The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-20
ARSON the CHARGE.
l6-YEAR-oLD BOY ALLEGED TO
BE A CRIMINAL.
FIRE At FORSYTH RECALLED
Roy Felly, Under Arrest at Missoula,
Accused by Another Prisoner
Of Having Burned
Hotel.
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Missoula, Sept. 2o.--1f the word Ut a
prisoner in the Missoula county Jail
guilty by his own confession of the crime
Of robbery can be believed, the same Jail
holds a prisoner young in years bu:
guilty of a fearful crime.
Joseph Fox, awaiting transportation to
Deer Lodge prison to serve sentence of
three years for the robbing of Chinese
gardeners near this city, persists in the
story that the burning of hotel at
Forsyth in July. in which one life was
lost, and several men We're injured, was
the work of 16-year old Ray Telly. now
in Jail here, awaiting the departure of a
traiQ for Forsyth, where he must await
trial or developments in the case in
which lie is the alleged principal.
The story Of Fox is to the effect that
Telly fired the Forsyth hotel during a
At OF anger at being refused food by its
proprietor.
The story Of the lives Of the two pIis-
oners concerned in the hotel burning
reads like romance.
At various times the state papers have
contained news of the Missoula robbery
that caused their arrest.
Shortly following this, there appeared
dressed man who is r. r. Telly general
agent for considerable territory in Ok
lahoma Of typewriter company.
Telly claimed the youth under arrest
as his son. and stated that the boy had
mysteriously disappeared from his Ok
lahONa home more than q year ago.
Search had failed to reveal the where
abouts Of the boy, and after the expen-
ditart Of large amount Of money the
father had been forced to abandon the
efforts to find him. considering the boy
dead.
His first news in contradiction Of this.
according to the father, was letter re-
ceived subsequent to the arrest here. ask
ing for cid.
The fathers errand to Montana was to
give the desired aid, and secure the re-
turn home of the long lost son.
Upon his arrival he interviewed the son
at the county Jail, and there the tale un-
folded.
The boys story was that he had been
persuaded to run away from home by
the man giving the name OF Fox. which
was one OF many names that the ubi-
quitous individual was known by.
Young Telly alleged Fox to be a VIC
ious character. He claimed that when
he fell in with him in Oklahoma his
errand to the south was to rob the
wreckage and dead of the Galveston
flood.
Since leaving home. the boy claims,
Fox has used his youth and ability for
begging.
With the presentation of these facts to
the court, the charges against Telly We're
dismissed, he to appear as witness In
robbery charges against Fox and an ac-
complete named Cody.
Before the district court yesterday Fox
pleaded guilty to the robbery chages,
and was sentenced by Judge Webster to
three years in prison. =
Following the passing of sentence he
summoned the county attorney and dis
closed the crime.
He alleges that Telly was alone con-
nected with the burning Of the hotel. and
states it was the result Of anger at be-
ing refused food.
With the closing Of the case in which
his son was to appear as witness, 1t
was the intention Of the father to ac-
company his son home today.
Their plans We're destroyed by the APP
pearance in the city yesterday of the
sheriff of Rosebud county, who claims
the boy as prisoner.
The boy refuses to speak Of the serious
charges against him.
This is at the direction Of lawyers en-
ployed by the father, who claims the
charges of Fox are only the vicious
workings of mind entirely evil in re-
sentful hatred because Of his conviction