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TIIE MORNING' OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1914. ROBBER KILLED BY MIFRNHRIOUS Price of Nearly $4000 on Head of Desperado Slain in , O.-W. R. & N. Holdup. AT 26 CAREER IS CRIMSON Brother, Three Years Younger, and Also Accused of Series of Dar- ' ing Crimes, Believed to Be Outlaw Who Escaped. " Hugh Whitney, the train robber who t was shot and killed by Deputy Sheriff George McDuffy on the O.-W. R. & N. S westbound passenger train No. 5 yes i terday morning, had a price of J3750 on his head and it is probable these re I wards will be paid to McDuffy. t Whitney was suspected of killing i William KWd, conductor on an Oregon t Short Line train, near Dubois, Idaho, ' June 17, 1911. For this offense the t railroad offered $1000 and the State of J Idaho $500. I He was wanted also for Tobblng a bank at Cokeville. Wyo.. early in 1913, " and for dynamiting the Rlgby State i Bank, at Rigby. Idaho, on July 10, Z 1913. A reward of $1500 was offered for the Rigby Job, $500 for the Cokeville t job and $250 by the American Bankers' J Association on general principles. t Criminal Career Cevera Five Tears, j Whitney was 26 years old last month T. and already had a criminal record ex- tending back to the time before he was J 21. He was most active in Montana, r Wyoming and Idaho. t The William J. Burns Detective Agency has been on the trail of Whit f ney and his brother, Charles, for more t than a year. A reward of $750 is of jj fered for the capture of Charles Whit- ney, dead or alive. 1 Local officers believe that Charles Whitney was one of the others in yes 5 terday's band and that he probably was : the man who was with the dead robber 1 at the time of the shooting. It was t the custom of the Whitneys to work to- gether. Rlgby .Robbery Nets $3800. Francis R. Alkus, resident manager J of the Bums agency, says that the t Whitneys have committed numerous t minor robberies in Idaho and Wyoming I within the last few years. Following - the KIgby robbery they disappeared. V With the $3300 obtained at that time they were able to live comfortably, it 2 Is thought, until now. i The Burns descriptions of Whitney Z tally with those of the dead man at " Pendleton and with those supplied by passengers and trainmen who returned Z to Portland yesterday. He was re ' ported to be "five feet, seven Inches tall, weight 150 to 155 pounds, to have I dark blue eyes and black curly hair; 7 to be a typical sheepherder or cow " puncher In manners and dress, always wearing a handkerchief around his neck tied In a long knot. Ha was not - given much to long talks or conversa- tions. He did not drink much, but was an habitual cigarette smoker. He pre i ferred to roll his own." Charles Three Years Younger. "- Charles - Whitney is three years r: younger than his brother. He is five "feet, eight inches tall and weighs about ' 165 pounds, has light hair and com ' " plexion, light blue eyes, high cheek ? bones, square shoulders. He does not ' drink and is not much given to the use -. of tobacco, only at irregular intervals. He is careful to avoid companionship and seldom starts a conversation. Hugh Whitney first came to the attention of police officers at the time he shot Conductor Kidd. He had been arrested for a minor offense. The offi . cers handcuffed him with his hands -. behind his back. They took his gun . away from him and placed it upon a :'- seat behind him. He backed against -- the seat, picked up the revolver and -"' fired, aimlessly, of course. The bullet struck the conductor. In the confusion - Whitney, escaped. DAIUXG SHOWN IN MONT AX A Whitney's Brief Career Makes Him Known Throughout West. BUTTE, Mont, July 3. (Special.) Hush. Whitney's career In Montana was brief, but during his operations here, and later in Idaho, his name became known to every newspaper reader in the Rocky Mountain region as an out law of peculiar daring. In June, 1911. in company with a companion. Whitney held up two saloons at Monlda. on the lilie separating Montana and Idaho. The men boarded an Oregon Short Line train moving south. Word had been sent down the line of the pres ence of the desperadoes, and a Deputy Sheriff, and Sheriff Fisher, of Idaho, placed the two men under arrest. 'Whitney later seized his revolver and shot and killed Conductor William Kidd. In the confusion Whitney and his companion pulled the bell cord, stopped the train and escaped. The murder aroused two states. Of ficers in Montana and Idaho started on the trail of Whitney and his partner. Sheriff John K. O'Rourke, Deputy Sheriff Mulcahy and Special Deputy John M. Murray went to the scene, joining the officers with bloodhounds from the Deer Lodge Penitentiary. The outlaw, on the open prairie in Idaho, met a young fellow mounted on a horse and carrying a rifle. He shot this boy through the shoulder and took the horse, escaping on it. A little later be came upon an old man, a member of a posses who had been left to guard a bridge. The guard did not suspect the mounted man as being the one the posse was on the lookout for. When Whitney came up to him he shot the old man through the hand, crossing the bridge to free dom. No trace whatever was found of Whitney's partner. Many officers be lieved that Whitney killed his com panion as a result of a quarrel. V A little later a bank In Wyoming was robbed by men under the leadership of an outlaw believed to be Whitney. Rewards In various amounts were of fered for him. The State of Idaho offered $1500 for him, dead or alive; Wyoming, $500, and the Bankers' As sociation, $250. For months after the murder of Kidd suspects were arrested in various parts of the West In the belief that Whitney had been found. None of these turned out to be the man wanted. For a year or more a number of crimes were laid to Whitney without there being actual proof that he was Implicated In them. For some time all trace of Whitney had been lost, and, as far as the offi cers here know, the robbery today was I he first he has been Implicated in for some time. Permission to Practice Given. