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TWENTY-YEAR-OLD KILLER
BACK IN STATE PRISON TO
n AWAIT DEATH ON GALLOWS
Lured Into Hands of Officers by Sensitive Vagabond
Whom He Believed Would Aid Him in a Burglary
Knows What His Fate Will Be, Refuses ,
to Betray Whereabouts of Pals.
(Associated Press Leased Wire.)
CENTRALIA, Wash.. Aug. 22. Tom Murray, one
of the convicts who a week ago last Wednesday shot
their way out of the Oregon penitentiary, is being held in
jail here following his capture late last night by a ruse, as
as he was about to stage a holdup of some local store.
Murray hoped by the holdup to obtain money to
take him east, as he agreed to when he separated from
Ellsworth Kelly and James Willos in the woods near
White Salmon. Phillip Carson, 26, who lives in Port
land, took an active part in framing the ruse which led to
Murray's capture.
The arrest of Murray was brought about without
the shooting which he warned would take place if any
officer tried to cross him in his getaway. He was on his
way early this morning back to the Salem penitentiary.
Carson was responsible for the taking of Murray by a
group of local policemen, deputy sheriffs and the mayor.
According to the officers' report of the affair, Car
on said he accompanied Murray here from Vancouver
where he met the fugitive in the railroad yards. Carson
volunteered to help Murray make his escape from the
country and took him to the Savoy hotel here, after buy
ing him a meal.
Leaving Murray at the hotel with the statement
that he knew a friend who would help Murray and supply
him with clothes, Carson hurried to the police station and
reported Murray.
Patrolman C. D. Pilling, in citizen'' s clothing, ac
companied Carson to Murray's room, carrying some old
clothes hastily gotten together at police headquarters.
Murray donned the clothes carried by the officer and with
Carson the policeman began planning the holdup of
some roadhouse nearby. Pilling and Carson again left
the room telling Murray they would go out and engage
a taxicab. They returned to the police station. Mayor
George Barner, in his own car and posing as the taxi
driver, took Pilling and Carson to the hotel.
In the meantime Chief of Police J. D. Compton,
Policeman Robert Stratton and Deputy Sheriffs Herford
and Hawkins took up their station about the hotel. Car
son and Pilling again went to Murray s room and told
him all was ready for the holdup. As the three came
down the hotel steps, Patrolman Pilling suddenly grab
bed Murray about the body, pinning him until the
other officers closed in.
"The jig's up I'm Murray," aid the prisoner with
a smile. He was put into Mayor Barner's car and rushed
to the police station closely guarded. At 3 o'clock Mur
ray was placed on the train and started for Salem, under
guard of the mayor, chief of police and the other officers
who made the capture.
Murray Wage
Earner at 14
Killer at 20
(Aoclated Pm Lrutd Wire.)
At 14 years of age, during th
World War, Tom Murray, now
20 year old, the recaptured
Oregon convict, worked in a
hip yard. At the close of the
war hit Job ended and he then
began hie career of crime, ulti
mately serving a term in the
California penitentiary at San
Quentin for burglary. Drifting
to Oregon after serving hit sen
tence, Murray returned his life
of crime, and on December 11,
1923, he participated in the rob
bery of a bank at Florence. Lane
-i county. Ten days later he and
his partner, Eddie Walker, were
captured in Portland. Both were
tent to the penitentiary.
With "Oregon" Jones, Clive M.
Weekly, William Johnson and
another man Murray staged a
spectacular escape from the pen.
itentiary March 28, 1924, when
the quintet broke through a
basement door, pried bare from
a window, scaled the prison
walls, commandeered the auto of
a salesman passing outside the
prison walls, and escaped tem
porarily, r
All but Oregon Jones were
caught within a week. Jones re
mained at large for a year.
Ellsworth Kelly, who escaped
with Murray this month, went
to the penitentiary for. secret
ing Murray in his cabin, up in
the hills of Josephine county,
immediately following the Flor
ence bank holdup.
James Willos, the third
escaped man, was "sent up"
from Umatilla county, charged
with larceny from a building.'
