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Approaching hi victim, It la bud
oaed, in the g-ulse of a friend, M. V.
asla, early yenterday shot and killed
: hi father-in-law, Ferdinand K Drews.
..With the brand of Cain upon hla brow
and on hla hands the blood of one who
. naa Deen xarner, aeneractor and irieuu;
with a helpleHa woman, almoat an la-
valid, compelled to accompany "him un--er-threat-of
tnstant ffeatnrwtth arma
in hla posBesnlon and with the reaolve
In hla heart to make a new record. 1n
, the criminal hintory " of the Paciile
Northwest, M. V. Leaaia la either
fleeing before officers of the law or In
hiding) near fhe epot. .
Policemen, detectives; posses of cltt
sens and the fJherifT's offlceru have for
'- 89 hours pursued the fleeting:' murderer
ZOr searched the tangled undergrowth In
the vicinity of -the place where he com
dtted his terrible crime. Thua far he
. tenia to have made good hla escape
0 p ia. although all roads are guarded
VU W-both banks of the Columbia Kivr
under patrol by parties of armed
en, there Is no. direct clue. Hut the
arch for the manslayer still goes on,
r" id those who are directing the pur
Jfl"L, ult expect momentarily to hear news
Buhat will lead either to the capture or
h "eath of a man who Is recognised an
a me of the most daring criminals, who
has ever marked his trail. by the blood
, of hla' Innocent victim. .
The ahot which killed Ferdinand II.
' frewa was. fired from behind, the devll
"lsh purpose of the assassin being made
doubly plain by a second bullet, sent
Into the brain of hU victim after the
latti was .writhing on' the groiindi ;
"They will flnfl my brother dead,"
. aald F. W. Iieasla,"who resides at C09
Overton street, "and with him will be
the body of his wife. He has often
threatened that he would wipe out the
whole Drews family and take his own
life.' You may depend upon it that this.
Is what he has done."
"The wan is desperate and terribly
dangerous," said Fred C. Drews, son
of the dead man. and brother of the
woman the murderer took with him in
his flight. "He Is not crazy, he is Just
damned mean. He will kill my sister
and probably slay himself If cornered.
He does not love her, he only took her
.with him as shield."
The Cunning of a Tracy.
With the cunning of a Tracy Leasla
paved the way to his escape. His
-crime was committed at the Drews' home
on the road to St Johns, early Sunday
.morning, and lt is evident to all that
the murderer had .carefully planned all
details.
Revenge was his object revenge that
1 was caused by a brute passion which
he called by the name of love.
.Neighbors residing 200 yards from
the Drews' home heard shots several
times during the morning of Sunday.
but declare .huntera frequently lnfost
that locality and they paid no attention
to the shooting. There Is no way of
determining at what hour the murder
was committed, but It Is believed by
the omcers to have occurred .about 8
o'clock. .- '.-- - ....
The murdered man was father-in-law
of the. slayer and it was that the latter
might 'gain possession of the woman
who had trusted and honored him and
In return received nothing but Inhuman
treatment at his hands, that Leasia
entered upon his career of blood. Drlvf n
to the divorce court ' to obtain free
dom from persecution and safety for
herself and her two little children
from a husband and father who first
failed to provide,; then stole what little
they were able to secure for themselves,
and finally, when crazed by drink, beat
them cruelly, Pauline Leasla was 'on
Friday, May 15. made single through
an order of the District Court. At that
time she testified upon the stand that
she was In deadly fear of her husband
. who had often threatened her life.
How well grounded had been that fear,
developments of the past few hours
trave Bhown." "
A Most Treaeherona Crime.
With no more v regard for life than
or the law the diyorced husband sought
out the place . where her father had
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FORCED TO POSSIBLE
DEATH BY HUSBAND
Spurred on by the fear that a frail and delicate woman ia being
" tortured or has, mayhap, been murdered by her captor-husband, whose
hands are already stained with the blood of her father, the police of
Portland are making extraordinary efforts to capture M. V. Leasla.
