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FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 193
PROBE OF
Coroner To Investigate
Convict Riot and Es
cape P robe To Be
Thorough.
A complete and searching In
vestigation of the cause and re
eponsihility for the prleon break
and killings at the penitentiary
Here" Wcilneeday evening ' will
open this evening before a cor
oner's jury, it was announced
thle afternoon by John Carson,
district attorney, and Lloyd Rig
don, coroner, who will conduct
the probe.
The Investigation will be In the
form of an open hearing and will
embrace everything bearing on
the "who, what, where, when and
how" of the affair, it was an
nounced. The hearing will 6tart at 7
o'clock, with the routine proceed
ure of establishing the means and
cause if the death of Guards
Gweeney and Holman and "Ore
gon" Jones, the fourth convict
Implicated in the break.
While tho aithoritlcs made no
specific announcement of what
would be included in tho scope of
the inquiry, there are several
points to be cleared up that have
been brotlfThi out by the investiga
tions of the small army of news
papermen covering the story.
70 Holes Bored.
How the four convicts succeeded
In breaking from the line march
ing into the mere room for dinner.
If they ever were In the line, and
got on top of the cell tiers with
out being seen Is one of the ques
tions most frequently asked. In
Ylew of the announcement of pris
on officials that the four and three
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FATHER NOW
San Francisco, Aug. 14. (AP)
Joseph Ellingeon, fnther of
Dorothy Ellingson, the 17 year
old girl who Is charged with the
murder of her mother, resumed
the witness stand at the second
trial of the young. matricide to
day. He testified that Dorothy's
mother had been mentally un'jni
anced for several months before
the child's birth and also that
Dorothy herself had not been
normal mentally for several years
past.
On cross examination, Assist
ant District Attorney Harmon
Bkillen read from the records the
statement made by Ellingeou at
the Inquest. At that tlmo Doro
thy's father declared she was
normal, as far as be was able to
Judge.
Ellingson broke down once
during his time on the stand
when he told of the queer ac
tions of his wife prior to Doro
thy's birth. For several minutes
he was able to answer questions
only haltingly.
Dorothy herself has no: suf
fered any of the hysteria or faint
log spells which characterized
her first trial.
MISSING BEND WOMEN
FOUND NEAR HATCHERY
Bend, Or., Aug. 14. Mrs. Mary
Divls, wife cf P. E. Davis, employ
ed by the Central Oregon Farmers
creamery, who disappeared from
her home Wednesday evening, was
today found by friends, about aix
ill os from nend near tho govern
i Bent fish hatchery. The woman
PRISON!
i kail traveled about IS miles 111 a
jj, circle and to numb with th cold
and weak from hunger when dis
covered by a searching party hand
ed by Fire Chief -Tom Carl at 7:45
"clock this morning.
C atiita
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Prince L. Campbell, Presi
dent of State University
Dies At Eugene This
Morning:.
Eugene. Or., Aug. 14. Prince
Luc in n Campbell, for 23 years
president of tho University of Ore
gon, died at his home on the cam
pus this morning at 9:45 o'clock.
Tho president had been failing
slowly for the past week, follow
ing a rally in which he had eo
Improved as to be uble to ride
about the city in the university
invalid cur.
Mrs. Campbell was nearly pros-
trated with grief. For many
months she has Kept to a faith
that her husband would recover.
Dr. Campbell's Illness started In
the winter of 1923, as a case of
intestinal flu. Two years ago the
president arose from his sick bed
Lo address the student body of the
university during a student union
drive, and following this some
time later serious complications
set in, and he failed steadily.
Funeral arrangements have not
been made.
Stoi-v ot Career.
The story of the life of Dr.
Prince L. Crmpbell is almost a
history of higher education in
Oregon f r the past 35 years. He
was president ot the state normal
school at Monmouth from 1890 to
1902, the institution from which
ho took his degree before entering
Harvard, a.:d for the past 23 years
he has been the chief executive of
the University of Oregon. '
President Campbell came of a
long lino of teachers and minis
ters. He was born at Newmarket.
Mo., October 6, 1861. the son of
the Rev. Thomas Franklin Camp
bell and Jane Eliza Campbell. Hi
parents too!: him to Montana
when he was four years old and in
the fall of 18G9 he came to Ore
gon, his father having accepted
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HITS LA GRANDE
La Grande, Or.. Auk. 14. La
Grande and northeastern part of
Union county were hit by the
worst rain and hail storm In 12
veare yesterday. Some crop dam
age has been reported near La
Grande.
