Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1900-11-23
CANT STRIKE HIS TRAIL
The Posse Hunting for the Murderer Of
Sheriff Young Abandon the
Pursuit.
FOLLOWED FALSE CLUES
Chances Are That the Outlaw Never
Game This Way Sheriff Dunn Has a
Plausible Theory.

1t is Just two weeks tonight sinceiSher-
i'll George Z. Young Of Park county was
shot to death at Springdale, and still the
murderer is at large, with little or no
hope of his capture. All the clues thus
far secured have been run down bv diff
fercnt posses, only to find that they had
no connection with the desperate.
Last Monday evening the Livingston
posse, composed Of Deputy Sheriff Wood
hams, John +. Locke. Charles Williams,
William Mitchell. \. w. Coffin, Louis
Hansen, NJ. ID. Elliott, William Seaman
and others. returned from their hunt in
Wyoming empty handed. 1t will be re,
mcmbcred that they started out from
Red Lodge 4 week ago ia pursuit OF IL
man who WA alleged 70 have arrived in
the city II 4 box car and disappeared
over the hill west Of town. 1t turns out
that this man did not leave the city at
all but soughtsnd procured employment
at the Rocky Fork coal mine, where he
is now at work. The posse was accom-
panied On their Wyoming chase by Un-
der Sheriff Mike kcrrigan, Sheriff elect
M M. Potter and Jack Wilkes of 1his
city. Arriving 1T the Clarke Fork, they
were told that q man on horseback had
been seen Saturday, riding furiously
toward Cody. just this side Of Frost
stage station the posse was informed
that this man had passed that place. 90.
ing around the station, instead Of keep
ing the road. Following this clue, the
posse rode to Cody and there met Under
Sheriff Frank Rue Of Big Horn county,
who was in search of Otto Chnoworth,
who had escaped from that officer while
being brought to Red Lodge Mr.. Rue
took up the trail ut Cody and went to
Meetcetse, where he ascertaincel that thu.
man seen on horseback was Il nncher
living near that place. This thoroughly
dishcartcncd the posse and they decided
to give up the chase and return home.
Their ride into Wyoming was not a pie
mic ora summer excursion. They en-
countercd young blizzard, with the
thermometer some twenty degrees below
zero, and suffered intensely from the
cold. While on their waj back they got
track of Chinoworth, and Deputy Sheriff
and another member Of the
posse proceeded down the Clarke Fork
and captured the escaped prisoner at "A
ranch house near Bridgcr. They took
him to Billings and turned him over TO
Sheriff Oscar Hicst;nd of Casper. Wyo.,
where Chinoworth is wanted for assisting
IN the theft of Il band of sheep.
Tho posse reported that whom they
reached Cody they found that the au
thorltles there had arrested d man on
suspicion q being the fugitive, and, had
it nol been for Under Sheriff Kcrrigan.
the suspect might have been put to con
siderable Inconvenience IN proving his
innocence, but, thanks TO Mr.. Kcrrigun.
he WAS recognized as being Thomas
Blade, n ranchrr NJ Alkali creek. who
had driven tn Cody torrman i FEW days.
Being thus identified he was given his |
liberty.
Sheriff Dunn of this city entcr,ains
the opinion that the murderer never came
this way at Il i. lie thinks that there is !
no truth IN the story told by Harvey
M l,,. AZ. u
saw a man one night last week At the
mouth Of the Rosebud. Neither does he
place amy crcdcncc in the story about an
exchange Of shots between the outlaw
and two men near Reed Point. 1t is his
theory that Immediately after the shoot
ing at Springdale, the murderer either
caught Il freight going east or doubled
back on his tracks and went west Sher-
1T Dunn also believes that the dcspcr-
ado was a pal Of the man whom lie Shot
at Logan. lie thinks that the third man
who was riding the blind baggage, and
who made his escape at the time of the
shooting, and has not since been heard
y, Was VIE IN''i INotlSc i IlidIlucF udtlcu
Hallabakka, who was sent to the pcni
tentiary from this city for stabbing
one of his countrymen and whose term
.xpired about a year ago Mr. Dunn
thinks that the murderer and Hallabak
x, were in the penitcntiary together and
there became acquainted. He is of the
opinion that these three men had planned
10 hold up the passenger train on which
thcy were riding and that on reaching
Logan, the man Beaver, who was shot,
backed out. and that this was the cause
If his being shot. One reason Sheriff
Dunn has for building this story is that
Beaver, after being shot. instead of 60
ng to the town to have his wound
dressed, as almost every man would have
lone, started off up the track and fell in
IN exhausted condition about !. mile