All day yesterday, fro.m the time of the first alarm that fold of the
tragedy at Peninsular, , all last night and all .'of , today., armed men
have been flding over the joads of, the surrounding country, forcing
- their way on foot' through tangled underbrush,, . threading the little
streams, peering into., every thicket, Questioning closely all whom they
encounter, in the hope of finding -tlre jttian Who,v,yesteday morning,
fired-- two murderous bullets into the body of Ilia wife'e father and
then fled to the woods, forcing his shrinking, terror-stricken wife to
. accompany him. ""'..;. 7 vvV T.
And there. la another and less direct object of the search that is now
spreading for a radius of 60 milea around the -acena ot the homicide.
There is a terrible uncertainty-concerning Mra.' Leaata. . -
Frail .and sick, 'her nerves completely shattered by ; the scene, of
tyorror she waa forced to witness, separated frorh' her babes and In the
power of a desperate and cruel murderer who had sworn to wreak a -terrible
- revenge : .upon her-uch" was her , pitiful condition vwhen she '
vanished behind, the 'fringe of Qods with the hand of her fugitive
husband on her arm.' Her further fata l matter for speculation. '.
...She waa scantily clad whenaha left the houB?; she had partaken of no
bceakfast, and so. far aa known Leasla. has made no attempt to secure
t for hla unwilling companion either food or shelter. , .. v
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Drews, .Going to Help
Father, Find Him Dead
in Their Path.
given shelter to the Ill-treated woman,
treacherously shot Urewa down and
then, with a loaded platol In hla hand,
forced the defenseless former wife to
accompany him on hla flight to escape
the vengeance which hla crime so Just
ly merits.
, But one enarkMf humanity showed In
Iaa1a'a actions.. ...That waa when .he
took hla two Infant children to the house
of a neighbor, a man named C R. Rich
ards, rather than strike them dead upon
the floor . of the home he had desse-
crated for ha could not hope to take
them with him and escape arrest.
Why he took the woman la a mystery
that cannot be fathomed by the rtor.je.
She is known' to be in delicate health
and unable to travel rapidly. Her rela
tives, friends and officers of the law
are fearful that, when' she gives out.
unable to accompany her husband and
tormentor farther upon his Journey,, he
will take her lute as ruthlessly as he
did that .of he"aged father, And so,
as the posses strive to find the criminal
and Tescue from his clutchea the woman
he haa so basely wronged, there is al
waya the dread ' In their hearts that
when she la found, it will be only proof
that another murder has been done, and
that she obtained freedom only in an-
omer wona.
leasia'a DevlUah Plan.
To find the residing place of hla wife
and gain knowledge of who waa caring
for her and how she could be reached.
Leas la employed the- basest treachery.
After having been separated from her
ior more man a year, ana wunoui nav
ing aeen her within a month. Leasla ap
peared at the home of fits rather-ln-law
at noon of Friday and asked to talk
with his former wife. To this the lat
ter would not consent and remained se
creted while her motherv Afrs. Emma
M. Drews, went- out to meet the hus
band, who professed to be repentant and
reformed.
"I want to take the younger child,'
he told her, "and place it in the orphans'
home. I want to makeup with Pauline,
for I love her. and I love my little ones."
The elder Mrs, Drews so far heeded
his pleadings that she accompanied Lea'
sla to the orphans' home, where he pre
tended to arrange for one of the chil
dren to be brought, claiming, however,
that he had no money at that time, but
would return Monday and pay enough
to Insure the child being-well cared for.
Mrs. Drews paid the street car fare of
her son-in-law on their trip to the or
phan' asylum, he being, as-he said, "flat
broke." On their way he asked Mrs.
Drews many questions' concerning her
daughter, professing great Jove for his
former wife and repeating, constantly
that ha had given up his drinking hab
its and would hereafter live a clean life
and be worthy of those he loved,
- Using the knowledge thus gained, Lea
sia returned to the Drews home early
yesterday, killed the' father and then
compelled the daughter to accompany
him, into the woods. '
Bona rind rather Dead.
Fred C. Drews and his brother, Ar
thur, both workmen in the employ of
the O. K. & N. Co. at Alblna, started
yesterday morning,-for, their father's
place, planning to help him in the work
of clearing up a small tract of Jand,
which he had recently purchased In the
vicinity of the suburb of Peninsula.