Alicel. between Hot Lake and
La Grande, al,d near Summerville.
Imblcr, Cove and Union received
showers. Ilonorto say one Inch fell
at Cove and about two Inches near
Allcol. The mountains above Union
were drenched severely, putting
nit all forest fires.
Basements were flooded In La
Grande in the downtown district
and hailstones the size of marbles
fell during the storm.
The crop damage was reported
to be confined to ripened unhar
vested grain and garden truck.
Lone Woman Making
Still Hunt for Cons
Without Weapons
Somewhere out In the wilderness
around the Wlllard school, where
posses aro searching for the con
victs who escaped from tho state
penltentlnry Wednesday evening a
lone woman Is making a still hunt
for tho fugitives, claiming that If
she can find them film can bring
them out alive and without any
a hots being fired.
She U a Mta Bruce, of Portland,
who appeared at the prison this
morning and advise a Warden Dnl
rymple that she had been sent
here by Chief of Police Jenkins.
She told the warden that (the want
oil to go out and join the Daren,
and Informed him tli' If she could
find them she could ruin them all
nut safely and without bloodshed
if Daliymple would promise them
Mis. Pierpont Morgan
Dead At Her Home
Now York, Aug. 14 (By Asso
ciated Press) Mrs. John Pierpont
Morgan died at noon today at her
home at Glen Cove, L. I.
Death was the result of a "car
diac collapse" the physicians eaid,
which cam after two months ill
ness from sleeping sickness.
ran
10
Plymouth, Vt., Aug. 14. (A.
P.) President Coolidge arrived
here late today for an over-Sunday
visit with his father.
En Route to Plymouth, with
President Coolidge, Fitcnburg,
Mass., Aug. 14. (A. P.) Travel
ing part of the way by motor
through a blinding rainstorm,
President and Mrs. Coolidge on
their way from Swampscott to
Plymouth, Vt., stopped at Aycr
today to exchange greetings with
their son, Corporal John Coolidge
who is In tho citizens military
training camp near there.
Two hours driving brought the
nresident and Mrs. Coolidge from
White Court to the edge of Ayer
where they found their son in
uniform awaiting them. Both
left their limousine, kissed the
lad and talked with him several
minutes before proceeding on their
way.
Shortly after leaving Ayer the
Dresidcntfal automobile caravan
ran Into downpour which made
travel on the congested Mohawk
trail extremely hazardous. Un
daunted by the storm, the pres
ident continued on his way a 30
mile an hour clip, passing through
hero shortly before noon.
As tho storm broke,' It became
so dark that headlights were
necessary. A number of cars fol
lowing the president and carrying
newspapermen were forced out of
Ine by the downpour and ire
fluently, trucks swerved around
corners toward the presidential
procession over the slippery road
way at a rate which have brought
on a mishap.
It was President Coolidge 's In
tention to reach Plymouth before
dark and on leaving Fltchhurg he
faced the prospect of more pleas
ant travel as tho sun was shining.
Immunity.
"If they are captured they will
hang," the warden told her, add
ing that only tho governor had the
authority to grant immunity. lit
refused to allow her to Join the
poiwcw, and she replied thnt Ithe
would go anyway. The warden al
so refused to hold for safe-keeping
a huge diamond ring the woman
wore.
Miss Bruce was next heard from
In Sllverton, where she was again
refused permission to Join the
posses. She then started out for
the woods of her own accord.
Warden Dolrymple denies a re
port circulated earlier In the day
that Miss Bruce had told him she
would Induce the fugitive to aur
render by prayer.
SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1925
HUNT IS
SHIFTED TO
DR I FT CREEK
Search Concentrated In
New District; Reward
of $3000 Offered For
Capture of Trio.
While efforts In the man-hunt
for Tom Murray, Ellsworth Kelly
and James WilloB, escaped des
peradoes from tne state peniten
tiary, was centering along Drift
creek, far east of Salem today, in
terest in the city was centering
the coroner's inquest, to be called
some time today, and develop
ments towards an official investi
gation of the prison delivery that
will be oraerea by uovernor
Pierce.
The man-hunterc have incentive
today to redouble their efforts, for
yesterday Governor Pierce posted
a reward of $3000, or $1000 a
head, to be paid the person or per
sons instrumental In the return of
the fugitives dead or aire. It will
be necessary to ask th&ucxt legis
lature to appropriate the money.
New Anerle Tried.
