The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-23
MAN NOW IN JAIL CLAIMS TO BE
OF GOOD STOCK.
DESCENDANT OF WILLIAM PITT
Claims Also on His Mothers Side Re-
lationship of Robert Bruce
Charged With Assault
Il
4 and Battery.

If there be any branch of human indus
try that has not had written upon it's
muster roll the name of John Douglas
Pltt, let any man come forward and
say, or forever after hold his peace.
= John Douglas Pitt today tramps back
and forth in measured tread along the
corridors of the city Jail, where he has
been in durance vile since Wednesday.
The charge preferred against him is as
sault and battery upon the person of one
Sinner. His confinement. however is
merely accidental; at least John says so.
TO continue. There never has been but
one man who ever attempted seriously to
fully enumerate the extraordinary list of
Johns divers means of gaining liveli-
hood. This man set aside week, but
died on the third day. 1t will, therefore,
be commented or by the present scribe
simply in brief.
John, it seems, made his initial appear
ance in labor's ranks when he was but
or years of age, apprenticing himself
to learn the machinists trade, and this
has been the groundwork of his earnings
ever since.
Has Had Much Money.
If his story is to be believed-and no
proof has come to hand to the contrary
John has made several good sized for
tunes in his time.
He is now but little past the half in
the gallop to the century post, but looks
like man younger in years a score.
Once in Colorado, where he was in
iterested in mines and mining it is said,
he enjoyed the opulence of bank ac-
count, amounting to 100000. This, he
says, is the most he ever had at one
time; there have, however, been others.
He says the excess of liberality in his
makeup caused his money to assume a
winged form and fit to others. This
nevertheless, is the least of Johns trou-
bles.
He makes the positive statement that
he has too many ways of making money
at his disposal to worry about his three
squares" a day.
partial list of his trades. professions,
accomplishments, etc, etc, includes in a
curtailed form the following:
mechanics (of which he has a thor
ough knowledge), medicine, law, science,
and various branches thereof.
Has Done Many Things.
He is an expert electrician, has served
at odd times in the capacity of police
man, private detective, digger in the
mines, promoter, manipulation of vari-
ous contrivances-and other things. First,
last and foremost however, he is an in
ventor. And he looks the part.
His hair is of an iron gray. and falls
over a broad, clean-cut brow. The face
is oval. denoting keenness Of Intellect
and is full of strength Rushy eyebrows,
rather heavy nustache and a goatee
complete his facial makeup.
Pitt says he has been working on
contrivance that is going to revolution
ize something-the precise nature of
what the something is is somewhat in
the dark, but he says it was incaculab.E
delayed, owing to the misfortune of his
arrest.
a visitor endeavored to socnd him on
what is in his mind, but without avail.
1t would require the efforts of 40 Phila-
delphia lawyers. or the questioning of
Chinese ambassador. to bring it out in
diligently:
1t is, however, the illustrous ancestry
of John Douglas Pitt which arouses the
most wonder A. brief sketch Of the fam
lily tree causes one to pause and gape
and stare, for, according to the geneolog-
ical survey by Pitt, the family is directly
descended from the famous William Pitt,
earl of Chatham and premier of England
under King George III.
Made Runaway Match.
His grandfather, John Charming. ran
away with the daughter of a lord to the
North of Ireland. From this match he
derives the blood that flows in his veins
from the true-hearted sons of the Emer-
aid Isle. His grandfather was a cousin
of Lord Claiming, who took the place
of Pitt at the latter's death.
A was frequently the case during this
period. duels figured in the annals of the
family. Claiming, who was a pro-
nounced wing, entered into an argu-
ment with Lord Realich, tory.
Words becoming inadequate for the eX-
preston of the sentiments. time and place
was appointed for the settlement OF the
dispute. Swords were chosen as the me-
dunn of arbitration. In the sanguinary
encounter which ensued, Rcalich was
run through the body.
John Douglas Pitt claims he is an heir
to an estate in London valued at 100000.
The estate at present is in the possession
of one Joseph Pitt. Pitt says he is not
just informed as to how the matter
stands, not having heard from any OF
his relatives across the water for over
eight years.
Pitt, on his mothers side, claims he is
a descendant of Robert Bruce, and from
members of the house of commons bear
ing the Bruce name. Altogether, Pitt is
uujte an astonishing personage-to be in
Jail.
! John Douglas Pitt was put in the pen
for trying to get back a valuable masti1f
by the name of Nero. which he alleges