LOCAL HAPPENINGS AND DOINGS
NEWS NOTES CONCERNING PEOPLE AND
THINGS IN AND AROUND ST. HELENS
PERSONAL; LOCAL; SOCIAL AND OTHERWISE
Mrs. Samuel Churchill and aon of
Trenholm are visiting at tho home of
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Blakeslcy this
week.
Or. and Mrs. J. I,, Zipparer were
Portland visitors Wednesday.
Assessor C. W. Blakesley attendod
the meet i nog of the State Tax Commis
sion at Salem last week.
Misses Elsie I'hilip Anne Kttcl and
Eugenia Deming, w ho are attending the
Willamette university at Salem, ar
rived home Wednesday evening to spend
Thanksgiving with home folks.
Eugene Keelen of Peer Island was
the guest of WaKlen Dillard for a few
days last week.
Mrs. A. J. Doming was a Portland
visitor Wednesday, where sho went to
meet Miss Eugenia who was reurning
home from Salem.
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Davis of P..rt
and visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
K. Cox in this city last week.
For Sale
typewriter. Mist office.
-A nearly new Underwood
For patriculars call at
Taken up at my place two miles west
of Tenfcolm One black and white
yearling bull, no marks. Owner can
have same by paying for this ad and
keeping. H. R. Smith, Trenholm,
Ore., care of Miller ranch.
Must sell four fine Jersey cows, two
milking and two fresh soon. $260
cash for the four. Cows at Spitzen
berg, 7 miles nothwest of Scapoosc.
Ask for Mr. Kissel, or write Ludde
man, Ruley & Co., 912 Chamber of
Commerce, Portland, Ore.
A pair of wool blankets were taken
from my tent near C olumbia City by
some person, and whoever it was will
confer a great favor on a poor hard
working woman by returning them to
me. Mn. Annie Carr, Columbia City.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Muckle and
family spent Thanksgiving at the home
of their daughter, Mrs. Farris, at Linn
ton. Mi. and Mrs. John Pringle spent
Thanksgiving- with friends in I'ort
land. The City Council levied a nine-mill
tax for city purposes at the meeting
last Monday night.
F. M. Miles, of I'ortland, was
looking after business matters in
St, Helens this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Blackburn
left today for Mist, where they will
spend some time vis'ting friends
and relatives.
Several real bargains in real es
tate are offered by the St. Helens
Improvement Co. Look them over
on page six.
The large new vault in the City
hall is about completed and fur
nishes a safe place for many valuable
papers and records of the city.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Crockett, of
Portland, visited at the home of
Mrs. L. Paulsen, of this city, dur
ing the week.
The Pioneer Store, Ferry &
Graham, announce that they have a
large assortment of Christmas
goods and invite the public to in
spect them.
Mr. Bechtold. who has been
manager for the National Hospital
Associatioa for a number of years,
visited in St. Helens this week. Mr.
Bechtold has recently passed the
Oregon Bar examination and is
now a full-fledged attorney.
Suitable gifts for all the family
can be found at the Pioneer Store
of Perry & Graham. Also a full
line of the best general merchan
dise. An invitation is extended to
you to visit this store and look over
our Roods.
The Ladies Aid of the Congre
gational church will hold its annual
Christmas sale on Thursday, Dec.
11th. They will have their usual
large assortment of useful and
fancy articles, including rugs, pil
lows, embroidered and crochet
trimmed pillow slips, towels, scarfs,
work and tea aprons, neckwear, j
Irish crochet etc., bags of all kinds;
also a new variety of chicken.
There will also be a food wile, in
cluding jellies, pies, puddings etc.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. McKay and
Mrs. Kay Watts, of I'ortland, were
Thanksgiving guests lit the home of
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Iiotgor. in St
Helens.
Ordinance No. 164
An ordinance making it unlawful for
person) whose real property lies within
ltlO feet from any established sewer
within the city of St. Helena, Oregon,
to maintain any open privy, water
closet, vault or cess pool, ami making it
a misdemeanor therefor and providing
a penalty therefor.
The City of St. Helens does ordain
as follows:
Section 1 . It shall be unlawful for
any person, or persons, owning real
proprety within 160 fot from any es
tablished sewer within the city f St.
Helens, Oregon, which sewer can be
reached or connected with, without
crossing private property, to maintain
or use thereon, or allow to be used
thereon, any open privy, water closet,
vault or cess pool. Any person vio
lating the provisions of this ordinance
shall be guilty of a misdmeanor. and
upon conviction shall be fined in any
sum not exceeding fifty dollars, or be
imprisoned in the city juil not exceed
ing twenty days.'ur by both such fine
and imprisonment.
Read the first time November 10th.