The hunt Is expected to center
along Drift creek as a result of
advice brought to Salem from the
hunt area by Portland police offi
cials. It was their judgment that
the convicts, if they know any
thing about tho woods, will pro
ceed eastward Into the mountains
by following the Drift creek woods
because f the cover afforded, and
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ROBBER TAKES
PIECE OF CAKE
Although some of the posae
leaders who are hunting for Kel
ly, Wllios and Murray, the es
caped convicts, scout the Idea
that there is anything of Im
portance in the burglary of the
B. E. McElhaney home between
Pratum and Sublimity last night.
there are others who believe this
is significant.
It Is certain thot the house was
entered between 1 1 o'clock and
midnight, for the movements of
the man or men were distinctly
heard by Mr. and Mrs. McElha
ney, who remained quietly in bed.
Two pieces of cake that were on
a plate were miming. Some of the
trailers scout the idea that any
one at all was In the house be
cause a cooked pork roast was
left, and they eay this was the
very thing the fugitives would
take. Mrs. McElhaney, a young
woman, is not of the excitable
sort, and is positive the houne
wos entered. Mr. McElhaney', who
has been at work with a thread
ing crow, was thrown into n
nervous state by the incident and
Is today In bed. The Incident has
given rise to the theory that the
three fugitives have separated
and that one of them was In the
McElhaney house, for it Is not
a district Infested b- tramps or
other wanderers.
One shot at least has been fir
ed during the hunt. This was by
national guardsmen near the
John Small home two miles west
of the McElhaney homo whe.ro a
man suspected to be one: of the
convicts was seen yesterday.
The only other thrill was early
today when several men Includ
ing J. V. Starrett, state parole of
ficer, saw two bareheaded men in
shirt sleeves running madly
across a field. They stepped n
the gas and hact?ned toward
them, when topping a rtao tlwy
discovered a threshing maeliln?.
The men were two harvest hands
running to breakfpst.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kind and
their daughter In the Union hill
neighborhood claim they saw a
man In short sleeves running
across a field. They think his
movements were auspicious.
A trip from Salem to Pratum
and eastward to Sublimity, then
down to Aumavllle revealed only
iOonlinutd ea face leven)
Victims of Escaped Convicts
Left u M. Holman; right
by e.-tenped convicts.
SOU 10 CANCEL
OF
Portland, Aug. 14 Suit to con-
cel as Invalid nil the extra $500,
000 or -more 'bonds reported to have
been printed for the city of Orenco
at the same time as the Issue of
$50,000 bonds authorized for water
works extension, waa filed today
by John S. Shute. bond dealer In
Forest Grove.
The samo suit asks for a per
manent restraining order against
the defendant officials of Orenco.
to prevent them from placing on
the market any of the bonds print
ed In excess of the $50,000, which
were authorized Issued nnd finally
placed in the hands of Shute to be
marketed.
He asks for an order ot the
court declaring this Issue of -bombs
valid.
Shute has publicly offered to re
purchase any of the Orenco bonds
which he has sold. He declared
that these bonds had been certified
to him aa valid by responsible
firm of Boston bond attorneys anu
by the officials of Orenco.
Investigators who have ben look
Ing into the Orenco bond situa
tion" have -reported that they have
found that about $.100,000 bonds
were printed for the city. An earlier
report given out by one of District
Attornev Myers' Investigators that
the bonds printed totalled $090,000
has not been verified.
mellonId smoot
to visit president
WnoV.lnulon. Auk. 14. Secre
tary Mellon w!!l lve Washington
tonight nnd Senator Smnot tomor
row and they vlll meet In New
York. Sunday, to proceed to I'ly
mouth, where the president will
lie be vlr.ltlnrs his father.
Tho American eommlpsloners de
sire to lay the v.-holc situation be
fore Mr. Coolidge prior to re
aiimntlon of the discussions with
the Belgian commissioners next
riirrTi V.
Meantime the visiting delega
tion is consulting with Its govern
ment by cabin and It Is the cxpec
latinn that both sides will he hot
tor equipped to go ahead with the
negotiations next wees.
Oregon Jones' Body to
Be Shipped for Burial
Grants Pass Cemetery
"Oregon" Jones, who made a
name for himself among the most
notorious "bad men" in tho an
nals of Pacific Coast criminology,
will niuko his laHt departure from
Salem, the sccno of desperate
attempts to regain freedom, to
night. His remains will be ship
ped to Grants l'ass, his homo town,
and burled In the family plot at
Uranlte Hill cemetery.