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EDITOR FACES FIRS
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DEGREE MUflDER CHARGE RESULT
FATAL BATTLE IN LOBBY OF HOTEL
Magee, Defendant in Famous Libel Case, Wounds Judge
Leahy in Resisting Brutal Assault and Kills
Third Man Who Tries to Interfere, Then
Gives Way to Period of Crying.
y to Period of '
(paper won
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! Aooiitl Trt Wh.) Ipaper woman noted Teahya
EAST I.AS VEUAS, N. M AUK, trance with the remark:
22. CarlC. MaKee, Albuquerque ' "There's I,fahjr." Witnesses de-!
iedltor, today was faced with first dared that Magee dropped his left1
'degree murder charges in New ihand Into his coat pocket and con-1
'Mexico courts In which he gained jtinued the conversation with the I
national prominence during the woman as Patterson backed away.,
;last two years as defendant In the Leahy then approached the dl-'
now famous "Magee libel and con-van. witnesses said, and at ruck j
tempt cases." j Magee on the cheek, knocking him i
The charge was filed by the dls- from the seat. As Magee struggled
trlct-attorney late last night, and to his feet, witnesses declare, Lea-1
a criminal warrant served on tneihy kicked him in the ribs,
'editor by Sheriff Lorenzo Uelgado Magee then drew a .30 calibre
as Magee lay In a bed In the Mea-! pistol and fired as Lassetter
;dows hotel, bruised from his en-lseli-d Leahy"s arms. The shot
counter last night In the hotel lob-'struck Lassetter in the throat.
by with former Judge David J. causing an internal hemorrhage
Leahy, during which John B. Las- which brousht death soon.
setter, of Santa r, was shot to A second shot struck Leahy's
death and Leahy" wounded In thelarm, shattering the upper bone.
upper -left arm. The first shot jThe former Judge then turned and
fired by Mngee felled Iassetter
and the second shattered thy for
mer jurists arm
walked from the lobby unassisted.
Magee f-ll sobbing on the divan
and Iassetter. lying on the floor
,and I introduce him to Pilling and
'Barner and tell him they are to at
'aist us In the stickup and every.
! thing is all right, not to fear.
I "Just at that point. Pilling and
'Barner stick their guns in Mur-
ray's ribs and, quick a, a flash he
tumbles and exclaims, 'pretty
clever.'
j "That was all he said. He went
silent from then on and did not
say another word, but I could tell
jhe waa doing some mighty tall
j thinking. Because of this I will
try to get him out of here on the
3 o'clock train thia morning to
t Portland where he can be kept in
: safety."
I Murray waa taken to the local
jail and locked up under heavy
guard. He ate a hearty supper,
but refused to talk or make any
comment onvwhat had happened.
Pierce Thanks
God Murray is '
Taken; to Hang
(AMoeUtcd frm UtM mm.)
MARSHFIELD, Ore., Aug. 22.
When shown press dispatches
early this morning telling of the
capture of Tom Murray, escaped
convict. Governor Waiver M.
Pierce exclaimed, "Thank God.
I am so glad to hear the news,
for since I have been In the gov
ernor's chair, nothing has kept
me awake nights until this pri
10 n break." .'Murray notd not
expect executive clemency, for
he will hang," the governor ad
bed. Governor Pierce announced
that late today he will name
G. 3. Thompson, Crater Lake
forest reserve chief, Jefferson
Myers, former state treasurer,
and Adjutant-General White of
the Oregon National1 Guard, a
commission of three to investi
gate tha recent jail break at the
Salem penitentiary.
The commission wil) be asked
to make recommendations re
garding a ntw prison which
Governor Pierce endorses.