The house Is some distance from the
little station where the motor line Is
left, and as . the young ' men . walked
through the wooded 'lane they1 saw-a
dark object lying on the ground at the
corner, of their father's house. As they
drew near the vague outlines contract
ed into definite form and they suddenly
realized Jt Was the body or a man.
rainer musi nave iaimea: snouted
Fred Drews, running forward.
His brother followed close behind
him, and as the men rounded a little
clump of fir before the house they saw
blood, gushing--from the -mouth of the
prostrate man... while another pool' of
blood clotted and .matted the fresh, green
grass.
BiacKenea ana stained from the marks
of exploding- powder, a hat was lying on
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the ground beside the figureTand similar
marks were upon the grizzled hair and
about the head of their father, ; who,
when they reached him, was stone dead.
The body was still warm.
A hasty search through the house
failed to discover any cause for the
murder- Their sister, who should have
been there, was missing and the children
could not be found.
"This is the work of Leasla! I'm
going to give the alarm. I knew some
thing like, this . would happen." With
these words Fred Drews dashed toward
Peninsula Station, wliece he telephoned
for the police.
Immediately a crowd of several hun
dred people assembled at -the scene of
the crime, and tho search for the mur
derer began. Soon police officers and
Coroner Flnley arrived at Peninsula, the
body was removed to the city and offi
cers were stationed at. the house and
dispatched ' upon the trail of the sup
posed criminal..
IiMsla, . at : Once SnsDected.
From the first the authorities ac
cepted Fred Drews' version as a fact.
Within 10 minutes from the time sys
tematic search ' began mere suspicion
had become an established fact, for the
missing children hacLbeen found at the
home-Of C R. Richnrds, and the story.
told by the woman in whose care they
had been left confirmed the worst fears
of the pursuera .
Mrs. Richards was alone at her home,
distant a Quarter of a mile from -the
Drews' house, when, between 8 'and 9
o'clock on Sunday morning, Leasla and
his wife appeared, carryfcg their two
children, neither of whom were able
to walk alone. "
"We want to leave the kids here for
a while." the man saw to Mrs. Kicn-
ards. "I am Drews' son-in-law. and
we have Just had a fire over at our
house. The old roan is hurt. The par
tition fell on him and we have to go
right back to look after him. Will you
keep the kids for an hour?"
Hoping In this way to be of assistance
to the stricken ones Mrs. Richards read
ily consented to care",for the babies.
Leasla and the woman who accompanied
him turned and went. away.
Richards' irarrow Escape.
"I was not at home when the children
were brought to the house or I wouldn
have, accompanied Leasla back to the
supposed scene t5f "the Are," said Mr.
Richards to .The Journal today. "Had
I done so; I probably would have been
killed also. I. arrived at home a short
time after the children were left at our-
home. I had not yet breakfasted,' and
after. Tfttemy meal I went ever twaee
'what I could do toward helping aboat
the Are. It was then that I discovered
a crime had "been committed.
. '.'Neither my wife nor myself knew the
Drews people, who had only lived in our
neighborhood' for about six ,'weeksr We
had never heard that' there had been
trouble between Leasla and his' wife,'
and of course were not at all euaplclous.
although my wife did notice that Mrs.
Leasla. was very much' agitated wfille
she was in our house, and: that her hus
band took her roughly by the arm as
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they left. . She, however,- attributed all
this to. excitement, resulting from the
Are."
When they left the Richards home
Leasla, and his wife retraced their steps
almost to the Drews house. This was
afterward ascertained by a posse that
tracked tho -ugitive. They are then
supposed to have started In a- north
easterly direction toward tho Vancouver
road and the Columbia River.'
"I feel certain uat, Leasla sneaked
through the bushes upon my father
while the old man was at' work sawing
down some small trees," said. Fred
Drews to" The Journal today. "There
was a hand-saw by father's side when
we found his body and some fresh
stumps about J 00 feet from the house
showed where he had been at work
do not know wliuther he saw Leasla
coming and. went to the house to pro
tect Pauline, or whether he was at
tempting to reach the house as a means
of shelter."
Where the Body lay.
