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V - TUB OREGON ' STATESMAN,. SALEM, OREGON. SUNDAY. MORNING! OCTOBER :V V20 0. HENRY "5 AL. JENNINGS - '(Continued from last ek.) : CHAPTKK KIGHTKF.X .We left Porter", harried itttb ifiilMy, at the Hotel Plaza in ftn ABtorilo. Frank and t alncr u rancher rod into New Rbchlte. jOur plan vas simple. The cowman was to attract tne atten tion of the marshal while w? cleaned out the bank's vault. ,,Th bank stood on a corner op poaite the' public square. The cowman want quietly to a bench tA trait for the .signal from me. 1 polled out ray handkerchief and began mopping my face.. jr opened fire shooting Hjte a luna tic into the air. Men and wo men ran into saloons, stores and bouaes. The officials hurried otsr to tba crazy cowman. .'Frank and I walked into the bank, stuck up the caabler': and compelled ths delivery of $ 15,5 60 in currency. Tha rancher charged with drunk euacat. was arrested, fined and . reloaded. Frank, and l,,left ths bank as quietly as the next door merchant might have. The ruse worked. From Bill Porter that greeting was more expressive 't than the gustiest tribute j from the 'fcliK tongued. Porter's stories art crowded with colorful slang. H is own speech was invariably pure and correct.- . . ', All of us knew that the parting had com?" If Rill could not rol with us lfe-couUl not settK? down on the ranch bought with,1 our stolen bills. j I hav never relished farewells. 1 did. not want lo probe into Por ter's soul, flaihad nev?r said a word about his past. He had not even told" us-his name. Kuf lit tle as I wished "t: quia' him, I was eagar to know 1jIs-identity. 1 did not want to lose track of him forever. - "Bill," I said, "here's" where we scoot. We're getting" . on mighty familiar , soil. . There's likely to be' trouble enough 3onie Kday. Something may turn up i (I IIej o -writ to yau. I might want your advice." " v -. ! - tl - & . . . Sorry He Hatl Xot I lorn Kntirely 1-Ynnk. Pwter ftarprUetl ,At lloldup Specil r W. went straight to the ranch .and than doubled back- to San Antonio, tl was about two days since had left Porter. He was not ordinarily, a warm- spoken man, but -when he saw us he out his hand and hia voice was ncn witn suppressed emotion. . "ColoneU congratulation. This la indeed a happy mtJment. I wan so troubled In your abaenea." 1 WM'' ? tpcsxtif, Prepared yriih I jr Predig'ested Q&fcfr? Iron -Easily yYA fl I Assimilated ,t If I fcvthe :Yi ry 'I haven't be?n very .Vt frank 1 niiu.juu, iiiiTe it UK ttiiiiwcird. "I'm nrrv ' . '. Such reticence, I felt was more than a shield fori an unhappy love affair. Porter'stroubles,- I know. must have been deeper than I had suspected. ? . , "Good-bye. Colonel : ;'. may we meet happily again," he said. And the next tlme'l saw him. pearly three yaars later the very word, "happy" was stricken from Als vocabulary, v Bill Porter was a changed and broken man. TrapieI by Marshals Mx Month Later r ' ' ' - - j ; - , '. ; ' Frank and I went out to our ranch. For six months we lived In free apd profitable industry. Suddenly an old.: J familiar face peered atour window. - Zona, a bandit friend, had tracked our 1 pajvdddv wj jaqjo )anvq tne range and dodged again. The marshals had trapped us. Frank. Zona and . I j escaped. For -weeks we rode from range to ranjra. Hunger spurred us. There were, more robberies. : And then there was the Rock Island day light holdup. We-had counted on a clean haul of $90,000 from the express car.! . t Our dynamite failed to break the safe. Wa were cheated on the transaction. It was our most futile rentlire. It led to our capture. The stick up was counted the ' boldest In outlaw exploits. ; Armed bands patrolled . the , country for . the 'Jennings gang." j- In December, 18S7. they eanght.flsv' ni-r? : , ', We had . gone, back to the old Spike &., the range where I h;ad first met aad joined the outlaws. the rang where the M., K. & T. robbery was planned. We were waiting for the arrival of "Little Dick." llamher fin Visit t. In Itain a Spy., i There came a lnock at the door. The wind wast howling like a fiend., outside. Mrs. Harliss went to the porch. A- man, cov ered with dirt, his eye swollen almost shut," hi coat dripping with rain, asked shelter. He was a ranchman who lived some: few miles away. That night he came as a spy. We we're his quarry. All of us felt the "closing of tbjp trap.' We had nothing i but our suspicions to work on. The rancher was a-friend of the Har liss folk. We could not hold him. , ,But none of us went to bed that nignt. ,The sun came blazing out bril liant buvcold the next morning. Mrs. Harliss went down to the cistern for water.' She came rush ing back, her shawl gone, her hair blowing in the wind. "The marshals are here! We'll all be killed!" Frank and Bud hurled them selves downstairs, Winchesters in their hands. Mrs. Harliss grabbed her little brother in her arms and ran to. the front" door, I started out through the kitchen window. The fight was on. Fortrrsji Shat I ertnl In Forty Minutes. Bullets tore the .knob off the front door. The first volley splin tered glass in my face. We got to a little bothouse just outside the ranch nome. There were, three rooms downstairs, one , up. The shots went through the house' as though it were cardboard. Ballets broke the dishes on the table, smashed the stove, dashed the pictures off the wall.