1913.
Read the second time November 17th.
1913.
Read the third time November 21,
1913.
Approved November 21, 1913.
A. W. Mueller. Mayor.
Attest: E. E. Quick, Recorder.
GUILTY OF MURDER
Continued from Pag 1
visiting the family on the little
farm each Saturday night and Sun
day. During the year ami the year
previous a number of other fami
lies and ersoRS from I'ortland pur
chawed tracts of land in the vicinity,
some of them following the same
course that Mr. Wehrman did.
They were employed in the city and
made week end visits to the farms.
Among the number of new resi
dents that year was John A. 1'end-r
who secured a Bmall tract from his
brother-in-law, Mr. Schneitzer, and
moved there in April, 1911,, with
his wife. They engaged in raising
poultry principally and made it
their permanent home. On the
Saturday before Labor day, 1911, a
number of these people visited the
farm homes remaining over Sun
day and until Monday evening. A
week or two before this time Mrs.
Pender had gone to Independence,
Oregon, to the hop fields, where she
was picking hops while Pender
stayed at home to care for his
poultry.
Wednesday morning Mrs. (I. II.
Seircks, a neighbor of tho Wehr
mans, went to the Wehrman cabin
and noticed that the door was lock
ed from the outside with a padlock
and no signs of life around the
place. She looked in the window
and there saw the bodies of Mrs.
Wehrman and her baby boy, about
three years old, lying on the bed.
She immediately went back to her
home and told her husband about
her find and he promptly went to
Seappoose and notified Sheriff
Thompson and Deputy Sheriff Grant.
Together the officers went to the
Wehrman cabin and opened tho j
door. Ihere they found the bodies
of the woman and th boy on the
bed, each with three bullet holes
through the head. Mrs. Wehrman
had on her shoes and rubbers and
all her clothing except her under
clothes which had been removed
and were lying under her body.
Search around the house by the
officers resulted in finding nothing
that would frive a clue to the mur
derer, except a newspaper which
had not yet been opened and a
package of some sort of fancy
sowing which was yet unopened,
but addressed to Mrs. Wehrniun.
These articles the officers took
along with them. They relocked
tho door without disturbing the
bodies, placed a notice on the door
warning everyone to keep out und
wont back for thj coroner.
Mr. Wehrman swas called by tel
ephone that day find, it being too
late for him to gt a train, ho se-
cured nn auto and with a relative
'drove down from I'ortland, arriving
' at the cabin sometime during the
night. They saw the notices on
the door and did not enter the
house, but returned down the hill
to the Pender cabin and waited un
til nearly morning About 5 o'clock
they awakerjod Ponder, ho being
the nearest neighlmr, and told
him of the murder. He, at that
time, expressed surprise and sym
pathy and proposed that the third
man, Mr. Myers, go to Portland
and secure the services cf a detec
tive while he and Wehrman would
go to the cabin and find out what
they could. Ponder and Wehrman
proceeded up tho Idll to the cabin
and while Wehrman stayed outside
Ponder went inside und got some
wheat with which to feed the
chickens. Upon his coming out
side he tolil Wehrman of what was
inside, He described the position
of the bodies and of the wounds.
According to the testimony on this
point Pender was only in the cabin
a very short time and did not
touch the bodies, so this was made
tpuito an important link in the chain
of circumstantial evidence against
him, for the reason that hid descrip
tion of the wounds in the head of
the baby must have -toon known by
him before he entered the. cabin as
they were of such character that it
would have required a careful ex
amination of the head to have boon
able to describe them with such
accuracy. After feeding, the
chickens the two men started back
down the hill to await the return
of the officers and Myers. On the
way back, so Wehrman testified.
Ponder, by way of expressing sym
pathy, put his arms around Wehr
man and felt cautiously around the
pistol pockets of Wehrman to see if
he was armed. They talked about
bloodhounds and Pender suggested
that they would be of no use as it
had leen raining very hard during
the three days since the crime was
committed. This was also used by
the Slate as tending to show that
Pender knew when the'murdcr had
taken place, three days before this
time.
A coroner's jury was called that
day and a preliminary inquest was
held at the cabin. At this hearing
there were several officers from
Portland with the sheriff and dep
uties from this county. The whole
neighborhood was there, under or
ders from the sheriff. Pender was
there and, according t the testi
mony, apioared anxious to get
away. His actions at once arou.-wd
the suspicions of the1 officers a'id a
special watch was placed to keep
him under surveihaice. At this
time also, several people noticed
some scratches on Pender's face
which seemed to bo fretdi. Thei-e
scratches on Pender's face played a
leading part in the evidence of the
state in connecting Pender with the
crime. The next day the coroner's
jury came to St. Helens and all the
residents of that neighborhood were
summoned to aptiear here. Pender
was here that day and was still, le
ing watched. The scratches on his
face were noticed by a number of
people that day. f
With the newspaper and package
found in the Wherman cabin by
Sheriff Thompson, as a starter, the
sheriff went to work. . Hu traced
the package to , Mrs. Bates, a
neighbor, w ho said she had placed
It in the community nmil box, ili-
rectly In front of Pender's cabin.
on the Saturday before labor day.