The body of the Head man was found
at the southeast corner of the Drews
home, the head resting against a woven
wlre fence. Tho feet were, toward the
south and away from the house. There
were tracks all about. i
Ferdinand H. Drews, the murdered
man, was 68 years of age, and came to
Portland from Tho Dalles, where 1
owns a residence nnd city property val
ued at. $7,000. His life was insured
with the Woodmen-for $2,000. The fun
eral will occur from the chapel at the
undertaking parlors of P. J. Flnley, at 2
o'clock oh Thursday afternoon and
burial will be in Lone Fir Cemetery.
At the ttme of the murder Mrs. Emma
M. Drews, wife of the murdered man,
was visiting in The Dalles, where she
had gone to witness the graduation of a
young son, who has been attending
school there. She did not return to
Portland until late Sunday night, and Is
now staying at the home of her oldest
son, Ffed Drews, in Alblna.
The Leasla children have been taken
from-the. Richards home and are with
relatives at the home of Mrs. Ooctz, in
Alblna.
. Pauline Drews was married to Leasla
at Colfax. Wash., three years ago. She
was at that time an employe of the In
land Telephone Company and met Leasla
while he was working for tho same eonj
ccrn.
Until recently Leasla has been drlv.
Ing team' for Banfleld, Vesey & .Co., but
he left their employ on May 18.
rred Drews! Story.
"I know that Leasla had .treated my
sister very brutally , In the past arid
that she" would never have rone with
him had not force beer- exerted," said
Fred Drews. "Not only' had Leasla
threaten her life, but he had told me
to my face that Tii-wouldtt-ma jupr.
slme time. would never have, given
him a chance to take my life for I knew
Just what kind, of a man he. was. He la
li murderer at heart, haa not the prin
ciple of a dog and ia utterly without
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BAFFLES OFF!
vWith Scant Clothing and Without
s Murderer
ive at 7:30 Last Night but
WHY THEY ARE
DM
Ai THE
PEOPLE
He Was Scored in Washington
for Failure to Protect Any
thing but the Corporations
and the Timberites,
The "Star" Said That .There
Were Extensive Frauds -and
That Oregon Suffered Most
from . the Perpetration of
Them!
Well Known Paper- - Makes
Statements That Should Be
Damaging to Cause of Land
Grabbers of First District,
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 25. Active
interest Is being taken in the tight- for
Congress in Oregon between Binger
Hermann and A. K. Reames. . It is al
most impossible for the correspondents
to get an expression "of opinion from
any -of the Republican party leaders
here, as they are in a very queer predic
anient, knowing, as they do, that Her
mann was not the choice of the admin
istration for the office to which he as
pires. All feel that the Oregon conven
tion made a bad mistake In naming
Herman, for even were he elected., .he
would receive slight courtesy from any
of the party leaders.
The article that first' called atten
tion to the delinquencies In the land
office was first published in the Wash
ington Star, on the 27th of last April.
The , Star is a powerful, conservative
paper that wields power among Re
publicans and Democrats alike. 'Its ar
ticle waa prepared and written as fol
lows:
PUBLIC .. LANDS STEAL
Interior Department Vnearthlna; Extra
aire Conspiracy.
nrOIOTKBITTS WIU, BB SOUGHT
Disclosures aa to Operations of Syndi
cates, Hotably la Oregon, which Could
- Have Been Possible Only Through Col
lusion With Federal Officials.
The Secretary of the Interior is be
ginning to receive reports on the sus
pension of timber and stone land entries
in California, Oregon and Washington,
and so far as they go they confirm the
wisdom of the order of suspension.;which
was made last fall. There is a thorough
conviction on the -part of the officials
of the Interior Department that many,
if not most, of the entries under the
timber act, which were made in the Pa
cific Coast States during the year 1902,
were made in tho interest of syndicates,
arid the protests received since the issu
ance of the order strengtliien ihls con
viction. Since then, not a single entry
under that law in tho states covered by
the order has been allowed to go to
patent withont thorough investigation.
Oregon the Center.