KELLY AND WILLOS, AFTER
ROBBING STORE AT BINGtri
ESCAPE IN STOLEN AUTO
Posses Comb Southwestern Washington in Effort to
Find Fugitives, Who Speed Through Goldendale
and Thence Toward Yakima One Sheriff
Passes Them Unknowingly on Road.
tight eye witnesses, questioned a"arby. died within a few minutes
by Assistant District-Attorney T. v A coroner's Jury was empaneled
;V. Trader, told practically the rame Immediately, ..viewed Lassetter's
story of the fatal encounter and hody In a lorai mortuary and, at
the formal flilng of murdvr chaws th request of the assistant dls
followed. itrlrt-attnrnry adjourned until 9
Eye-witnesses declared that Ma- o'clock today, when Magee was ex
gee was seated on a divan In the pected to be present with his at
lobhy, conversing with newspaper .torneys. R. II. Hannal and Fred
reporters when W. S. Patterson, a Wilson, both of Albiiouernue. who
former employe of Magee's. enter- represented him in the libel and
ed and began talking to him. contempt cases heie last year and
Magee. Patterson and a news-'n .lutv 19?.
Votes oj R. R. Turner and
Two Colleagues Limit Costly
Changes School Book List
Canon's Story of Capture. when he left the car Murray de
The story of Murray's capture, manded know 'what the hell you
as told by Carson follows: went ln thtn ,0P-' Willos re-
"I had been arrested In Portland, "lied' to he" wlth yu-' There was
and was charged with vagrancy In ,om mor words and then the
police court. They gave me sixty hr" W" P"t. Murray was
days but suspended sentence in or. to 00 east and Willos and Kelly
der that I might get out of town w T "vw ,'mo" r
and stay out. I went across the ,ma h(t out tnem'
-,ki. u.neAHu.e u..t. wlvta with Willos at leader.
rAi..mhi v.nrn..w.r Wuh. wiwi vvhiob as leaaer.
There I met Tom Murray. It waa! "VagV Feelings Hurt
In the railroads where Murray was "I want to say right here that I
about to board the 6:4S p. m. fast neevr met such a perfect gentle
freight for Centralia. Murray told man as Murray. I would not have
me who he was and asked me to turned him In but for the fact that
help him get away. We planned to he declared I was a menace to se
go to Tacoma and stage a stick-up. ciety and a lot of such stuff as
White we were on the way here, that. When he did that I made up
Murray told me that after he. Wil. mv mind that I would turn him
loe and KeMy arrived in Portland over to the authorities, so when we
shortly before 10 o'clock Monday arrived here I took him to the 8a
night, they Immediately drove in voy hotel and we got a room. Then
an automobile to The Dalles and we planned to do a stick-up here.
Crossed over lb White Salmon left him in the hotel and called
where they have been hiding since upon Charles Pilling, member of
in the woods and brush. the night police force and hired
Murray and Willos Row. bim to aid In th stickup. Of course
"At about S o'clock yesterday this was alt bluff, but a part of my
fFriday) afternoon Murray and 9mc. Then I called on George
Willos had a fight. Thsra was an Earner, mayor of this city and
eld baggage car near the station , hired him to be taxi driver,
there and Willos wanted to net In- I "My next move was to return to
to it and get some clothes. Murray the hotel, oo to our room, tell Mur
objected, but Willoe, an old rail- ray everything was all right and to
road ma" got In just the same and icome ahead. We go down stairs
I Mii-rn- Mim Xot IxMt Smile.
! PORTLAND. Or.. An. 22.
Tom Murray, ewaped OroKon con-
ivtet, under heavy Ritard. arrived
here early today from Centralia,
. WRHhlnRton. where he was cap
lured late lt night.
I If Murray was nervous and
worried when he stepped from
the train in (he I'nion depot, he
did not betray it.
j HI1 smile which Ingratiated
Itself Into the hearts of the eight
or ten pprfions whom he and his
fellow convicts kidnaped In their
desperate dah from 44alem penl
;tent(ary dtd not fall him.
Handcuffed to his wrixt wan
Patrolman C. 1. Hilling of the
: police department.
Flanking him on the other side
was Mayor George L. Barner,
while ln the rear was Chief of
I Police Jim Compton of Centralia
land Deputy Sheriff Helix Hertford
of Lewis county.
"Hello, Murray," sung out some
j in the crowd of newspaper men,
j union depot attaches and train
men who flanked Chief of Police
Jenkins. Captain of Dptectlves
Moore and Detective Collins of
the local police department.