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. July 2. Arthur W. Orton. a Portland attorney, was today admitted to practice before the Interior Depart ment. . . PRINCIPALS IN YESTERDAY'S TRAIN HOLD-UP, ROBBER WHO WAS KLLLED, WOMAN AND CHIL DREN WHO SAW SHOOTING, PASSENGERS AND DIAGRAM SHOWING POSITION OF THE TRAIN WHERE SHOOTING TOOK PLACE. t ' I V" J IF 1 y 1 1 i Bit- - $ -LJ? . i ,j; I I Ml W - t - - J 1 virTJ v - i ? is." I ul h -f - ! f 1 Vl lit - , I h'y I v : l A y a-M, , -i t g ; r f if , f 'vCvJ-- .-f" i i i i i i i 3 . - ki w u'hiMv. Tlia1 Robber. i l;. v . cramp, rixprcM jiwcunr1 . p. Johnson, nno mains - - . 4 William Roirere, WTio Wan Robbed of 45. & Mrs. C. t. ;1o Mer Son.. Mian Pearl Aiken. Mrs. V. H. Aiken and W. H. Aiken. PMWBiccn. Diagram Shows Where ShootlnK Toole Place. Cro Marks Position of Whitney's Body After He Fell. INo. 1 Is Where McDuffy Was Rldlngi No. S Where Mrs. Pollock Was Riding. Her Two Sons Were on Seats Facing Her. Arrow Indicates Direction Robbers Were Walking When Shot. Train Was Going In Opposite Direction. REPORTS TELL STORY Conductor Telegraphs Details of Holdup to Portland. LONELY SPOT PICKED Place Chosen by Robbers Long Bete Noir of Railroad Men. STOP IS MADE FOR TESTS While Brakeman Signals From Rear Platform Door Must Be Left Open and Highwaymen Pre sumably Entered There. Aithmicrii tbn Blue Mountain country Is one of the most lonely sections tra versed by the O -W. R. & N. main ime. yesterday's train holdup is the first one ever attempted in that locality. That train robbers have not selected this section for their work more fre .,ntiv bus secretly puzzled officials of the railroaa. especially since numer ous holdups and attempts at holdups have taken place in rui Liauu " the outskirts of the city. The robbers yesterday boarded tne - ir.nsi, which is on the sum mit of the road across the mountains. Before starting down the grade in either direction from Kamela It is necessary for trainmen always to test their air. . , For this purpose the rear brakeman stands on the back vestibule and . o. . lf th wori( when the engineer applies the air. At night time it is not necessary for him to descend to ino Bruuuu, o ... v. ,n,rki from the wheels. when the brakes are working. It Is necessary, however, to have the door of the rear vestibule open so that he can signal to tne engineer wim ui lantern. Familiarity With Cnstom sum, ,THMatiAtifthlT the robbers were fa miliar with these circumstances. They could not have boarded the train at any point in that section other than Ka mela, nor couia xney nave cuie n conveniently at any other place than at the rear vestibule. They jumped on board, according to information received by local officials t n -W -R. & N. Company, just after the brakeman signaled to the engineer to start. Evidently they over came the rear brakeman, then, at the point of their guns, proceeded through .u - . ; .th.rinr un tha train em ployes as' they passed, and went to the forward express car, wcere mey uo.uc the trainmen while they attempted to rob the express cars. The point at which finally they or dered Conductor Fergus to stop the train is on a 2.2 per cent descending grade. It is midway between Hanlon s Spur and mile post 277. M. J. Buckley, general superintend ent of the O.-W. R. & N. Company, con siders it extremely fortunate that the entire train did not escape from the brakes and roll down the bill. The fact that McDuffy broke up the robberv by shooting the principal rob eer probably accounts for the absence of a catastrophe such as would have been Inevitable had the train broken free from the brakes. Catastrophe Is Averted. "It would have been Impossible for that heavy train to stand still on that grade for more than 15 minutes." said Mr. Buckley yesterday. "It would be Impossible to hold a train like that on that grade without losing soma air. As soon as the air begins to leak the brakes don't hold long, and had the train ever started, nothing in the world could have stopped it.- It would have torn down the hill and at the first curve undoubtedly would have left the rails and plunged over the mountain side." . ' Train No. 5 is made up at Chicago, leaving there at 10:15 on the morning of the third day previous to its ar rival here. Yesterday's No. 5 left Chi cago Monday morning. The train con sists of two combination baggage and express cars, one coming from Salt Lake City and one from Council Bluffs: two day coaches, a chair car, a tourist sleeper from Chicago, and standard sleepers from Chicago, Boise. Salt Lake City and Yellowstone Park 10 cars The train crew, including the con ductor and brakemen, took charge of the train at Huntington and continued orl board to Pendleton. The engineer and firemen ran from La Grande to Umatilla. Pullman conductors and porters boarded their cars at their respective starting points. Spend Fourth at North Beach. ,$3 for the round trip, going July 3; returning not later than July 6. Steamer T J. Potter leaves Ash-street dock I P M Hassalo 9 P. M. Tickets and reservations at O.