The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-18
BEHIND THE BARS
SAFE BLOWERS FRoE BUTTE PUT
THERE TODAY.
BURNS AND SHERIDAN GO DOWN
Pair Of Burglars Got Three Years
Dance and Sing in Jail Before
They Start-Are Old ia;
Hands. At

The two safeblowers, William Burns
and Mathew Sheridan, who pleaded
guilty in Judge McClernan's court Sat-
urday and were sentenced to three years
each in state prison, were taken to
Deer Lodge this morning by Deputy
Sheriff Fitzsimmons.
Burns and Sheridan were dancing In
the corridor of the Jail where they were
ouartered this morning before the Off
GER came for them, and laughing ana
Joking with their fellow prisoners, as II
they were about to go on picnic in
stead of depart for state prison.
Prisoners Show Pleasure.
They are both believed to be old hands
at Swallowing and burglary. ana they
were manifestly delighted at the light
sentence with which they had got off
this time.
Three years was nothing to them, ana,
as the Jail officers said, they were Just
as willing to go down to Deer Lodge
for that time as not.
They danced and sang, and when they
were let out of the corridor into the big
room Of the jail to be shack!ed before
the start, they scratched matches ON
the soles of their shoes and lighted
cigarettes with the utmost gang froid;
also they held out hand each tn be
handcuffed together in the most natural
and easy manner
From the time Burns ami Mathews
entered the Jail they acted as if quite
used to jails. and they Immediately de-
veoped the habits Of old prisoners.
They begged every official ana visitor
or loiterer who came near the jail door
for cigars, cigarettes and money. which
is a never-faling characteristic of the
old prison habtue.
Aware Of Prison Methods.
Yesterday they made preparations for
their incarceration in the state prison
that indicated clearly that they were
fully aware of the customs of prisons
and knew they would be photographed
and measured for the purposes Of fu-
ture identification.
Sheridan wore a heavy beard and mus
tache.. Both men shaved themselves
clean.
The change in their appearance was
marked, and the value of the altera-
ton when the possibility of future dis
When their terms shall have been
served, other boards and mustaches will
make them look altogether different from
the pictures to be taken at the prison.
However, they cannot change their meas
urements.
Burns and Sheridan robbed Mulch &:
Young's store, near Meaderville, and they
are believed to have committed other
robberies and burglaries here, and at
other places.
Not Enough Evidence.
They were arrested in company with
two men named Lacey and Barton, but
the officers could not secure enough evil
dence to convict the latter and they
We're discharged.
Lacey had a pistol in his possession
when arrested that belonged to the
burglarized store, and therefore the four
men were together for some weeks at
different places.
While in Jail Burns told some highly
colored tales of his alleged relatives. He
claimed to be the son of a New York
congressman named Smith and a broth
er-in-law of a senator named McCon-
nell and he said that those relatives
would get him out of states prison. In
all probability the stories We're prod
ucts of the long bow.