Without a moment's delay, the
officers hustled Murray along the
train the Imgth of two cars and
then climbed through an open
vpHtthiile and directed him to
wards the express station at the
south end of the L'nton depot
yard. The crowd rramMed
; through the ex pre h cars, under
the cars and through opened ves-
jtlliiiles, running along to over-
;take the offlrers and Murray. At
a point well lighted, the officers
turned and gave the cameramen
an opportunity to snap Murray.
Murray smiled although a
: trifle nervously but he calmed
himself as the crowd ringed him
In and women employees of the
depot Joined the men In pressing
rloer nd Hotter on the officers.
filvee Crowd A Thrill.
j "F'elln. Kelly" Murray
rrted suddenly as he turned his
-head as if he had snddenlv re-
irornlzed his partner In flight.
; Hor an Instant the crowd gasp
ed. Many turned their heads to see
(Continued on pace I )
8ALKM, Ore., Aug. 22. Put
few changes In the texts ntready
used in the public school of Ore
gon were made by the stale text
hook commisKion which met for
Its final session here yesterday
and l't contracts for two third
of the books to be lined during
the coming year. Prices, how
ever, will range from in to 20
per cent higher for the nam1
texts.
Itecords of the state superin
tendent show that moKt of the
books adopted are already em
bodied in the fftale course of In
struction which means that - In
thousands of cases pupils of the
public schools will not be requir
ed to buy new texts.
Indicative of the high prices
offered to the commission for
new contracts was the new world
speller publixhed Uy the World
Pook company. In 1919 the hook
whj contracted at 39 cents while
this year the publishers demand
ed 62 cents. The prices secured
by the commission, it Is said, are
no lower than publtnhers offered
to the state department of .in
struction Reveral weeks ago and
before the governor offered the.
special session of the text book
commission.
Whether court action will he
taken to contest the act of the
commission Is problematical. The
commission met contrary to the
ruling of the state attorney-general,
who held that the body did
not have legal authority to meet
at any other than the daten p
clftrd by law. the next one of
which would have been In No
vember 1 926. The commission
proceeded to meet and adopt the
books, however, under an opinion
written for them by Watson and
Wllron, a Portland Inw
firm. In which It was held that
the code permitted and authoriz
ed emergency meetings of the
board.
Throughout flie two day ses
sion here. Chairman Milton A.
Miller wai the exponent of many
changes and was supported by
Mrs. Msrjnrle Newbury. Thev
were overruled, however, bv th
vot es of It It . Tu rner. A C.
Hampton, and Ceorge W. Hug.
all school men, who opposed the
change on the ground that the
extra expense which would result
to school patrons from the dis
card of old books was not Justi
fied by the slight improvements
offered In the new texts.
More than forty representatives
of puhlixliing firms were present
and were allotted five minutes
each for arguments In favor of
their texts. The Increase In
prices was Justified by them j
with the plea that materials ;
and labor lined In book manufac-
tuer had increased proportion-
ntelv since t he last adoption in ;
1910.
i The meeting of the commission j
Hrlday was called by the gover- 1
nor after text book publishers j
had refused to extend expired
contracts at the old prices as con-
temntutnrl iimlni I h a tint nf !'!'''! !
which provided for the adoption
of one third of the text books
every three years. One-third of
the text hooks was adopted by
the Commission last November,
with two-thirds remaining unpro
tected by , contracts.
I To meet this situation, the 1 !2"
legislature passed a law author
ising the state board of education
to purchase the text trooks at the
best prices obtainable. On the
ground that the "law played into
the hands of the hook trust", the
bill was vetoed by the governor.
To seek a way out of this tan
gle, the nuest inn was referred to
the attorney-general of whether
the text book coin mission could
meet in snecial seilon at this
time. Ills opinion declared
against the comminuton. hut hack
ed by an opinion from the Port
land law firm, the commission
met and proceeded to do its bul-neaa.
(Associated Press Leased Wire.) . .J
' BINGEN, .Wash.. Aug. 22. Ellsworth Kelly and
James Willos, escaped Oregon convicts, were believed
in flight toward Yakima from this place early this morn
ing, following the robbery of a store here about midnight
and the theft of an Overland automobile belonging to
W. S. Rippold. The car bears Washington license No.
123,951.
