was only to al
lay his suspicious and when he had
pocketed himself where he thought he
was beyond the limits of discovery,
away up in the Quesnelle forks, far
above 15O-mile house, in British terri
tory, an agent of Thiels dropped in
suddenly and unexpectedly on him and
he found himself with gives upon his
wrist" at last fairly captured and Sc
cured. From there he was conveyed
| handcuffed and landed safely in the
Fergus county jail at Lewistown, to
stand trial for the murder committed
| nearly year and half ago"