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12 THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, ' AUGUST $, 1S20. i SLAYERS OF TIL 1 TAYLOR BEGIN TO SHOW WEAKNESS Expected That Pendleton Attor neys.WnV Refuse to Defend Them; Plead Soon. ' r Pendleton, Aug. . 7. Outwardly ' cynical and .as Iron-nerved as ever, Jim Owens. Neil, Hart, Jack Rathie, Louis Anderson and Richard Patter on. In jail here facing charges of murder and jail breaking, are ap- " parently inwardly worried. The five tooa the life of Sheriff Til Taylor on the afternoon of Sunday. 'July ' 25, in a break from the Umatilla county JalL t; Curious crowds were allowed to visit the jail dally to look at the prisoners . early in the week. The outlaws put on a bold fron to the sightseers.' They gained the impression that they were martyrs until it was evident that there was ,not a whit of sympathy for, them. Now the curious are not allowed to see 'the prisoners. ::; ., v" -j. ''";' Owens asked a girl of about 18 among the people' that visited the jail, if she would send him a few old magazines to read, The girt looked at him, drew back " and with an I should say not," passed by the Jail door. ,- , The Salvation Army called at the Jail In. mid-week, and sang and prayed for the five prisoners.. " After the ceremony the captain of the corps declared that she feared the men were Impervious to religion. Further visits by the corps are doubtful, ma unconcerned were the men. Tobacco la the only article outside of their meals that is allowed - the prison era i Friends of Patterson and Ander- - son, the bad check men. send .them to-J oacco. i ney snare u witn tne outers. Owens Is deft at making cigarettes and - smokes constantly, if he has the ma , ' tertala. - -. v' !i ' - " Four other prisoners. Including Albert Undrel, who escaped at the time the . others went out, have no association with the five held I for murder.- These men are not manacled with Oregon boots and confined to individual cells as are the five. . i No intimation has been given as to the : pleas to be entered . when the, prisoners are arraigned. Local attorneys intimate that if pleas of not anility are entered there will be no lawyers here willing to undertake the task of defending them. The court la expected to be obliged ta : appoint counsel in case they plead not ' guilty. - :.! . , I The grand jury which convenes Mon day to consider the cases of these men consists of & X. I. Ross, farmer, Her mlston ; E. P. Jensen, fruit grower, Free- water: R. W. Fletcher, credit man. Pen dleton ; James Hodgen, farmer, Weston; J. A. Schmidt, merchant, Freewater; A. R. Coppock. farmer, Athena, and H. M. Moore, farmer. Echo. . L , Dr. Robbins New Dean of the School Of Commerce-at 1LT University i of Oregon, Eugene. Au. . 7. Dr. Edwin Clyde Robbins. formerly professor in the department of eco nomics and sociology, was elected dean of the school of commerce of the Uni versity of Oregon to succeed Dean t. Walter Morton, former head Of the school, at a meeting , of the executive committee of the board of regents ' of the university; here tonight. Dean Morton tendered hfs resigna tion as a member of the faculty of ' the university in order to accept a: po sltlon with the J. C Penney company of New York city, and will leave im- ; mediately to assume his- new position. The 'new dean will take charge of the work of the school of commerce Mon- day and is planning several changes in the school for the coming year, in cluding new courses, the granting of an additional degree and the strength- ' ening of the faculty of the school. Irregular Financial transaction Claimed E. I Crambleitt was arrested Friday evening on complaint of A. Henges, president of the Henges Garage com pany of Vancouver. Wash., charging that Crambleitt obtained money from him on false i pretenses. The trouble . arises over representations made as to : the ownership of a motor truck which Henges claims. - said to . be valued at 16782. and, which Crambleitt: is said to have represented that he owned and sold to Charles W. Decker, the latter paying $1360 and agreeing to pay the balance on Installments. ConiEmcndmalic tbe teat of the Ittd violins on NEWEDISON Let as ibow ytra how faith fully theNew Edisonbricgi oat the subtle distinctions in tone between ' two fa mous violins. " HYATT TALKING MACHINE CO SO A Mar SW, Peruana, Or. Taylor Was Loved by All,' Shot at One m fa?; ; ' . : iff' L sf,. 