, The store of E. G. Lewis was the place robbed, en
trance was gained by smashing a rear window. The bur
glars took $ 1 8 in cash, a quantity of cookies and bananas,
a pipe, tobacco and cigarettes, and a pair of shoes.
Sheriff A. P. Gordon, of Skamania county, declared
that the burglars undoubtedly were Kelly' and Willos and
regarded as most significant the theft of the shoes which
were size 6 1-2, the size worn by Willos.
Th highway garage operated by F. V, Flupz also
was entered, where the men tried to steal the car of Night
Marshal Frank Monroe, but they were unable to start it.
Both Kelly and Willos are known to have little knowl
edge of automobiles.
Flupz' rocm above the garage was entered and his
The men took
the keys to his gas tank and obtained a supply of gaso
line for the car.
In the Lewis store, the robbers dropped a pair of
white cloth gloves, answering the description of those
known to have been taken by the escaped convicts when
they held up four men in a lunch room at Monitor, Ore.,
and about 4 ounces of coffee wrapped in a bit of the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer of August 9.
Night Marshal Monroe saw the Overland car leave
the main highway here and take the road to White Sal
mon, one mile up the cliffs. This road connects with
the highway to Yakima, and Sheriff Morgan believes the
convicts are headed for that town. He has notified all
nearby towns and poises early were forming to take up
the chase. A posse also was organizing at Hood River,
Ore., just across the river from here, to join the Wash
ington manhunters. ,
One Bandit Slain, Officer
Dying, 2 Arrests Made
and $15,000 Loot
Is Recovered.
T.os ANdEl.KS. Auk. 22. Oni money stolen, but he was not awakened.
Daniut waa kiiipu, nnp police om
rcr la bli.vvd to be dylnK, a sec
ond pollrrman. a ncrond bandit and
a pajirby wore Iphb afriously In
jured In a plttlol bait e thai follow
ed a holdup of Hie Ilpllman branch
bank at Ninth and Santa Fp atrocta
here today.
Two bandita escaped and $15.
000 taken by the holdup men waa
rc-covprpd and a member of the
Kane who save the name of John
Smith of Milwaukee waH captured.
The dad bandit waa Identified aa
John Frnnta. ChicaRo bank robber.
W. J. Italdwin waa badly rut by
flying glaxa whf-n a atreain of bil
IftH rame through the windows of
hi aednll.
The wounded are: II. E. Smith,
police officer, believed fatally In
jured: Moloicycle Officer Oscar
llayer, wounded In hip: V. ('. Hee
ler .electrical contractor ahoi In
hand bv stray bull"t: John Smith.
capt'urej bandit, allKht'y wnuudrd. j
The holdup (tang enter,! the
nana anorny aiier u openen tori , , . , . ., , , . .
business and leisurely baited the this morning called out his available deputies and joined
tills anil raff'-a. As they ran out I L- ar, L f fL fv L,, -,,J ft- L, r M
Bingen. If the bandits are coming throueh the Ynk'tna
YAKIMA, Wash., Aug. 22. Sheriff L D. Luce
and Jumped In a waiting auto th'-y
wre ajmtted by two patrolmen, J.
A Slambler and H. M. Stevenson,
who commandeered a passing car
and gave chase. Motorcycle offi
cer Iiayr also joined In the chase
as the pistol battle op'-ned. One
of the first shots from the bandit
car struck Bayer, but he drove his
motorcycle ahead and pumped bul
lets from his gun. '
t the Intersection of Seventh
anil I " A ii unto ulrupiu ift lrir
4t K. Hnilth and (.. T. Meyers, were ling, following the robbsry
cnanglng posts as trie traffic sir-i store and garage at Bingen.
country they must go through White Swan, the officers
pointed out and their mam search will be concentrated
in that neigh hpr hood.
and the Yakima Indian restrvatlon.
Tha latter place it regarded aa
the most likely objective of tha
nsls altered, stopping
car In Uro Jam.
the
Sheriff Pastes the Pair.
