Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-07-07
Bentom's Most Prominent Citizens 65 Years AGO
AS Recalled by All Wilkins Who KNEW Them All

told W. L. CWalk-A-Block-A And Save
A-Dollar) Smith, that he, Studzinsld,
had had a mysterious, bearded and
specialized caller late at night and that
he had not admitted the man, fear
ing for his life. Smith, at the time,
had told Marshal Burke of the instance
and the marshal had located a man
answering the description of the caller
and ordered him out Of town.
A hangeron in bars named Hatch
also was arrested but proved to be
limelight seeker who liked to talk too
much about nothing.
There the matter ended. AL Of the
men proved alibis. So did E. j. Tubbs
and "Frenchy'' Parent when these
Hd peEe Of W YeUa5to 9n y
The men had loaded goods on wagon
and left Lewistown after the murder,
but their act had no connection with
the killing. All first leads went dead
given something else to talk about.
Climaxing series of robberies which
had been going on for months, the
postoffice had been entered and $3.50
taken. The robber had entered the
front door, scaled the box partition,
and the ceiling, pried the door off the
safe and left the same way.
When an investigation was started
! Walter Lehman, now OF the Fergus
county clerks office, disclosed that he
had seen a man who might have been
the robber. When Lehman entered the
poStoffice late at night an Individual
had been there in a far corner, hunched
over and peering through the boxes
toward the rear office. Il felt foolish.
sounded like seeing the criminal in the
dime novel Ali could say was that
the man was short, had a dark beard
and wore. a SLOUGH hat pulled well
down on his forehead"
autho tho Il Was d nGEe1f with a that
of the man who had mysteriously
visited the Studzinski cabin and had
been refused entry. Had the killer,
turned robber, returned to Lewistown?
Again thorough search failed to re-
veal the mysterious bearded man who
visited Samuel Studzinski, 67-year-old
fur buyer and broker a few days before
his murder in his tiny cabin at First
avenue and Main street in Lewistown
the night of Aug, %, 1905. If he were
office on the following Sept. 90 he
had proven himself master criminal
for again he had left no trace.
1t was not until early October that
the town sensed that something con-
corning the murder of the old Jew was
stirring again A representative Of the
worlds greatest criminal hunting agen-
cy appeared in Lewistown. He was
Edwin R. Tabor of Spokane, a Ptnker-
ton operative.
Tabor went about his affairs quietly
but citizens could not help observing
that he was at some unusual business.
Finally. on Nov. 3. the Fergus County
Argus, then published twice a week,
felt called upon to print something
concerning the detective. On that FRI
day it published a story saying that
the operative was in town on business
for the bankers association and was
not working on the Studzinski killing.
The Argus had scarcely hit the
streets when the detective made liar
out of it. With smashing suddenness
he ordered the arrest of A Julius (AD
Heinecke. first manager of Lewistown's
present Fox-Judith theater; H. Ray
Long and Edward A. Taylor, three OF
the towns most popular young busi-
ness men.
, Sheriff Slater and his deputies ar
rested the men on charges of murder
and placed them in the county jail
Heinecke was taken from a wagon on
which he was riding to Helena in what
the detective held was an attempt to
quietly leave the town.
ITO Be Continued Next Week.