The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-10-30
STONE HAS
CONFESSED.
Butte Repeater Tells the Whole
Story.
CLARKESDESERTEDHIM
After Getting Him Into Trouble the Clark
Leaders Quit Him Cold-Henee
His Confession.
CLARKESDESERTEDHIM

Butte, Oct. ga. L. Stone, charged
with illegal registration, was ar
raigned this morning in Justice Mich
ol's court. He was represented by
Attorney b. S. Thresher, and County
Attorney Connolly appeared for the
state. Stone waived examination and
was bound over to tho district court
IN $1,000 bonds. He will be prose-
cuted under section 81. relating to
teh elective franchise. After the
preliminary hearing was concluded
Stone said he wished to make state
ment for publication in the newspa-
pers. He said he had been deserted
W the Clark people after they had
gotten him into trouble and he want
ed the public to have the true facts
facts OF the case. Accordingly he
out the following statement:
Il came mere from Philadelphia
about the 21st OF August last. had
been in the bicycle business in the
east, but wa sburned out. l tried
70 get work in the mines here, but
didn't succeed. | had been kind
> fan amateur prize fighter, and after
had been here little while some
friends of Charley Clark sent for me
and | took part in six round fight
With a young fellow named Duth
Clark, out on the fiat. Charley put
up the money for these bouts, and
fought another battle later on.
afterwards joined Clark's drum corps,
and turned out when Mr.. Clark came
nome. We had some trouble about
getting our money and finally the
ooy swent to Charley Roe, Mr.. Clark S
Clark's secretary, and afterwards to
Mr. Casey, and as result of the
trouble the drum corps was disbanded.
IN three or four days l met W. M.
.veagle through a friend of mine
lamed Quigley. He tried to fix the
Irum corps affair, but did not sue
oeed. In the meantime some party
came to me and said he was en-
ployed by the Clark people. He said
You are a Clark man, are you? l
says: 1 don't know who you are He
says: L judge you are Clark man,
or you would not be m the drum
corps. He says: Have you regis
.ered? l says, No. He says
You can register as olten as you
want to- | cannot tell who that
man was. have not met him from
chat day to this. | would know him
II | saw him. He was tail man,
should Judge about 5 feet 10 inches
5moothed face, dressed pretty nice
and wore slouch hat; that is a
fedora, cut in the middle. This man
old me that he knew l would not be
ii the drum corps if | was not a
Clark man. He told me to register
rs often as | liked; that there was
money in it. | went to Nagle and
lold him about what the fellow told
me about registering and Nagle says:
That's all right; you can register.
tie says: If you get that many votes
| can take you where you can get
money for doing it, found out af.
terwards he meant to take me- to Mr.,
Casey, whose headquarters are right
| across from the Mantle block, on
West Broadway. Neagle took me
around one whole afternoon looking
for Casey. l was advised by others
who represented themselves to be
Clark people to register, those parties
telling me there would be two OF
three hundred dollars for me, and
that nobody could do anything to me
for registering. They assured me that
it would be all right. Since | have
been arrested, non of these people
have been to see me and having got
ten me into trouble have deserted me
l propose to see now that justice Is
meted out to them as well as to my
self. Some Of these parties know
and some l do not know. l am no
making their names public at thi!
time, but l am going to do what
can to see that they are punished i
have to be-" One of these parties
gave me a registration card SO tha
would careful to know when reg
J istration days were. also received
a letter from Neagle to Kilgallon, t
put me to work, but l did not ge
work from kilgallon, because he SAT-
he had put seven or eight of US boy
on already. told Mr.. kilgallon tha
there were some parties after me t