3, s V1 x' , if ( (.J , v.'jC! vl The late Sheriff Til Taylor of Umatilla county and president of the ; J j - j will be By H.: Sherman 'Mitchell. Pendleton, Aug. 17- "H enjoyed the strong friendship o'f good-citi-gens. ' . He commanded - the respect of qrimlnals , He had the admiration children, and tSe confidence of grown-ups, . He waa a faithful offi cer aad a: big-hearted man. I Thus, briefly,, did a friend of the late Sheriff Til Taylor essay to pay tribute to the memory of the man whom Pen dleton, Umatilla county and the state of Oregon -now propose; to perpetuate with a suitable memorial. ; He was apologetic for his lack of words i with which to express suitably the esteem in which he and hundreds, or even thousands, held the man, Tllman D. Taylor., i To- those ; whose fortune It- .'was to know I him., the Sheriff was Just "Til." The short, .homely monosyllable which was called to him in friendly greeting many! times each day-was Always ac knowleged by a smile : and a pleasant word or more. in. a voice .of even tenor. There! was the handclasp for the friend who " came from beyond the limits of Pendleton, but it was always of the sin cere kind. ) There were no-shouts and wavings of hands from the big sheriff as he greeted friends upon ' the street. TU Taylor was no grandstand player. LISTENED TO AIL . j - There was no : feigning of interest In the tale which the j friend from near or far might tell him. Crop prospects, neighborhood news or' reports of hap penings which might be considered of Importance to "the sheriff were received alike, i From these bits of conversation Sheriff Taylor made' not alone friends, but often the chain of evidence, on a case or a man. In not a few instances tips from such' sources mad? difficult captures mora, easy, j Old settlers, men t of business, young men, vChlldren, women and girls were all numbered among his friends. His was rpt Just ' a speaking acquaintance. He knew names and : he remembered faces. ; "Til never forgot' a face," said one of his former deputy sheriffs. Admittedly one of I the most success ful "-peace officers in the Northwest. Sherif Taylor never became hardened to' the- routine of handling criminals. Twenty-two, years of his life were spent as sheriff and -deputy sheriff of Uma tilla '.county, yet ills interests 1 were as sincere in all the ' activities in life as those ef.a man divorced from the seri ous . business of handling derelicts, per verts and criminals. -v It was, not Til Taylor's business' to get Into a rat - He saw too much in life to let his path become a groove. He made human nature a keen study and public service an- avocation. During his service as sheriff of. Umatilla county. 2645 arrests were made. . Spread over 19 years, this number gives an average of 147 : a year.4 one every 2 days. , aLV feAVE coicFHmif ce v- : vi . . .Criminals ranging1 f rem petty ' thieves to bold murderers . served time in the Umatilla county Jail under Til Taylor's regime. Some were harmless, some ex ceedingly dangerous. It was a faculty of his to elicit the respect and confidence of them aU v.-, -f. -.; ? . . . In 1914, after a notable : holdup had occurred'1on fast mail train No. i ol the O-W.' K. 4 N. on the mounUin be tween La Grande and Pendleton, officers at La. - Grand were about" to give two suspects, Albert Meadora and Clar ence Stoner, because they were unable to wring ' a confession from the nair. Meadors and Stoner had been taken alive arter a ; chase lasting two s days 2 and nights over much the same character of country as was traveled . by the mur- aerers or tsnerur Taylor a few days ago. Charley Manning, their confederate, was shot and killed during the - holdup by George McDuffee, now sheriff., of Mor row county who was a passenger. ; Sheriff Taylor, who had been in Port land at the time of the holdup, went to La Grande to assist his fellow off 1- Man in 22 Years of Service memorialized by friends j In the Oregon country. cers in the case.': He talked with the two suspects and finally got them, to talk. His manner brought out the story where others had failed almost to the point of turning the two free, I. Meadors and Stoner took Sheriff Tay lor and E. B. Wood, epeeial agent for the O-W. R. & N. Co, to their cache near Meacham and dug up money, dia fnonds, guns and other " loot they had taken ' In the robbery. One gave his pistol to the sheriff as a souvenir; the other gave his to Wood. Both men Were' later convicted and served time. ! t The number of confessions which . the late 4 sheriff elicited from prisoners is classed by fellow workers as almost un canny. Dozens of men against whom the thread of evidence was slight never exercised ; the ' prerogative of a not guihy plea. The sheriff j was able to convince them of - their guilt and to ad vise them against trying to evade the fact In saving the county the expense of costly jury trials alone. Sheriff Tay lor's service was of inestimable value, his friends point out t j f POSSESSED KEEIC ETE. . jl I Confessions were not 4 obtained by brow beating methods or third degrees. Sheriff Taylor was a psychologist of a nature peculiar to himself. He pos sessed an eye as clear, a keen and as gripping as a magic crystal.' He looked any man In the eye without a flinch. He talked coolly and evenly to his man. He neither pleaded nor coerced. It was friendly advice, sound counsel, that he gave. A man's face, his actions, his re sponses, showed- him whether guilty or not guilty. Few -ever were held Jpng who were not guilty. 