THE MORNING ASTOMAN ASTORIA. OREGON,
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1908.
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NEGRO BANDIT DEAD
Battle Between Police and Highwaymen
POLICEMAN AND ONE MAN HIT
Wounded Man Captured Along With
I His Partner Deadly Duel Between
Thugs and Officers at Short Range
in Which They Are Worsted.
: PORTLAND, April 16. Patrol
man Carl D. Hanson killed one of
three highwaymen, an unidentified
negro, shooting v him through the
heart, and sustained a slight pistol
wound in the right shoulder himself.
Fritz Raithke, the avowed leader of
the trio, was shot through the right
leg by Patrolman Vessey. When
Reithka was caught in hiding by
Patrolman C. E. Tennant he exposed
the third member of the gang.
Eddie Ives, the yonngest of the
trio, was caught hiding his gun, by
Sergeant of Police Wendorf, and con
fessed to detectives.
Though he' was wounded in the
right shoulder in a pitched battle
with three .highwaymen this morning
Patrolman C. D. Hanson reloaded
his revolver to continue rapid cross
fire with the criminals. Two of the
thugs were but ten feet from the
patrolman in the combat and the
third, a negro, operated his revolver
from across the street. The body of
the negro lying on a slab in the Coro
ner's ofPe bespeaks victory for
Patrolman Henson and the capture
of the other two highwayman after a
chase in which 18 patrolmen partici
pated forms a laurel won by the uni
form branch of the Portland police
flpnnrtment. I
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From six different quarters of the
city late last night and early this
t morning reports came to police head
quarters that three vicious highway
men were on the rampage, and when
one quarter would be visited by the
peace guardians the highwaymen
would be heard from at another
point.
Finally Patrolmen Henson and S.
B. Vessey came upon the highway
men face to face at East Ankeny and
East Second streets, and the tltigs
opened fire on the policemen. Both
thugs and patrolmen reloaded their
revolvers to fight to a finish, and not
until the negro who was farthest
from the policemen fell in his tracks
did Jiis comrades weaken. Then one
of the highwaymen, Fritz Raithke,
wounded in the right leg by Vessey,
took to his heels in one direction,
and -Eddie Ives, the remaining high
wayman, also fled, taking an oppo
site course from that of his com
panion.'
Bleeding and in pain, Raithke was
found an hour later in hiding in pil
ing near the foundry at the east end
of Burnside street bridge by Patrol
man C. A. Tennant, and Ives was
caught by Sergeant of Police Wen
' dorf, walking south on the Southern
Pacific tracks. He had stopped to
conceal his pistol between the rail
road ties when Wendorf nabbed him.
Two telephone messages, one from
Thirteenth and Glisan" streets and
the other from Ninth and Couch
streets,' 20 minutes apart, wire the
intimation received by the po-
. lice that highwaymen were about. At .
10-30 o'clock John Kosky reported nc
had been waylaid by three highway
men at Thirteenth and Glisan streets
and robbed of 80 cents, and his com
plaint was followed by one from
Frank Patton, who reported he had
been robbed of 50 cents, his watch
' jmd a locket at Ninth and Couch
streets, apparently by the same men.
several patrolmen to the other side of
the river and notified Patrolmen Hen
son and Vessey, who patrol the East
Side, to be on the lookout.
The highwaymen in the City Jail
capture with nonchalance. When
cloture with nonchalace. When
Raithke was seized and marched to
the police station he was sullen, but
finally relented and told the police
his companion, Ives, was a Portland
bov and lived at 614 Qutmby street.
,When Ives was caught by Sergeant
Wendorf. he asserted his innocence,
but broke down when brought to the
police station, and Raithke remarked
to Captain Bailey: "There's Eddie
Ives, now." ,
Ives is an ex-convict, having serv
ed a term in the penitentiary for lar
ceny. Little is known of the record
of Raithke. Ives declares Raithke
forced him at the point of a revolver
to join him and the negro in last
night's crime. Both Ives and Ratthke
say they did not know the negro un
til last night. Loot was found on
both prisoners.
Ives declares Raithke is a murderer
for whom authorities of Germany
are seeking.
In the municipal court this after
noon Ives and Raithke were bound
over to the grand jury in the sum of
$3000 each.
GORED BY AN ELEPHANT
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the circus attendants who assisted in
the capture, was severely bruised al
though rescued before any bones were
broken. At the Glenwood Hotel, Eva
Howe a guest, was sitting in a swing
when the maddened beast made full
at her. She was about to flee when
the elephant's keeper, who was close
behind, called to her to sit still and as
a result, the elephant rushed bys her
without molesting her.
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' BLAMES HIS GUN.
Bandit Who Killed Kent Marshal
Sorry he Didn't Kill Sheriff.
SEATTLE, April 16 Slowly the
net is being drawn tighter around
Mike Petridge, the Servian, who was
captured , in the'Cascade Mountain
after a chase, lasting four days. 1 nc
finding of -a42-caliber pistol on
Petrige makes, the officers believe h
was he who fired the shot that killed
Marshal Miller, of Kent. It was a
32-caliber bullet that ended the mar
shal's life. Milia Alagich, the robber
who was wounded and captured in
the fight of Saturday afternoon, was
shot through the nose by Petridge b
accident. The other bandits had re
volvers of larger caliber. To Deputy
Sheriff Matt Starwich the prisoner
said:' "My gun was a very poor one
or I would have killed you long ago.