That Pender must have ..en her
place it there as she was talking to,
him. This testimony was corrobo-
rated by another witness, a young i doubt that Pender was the man
man who was with Mrs. Bates when , who committed the deed. It was
she put the package in the box. 1 shown at the trial and in the inves
Inuiry at the postoffice in Soap- ligations of th) officers that every
poose brought oul the evidence ( other person in tho neighborhood
that Pender had enquired for and was accounted for on that fatal
was given tho Wehrman mai on ( night, and that Pender, who swore
Immt day and that the paper found
in the cabin was among the mail he
received.
On the 12th of September Fender
left Scappooso am! went to I'ortland
and from there he wont to Inde
pendence where his wife was work
ing. Shoritf Thompson followed
him and was so thoroughly con
vinced that Tender should not be
allowed to escape without giving
some sort of explanation, that ho
arrested him at Independence and
j brought him back to Portland. In
the office of SheritT is t evens, of
I'ortland, the night he was brought
back from Independence. Ponder
made several statements which af
terwards proved to be very dam
aging evidence against him. He
! told of having received tho mail
for the Wnhrman's on Ijibor day.
He told of having forgotten to milk
his cow on that evening anil that he
did not winr hi clock on that
night.' lie told of his custom of
leaving his light burn all night in
his tent. Hi' made several other
statements which gave the officers
clues, to work on and which they
did. Jhoy found out by a neighbor,
Mr. LindlolT, that on the evening
of L'k!xr day nt about 7, lit) when
LindlolT parsed the Pender tont on
his way to Soippoose, there whs no
light in tho Ponder tont. They
found out that the cow hud not
been milked that night and that tho
calf had not been turned with the
cow. On the Sunday following La
bor day two men, Riley and Hanson,
who owned tho cabin nearest the
Ponder tont. returned from their
work iii Portland and found that
their cabin had boon broken into
and that their trunk had boon
forced oen. Sheriff. Thompson
was notified and with ShorilT
Stevens anil Detective Livings,
they prooeirttjd tthc Uiley cabin.
lTpon examination of tho trunk
lock they discovered that the trunk
had been opened with a hammer
anil after trying tho hammer of
Uil.y & I lath. hi which did not t t
.the Wrks on the trunk, it was sug
gested that the hammer that made
those murks was broken in some
way, and Iiilev, having seen a ham
mer at Pender's house with a
broken claw, went over to the Pen
der tent and brought IVndei's
hammer with one claw broken,
which, when compared with tho
marks on the trunk, was found to
correspond exactly. In this trunk
Uiley had left his 3S Colt revolver
when he left homo and Ponder had
borrowed this revolver some time
before and it was shown that Pen
der know where the revolver was
kept in the trunk. The revolver
was in the trunk just as it had lnen
left and nothing had been molested,
so that it was taken for granted by
the officers that the trunk must
have boon broken into for the pur
pose of getting the gun. The bul
lets which had been taken out of the
heads of the murdered woman and
child were submitted to an expert
in Portland, some of tho same
ammunition found in the Riley cabin
was taken to him along with the
gun and some experiments made.
Hie expert on the witness stand tcs
lillcd that there was a defect in the
barrel of the gun caused, probably,
by a gas pit, which marked every
bullet fired from it. The markings
on the bullets taken from the dead
woman and child wore examined
and found to have that peculiar
marking. So it was established
that the jrun which had fired the
bullets into the heads of the un
fortunate woman and baby wm the
Uiley gun and with the connection
of the Pender hammer in opening
the trunk and his knowledge of tho
whereabouts of the gun made a
very strong link in the chain of
evidence against him. At the trial
there were many details brought
out and small bits of evidence con
necting the main links in the chain
of circumstantial evidence, and so
'strong were these circumstances
and so well linked together by the
state's attorneys that the jury were
convinced beyond any reasonable
Ho was at home as usual, was not
there and could not be accounted
for.
Mrs. Ponder stood nobly by the
defendant all through the two trials
of tho case. Sho has boon in S'.,
Helens all the long two vears that
Porder has boon in the jail here,
constantly keeping in touch with
tho case of the defendant and his
need. The old mother, too, Mrs.