GOLDENDALE, War.. Aug. 22.
Ellsworth Kelly and James Wil-
loe, fugitive Oregon convicts, are bandits, aa the mountains In that
believed to have passed throuah district have long been a hiding
Officers 'Goldendale ot 3 o'clock thia morn- P'aca for desperadoes, and It te
of a "id they find ample cover from
pursuers,
bandit j Sheriff W. 8. Warwick of Kllcka. Reports that ten gallons of gas-
jtat county believes be patted the oiine had been stolen from two fill
The robbers I'-sped out, continu
ing firing and Htnlth fell. Then
llayer Htamhler and Stevenson ar
rived and the corner became the
center of a hail of bullets'
Meyers, aft r he had emptied his
gun, r,an forward and grabbed the
han't It who gave the name of
Smith, about the neck, placing him
under nrrept and recovering the
hK)f. The other two members of
fleeing detperadoee between Ootd- ing stations along the euppoeed
lendale and Lyle as he was rushing route of the robbers were received
in hie own car to Bingen, 50 miles by the officers.
COOLIDGE NAMES KLANSMAN
FOR GEORGIA CUSTOMS JOB
f Aaa-If 1 Vrt-m mrA ir.)
' RWAMf'S'-OTT. Mass.. Aug. 22.
Marlon O. thinning of Satannah,
Oa.. w appoint' d lo'lsv to be col
lector of niftoni at Savannah, lie
Is rhlef of fiiaff of the Ku Klut
Klan for orgia.
southwest of here,
The sheriff at the time did not
know that an automobile bad been
stolen at Bingen.
The car he pasted was an Over
land, like the one stolen at Bengen,
Warwick said.
Ai soon as the news was sent
the band fbd towaids the lon An-'back here by Sheriff Warwick,
gelea river, pursued by police and District-Atterney C. W. Ramsey no- ni f becomes sure the bandits
cltlK-na. tlfed all surrounding tows and rp headed this way but small
n ! possee oegan organiiing io ias up nuaU will be
NEW YORKER GOLF KING ,lh chase.
m.-hi vrm mm wir.i 1 Three ways of escaping
YOl'NfJSTOWN. O.. Aug. 22 country are open to the despcra-
Mv Desert Auto For Hills.
' YAKIMA. Waxh.. Aug. 23 Sher
iff Luce has his men In readiness
to effect the capture of Kelly and
Willos. the fugitive Oregon con
victs. If thev appar In this locali
ty. Few of the hsst!y organized
force will actually go to the field
nt to cover the
Mt. Adams and Satus roads, the
the rnoM h'giral ones for the bandits
traverse. In order to reach
While Swan, they must pass the
AGREE ON TREATY.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 22.- Regu
lation to enforce the l"nit'd i
Htates-Csnsdisn treaty was screed i
upon today by representative of ,
the two governments. They lil be I
announced later.
Marltonald Smith. New York, todav
won the western opn gnif chain- One is over the Central With Signal Peak mnser station, where
pfnnshlp rlth a score of 2M. scor- Ington highway through Bickleton all ears are required to register,
ing a 69 or three under par for the nd Mapleton. Thle route all lies As soon as anv auspicious trsvt-I-filial
mum.'. through open country. prn are reported from Signal Teak,
o Another is by doubling back and the Yakima posse will roncentrate
Mrs. J. F. rtl of Mon'sano, taking one of the numerous ferries rn the Ulilt Swan district, some
California, and nephew, KenHe across the Columbia back into Ore- 40 mil- away. It Is possible for
Shorey, and niece, Mrs. L. L. goo and the Columbia river bigh. thm to avoid the Yakima dlstrlet
feane of Tacoma. stopped here for way. and go by Oo'd ndale.
a short time ymierday afternoon) A third Is through the heavily j Sheriff Luce in of tha opinion
and visited with Mrs. Cora Cloud, timbered bills into the Toppenlsh that since the bandits obtained a
The psry In motoring Marshfleld, country into the Stmcoe mountains j (Continued on page tbrur).
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