| Show TWELVE YEAR butac mont jan 27 missoula Mie soula special to the Miner says U bennett formerly a prominent merchant of this city and brother to willard bennett of deer lodge and nelson of washington who for alie past twelve years lias hiding from an indictment of a grand jury issued october 1890 on a charge of stealing cattle was brought last night to by sheriff the story of his downfall as far ns can be learned is that bell brothers prominent stockmen stoc kmen of in the summer of 1890 had been bisbing cattle and suspicion fell on bennett and his range riders bell instructed his cowboys to keep a close on bennetts riders with the result that evidence against bennalt which when laid before district judge marshall was considered sufficient by the officials to warrant hid calling a gracd jury to investigate tho matter after a session lasting several days the grand jury returned a verdict against hennett and four others charging them with stealing cattle Bennet fc drove from hh home directly through this city to some unknown point on the northern pacific where dressed in wo mans garb he made his escape tho various sheriffs of this county since tho have constantly been on the lookout for bannett some weeks ago the sheriff located his man at albuquerque N M and quietly left the city for the south all papera necessary for his arrest and return here at the timo the affair became public sir bennatt was operating a slaughter bt iveral miles west of hero and in searching the place the grand jury found upwards of one hundred cattle hides bearing the brands of several hitter hoot stockmen stoc kmen hid in the river and buried in the ground in diat vicinity |
