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Show WORKED POOLROOMS Man Accused of Wire Tapping Tap-ping Taken In. ARREST MADE ON A TRAIN J, C McLaughlin, a Well-Known Young Man of Butte, Will Hive to Answer Charge Made by Western Union Telegraph Company of Tapping Tap-ping Their Wires and Then Telephoning Tele-phoning tho Infornntion Into Butte, Helena nnd Anaconda, by Which Pooliooms Were Beaten. nulte Mont , 7une :t J C Mc-Liughlln Mc-Liughlln wns nnealrd Into this etenlng eten-lng while on his whs Into Ilutte from Orfgenn Springs ti Motion on tho Ilutte Xnncomla &,Puino rnllroid nnd about halt way between thla city nurl Anaconda McLaughlin Is ch irged tilth malicious mlechb f, but a more pel Inns charge Is to bo filed against the prisoner Xlondas McLaughlin it is charged by the XXestern Union lilcgraph compnns hii lean tai ping their wires nnd securing information txlth which to bent the iwolrooms In nutle, Anaconda Helena and oilier licea lhat ho his male consl lerable moncs nut of the gamo Is declared to be a tertnlntj by those Inlerestid It Is sine that the Hutte nnd Ani-condi Ani-condi poolrootnfl luxe suffered heax-lly heax-lly during the past fcxt ninnths because be-cause of n ssstematlc wire tapping scheme being worked bs unknown poo plo A cnicful watch ban been kept but the guilty ones haxe on eich oi caalon succeeded In entering their trncki nlcels It Is said that McLaughlin tupped the wires nt u rolnt nildxtns between Otognon mil stunit and then tele rhnned his Infornntion tn Hutte and Annconda from the public stations nt one or the other plate That he haH frequently tipped both ntatlona la al loi,cil I the ofllrl lis to be n. fact which Ibex enn nelly cstnhllah Tho jrime bv which tho xxtres luxe been worked in the" detriment nf the pooliooms his coat the opernlora much moms in. tonight the ndmll Hut thes haxe lont henxHs on onaslonn during the pnst soxiral weeks Tho fionlroom proprletora admit further that Hips denied tho truth of sloiles irexlously clrcnlited ns to Ihe wire tapping scheme becniise nf their de sire lo throw tho xxorkein oft their Kinrd ond therebj- secure their arrest ar-rest XIcLmglilln wis brought to Butte, but ns the chnrge was sworn to befoie an Xnicnnili Justice of the pence ho will bo taken there for trlnl on Tucs-d Tucs-d is afternoon Tonight the prlsonpr Hicured Ihe signatures of I) T lien noes II L Prnnk and X V Ilrny three of Tlutlf a most promlmnt busl-ness busl-ness mm to a bond hi the sum of $1000, anl ho wns klven his freedom McLiiighlln Is n lory well knnnn soung man mil has resided In Ilutte for mans sears where hts reptttntlon hii been of the best |