The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-05-15
MENACED BY MOB.
Butte Officer Narrowly Escapes
lynching BY Frenzied ,Populace.

BUTTE, May 10. Patrol Driver
Charles Jackson tonight shot and
killed Harry Cole, while the latter
was attempting to escape, and an in.
censed mob of 5000 led by brothers
of Cole, made an Intellectual attempt
to lynch Detective Charles MEG arvey,
the crowd laboring under the impress
sion that 1t was that officer who had
done the shooting.
Cole was arrested by McGarvey on
a robbery charge and was suspected
OF being one of the two bandits who
several days ago held up the North
Coast Limited on the Northern Paci.
tic at Welch spur, numbering En-.
gineer Glow, aud wounding Fireman
Thomas sullivan. Cole is brother
of George Cole who is now serving q
sentence in the Deer Lodge peuiten.
tiary for the robbery Of the Burling-
ton flyer near this city two years ago.
George Cole confessed to holding up
the train and went to prison for ii
years. His brother Harry has been
under the surveillance of the officers
since the hold up OF the North Coast
Limited, and this evening was taken
into custody by the officers.
While he was being sweated in the
office of the police station Cole, it is
said, detiantly declared that he knew
all about the holding up of the lin.
tied and made a dash for the door
which he reached, and ran down an
alley leading from the police station.
An officer started for Cole but tripped
over the threshold of the door and
measured the length of the floor. Nc.
Garvey followed aud tripped over the
PROSTATE form of the policeman and
! he, too, went to the floor.
Patrol Driver J uck-un, who at this
point had entered the room upon
hear \. lhe commotiun. saw tn at Cole
was about to make hi- escao De, and
quickly drew his revolver and fired
once, hitting the neeing man 10 the
back and killed his almost instantly
An immense crowd quickly gathered
and the impression gaining ground
that McGarvey had killed an innocen,
drunk, the cry went up to kill Nc
Garvey. Timothy Cole, brother
of the dead man, took the leader
ship of the mob and with more thar
1000 men at his back led them to the
county Jail, where they thought Nc
Garvey was hiding, and attempted tt
force their way through the line Of Of
ticers guarding the Jail with draw
guns. Inside the Jail were more of
ticers guarding the Jail with Win
chester rifles. The mob secured
long rope from a derrick used in tn
construction of a building near b,
and shout was made to down the of
ticers. At this point Deputy Sheriff
, Jack Wyman stopped the leaders o
the mob and told them that McGa arve.
had left the Jail and that they wer
, welcome to search the building. Thi
} was done, no trace of the detectiv
being found.
) The police restored quiet about l
! o'clock after they had succeeded in ar
, resting Timothy Cole, the leader o
, the mob, and youth named Flynn
who carried the rope, and man whit
: gave his name as Sullivan, and
cousin of Cole. These were held il
the police station until the mob, lack
| ing leader, dispersed when the fou
| were permitted to go to their home
| upon their promise to behave them
| selves.
Cole, the man killed by Jackson
has figured in police circles for som
time, and has been suspected of com
plicity in several crimes. AT the tim
OF the murder of Officer Fleishmann
, Cole was arrested on suspicion of be