Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-01
BARTON SAYS
He IS GUILTY
HE DESIRES TO HAVE SENTENCE
PASSED AS EARLY AS
POSSIBLE.
THE LETTERS PRODUCED
IN COURT THIS MORNING.
Postoffice Inspector Details the Man
ner in Which He Secured PROOF
of His Guilt.

Horace Barton, the young man VINO Tor
the last two or three months mas peeha
rctoing the United States mail, was TO-
day placed under 81, 900 bonds by Com-'
missioner c.. l.. Wood, to appear for sen-
teuce in the United States court on
November s.
When Barton was arraigned petore
| COMMISSIONS Wood yesterday MS coun-
sci. w. l.. Walls. stated that MS client
desired to enter a plea of guilty ana
asked that he be bound over to the dls-
trict court as soon as possible as ne was
DESTROYS of beginning the service of his
sentence.
At the hearing this morning Postotfice
INSPECTOR Mcmillan told the story OF
Rarton's detection. He testified that'on
Qctoher 80 he concealed himself above
the closet Of the postottice i through
piuholes saw Barron take a letter ad-
dressed to Mrs. Dubois with two others
ana place them in his overall pocket. he
ther, entered the closet and placing the
| letters On the window sill opened All three
Of them with a lead pencil. He TOOK OUT
| the enclosures. but not finding anything
he desired, put the enclosures pach
aca:n and took the letters 70 the dls-
trleutins case. .,
From the position I occupied saAd
,ba pSnec,or II could see the boxes and
7 made a note of their position. At that
time | was in a hole in the floor over
hare tnointing) in this room. | came out
and sent a note to Postmaster IrVlh'
giving him the location Of the boxes IN
which those letters had been caseu. ne
brought this one up to me, put OWNS -
the dispatch of mail over the oreson
Short Line the other " had peen sem
out. We found this letter nau oeen
opened.
Assistant Postmaster Flavin had
lanes Glover take the letter out Of the
case ana MI. Flavin brought the letter
10 to his room. l examined the letter
in the presence of Mr.. Flavin and found
that it had been opened anu placed my
initials an the back of it. AS the letter
had been tempered with I sent for the
United states deputy marshal to prlng
Mr.. Barton up here to see what ne hao
to say about it,
when he was brought into the room
he was shown this letter and asked II ne
ever saw it before. He SAID that he did
not know that he had. He was SHOWN
the opening in the floor byswhlch ne was
detected in his work. After furtner
meditation he came to the conclusion
that he had seen the letter and had
/ ODe0eu 1t. L -"
reason he remembered he letter was
the draft enclosed in it."
At the conclusion of Mr.. McMillan's
estimony Barton as stated, was bound
over to the district court in bonds liked
at Il 900. the defense offering 10 testi-
mony.
The prisoner is suffering from the
effects of alcohol and sees things. This
morning before the hearing was COM
menced he called the attention OF the
Judge to people dancing on the window
panes on the opposite side OF the court.
He said that he was troubled by two
people who continually "pestered" him.
One of these persons was dressed IN RED
and the other was dressed in blue. They
were continually round him, and while
he knew that it was the production of a
mind diseased by whisky, still they
bothered him
Inspector Mcmillan produced In cour'
this morning eight letters that had beer
: opened by Barton. The others had gone
. out on the Oregon Short Line before
! their addresses could be ascertained. IN
addresses of the eight produced In cour
I this morning We're:
: Mrs. Lucien E. Dubois,
! province of Quebec, Canada.
$ Mrs. Emma Concannon, Basin, Mont
I Miss B.. Boland, 500 Vine street, Scran
{ ton, Pa.
Chicago Wooden Mills, Chicago.
! C. A. Bryant, Great Falls, Mont.
j. I. Ryerson & Sales, Chicago, III.
u Mrs. I. Longstroff, 5 Vine street. Sal
Lake. Utah.
John J. Frawley. C. S. S. r., 1545 Ere
d mont street, Mission church, Roxbur,
!, Mass.