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4, THE MOBXLVG OREGOXIAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1923 MURDER EOF 13 BELIEVED FOUND Bowker Is Slain Probably in Clackamas County. TRACES OF BLOOD SEEN Crime for Which Russell Hecker Is Held Practically Fixed on ; Oregon City Itoad. A spot 13 miles from Portland on the Oregon City road, three miles this Bide of Oregon City and near the city limits of Gladstone, Is believed now by the police to oe the place where Frank Bowker was murdered last Sunday night. Captain of Detectives Harms, Inspectors Schulpius, Cason and Barker and Deputy Sheriff Ken dall returned last night from scouring the country and reported their find. -If their theory proves correct, the burden of detection and prosecution of Kussell Hecker will rest on Clack amas county, as the responsibility will be placed on the county in which the actual crime was committed. The officers learned of the spot while running down another report that blood had been found on a dif ferent road. I. B. Johnston, an em ploye of the Rhan-Herbert company at Gladstone, found a large pool of blood beside the road near the city limits at 6:30 o'clock Monday morn ing. He said it was large enough to attract notice, but he paid no atten tion to it until he read the newspapers later in the day. He then told about the blood spot In Gladstone and when the officers stopped there yesterday they heard of the find and went to the place im mediately. Ideal Spot for Murder. . On. one side of the road Is a large timber tract and on th. other is the Southern Pacific right of way. It is an Isolated place ana mere is no house nearer than a quarter of a mile. Captain Harms aid it would be an Ideal place to commit a murder. , Substantiating the new theory is jl reDort that an automobile was seen standing at practically the same dace, headlights burning, about 10 the time the murder is supposed to have been committed. Rains which fell in the intervening time had washed nearly all the blood away and omly a faint blotch, which is very uncertain, was found, by the officers when they reached the spot. Traces of Blood Found. " This was on the gravel beside the road, and Johnston identified the spot as the place where he saw the blood. Soma gravel was gathered up by the officers and brought to Portland for a chemical examination. The theory will be strengthened considerably if the gravel proves to have human blood on it. Captain Harms said he was almost positive that the- murder was commit ted there. Near the place tracks or automobile tires were fount! at the side of the road, and the print of the tread was the same e.3 that on the tires of the car Hecker drove. Besides the circumstantial evidence at this site, the road is one Hecker would logically have taknn. He drove Bowker out Eighty-second street and said they were to meet the bootleg ffet a mile out on the continuation road of Eighty-second street. This road is the Oregon City road. Klffat Probably Occurred. ; Captain Harms said he thought it entirely probable that Bowker would begin to ask questions after he had been driven out a little further than ho thought necessary, and that the questions would have become pointed before they reached Gladstone. The fight would have occurred in such case at or near the place where the blood was found. The entire matter will have to rest until the chemical analysis of the gravel is made. The detectives made no effort to question Hecker when they returned and probably will not talk with him about their discovery ut.til the examination is finished and the report is received from the chem ist. Captain Harms said ha did not be lieve the body had been hidden in the woods near by or anywhere else In the vicinity, and said he thought that the murder had been committed there and the body taken away, probably to some distant place. There were no tracks leading away from the road nor other signs, to indicate that the murderer had left tha highway. Hecker Is Identified. "When Chief of Police Jenkins re turned last night after an all-day search for clews ho brought with him t. c orell, owner of Horse Shoe park at IVoodburn. Without hesitation O'Neil identified Hecker as the man who drove up to his garage at 9:30 o'clock last Sunday night and bought gasoline for his car. "When Hecker saw O'Neil at the front of his cell he shifted his gaze back and forth from floor to ceiling and shuffled his feet ner vously. O'Neil made a signed statement to tha effect that while Hecker was un screwing the gasoline tank cap he noticed blood between the fingers of his right hand. Hecker dropped the cap and in his nervousness could not find it. O'Neil in stooping down to look under the car for it, saw blood pots on the running board. Hecker hurried as much as possible and flung O'Neil two silver dollars in payment, telling him to keep tha change, the statement says. IIECKEIt APPEARS IX COURT Preliminary Hearing of Reputed Slayer Continued to Today. With his ruddy face covered with a stubble of reddish beard, Hecker appeared yesterday in municipal ecurt for his formal preliminary hearing. Judge Ekwall. however, postponed the hearing until 4 P. M. today at tha request of George Gra ham, deputy district attorney. Oistrtct Attorney Myers filed an affidavit in court setting forth the belief that Bowker's body would be recovered within the next 24 hours, and he petitioned for a postponement on that ground. Counsel for the de fense agreed to this action. Gale S. Hill, ex-district attorney of Linn county and lifelong friend of the accused man, entered the case as co-counsel for the defense with Thomas G. Ryan. Mr.