1 This same trait that 1 established In his mind the guilt or innocence of the prisoner led also to many captures of suspects: f Instinct guided Sheriff Tay lor to the hiding place of many whom he Bought The habits of criminals were as second nature to him. Not a few times he arrested men who were cocksXire of their eafety from apprehenr slon. ! He was a "good sport" toi their way Of thinking and they generally ad mired him for his superiority of ma neuvering. .'';:., V1 ( 1 The keen, convincing, eye; the power behind it the analytical mind, the gen tleness, yet impenetrable' firmness of the man :- are qualities attributable to the clean life he lived. An athlete in his youth. Til Taylor spent much of his life In the great outdoors, a ' lover of animals as well as his fellow man. . He never used tobacco nor an excesa of in toxicants. He used his brain, and his physical faculties constantly. ; SHOT AT dXE MAlt ; Xy The only man TU Taylor ever shot at during his 22 years as , a. sheriff and deputy was Prank, PiHiseer.'a, bank job ber. A hot chase for the capture of this bandit followed the robbery of the bank at Hermiston a f ew . years ago. Pilliseer opened fire on the sheriff and he returned the fire until i his scant stock of ammunition was exhausted. Neither man was struck by bullets. Pil liseer made good his escape. : - A short time later the bandit was arrested and placed in the -Multnomah county Jail. : Sheriff Taylor went to Portland to Identify him. Prom pictures he had seen in the gallery maintained in his of ties here, Pilliseer was picked out of more than 50 prisoners in the JalL The sheriff had that face stamped indelibly in bis mind. . ss - . ., -Any other officer In i this county would have shot and killed Jim' Owens and Neil Hart during the chase that re sulted in their capture on Birch creek," Deputy Sheriff Jacob C Marin said. "It was a wonder that they r did not shoot Til, then He did not use his gun. however He never fired It at - any other captives., y--;V :?-t:,- J.w t'U-'' Thlrty-foUr, men have broken out; of the Umatilla county Jail in the 18 years Til Taylor was sheriff,, records show. Two of these nevjor were brought back. Of these, one was located in Michigan, but slipped through the. fingers of the Even Prisoners Pendleton Itound-Up association who men sent to take him. . The ether was in avenworth. Kas., prison and was not deemed worth bringing back. The others wire returned to Jail here, directly or indirectly, without ever a shot having been fired by the sheriff or the men immediately with him. ; Both as an officer and as a cltisen, Sheriff Taylor did his duty with thor oughness. As an aid to his work he assembled and maintained one of. the largest galleries of criminal photographs on the Paciflo coast i He had finger prints and measurements made of all important criminals and the photographs and circulars filed in his office number into thousands. Records of cuntnrwi Jaft breaks, sentences, paroles and other data were also kept up to date. . Til Tayfor was a .native Oregonian, a fearless, sturdy son of - the Pacific Northwest ; He .' was ' born, September 19, 1866, at Howell Prairie, nine miles from Salem. At the age of 2 years he came, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Taylor, to Umatilla county. They settled at Centerville, now Athena, where his mother still resides; David Taylor died in March at the age of 80 years. STUDIED IS PORTLAND Schools in Athena and Walla Walla were attended by Til Taylor and In the winter of 1888 and 1889 he studied at th4 old Armstrong Business college, in Portland, v Upon his return to Athena in 1889 he became bookkeeper in a hard ware store operated by C. A. Barrett Sheriff Taylor was first married In 1889, Miss Sadie Smith of Athena being his bride. To them was born one son, Sheldon D. Taylor, December 27. 