In one state alone last year there was
an Increase In the entries amounting to
about 140.000 acres In trie course of
three months. It is said that Oregon
is the state where this astonishing in
crease occurred, and that when hints of
It first reached Secretary Hitchcock, he
called upon Commissioner Hermann, of
fhe General Land Office, for Information.
The reenlta were very unsatisfactory:
On Mr. Hermann's reaignatlon hla suc
cessor, Mr. Bicharda, entered spon aa
earnest investigation. . As a result, three
land commissioners in Oregon have re
signed, under circumstances which war
rant tho Department of Justice in BfTfig
ing criminal proceedings against them.
Commissioner Richards and his . in
spectors believe that they have- un
earthed a plot whereby hundreds of thou
sands of acres of valuable lands In Ore
gon have been secured by. speculators
and syndicates through false entries,
which could not have occurred without
the collusion of government officers.
It is an open secret in. the General
Land Office that the frauds began during
the lattef part of the administration of
former' Commissioner Hermann of Are'
gOTL '.;
It is also . considered something of a
coincidence that these. frauds obtained
t he - gra vee t - preport lone 4'' 14 r, - Her
mann's own state, where, the most val-
- J Continued, oa Second PageT r ft.
in His Flight to Escape
FEARFUL
TORNADO
Missouri River Valley Visited
By Death-Sweeping Cyclone
Houses Wrecked and In
habitants Kiiled. '.
Storm Strikes Terror in Dis
tricts in Its Path Farming
Sections Devastated 4 and
Great Loss Results,
Women and Little Children Are
Reported to Have Died of
Fright-Storm of Destruction
Out of Clear Sky,
( Journal Special Service.)
LINCOLN, Neb., May 25. Pauline, a
town 15 miles south of Hastings, is re
ported to have been destroyed by a ter
rible tornado which raged last night.
Six persons are said to have been killed.
but as all wires are down, the details
are very meagre. . .
Further advices state that the town
of Norman was also swept by the cyclone
ana seven persons were Killed and a?
number of houses at Farfleld, which was
in the storm s path, were destroyed.
Eight persons are missing from Far
field, and It Is believed they have been
krlled. Wires southwest of there are
all down.
LINCOLN. Neb.. May 25. tater .ad
vices from Pauline say that the town
escaped serious damage, but the cyclone
swept the farming section for two miles
east of the place. Confirmation of, the
number of dead has not been 1 made.
Sections laying 'In the-tornadoe's route
were swept, and houses were torn and
twisted Into splinters.
People living in the district visited
by the death dealer were terror stricken,
and It ia reported that severai little
children and women died of . fright It
cannot be ascertained the actual dam
age done or the number of lives lost.
The storm fame over the section al
most out of a clear sky. . There was a
lull and a stillness that was almost ap
palling a few minutes before the tor
nado burst. Suddenly a crackling sound
was heard, then a roar, and the panic
stricken people kneW that the dreaded
cyclone waa upon them.
KANSAS CITT. May 25. The first de
tails of the cyclone which almost de
molished Carmen, Okla.. were received
today. It is said that for an hour
previous to its breaking not a breath of
wind was apparent. The inhabitants
grew alarmed and fled into storm cellars,
thus accounting for the small loss of
life. Only one was klled and three were
Injured, although the property devasta
tion was complete. " Nine stores and
factories, two churches, two hotels.
three lumber yards, three livery stables.
and six residences were completely de
stroyed. A whole, row- of stores were
smashed in.
OMAHA, Neb., May 25. Specials re
ceived here show that 21 were killed
in this morning's tornado in Kearney
and Adams Counties alone. A relief
train has been sent from Hastings to the
scene of devastation.
ROLFE. May 25. The business por
tion of this town was visited by a fear-,
ful tornado this morning. s
HERMANN EXPOSED
BY HS "FRIENDS"
"r1ht&jiJ Oregonian, aeveral mohths before Hermann waa removed.?
from the General Land Office, an item appeared lit the telegraphic newer-
' from Washington stating that-fid ward Bender, a" special agent of the,
'-- land offlpe, sent to Investigate the vatter, had recommended that a
forest reserve be created in. Coos, Curry, Josephine, and Douglas '
Counties, which la the reserve that haa now been aet aside to those
counties. - ' ' y , .'--.v; :, "-'1!f:.- y:'yr
Special Agent Bender Is a brother-in-law of Binger Hermann. Aa
the effect of this, reservation these enormous tract are withdrawn"
. from public entry ef lands, otherwise they would be accessible to set-,
tiers, by giving; advance information to land grabbers, speculator and'
large companies were able to get upon land, which, was to be reserved,
jv and locate through hired cruisers and pretended bona fide settlers.
