The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-28
ANACONDA NEWS.
!. THEY START FOR IDAHO
Suspected Desperadoes Go Out
Under Armed Guard.
:"
mo CHANCE OF ESCAPE
Have Grown uncommunicative Since
Sunday Night and Now Deny All
Knowledge OF the Crime-May
Be Gregson Robbers.

NJ Dan Harkin and Bert Hillman, the
/ da Sunday on warrants charging them
with highway robbery in having,
: week or SO ago, held up the American
\ Developing Mining company's general
store at Gibbonsville, Idaho, departed
this city yesterday in the custody of
\ Louis Bancroft and w. L. Nickson,
deputy sheriffs from Lemhi county,
consented to return to the neighbour
i hood Of their alleged crime and stand
trial, the formality Of extradition was
/. unnecessary.
NJ The prisoners are what, in police par
lance, is known as "hard-1ooking nuts
for all their youthful years. They were
h marched from the city hall out Com
mercial avenue to the B., A. & P. de-
pot, handcuffed securely together. A
\ small crowd Of curious onlookers fol-
lowed in their wake, and intermittent
~ speculated as to the ironed mems
fate in case they attempted to escape
while en- route to Lemhi county. The
two deputies were heavily armed. Be
side a pocket Colt apiece, each was
strapped round with a cartridge belt,
from which sagged long-barreled,
murderous-looking Colt of the caliber
As. Bancroft was further provided with
a heavy pair Of steel shackles, for use
in case the prisoners of either Of them
should attempt to run away or should
become otherwise unruly while en-
route.
This grim party of four, two of whom
atleast. are known to be desperate men,
will go by railroad as far as Divide,
where team will be waiting to carry
f,,,} 1,a,, ~ y~In II
the deputy sheriffs left their saddle
horses when they were hurrying north
10 Anaconda on the trail of the cap
tureds men. The officers will mount at
Wisdom and convoy their prisoners,
who will travel by stage in the lead.
The party will go through Gibbons
Vile, the scene. of the daring and reck-
less holdup Of Monday night before last,
to Salmon, the seat of Lemhi county,
where the trial will be held.
The Idaho deputies expressed the be-
lief before they departed for home that
there is not the shadow of chance of
either Harkin or Hillman escaping the
known to Manager Holt of the COM
pany store, and that he instantly had
recognized them when they held him
up and robbed the safe.
g. e,e, They Were "Wiscd Up.'
A Standard man was in the sheriffs
Office yesterday afternoon when the two
prisoners were brought out from the
jail and fflandcuffed; prepare tory to
starting for Idaho AS reported in yes
terday's Standard, young Hillman had
allowed himself to be drawn out by
the newspaper man the night before.
Now, however, he was mute, and his
companion, Harkin Che Is an undersiz-
ed. teugh-looking youth of 22), was ter
ribiy on guard. Asked the newspaper
man suddenly:
why didn't you fellows wear
masks ~
Harkin's eye shifted ever so quickly,
asS.he replied in a voice too gruff to
be easy:
1--WE wasn't in that deal'' (Meaning
the holdup0 Never was in any place
in my life where there was any cause
to wear mask. See?''
well, why did you and Hillman
leave Idaho so suddenly and come to
Anaconda %
Look here answered the fellow,
down into politics now. You'll have to
figure that out for yrself.'
*' May BE Gregson Desperndoes.
Sheriff Conley says there is a posi-
bility that Hillman and Harkin are the
two men who about a year ago held
up Shetfins saloon, at Gregson, and
robbed the place of $1,100 in cash. Mr..
Shefln was IN Anaconda yesterday, and
took a look at the prisoners. He
could not identify their countenances.
us the men who held him up We're
masked; but he said their respective
sizes fitted perfectly, and that their ac-
tons seemed to him to be peculiarly
familiar.
The Idaho deputies We're asked whe-
Their they connected, in their own
minds, Hillman and Harkin with the
daring robbery of the Salmon stage,
near Red Rock, a few months ago,
when two youthful men held up that
vehicle and escaped with a quantity
of gold. The officers said they did not
believe either of their prisoners was
implicated in that outrage, because
they (the deputies) had "a pretty good
idea who did the job
The Human Odor.
From the Indian Tancat