Attendants at the undertaking
parlors where the body was taken
estimate that a total of more than
12,000 persons visited the parlors
to see the body. There had been
mire than 7.000 by on o'clock
yesterday afternoon. A lari por
V1V
tJolin W. Swei'm-y, jr until s killed
SINNOTT TALKS
OF WATCHFUL
Bend, Or., Aug. 14. Watchful,
patient waiting, not entirely de
void of hope for a brighter future,
about suniri up the trend of Con
gressman Simiut'.'s speech deliv
ered at a banquet at Madras held
In entertain ins the congressional
delegation in central Oregon Hi Ik
week for un inspection of the
North Unit Irrigation project.
In referring to published ac
counts of the Irrigation situation
In Oregon nnd nil that has been
nnUI in regard to the present
status, Congressman Siniiott liken
ed himrelf to the little colored boy
who wiia lined up with others and
asked what they would like to eat.
The first boy said watermelon,
the second post urn, etc. When the
last boy wjih asked what he would
like he replied:
"Bo!8, what am there left for
me, the rent jest done said It nil,"
In referring to possible nction
as a result of the recent tour of
Secretary of the Interior Work,
the congressman said: "We cn
do nothing but wait. I don't be
lieve they know themselves what
they are going to do. Secretary
Work believed the stale should
finance the projects and the Btate
lias no appropriations for such.
That to me, seems to briefly sum
up the situation. As to the out
come, we can but wait, watch and
hope."
Senator McNf.ry and Congress
man Crumpackcr nlo addressed
the same meeting briefly compli
menting the unit settlers on their
work.
$50,000 IN JEWELRY
SEIZED FROM DOPESTER
Chicr.go, Aug. 14. (A. P. )
Fifty thonsnnd dollars worth of
jowelery was seized here today by
federal officers who opened a safe
ty deposit box rented by Mrs. Kit
ly Gilhooley, arrested recently o;
head of a narcotic syndicate. Dis
coveries resulting from Mrs. (ill
liooley's arrest paved the way for
the arrest of Colonel Will Gray
Beach, former head of the govern
ment'fi local narcotic squad.
tion of the crowd consisted of
women and children.
IleglnnlnK this mornlnn, no one
was admitted to view the ro
mains.
An Inquest will be held Into tho
death of Jones, aa well as Sweeney
and Holman, the two guards who
wcro killed In Wednesday oven
Inn's riot, bocinnlnir- this aftor
noon, It waa slated today by
County Coroner Illgdnn, Little
more Is expected to be done today
beyond establishing Idenllly of
tho bodies, ho announced. The In
quest Is expecUd to conttnuo over
Into next week.
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WOMEN AID
"55C0NVICI IN
WALDOHIIiSprr mm
Dangerous To Travel As
Posse Takes Shot At
Everyone Blood
hound Used.
With State Posse, In Waldo
Hills, Ore., Aug. 14. (A. P.)
Several traces of the fugitive con
victs, Murray, Kelly and Wllios,
were found by various posses last
night and early today.
As a result It is dangerous for
anyone to move about in this dis
trict. Officers have warned tourists
especially to keep out of the dis
trict bounded by Sublimity, Shaw
and WtllarU church.
There have been seveVal nar
row escapes from shooting.
Indications are that the three
slayers separated at least for a
part of last night.
One man entered the home of
Byron McKlhaney, three miles
from Wlllard, another suspect wos
seen by possemon to Jump a gate
at 3 o'clock this morning nl the
John Small place, which lies along
a draw leading direct to the place
where the fugitives abandoned the
Salem taxi. The small place Is
about one mile north of the Mc
Elhaney place.
Bloodhound Used
The fellow dived into the
brush, followed by a volley of
shots.
A bloodhound from Portland
was taken to the McKlhaney home
but was unable to pick up the
scent after so many persons had
trampled about the place.
Deputy Warden Lflllo went to
the prisun and obtained a pair nf
sox worn by Murray, in tho hope:
of aiding the bloodhound the next
time a trial Is found.
A posse of 28 men this morning
closed in on Union Hill school
house after an all night watch,
following a report that a man had
been seen to enter the place. No
trace was found.
Captain Hendricks of the Salem
guards with 1G men yesterday
swept both ways n three mile area
near Wlllard church, but filed to
pick up the trail.
Bovs Shot At
Two hoys hunting near Stayton
late yesterdny hardy eRcaped be
ing riddled with bullets when they
ran as a posse approached. When
one of the lads finally came out
into the open, six rifles were be
ing trained upon him and his
companion.
tram four to six men last night
were stationed In every country
store In tho manhunt district. In
the hope that the convicts would
wnlk Into tho trap.