"T.'Herijiannclalms that in-this campaign he Is agaMist forest reaarwi
and this Incident-shows that he not only. did Be nermann's rl"
tive and-appotnteey. recommend thla reserve, hy f t t "
approved' across the petitions for settinr
4jig ills Influence ttr.ths securing; of fav
Department and PreBidaht.T :yy-t'--Att9mlj0he4,mlsf. j
'. - ... '. . .1; el ..Merer Company - ' - i i
PRICE "FIVE- CENTS.
mm
the Belief
SILENT
Newspaper Trust . Has . Been
Drawing Down Thousands.
From the County for Adver-
tising, Charging' Excessive
Rates, ; . "
Some of the Sop That Has'
Beea.Thrown to the Builders -r-
of the Tower That Represents
Nothing butfSelf" ,
" ...... . - .; .
One Reason ; Why thee People
Have Had no Representation
When County Tax Squanr
derers Wasted Publrc Funds. -
Five yeara' receipts of the-Oregonlan
from county printing: . .
17 ...$ M75.70
im .,: 474. jo
1899 , 25.635.li - v
1900 11,765.20
1901 ,. 4,6(6.00
Total for the five
years ,
Average annual pay
$56,88114
ment 10.177.8T
The foregoing figures are taken from
the books of the County Auditor and
show the sums received by the Morn
ing Oregonian for advertising delin
quent taxes during five yeara of the
time covered by the recent inveetiga- '
tion Into the affairs of Multnomah
County, i
This advertising was done at; the
rate of 40 centa per line for. four in '
sertlons, or 10 cents per line for each : '
Insertion, which is more than, 11 times -the
rate at which The- Journal ia now
doing the official printing for the City
of Portland. 1
38,000 In One Tear. '
The year of largest profit to the Ore-
gonlan waa 1899, the year when a large -proportion
of the questionable "tax '
settlements" shown by the recent expert
Investigation took -place. The-' pay 1
ments made to the Oregonian, In 1899. ,
as shown by the books of the County
Auditor,, .were sa f ollowar: . . . .
January 11 $4,185.60 .
February 9 5.50
April i 9 6.00
June 21 6,426.36
July 20 , 4.611.96
August 17 . 5.499.71
September 20 .,... 4,900.00
t
Total , $25,635.14
It Is claimed of course that these
charges for advertising delinquent
taxes were assessed upon, the property
concerned amd therefore . are of no in
terest to the taxpayers at large., If
the county had succeeded- In collecting
from delinquents, the sums It: paid out '
In advertising their property, this argu
ment might be aound and the only per
sons who could, justly complain that
the rates charged by the newspaper
were exorbitant would be the delin
quents themselves. . . . ,
County Had . to Fay-, tne Bills.
But as a matter of fact a very large
proportion of the money . paid out by
the county in tax advertising was
never subsequently recovered by it. .-.
The records of the County Board dur
ing the five years mentioned show that
in a vast- number of cases the county's ,
claims for taxes, costs and advertising '
were scaled down to a fraction of .their
face value and in many instances were -wiped
out altogether. Hundreds, of
thousands of dollars due the county
wero thus" sacrificed and. the result was ,
that for It very large part of the tumi
paid to the Oregonian for advertising v
the county was never reimbursed,;-and
the burden Tell directly. upon the- nasa
of taxpayers. - -' , ,4..
It is therefore of Interest to the peo
ple of Multnomah County to know the
rntes and amounts paid to- the'' Ore
gonlah, since so ' large a part of . the
money came out of their pockets. No
effort Is mada at this time to Include ;
the sums paid to the Oregonian by the
county for other printing, nor does the
statement gtven herein .cover payments
to the Telegram. s J
Those familiar with the history of
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