I kept shooting and shooting at you,
but the bullets went wild. In the old
country I was a crack shot. I have
killed men before. I. used to be in
the army, and one time in. a fight I
killed six men."
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TO MEET THE FLEET
Steamer Roanoke Carried 800
Passengers Out of San Diego
SHE COULD HAVE TAKEN 8000
Gasoline Launches Were Chartered
Crowded to vTheir Capacity and
Hurried Down the Coast to Meet
the Big Sea Fighters.
tudying the itinerary of Admiral
Evans' fleet, and U of the opinion
that he will meet them along ths
jCalifornia coast next Tuesday. With
the expectation of getting a glimpse
of the squadron, it is announced
that a great many people are buying
tickets to go out on the Elder Elder
who otherwise would not make the
voyage. Ihc applicants tor beruis
explain that they would far prefer
to see the battleships proceeding on
their course to lying at anchor in a
harbor.
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House-Cleaning Time
Mattings in all
TO INSTITUTE PROCEEDINGS.
WASHINGTON', April 17. -The
department of justice today decided
the institute proceedings under, the
interstate commerce act to compel
the Nashville, Chattanooga & St.
Louis Railroad Company to furnish
accommodations to negro passengers
paying a first-class fare equal in all
respects to those furnished the white
passengers.
DIXON MEMORIAL..
NE WYORK, April 115 George
Dixon, the negro, pugilist, is to be
remembered by a , memorial in New
York. The friends of the fighter
have arranged a fund of $1,500 which
has been turned over to the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani
mals for the erection of a public
fnnntain ill th little sciuare at Horace
reeis, appaicunj - . . ..
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that the highwaymen" were working pal Art Commission has approved the
towards the East Side, dispatched design for the fountain.
PORTLAND, April 16-Chartc
P. Doc wires to the local agent of
the North Pacific Steamship Com
pany that the steamer Roanoke made
a- special trip out of San Diego with
8(X) passengers Tuesday to meet the
warships which were bound for San
Diego. . As a consequence she has
been thrown one day behind her
schedule and will not arrive at Port
land until next Wednesday, instead
of Tuesday.
It would have been just as easy
for her to have picked tip 8000 peo
pie as 800, says Doe, had she been
capable of handling such a crowd.
The dock was crowded with men,
women and children, who had to be
left behind. The government would
not issue a permit for her to carry
more than the number named, and
long before she sailed every Tiertb
was taken. Those who arrived at
the dock late offered fabulous sums
to the more fortunate ones for their
tickets, i Gasoline launches . were
chartered. Crowded to capacity, they
hurried down the coast to meet the
big sea fighters. Every avail abl
craft was pressed into service, and
still the public could not be accom
modated. In his account of the affair
Doe states that he never saw any
thing like the general scramble to
get aboard the numerous boats.
.Captain Jensen of the Geo. W, El
der, scheduled to sail for San Pedro
and way port? onight, has been
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MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Kills the Girl Who Had Tired of Him
and Turns Gun on Himself.
MARSH FIELD, Or., April 17-
John Erills. aged 23, late Tuesday
uijjht shot and killed Ora' Robey, a
young lady with whom he had been
going, and then turning the gun on
himself, ended his own life.
The youni? people were both well
known in Marshfield, and both were
popular. They had been to a dance
during the evening, and all was sup
posed to be as usual between them.
Nothing was known of the murder
and suicitte until tne no(iies were
found about 1:30 yesterday morn
ing.
The tragedy occurred on a bridge
near the home of the young lady.
When found Miss Robey's body had
fallen from the bridge and was lying
face up. .
Erills had been working for some
time in Portland, and it is thought
that during his absence Miss Robey
had become enamored of another
man. The reason assigned for the
deed here fs that she did not care for
him any longer, and i, that when he
learned the face his passion overcame
him and he pulled his revolver and
shot.
OCEAN LINERS COLLIDE.
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NEW YORK, April 16-The ocean
liners Monterey and United States
collided in the main channel of low
er New York Bay today. Both ves,
sels. were damaged but no. lives were
lost and no one sofar as known was
injured.
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POWER BOATS CRUISE.
NEW YORK, April 16. Follow
ing the meeting here of the American
Power Boat Association, it is an
nounced that the association's annual
cruise this year will be to the Thous
and Islands. The rendevzous will be
in this city, Aug. 12-14, and the trip
of 1905 will be repeated, taking the
fleet up the Hudson to Albany,
through the Erie Canal to Syracuse,
through the Oswego Canal to OBwe
g6, then crossing the lake to Saint
Vincent, down the St. Lawrence.
The fleet's arrival at Thousand Is
lands will be timed to allow the fleet
to take part in the, Gold challenge
contest, August 20. There are 65
clubs,, representing thousands , of
yachtsmen that are members of th
association. '