All merchants hnvc been warned
to hide nil their stocks of guns
and ammunition until the men
are captured.
POCATELLO GIRL SAVES
MAN FROM DROWNING
Seaside, Or., Aug. 14. Helen
oux, 17-year-old Pocntello. Idaho,
girl who wears n senior Hed Cross
life saving emblem on her bathing
uit, naved Leonard Nordstrom
22, Seattle, from drowning beyond
mo oreokers it't evening.
Nordstrom wan caught in a cross
current In deep water and Miss
ixux saw his predicament. She
swam out nnd held Nordstrom up
until life guards hart been called
They brought the Seattle man in
and Mljfl l-oux swam In by hcr-
scir.
RAILROAD TO OPERATE
PASSENGERAUTO BUSSES
Olympla, Wash Aug. 14 The
ntnte department of pulille. works
today Issued nn order directing that
a certificate for furnishing motor
vehicle Interstate passenger scr
vice only between Pendleton, Ore.
and Walla Walla, Wash,, bo Issu
ed the. OrpRon WanhlnRton Kali
road and Navigation company of
Portland, Tho company already
furntithea passenger eervlce between
these two points by steam railway
according to Its application for a
motor vehicle service fmnuihe.
CLOUDY TONIGHT
And Saturday. Mod erate temperature,
light westerly winds.
Local:- Max,, 76; min., 53; rain, traces
river, -1.9; atmos., cloudy; wind south.
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Sick Man Hidden In Car
Believed To Have Been
Murray Women
Suspiciously.
Act
Tom Murray, wounded leader and
uald to be tho most dangerous of
the three convicts who escaped
from the state prison Wednesday
evening, may have escaped through
the lines of the poescmen Burround
ing the district in which the men
we ro last seen.
Authorities aro Investigating a
report turned in by two nun la
a service station here that ".n au
tomobile occupied by two women
dressed In khaki, and a sick or
wounded man lying under a blan
ket In the tonneau stopped at the
station for gasoline nt 10:06 o'clock
this morning.
Drove llupinoblle
M. W. Sawyer, In charge of the
station at the time said the cur, a
llupinoblle touring car of 1021 or
19L'2 model, drove into tho station
from the north, Tho woman drlv-
(t'mtinued on Page Seven.!
GET 10 YEARS
A ri1 Ann- 1 1 .
( A. P.) Superior Judgo Victor
Stephens nnd Claude Ilolcombo to
terms of from ten years to life In
San Qucutin prison following
tneir conviction nero ycsieruiiy
plotting to kidnap Mary Pickford.
it Him mill. 't: ""u
tion for probation and a new trial.
The defensj gave notice of appeal.
A third defendant, Adriniv.wooa,
....... nnnillllnil lint (1 t il fWll nMPflnd
a warning from several Jurors
who, as they left the court room
yesterday after returning the ver
dict told him he "did not renlieo
how ckHp he came, ana 10 do
"more careful about his associates
in the future."
Neither Mlns Pickford nor her
hUKband, Douglas Fairbanks, was
prcHcnt wnen ine ui'icihuuhh uuuiu
Ihelr fate. iJoih nan lesuneu nur
lug tho trinl that they knew noth
itiir iif th. kidnnnintr nlot savo
what detectives told them.
The appearance of Miss Pick
ford on the witness otand was the
high point or the moi nnu cnoKcu
f.,,,r. fl.Mtra nf till) llJlll ftf TCCOrd
with a struKKling mob. Only rela
tives of the accused men were on
hand last night to learn what
might be their late.
CITY HALL SOLD TO
FARMER FROM MONTANA
Sioux City, Iown, Aur. 14. A
flyer In hlr.h flnnnco proved dis
astrous for Alio Renins, 32, I
farmer llvinB nenr Butte, Mont.,
who ran into the pollen station
without coat and hat Thursday
night and deivanded the appre
hension of a "friend" from whom
he declared Hint ho had purchased
the city hall for $15,000. payln
$100 down nnd rlRiiing a conir.ct
for the balance.
MISS CZAR MOKO
LOWERS PACING RECORD
Cleveland. Ollto, Aupf. 14. (A,
P ) Miss Czar Moko, driven bj
Neal Edman ot Memphis, lowered
tho world's paclnR record for I
mile nn l nn eighth at North Man
rlall today. She steppe! the dia
mine In 2:18 2-5, clipping one.
fifth recond off the mark ot Will
I ho r.'c.it at the era nil clrcul
.iiic'.lng litro July 4.