-W. R. & N. city ticket office, 3d and Washington. Phone Mar shall 4500. A 6124, AdT. OFFICIAL SENDS VERSION Descriptions of 3Ien Are Forwarded to Portland and Company Offers . Rewards of $1000 for Each of Two Who Escaped. Officials of the O.-W. R. & N. Com pany were advised yesterday morning of the robbery on train No. 5 and pro ceeded at once to assist the local au thorities in Eastern Oregon to capture the robbers. M. J. Buckley, general superintendent, was notified at his home and came to his desk immediately to direct the work. William Bollons, superintendent at La Grande, took charge of the work on the ground. He was assisted by A. Buckley and J. F. Corbett, assistant superintendents. J. D. Farrell, president of the com pany, who is traveling toward Port land from British Columbia, was noti fied, as was J. P. O'Brien, vice-president and general manager. They authorized a reward of 11000 for each of the men implicated in the robbery still at large. E. B. Wood, chief special agent for the O.-W. R. . & N. Company, left on eastbound train No. 18 for the scene of the robbery and will join In the chase for the men. Following are the official reports re ceived by Mr. Buckley from Superin tendent Bollons and Conductor Fergus: "Meacham, July 2. M. J. Buckley, Portland: No. 6 was held up a quarter of a mile east of mile post 277 by three men, who got on the rear of the train at Kamela. They marched the rear brakeman, Pullman conductor, porters, train conductor and head brakeman to the baggage car, then cot the engineer and fireman and put them in the bag gage car. "One man guarded them while the other two robbed the passengers. While they were going through the .tourist car Deputy Sheriff McDuffy, of Heppner, shot one robber through the back, kill ing him, and injured the other one; Mc Duffy was slightly injured and was taken to Pendleton. "The dead man here will be photo graphed and sent to Pendleton. De scriptions follow: One man was 5 feet, 10 inches tall, weighed 175 pounds, wore a dark coat and brown chirt. The other man was 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighed 150; wore dark coat, white shirt. Both wore dark cloth masks and black caps and bad on overalls. One had a bine bandanna handkerchief around his neck. "The Sheriff and a posse from La Grande, with Hannon, are on the ground. A deputy from Pendleton is coming on No. 10. Have notified sur rounding towns where the train stopped. There was a pool of blood on the track, but it may have been from the dead man as he fell in the vestibule. The tracks of the two men going down the Mw Moderation ; - fix i rm 1 ! :KWsjbf$!' IMS fin i i vzZJ i&stmmwm&fi- faj03&Mxte'fr p 1 1 . , - ----II 1 asnfc 0- MsVMHH W. J. Van Schuyver & Co., Distributers Phones Main 1265. A 4423. 328-330 Glisan Street. Portland. Or. bank where there were horse marks are shown. Please get descriptions out as soon as possible. W. BOLLONS." The report of Conductor W. E. Fer gus, on train No. 5, follows: Pendleton, July 2. "Three men got on rear Pullman car at Kamela. Eacn man had two guns. They made the Hag man on tha nnrtprH the Pullmaan con- ouct'or, car sweeper and myself walk to the express car anu nave me messenger open the express car door. They got all the money rrom the ex press car. They forced me to signal the engineer to stop the train between Hanlon's Spur and mile post 277. "The leader of the gang did not seem satisfied with the amount that they got from the express car and told his men to go and get what they could from the passengers. Two men went through three day coaches with pistols and threatened men passengers and got a small amount of money from about one third of the day c6ach passengers. They did not try to get any money from the women. "Deputy Sheriff McDuffy, from Hepp ner, was a passenger and was riding on the rear end of the rear coach. He re fused to give the robbers his money and one robber shot him on the left side just above t,he heart. McDuffy shot and killed one man and wounded the other. The man that was wound ed got off the train on the right side of the head end of the tourist car and came to the baggage car. He told the man standing guard over myself and crew that one of them was shot and nlmself wounded. The man standing guard Jumped out of the side door of the express car. I am unable to say . .. . rfuA.tiAn mav took. The man WUO,k V..I . J that seemed to be leader was stout built, five feet nine tall, wouia weign 190 pounds. I can give no description of the others. All wore masks." Evening Star Grange to Meet. Evening Star Grange will meet In regular session Saturday, July 4. at 10:30 A M. A basket dinner will be served at 12:30, and the following pro gramme will be given, beginning at 2 P. M.: Piano solo. 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