Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-02

MONTANA. MONDAY, APRI]
hour might have been midnight. but 1t
wasn't. In the distance appeared the
street car upOn which Mr.. Campbell was
riding on the brake-beam, 30 as to escape
detection. He might have been dtsguis-
usual black clothes. AS he approached
the end of the line, he dropped to the
ground and disappeared in the darkness.
All was Qutet-nOt a sound disturbed the
solemn stiffness of the night. Presently
q long. low whistle which might have
been borrowed from the Gagnon hoist
Ing works, was heard in the distance by
the waiting detective. Intuitively the
latter knew 1t was his secret accomplish
n soon out Of the stygian blackness
emerged the sylph-like form of the Mon
lana congressman. What transpired at
That secret conference no will ever know.
nor did Mr.. Campbell in his testimony al
Jude to the conspiracy thc-s concocted. 1t
Is however, mentioned In his letters sew
eral times. A4Mo
The letter of July "a. refers to Hill and
expresses confidence in his loyalty to the
cause of reform. It Is true that Mr..
Campbell In the letter says Hill does not
swell him, but hat does not necessarily
interfere with his usefulness as a re-
former or show his unf1tness for com.
partnership with h reform committee
having in charge the publication OF Mon
tana politics and the punishment of Mr..
Clark because Mr.. DAILY doesn't like him.
1T is evident that Hin and McLain were
10 work together in ~rsuan OF some
well-arranged plan which bears all the
earmarks of conspiracy.
tionate. 1t begins my deaf Bill"
Whether Bill is McLain's nickname, or
whether dear Bil" was an allusion to
McLafn's probable account as a dear"
one. is not known. Campbell wanted n
man for "out of town work n a good
one" who must be a stranger" whether
such a man was wanted to steal a horse
or break open a safe or a private letter,
or extort a confession of guilt from some
innocent legislator, or O up a story
to damage the reputation of some friend
of Mr.. Clark, is not stated, but 1t was
stipulated that he should be q mar not
known to be a reformer M one who
could be relied upon to do n kind OF
work without affecting his stomach.
What the FIRST engagement" of Mr.. Nc
Lain was, is equally mysterious.
The next letter referred to some people
stopping at the Rogers block who requir-
ed looking AFTER" but the detective was
admonished not to let Hill know he was
| as though written for a harmless pur-
pose; yet Senator McComas was imper-
tinent enough to inquire into the motive
OF the second paragraph relating to the
grand jury and showing an apprehension
that the writer, Fred Whiteside and
Clark Of Virginia City, might be made
the subjects OF investigation. Mr.. Camp
bell didn't mind Investigations, provided
some other fellow was being Investigate
! ed; but with native modesty he shrank
from any inquiry affecting his own up
! right purposes. On that account he de-
sired, as Senator McComas' thought. an
investigation of the investigators and re-
| quested McLain to Jolly" the jury and
4 to pump them to ascertain IL it were pos
Isfble that the refOrmers themselves could
possibly become the objects of suspicion.
! It should be stated, however. that Mr..
Campbell denied any Interior motive and
! said that his words did not mean what
they evidently meant. Senator McComas
/. The letter of August Is. inclosing 800
to Mr.. McLain, advised him not to
bother about e room pvt re- e I w Hill
his fellow reformers and was to ave a
| sleuth put on his trail? The suspicion
! could not have been strong, however, for
| the letter concludes with an expression
Of confidence in Mr.. Hill and the sugges-
! ton % to overlook anything now" The
last piece of advice was hardly neces-
sary.
On July 10, Mr.. Campbell wrote to NC
| Lain stating that Hill was in his Office
and that he would be let out at 1880 a.
other fellow. keep a good watch on
Hill to-day and tonight. II you can do
So" concluded Mr.. Campbell. This might
certainly indicate to a suspicious mind
that Mr.. Hill had been in the employ
ment of the Anaconda purifiers n that
! Campbell had Hillism on the brain.
Near the end of the month Mr.. Hill.
who had been absent from the city, re-
turned n had arranged to call Upon
| Mr.. Chas. w. Clark the next morning 1t
3 a. m. Mr.. Campbell in his letter to
McLain instructs him to see where Hin
goes and what he does'' and mot to let
| him see he was being watched" Surely
the canker of distrust had begun to eat
and a fear had arisen lest his good friend
| Mr.. Hill proposed to go back on his afl-
! davit and confess to has. Clark that
1t was all a lie written to earl the f1f-
teen or sixteen hundred dollars, which up
to that time a been paid him by the
rcformers. but which Mr.. Hill says was
at least three times that amount.
The letter of July rs, Is unimportant.
r. did not even contain 500 for the de-
~tective's missionary work among the
heather. It alludes only vaguely to some
dark plot in process of Matching and ex-
presses regret that McLain met Lynch,
Probably by this time Lynch is equally
'regretful that he met McLain.
AltOgetner mis- correspondence Is OF a
highly interesting character. It shows
the raj n open processes by which
the reformers Intended to accomplish
their good work! 1t shows an honorable
disposition to fight Mr.. Clark without re-
sorting to underhand or disreputable
means! It indicates that the prosecution
in the absence of any definite evidence
against Mr.. Clark proposed to manufac-
ture What was needed.
The letters from Campbell to Detective
McLafn, some without date, as admitted
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