-. Three of us were hit. We were surround, ed on three sides. Marshals were in the barn to the northeast, the log house to -the north and the rocks and timber to the northwest, a little peach orchard skirted the south. Beyond that was open prai rie. k - ' ' .''y " s" j Wre fought for 40 minutes until our rickety fortress was all but shattered. Then we hit for the prairie, firing as we ran. They didn't dare to track us into the open spaces. , 1 tne three of .ua ;we had two ap-lc ptes. That was our fare for three nays. Tlie marshals Ulldn't roitow. We recrossed the reek, took a ."ouple of Indiana am their nonv team prisoners and Aiade for the Canadian Itlrer bed. My wound swelled. I had to rip It open, twice wtin my penknife: to get relier. we made straight for Benny Price's auuse. lie mail been ; a irienu oi ours before the outalws days. He took us in and gave us a good meat. We could not stay, without menacing his welfare. ' There was another friend there, a horsethier named Maker. - He came down and gave us a wagon. Frank did not trust hint, tie would not go. Bud. Bill "and 1 got into the covered wagou; Bak er was to drive us to his house. Hill seemed to ba dying with his wound.t. Hud and I were? both unconscious. J woke up sudden ly. Someone was sitting on,, the driver's seat. . Capture, Trial And Ixmg Sentence. "Who is it?" I asked. "Ma, damn it!" Frank an swered. "Let's get out of this." While we wre unconscious. Baker sent word to Frank that I wanted him. He had come. Bak er drove us into Jha timber, into the trap, and left us vowing we werw on the right road. A felled tree lay athwart the" path. Bill was dying. Bud and 1, but half conscious, were dozing In tha bot tom of the wagon. Frank had scrambled out to move the tree. Tha guerdon of marshals, six shooters cocked, sprang about us. ' "Jennings, surrender, or w'll shoot down the team!" About 10 to 1 they had us. . It took pearly two years before sentence was passed. I was given tvr years on a charge of assault with intent to kill a deputy. In another district I was found guilty of the Rock Island holdup and given life imprisonment, l was sent to the Ohio penitentiary. -The mystery of fate bad brought-me to the home of BUI Porter. (Continued next week)' lEmtiMcBdl ft ' Rush for Last Stand on Hill. . Just across the Duck Creek we stopped to bind our wounds, t was shot above, the knee, the bullet lodging in the bone. Bud was shot in the shoulder ' and Bill had a gash that looked like a dog bite in hia thigh. Frank's clothes had ,27 boles' in the coat. He was not even scratched. w.up.m tne mountains, we ipre- parea ror -a - iasi stana." we nad all day. It was blue cold. Between ThA Inward Effects of humors are worse than the outward. They endanger - the whole system. Hood's Sarsaparilla eradicates all humors, .cures all their, inward and outward effects. , It. is, the great alt rativa and tonic, whose merit has been everywhere estab-lish-ed. American soldiers in France at 20.000.00Q pounds of candy. Electric shocks are more fikly to be "fatal when unexpected. A. wedding takes place every13 seconds In New York! city. . " V! Ostriches are polygamous, each male having three or four wives'. Try Classified Ads, in, The Statesman For Results 1 I t . ' ; ' - , . - ' . - . : - -T- !:", '- ' ' ' ' V V.. i Samson-ize! It's the modern way of farming. Us the way t greater farm profits. ' , Hur your Samspn Tractor now! Use it for a portable or stationary power plant. You can keep it bfisy every moiith of the year with heavy-tluty drawbar and belt, power work. ,1 i'm Riiy your Samson Truck now!, Let it do all your road and field hauling, at-will lower your haul ling costs and save you money m going to and from market. "A". - ' J Ruv vour Samson Tractor Plow and your ftamson Disc Harrow now:!; They are the right imple-..lents-to hitch to yoiir'-Sa-nisori Tfaetbr; Tliey wrill give 100 Traetor- service. ; , ' V Wevhavi a complete line of Samson Tictorsi Samson Trucks, Samson. Implements. Let us show vou this- vallum-giving line of power farming machinerv.- - ! - f Office: Q:, Raok of Vdmrtitrfic -WJ: Iftundint :r$y: " Salesroom in our new. i . building Trade and High Streets i nnHF TPITfT PAPTQ fV.a " ' . -. ' vaincie in Automobile Prices for the past two years, and they are also entitled to know the so-called "True Facts" as to the recent decline in prices, 1 It is an easy matter for the manufacturer of ah: Automobile to boost prices' gradual steps upward till the unreasonable and foolish price is reached, and then announce a sensational drop ta fool the public. The following is a comparison of price in creases during the period between August; 12, 1918, and August 12, 1920, with the percent ages of increases as issued by a Detroit man ufacturer: . Buick, 6 . . : . ; Cadillac 8 . Chandler 6 . . Chevrolet 4 . Cole 8 . . . Dodge 4 . Dort 4 . . . FORD . Franklin 6 . Haynes 6 . ., Hupp 4 . , Liberty 6 . . Maxwell 4 . . Mitchell 6 . . Nash 6 . . . Oakland 6 V Oldsmobile 6 Paige 6. $530 or 42 $970 or 33 . $300 or 19 $135 or 19 $655 or 27 ' $160 or 17 . $160 or 17 $200 or 44 . $745 or 33 $805 or 43 . $335 or 25 $500 or 34 . $330 or 40 , $400 or 30 . $380 or 27 $345 or 33 . $225 or 20 . $275 or 25 per cent, per cent, per cent, per cent, per cent, per cent, per cent, per cent, per cent, per cent, per cent, per cent, per cent; - - - ! per centi per cent.1 per cent, per cent, per cent. -r