1891. Thje son operates a wheat farm near Pendleton. Mrs. Taylor passed away in 1896. following which he came to Pen dleton to work in the W. D. Hansford hardware store. j ' In June, 1898, he became a deputy sheriff under Sheriff . William Blakely and served four years In that Capacity. Thle incumbent retired in 1902 and Tay lor ran and was elected. Never since 1902 has another candidate defeated him foil office, although Umatilla; county registers a majority vote of Republicans and Sheriff Taylor was! a Democrat In 1909. Sheriff Taylor married Miss Claire Moussu f Pendleton, who sur vives him. Mrs. Ann Taylor, his mother, and W. R. Taylor, his brother, both of Athena, are other close surviving rela tives., ; When the Pendleton Round-Up had its inception in 1910, Sheriff Taylor was on of the organizers, i He was presi dent continuously after the first two yeirs and had been reelected this year to tuju position, rne figure of the big, ha: year after year ? at the head of Roand Upj parades, was known to hundreds of thousands who have come to Pendleton for the last 10, years. During one Rose Festival the sheriff served as "King Joy" in . Portland. i - . . ACTIVE IIT CIVIC VOBK ' in fraternal , and civic work Sheriff Taylor was not found lacking. Al though details of ; the Round-Up called heavily upon his time, he served gladly on I boards for various undertakings. Twice he was offered the superintend ency, of the state , prison as a tribute to his service aa a peace, officer, but declined. ! . . ,-. , , . (Priends of the deceased sheriff, whose number i legion, now feei that a last ing memorial to his memory Is the least tribute they can pay. The deeds he did. the .virtues for which he stood and the lesson of unselfish service they de j, commemorate. Peidleton " al 1EZTC!?n.b2!a an organiaaUon to form the TU Taylor Memorial aasocia Uon. This will, be statewide in nature. A bronze statue of the beloved officer f" Pony as he was remembered at S wh0,!!:d;sPrii,iavorei A monument ohnW t-,ih,Ir chIldrn n their children s children Is the desire of the community and county which he served, i PENDLETON PLANS ROUND UP TO ECLIPSE EM ALL Eariy Reservations Point to Rec ord I Attendance at Oregon's Annual Epic of the West. . Pendleton. .Aug. 7. In the Interim between harvest " operations, - the growth of ths Til Taylor Memorial fund and the ordinary; business of the biggest little city in the world, Pendleton ia getting ready for its eleventh annual . Round-Up, which this year. Is scheduled for Thursday, Krlday and Saturday, September 23. 2 and 25. Getting ready is a task that will re quire1 the undivided attention for the next sit weeks of a score of trained executives and a cdrps of full-time assistants. - En tries for the 26-odd events on each day's program, huckift horsesr roping horses. steers for bulldogglng and steers for rop ing must be obtained. Five hundred In diana from the Umatllla, - reservation must be brought here during Round-Up- -week and encamped, at Round-up park. all of which detail requires .preparation now. Quarters in every home In Pendle ton, In order: to properly bouse every visitor who comes within - the city's boundaries, must be pledged. Literally tons of advertising matter will go to the - farthest corners of the United .States within the week. Post cards and posters are - the media .used. Before ever a. dab of ink was used in advertising- this year's 'show, a hundred requests for reservations were received here.: No day's mail comes without such requests. i - Probably a feature of this years cele bration will be attribute to the late Sher iff "Taylor, who for years was president of the Round-Up.-. - . v As each, succeeding year's perform ance has surpassed that of the previous year, the association plans to make 1920's Round-Up as near the last word as possible. . Favorites and champions from past' years are writing that . they are, eager again . to ; compete for the rec ognised - world's ; championships which Pendleton Round-Ups bestow.' New: stars in the firmament of. cowboydom : are entering for the events. The great-; est array of talent In all the West Is ' promised. Charley Irwin and Bddle McCarty, ISO 2DN5IDEREO BY MANY MOTORISTS THE BEST FABRIC TIRE ONTHAiEQJCAN IT . .tfW .1 the American market". 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Organs to Work Properly, j :' University of dregon, Kugenej 'Aug. 7. An article entitled "Th4 Reformation of the Crystalline Styl In the Mya Arenaria," , written by Dr. Charles H. Edmundson, formerly professor inthe department of zoo ology at fine University of , Oregon; now in charge of the Bishop Mui seum at Honolulu, has appeared in the ' Journal of Experimental Zoolo-j gy, recently off the press. -, j The article waa the result of two years of experimental work carried pn by Dri Edmudson at Florence, Or., where he dug the mud clams in that section and per4 formed operations upon them to discover whether their digestive functions would continue if the crystalline style, a jelly-; like' substance going into .the stomachj were taken out entirely." He completed his work on the clam, which Is of the edible variety, in April. 1920, afterj two' years of experimenting, and the discov erles made are considered very valuable to zoologists. 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