Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-20
EScOurted Out of Town BY
Seven Armed Men.
WALKED TO ANACONDA
Says He Was Told to Never Come Come
Back-Sent For Mr., Hennessy
Sounds Fishy.

The Inter Mountains Anaconda cOrre-
spondent today sent in the following
story of a Butte clerk, who claims to
have been escorted out of town by armed
men:
An all-night traveller, tired and foot
sore, presented himself at the Copper
City Commercial company's store this
morning, as being a clerk in the grocery
department of Hennessy's store at Butte,
who had been taken out of that city
during the midnight hours by seven men,
heavily armed. This was the story he
related to the clerks in the Copper City
this morning. Later he telephoned to
Manager Wood of Hennessy's store in
Butte, and says Mr.. Hennessy will be
down some line today to confer with
him. To every n he tells the same ac-
count of his trip last night. He says II
formerly worked in the Hennessy store,
and was given work again at the begin
ming OF the recent so-called Hennessy
trouble. l rOomed on Broadway, about a
block east of the Florence hotel, Last
night about 10 O'Clock l was on my way
hOme, when l was overtaken- by seven
men, some of them heavily armed, who
me to enter a carriage,
which was driven westward through the
city. On entering the carriage I was
told to make no alarm if | valued my life.
l was also told that l was being taken
west of Butte a few miles, but if I ever
came back again l would be taken out
the next time in a hearse. There We're
TWO hacks. Three men rode in the hack
l was put into and four in the hack
which followed to where l was put out
near Crystal Springs, and told to go and
never come back. None of the men were
masked, and ! am sure / never saw them
before. There were no numbers on the
hacks. If there were l did not see them.
The team which pulled the second hack
was a gray and a bay horse. The men
who marched me out spoke u seldom,
and their remark were always directed
to me. At the place where I was unload
ed all OF the men got out of the hacks
and stood around until I got out of sight.
l Travelled on the wagon road through the
mountains. At 2 o'clock this morning I
saw a sign directing the way to Gregson
Springs. Arriving there. every one was
in bed. I could see the smelter smoke at
Anaconda and trudged on, arriving here
about S O'clock" y
The traveller bore evidence of a hard
walk and was considerably excited after
his experience of last night. He is a
man about Is years of age or more. As
soon as he learned a reporter was listen
ing to his story he grew clam-like and
refused to ak any more.
Manager Wood of the Hennessy Mer-
camille company of this city was inter-
viewed by an Inter reporter
on the occurrence. The name of the
clerk, Mr.. Wood said. was D. C. Barden,
a very reputable man. who was en-
ployed in the Centerville store. The
story, Mr.. Wood said. sounded a trife
'fshy," but if true, he believed that steps
would be taken to prosecute the indi-
viduals responsible for it.
Mr.. Wood said that Mr.. Barden was a
member of the Miners union when he
accepted a position at the Centerville
store. The union imposed a fine on Bar
den, n it was thought that the matter
ended there.
Mr. Wood had not heard from Mr.. Hem
Messy at Anaconda, n could not say
what he had learned during his investi-
cations there. Mr.. Wood said that it
seemed impossible that a man could be
forced into a hack at an early III in
the evening and carried to Crystal
Springs without some n on the street
becoming aware of the proceeding.