The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-23
PAISLEY TO FIGHT
FOR HIS FREEDOM
Secures Services of Attorneys,
Who Will Start Legal
Proceedings.
REQUISITI0N PAPERS
ARE NOW ON THE WAY
Legal Battle in Court EX-
pected at 10 O'Clock
This Morning.

When court opens this morning at 10
o'clock lively fight between attorneys
representing William Paisley, the alleged
Butte hold-up, and City Detective Nc
Garvcy, In whose charge the prisoner has
been. pending the arrival OF rcquisition
papers from Montana. Is expected. The
firm of Weber & McGurrln and Attorney
William Newton have been retained by
Paisley to look after his interests.
Will Demand Money.
One of the things that the attorneys
mentioned viii demand Will be the return
OF the SllS2 taken from Paisley at the
time of his arrest, and which City Detect
i've McGarYey AYERS Is portion of the
5000 secured by Paisley and his partner
when the Hennessy mercantile store was
robbed. January 9. The money has al
ready been expressed to Butte. and the
fight for It's possession in the courts
promises to be a lively one. The attorneys
for their client, and hope also TO show
that the money was secured by Paisley
In a legitimate manner.
Papers on the Way.
In the meantime Sheriff Mike Quinn of
Silver Bow county, Montana, Is hurrying
to Salt Lake with requisition papers, d.
rected to Gov Cutler, and providing for
the delivery of William Paisley TO City
Detective NcGarEey. \ telegram from
Helena, Mont, Monday night reads as
follows,
Gov. Toole's Telegram.
Gov Toole today Issued rcqusluon upon
Gov. Cutler OF Utah for William Paisley un-
der arrest In salt Lake on charge or robbing
the Ccnterville store OF u. j. HenEessy & Co.
Of Butte january .. OF $4,000. Deputy sheriff
Mike Quinn OF silver Bow will leave for Salt
Lake tonight with the documents.
Will Be Close Fight,
AS court opens at 10 o'clock this morn
Ing and IL is expected that the papers and
officers bringing them Will arrive by that
hour or shortly afterward, close fight
is expected, Precautions have been taken,
1t is alleged, to hold Paisley on another
charge In case the hGbeas corpus pro-
CeedingS are looked upon with favor by
the court Just what the second COM
plnint will cnarge is not known, as City
Detective McGarVcy naturally refuses TO
show his hand at this time or talk for
publication about the case,
Paisley a Bad Lot,
According to the Montana officer Pals
ley Is bad lot. He has served several
terms I'm State penitentiaricS and Will take
a long chance with any one when his
liberty is at stake. The offense with
which he Is charged Is that of assisting
In holding up the manager OF the Hen
esSy Mercantile company at Centerville,
a small place nedr Butte. and compelling
him to open the safe and deliver 5000 In
currency, With his partner Paisley es-
capped and was traced to Salt Lake, when
his wife bought a ticket for this place.
The account OF Puisley's arrest In Sec
ond South street Tooming- house by Nc
Garvey and Detective Burt was published
in The Tribune Saturday morning Pais-
ley was surprised by the officers and was
under arrest and diSarmed almost quick
cr than II takes To tell 1t. He was pro-
vidcd with a fine Colts revolver OF the
latest pattern and had SllS2 In his clothes.
Wife Gets Busy.
As soon as Mrs Paisley was released
from the city Jail she lost no time in
consulting attorneys. Detective McGar
Vcy started for Butte Saturday night
with Paisley. who at that time was Will
ing to go without requisition papers. but
when McGarvey missed his train. while
looking after some baggage at the depot.
he suddenly changed his mind, and by
the time the next train was ready to pull
out he refused to go. During the day
Mrs Paisley conferred with the attor-
ncys mentioned and Monday evening al
about O'Clock Paisley was visited In his
cell with the result given above.