The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-16
-ldR MURDER IN WYOMING
MARRY TIER. ALIAS HARRY LY-
ONS, Is ARRESTED AT
LEAD, S. ID.
CRIME COMMITTED IN 1875
And for Quarter of n Century the
Murdered Mans Brother Has
Been the Alleged
Murderer,s Trail.

SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Dec. 15-(Spe-
Sial.)-The case of Harry Tier, who was
arrested few days ago at Lead, on the
charge Of murder committed near Hills
lard, Wyo., a little over twenty-five years
ago is 4 remarkable one in MANY re-.
BGeets and would furnish the material for
= tale Of mystery of the penny dreadful
variety. The mystery is as to whether
Or not Tier Is the man who is wanted
For tlle crime. There We're two Harry
, A5yons, the name by which the man
wanted for the Wyoming murder was
known. in the Black hills in early days,
\ and it may prove that one of them, who
y Hlsalpcared from that region in 1880, is
I &hc murderer wanted in Wyoming.
Tier, it is admitted, went by the name
OF Harry Lyons for several years after
We went to the Black hills in 1876. Ac.
eordIng TO statements made by him after
Qis arrest he admitted that he assumed
phe namc of Harry Lyons upon shipping
2S sailor upon the ocean, and that he
Fetained the name until about 1889. He
1nalhtaihed that he was in Southern
California during the whole of the wear
tAla-the year the murder was committed
~ Wyoming. for which he has been ar
Eested-and that in June, 1876, he went
10 Cheyenne Wyo.
/ w bile in California he was i'll the en-
pioy of the Cerro Gordo Transportation
company as keeper of a station and in
nade deposits Of money for the company
Ia LEGAL bank. He says he remembers
khe name of the bank, and relies upon
The evidence to this effect which can be
shown by the books of the bank to es.
Eablish an alibi for himself He upon ar
HNing ut Cheyenne in 1876, secured en-
bloyment with a transportation company
engaged III traffic to and from the Black
hills
+ lie afterwaud left the employ of the
Transportation company and accepted a
position with the Homestake Mining
company. During a portion Of the time
pc was one Of the companys bullion
Ruards, and had charge of the shipment
s6f millions of dollars worth of gold
bullion. A few years ago he Went to
South Africa, but returned after a time
Rnd resumed his former position with the
7"mestake company. Later he went to
Fhe Kondike and remained there for
keFeral months, again returning TO Lead
Rnd taking position with the Home
Etalfe company
s STORY OF THE CRIME.
tOn Aug. 16, 1875, John B. Wheeling.
Hli5ts Jack Whalen, and a man known
as Harry Lyons, left Hilliard, Wyo, in q
wagon for a sawmill Il number of miles
distant. The former had in his possess
sion the sum of 81, 200 in cash, which was
30 be paid to the employees of the saw
nill. The following day Wheeling's dead
Rody was found. It bore evidences of a
Eoul murder having been committed.
Fhe team and money, as we'll as Lyons,
pad disappeared. A search was at once
commenced for the murderer, and has
pecn prosecuted up to this time resulting
in the arrest of the Lead citizen, under
the belief that he was the Harry Lyons
Wanted for the crime
l. jier was arrested at the instance of a
pfother OF the man who was murdered
u Quarter of century ago, and who,
curing all the long years since his
brother fell victim to an assassin's bull
Jet, has been on the trail of the murderer
for the, purpose of avenging his brothers
death
Tier maintains that a mistake has been
made. He readily consented to return to
wyoming without requisition papers be-
hng presented to the governor of South
Dakota The result of the preliminary
examination, to be held as soon as the
witnesses can be summoned when Tier
arrives at Hilliard in charge of a sheriff,
rs awaited with great interest by the
people in this state, who have known
the accused for years.
There are said to be a number Of men
Still living at and near billiard who saw
Wheeling and Lyons leave the town on
Ehe day that the former was murdered.
and that they will have no difficulty in
Identifying Tier, If he is in reality the
man wanted.
Some of the old-timers in the Black
Hills Iecollect that from about 1877 to 1880
g Wyoming horse jockey named Harry
Eyons was a hanger-on around the
Black Hills towns. and they express the
opinion that he is the man who com
United the murder in WyoIGng In 1875
This Lyons disappeared from his Black
Hills haunts i'll about 1880 and his pres
ent whereabouts, If still living, are I'M
/ known.