Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-24
P|CKP0CkETS
PHOTOGRAPHED
FOUR OF THE CROOKS TAKEN
FROM BUTTE PUT UP FIGHT
BEFORE CAMERA.
CONT0RTED THEIR FACES
TO SPOIL LlKENESSES,
One Identified as Overcoat Thief-They
Will Fight the Charges
H Against Them.

Helena Record: There was an I'M
promptu circus at a photographers yes
terday when six of the seven suspected
p1ckpOcketS arrested in Butte by the
Helena officers We're escorted by the Of
ficers to sit for their portraits. Four
of the men evidently did not appreciate
the compliment and objected vigorously
to having their photographs taken. They
screwed their faces into such grotesque
wrinkles that if they had frozen so the
men would have been disfigured for life.
They threatened Photographer Taylor
that if he tried to mug them they
would destroy his CHI But thanks
to the good right fists of Chief Travis
and Patrolman "Pete" Scharrenbroich
they changed their minds and decided
that they wanted to be photographed
after all.
Six pickpockets We're handcuffed to-
gether in the afternoon and started
down the street in charge of the chief
and Patrolman Scharrenbroich. When
the photographers was reached they
were unshackled, n one at a time
taken before the camera. The first made
a face like a boy trying to brighten his
little sister. Chief Travis struck him a
r~esOunding smack over the mouth with
the palm Of his hand, and the look of
angelic tenderness that came over the
crooks face was beautiful to see. The
next up tried to hide his face in his
hands. and that time the fist Of the
chief caught him behind the ear. He.
too, concluded that he would have his
picture taken.
The third warned the photographer if
he valued his camera not to attempt to
snapshot him. But Scharrenbroich
made the bad man sorry that he had
spoken. The fourth man objected, but
his picture was taken, too.
The others learned wisdom by the eX-
:,ariorna of fhpir fa11nwc and nfforo7 ~,
objections. One of them, however, just
as the plate was exposed, leant slightly
forward Inc out of focus and screwed
his eyes around so the picture will be
practically ~valueless as a likeness. His
trick was not detected then, the photog-
rapher discovering it when he developed
the plate
The seventh man, M. P. Lee, was not
"mugged," for the reason that he was a
detective in the employ of the Thiel De-
tectiye agency, and at a hearing last ev-
ening he proved his innocence and was
released.
The scheme Of making faces when
being photographed is an old crook trick
that has been worked in every rogues'
gallery in the country. If there had been
anything lacking to convince the author
tiles that the men they have in custody
are rogues it would have been supplied
by their action yesterday. But their de-
AAoo "SSA SAoS "a
men who know the ms and outs of GRIM
inal life. All have the 'penitentiary
hump" One has the well known prison
pallor and the whitened skin of a man
who has not been out of Jail six months.
Chief Travis thinks the reluctance of
the men to be photographed indicates
that they are wanted in other places.
He intends to circulate their photo
graphs all over the country through
private detective agencies, and if they
are wanted the photographs will be
heard from.
The warrant for the arrest of the men
was issued by Justice of the Peace Stein
metz, and they will appear before him
Monday afternoon at 8 o'clock for hear
ing. The men have retained r. r. Pur-
cell and E. ID. Weed as counsel and will
fight the case. They will not waive ex-
animation as was first expected, but
will fight it out in the Justice court.
Frank Wilson, one of the septette, has
been identified as the man who stole an
aovereoat from the store of Babcock &
Co. a week ago.