- Hill arrived in tha city In the morning and was in conference with Hecker for mora than an hour in the afternoon. He is equally as sparing in his comments and statements concerning the casa as Mr. Ryan. At tha city jail, where he is held as a material witness, I. M. Coleman. Albany barber, talked freely of his connection with the affair. It was t Coleman's house that young Hecker went early Monday morning after ha had disposed of Bowker's body by hurling It Into the Calopoola river two miles southwest of Albany. "He came to the door some time after 2 o'clock in the morning,' Cole man said. He asked to borrow an overcoat for the auto ride back to Portland. While there he gave me $65 ! which I had loaned to him last March. 4 "Just before he left he banded me . a little flat package. This contains I $634 which belongs to somebody else, and I want you to keep it for me because if I carried it I might spend it and it isn't mine,' he told me. The next morning I put it in a safe de posit box n one of the Albany banks and later turned it over to a Portland detective. "I am not afraid of anything so far as my actions in this affair are con cerned. I was in Albany all day Sun day and Sunday night, and can easily prove this by many persons. My wife and I went to a picture show early in the evening and later visited with friends and relatives. We reached home at about 10 o'clock that night. "When Hecker arrived at the house early in the morning I could detect nothing unusual about his actions. He seemed as calm and collected as ever and said or did nothing which might arouse any suspicion." When the defense attorneys were informed that Coleman admitted plac ing $634 for young Hecker, they ex pressed no concern whatever. In fact, they appeared to take it as something they had expected as a matter of course. This apparent indifference on tha part of the defense to this new evi dence gathered by the prosecution, coupled with Coleman's story of his conversation with young Becker, leads one to believe that Hecker's ap pearance at the Coleman home, and the presentation of the package of money, will play a prominent part in the defense. The fact that Coleman is certain that Hecker told him the money did not belong to him is taken by some as being extremely significant from a defence standpoint. Although the police suspect that young Hecker's story concerning the disposal of Bowker's body is not cor rect, the boy, through his attorneys. continued to maintain that Bowker bodv had been thrown into the Cala pooia river at the point he designated Tuesday, and that continued search is certain to lead to Its eventual recov' ery. STORY OF COLEMAN VERIFIED Handkerchief Found in Search for Body of Frank Bowker. ALBANY, Or.. April 20. (Special. Efforts to clear no mysterious ques tions regarding the disappearance Frank Bowker of Portland, with whose murder Russell Hecker of Al bany is chareed, continued actively here today. While some searching parties kept up the work of looking for his body in the ualapooia river, several Portland and Multnomah county officers worked here piecing together bits of evidence and trying In find new clews. A handkerchief bearing the Initial "R" in one corner was found today ranch f on a submerged log In the Calapooia river, about 100 yard) below the bridge from wntcn Jtsow ker'B body is supposed to have been rolled. It bore a laundry mark "7Ui M." Its ownership has not been es tablished as yet. The search in the river was some what desultory. This afternoon Al bert Bowker, brother of the missing man, offered a reward of $200 for the recovery of the body, and it was ex pected that this would stimulate tne search tomorrow. Portland officers working here, as sisted by officials of Linn county, called a number of witnesses to room in the Hotel Albany this after noon and their statements were taken down by a court reporter. Appar ently most of these witnesses were called to check up the story of I. M. Coleman, local barber, who lent Hecker some clothing early Monday morning and received from him for safe keeping an envelope containing $634 in currency. Coleman placed this envelope, un opened, in a safe deposit box in the Cusick bank. When officers recov ered it last night it was found that some of the bills bore blood splotches. Reports indicated that Coleman's story was verified by all witnesses called and officers gave the impres sion that they were convinced Cole man had no connection with the crime. Officers apparently worked today on the theory that at least one other DOUBLE GREEN TRADING stamps imm- Friday and Saturday April 21 and 22 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiii Cr erne Oil Soap Sale iriday ana Saturday trnly BARS 25c 1 Dozen Bars for 75$ Limit of one purchase to a customer. . No phone orders; no deliveries except 'with other purchases. man besides Hecker la involved in Bowker's disappearance. The fact that with the $65 Hecker gave Cole man in paying an old debt the young man under arrest had just hall tne money Bowker Is known to have car ried bore out other circumstances, they said, that Hecker was not alone. DRIVER HELD INTOXICATED IXDICTMENT OF GEORGE HEGMAN RECOMMENDED. A. Verdict Follows Coroner's Inquiry Into Death of Mrs. Ada M. Davis in Auto Smashup. Recommendation that George A. 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