Pender, of Ogden, Utah staved
with her boy through all the horri
ble time. The defendant had some
of the best attorneys in the state to
defend him and everything was
done that could possibly have been
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overv doubt and was t routed with
tho utmost fairness, but a jury of
Columbia county citizens has said
rSur b cniltv .ml 1 1,., onlv loin.
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whmont provided for by the lawa of
tnis state lor mat crime i- nanging.
Judge r,akin h:s granted tho atlor- h:ch tune o'll Nm in rin ft., mil
ney for the defendant thirty day8',u" ,,f pwbluaimn l..t,
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1 will le imposed upon him
Tho case has boon one which will
never bo forgotten by the residents'
of this county. It has lien in tho
' courts already for more than two
: years. Two expensive tiials have
J been had, the first one resulting in
j disagreement. Figuring up the
'actual money paid out by the
county since tho crime was com
' mitted, as neatly as it is (xisyiblo to
j do so. the two trials, board, sheriff's
expenses and necessary rxpendi-
j turos have already amounted to
approximately $10,000.
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raiiue '1 weal of Will on -lie mrrid an.
and lot N 1 at --t i ri Xi in said town
ship, aid I. .la Hand 11 in ectio . 26.
t..wnsl,lM 7 ii . illi o rane 2 w-st of
Will;iin,.e mi-riiliaii wlii. h are coven d
with water during the rt hum ,K,
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ol ai. land lu-ir in Im-I.ik drsrriliril
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way of tbe Astoria nd ColninM., Kivir
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the Colntiiliia rlvri; also all the tide
lint" lying east of and fronting and
that tin in said lot I, of Sirlioii .Ui and
sa d I .1 4 of section 'H and the sal I 'o
union Land Claim of T. I'. tiHllaay in
townslil,. 7 north of ninen 2 wist of the
Willamette meridian an. I 1lin mutl rust
1'iurter of ction 11, In township 7
i.nrlh rai k ii west r.f U'iliiim He nier
Idl n, and all tl.e tide lands upon and
adjoining sa d pr ea rty and all thrr. of,
t n pt that port i , n of ,,,. h w,u
c.iiivcjed lo p. J llaighl l.y deed .,1
wairslily duti-d .lime 7, I'.KNI, and rr
corded June U, liHlrl, and that mrtioti
of llie same which wai !. dn.1,,1
lh Hearer lumber Cnmiwi,,, ni) ((l
thcr xrrptinic all that x..ll,,tl ,
premise which Ilea south of n t
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deseillad wh!i h lie north ot (Mi
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has ol O k Mulls ami tin. cliaiimi
thn Columbia river, excepting tle rj ,
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For Sale and Want Ads
Aii in Th C .lumn Biing Kiulu
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r i jiii .-.mi auwa i f. uiin iy ,uJ
ter. M cents the mil. MuriU;ril
Very (V
For Sale - IS fiend i.f (h.. ,t;ur,
cows. J A. Nelson, VYiirnri .Kj,
WANTFU Turn mre
I'li.u reasonuble. Mr. M.
Cnlun.bla Park.
In.iir.li m
It. f.ewi.
For Sale - A store in n town itl
a bright future, t large lots ir.cluj
ing nil buildings and stock Mill
furni.'hed rooms. hoiM- and waunn
for $12,000. Parties reining fnm.
business. Imuire Mist ntVice m
Hox T:f. St. Helens. lmu
fi ht cent loan on farms, ur
chi'.rd lands, city resident or busi
ness properly, to buy. build im
prove, extend or refund murtgages
or other securities: terms reason
able; special privileges; cnrri
poll b nee invited. Ilept. fit.
Commonwealth Ilblg. , henver, (.l..
or Ilept. I. 7PJ H. nry Pldg.. Se
attle, Wash.
Slrared -Oct Jcrii y hnf. r 1 1
iiu.iitlis old. Iiht ri.lor, hole In until I
enr. I red Jersey heifer s iu.u.Uk old.
w hito ntiir in ft.rc litinl. Slr.iytil from
n y place at Itn. -hi l..r Hut. Any ii'f. r
mat urn us to tln ae will be ri wanliil.
P. ('. .I.u.itiri.n.
Notice
Any. .ne wanting a nice fat. rorn
fed g.mse fur Thanksgiving dinner
tell I lick Rolierson hIioiiI it. Get
your orders in early. Have or.!)'
got about i.r to let go. Market
price.
Fur Sale House and two lot n
Winter street from owner at
reasonable price.
K. C. Karth, Yankton. Ore.
ImolM Ip
Furnished ro im- for r.-nt friin-
J sient or hoiim'keeping. I'layg laf,
oppositetheachoolholl.se
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