The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-25
ACTOR NO. 8 APPEARS
To Revive the Famous Bimetal-
lie Robbery Case.
AL MALLEY A PRISONER
Captured at Last by a Deputy Sheriff
and Brought Here. en- Route to
Butte-A Sworn Statement
Unrevealed.

prisoner Of quite considerable inn
portance to the authorities of the state
of Montana was in Anaconda yestar-
day for some hours being on his way
to Butte in the close custody of a dep
uty sheriff of Silver Bow county. His
arrest will revive interest in the now
celebrated Bimetallic company bullion
robbery
The prisoners name is AL Malley
He is accused of being implicated in
the Bimetallic company robbery and of
having in his secret possession certain
information which will be of vast use
to the company and the state officials
in their prosecution of John F. Boyd
for the crime of grand larceny in steal
| ing silver bullion from the Philipsburg
corporation to the estimated amount Of
| 100000 That is. this information will
be Of vast use If the prosecutors can
drag 1t out of Malley. He made
sworn statement to a Bimetallic attor-
ney in a law office in this city yester-
day, but the purport Of this document
is known to only those few persons
directly concerned. and they preserve
chilled-steel secrecy concerning he
whole matter. declaring stonily that to
drop so much as the suggestion of a
arrest in any way, shape or form,
| might seriously injure the case for the
| prosecution. The prisoner himself was
kept quite sufficiently secreted during
his stay i'll Anaconda; presumably for
fear he might fall afoul of the press
and be persuaded to say things.
Malley's capture late Saturday night
by Deputy Sheriff Devear of Silver
Bow county, who trapped his man with
a warrant in Granite county near the
|
| officers as a most important episode in
| the big robbery case. While they re-
fuse to indicate the extent of Mallays
declared guilt, they admit that the arm
of the law has been stretched out for
| months past in a vain endeavor to
| gather him into the iron-caged fold
and that with his final capture and
| the damaging testimony they expect to
| get out of him, conviction in the silver
| bullion Doodle case looms up most
gratifyingly clear and near ahead. The
| particulars of the actual capture of
| Malley were not divulged for the peacs
| of the public ear, and until they are
| it is patent that sensitive organ Will
have to be content to itch.
The robbery of the Bimetallic COM
pany was too recent and sensa tional
| a disclosure to have faded in any de-
gree from public recollection. The ar
rests of Max E. Mayer, the well known
assayer of Butte, on Aug. is last on
| the charge of receiving stolen silver
bullion with criminal knowledge came
| as little less than a shock to those who
| knew him through business intercourse
! or otherwise. He was accused of hav-
! ing received upwards of 100000 worth
| of Silver bricks and bars which he
knew to have been stolen, the receipt
extending over a period Of approx
mately one year. Mr. Mayer imme-
| diately gave the name of Fred Boyd as
| that of the man from whom he mad
purchased the silver, and further, de-
MED criminal knowledge in the buying.
| AS a result of his statement, John f.
Boyd, head Waterman in Philipsburg
| for the Bimetallic company and broth
| er to the mayor of Philipsburg and to
! David Boyd of Anaconda, was arrested
| and charged with having stolen the
bullion from his employers and sold 1t
to Mayer in Butte, having shipped it
via Anaconda. Boyd was admitted
to bond in the sum of $4,000, on which
he is now free of custody. May, was
prelminarily examined and discharged,
| the prosecution failing to establish
! criminal Knowledge on his part in pur-
chasing the stolen silver from Boyd.
| Now a third actor in the drama-Al
| Malley, a former employe of the BIZ
metallic company-comes upon the
scene and pronounces his lines In the
wings. The public would hail him as
a more acceptable, If less accomplished,
actor if he would only speak his speech
| aloud, so that all might hear. 1t Is
more discreet than popular training
| being understudy to lawyers.
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