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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1925)
PAGE SIX THE CAPITAL, JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON SLAYER CONVICTS AND SOME OF THE MEN WHO CAUGHT THEM i : i ' t . V , ' Vt , .. Afcove James Willos. Below Ellsworth KcIIcy. , . .... V- - - , - i V i ft .1 - ' s ' i ' - - - - ' : Op:. 1 Forum Contributions to This Column nut bo plainly written on one side of paper only, limited to 30 words In length and signed with the name of the writer. Articles not meeting these spe cifications will be rejected. Hn Cannerv Row. To the liiiitor: Mrs. Enillie 'andrlcu wishes to correct an im pression gained from an article printed In the Statesman, July 12, that there was any sort of a row between she and another cannery worker. Mrd. Fandricll declares that slio was struck by Mrs Jennie H. Frosnell without any cause. Consequently Mrs. Fand rich was not nhlo to tuk. up her vork up to tills time. The incl Jent occurred June 17, and on luly 11 Mrs. Faurtrlch Eileil a com plaint In the justice court charK tnjr the other woman with assault .ind battery. MUS. Kim. 113 FANDRICII. Alum-, left In riRhl 'lorn Miiirny, now in solnary cnnfinemeni at uri'Kon ienitonliary, following his capture at Ccn Iralia early Saturday; rhilip Carson of I'orthnd, who informed on Murr.y. lielow Officer C. I), rilling of Centralia, Murray and Mayor (!eo. I,, llarner of Centralia. Pillin.ir and Harrier part cipatcd in Murray's capture and were niiuini! the party which accompanied him to Portland. (Cuts by Courtesy of Oregon Journal.) WILLOS AND KELLY TEAM HANGING NOW (Continued from PnRo Ono.) tnkt-n every oi-oprtunltjr to plonrl bis innoconco of any n hooting. His flnst Rtntemrnt a a he re-entered the doors of t lie prison yesterday were: "I never ftred ftny of the shots X had nothing at alt to od with the ehootlng." Kelley le no nervous prison offi cials look for li tin to collapse com pletely hi any time. Willos, who with Kelly was Captured shortly alter 8 o'clock Saturday afternoon aa they were atinf? lunch on a little cove along the Olendnle-Yaktma road In east ern Washington by Deputy Sher iffs H Chris'.offerson, l'eto Hex ford and Ceorge K. Jnckeon and ConeUble K- Clogs, all of Port land, Allowed more composure and bravado th:in Ms companion, but Was visibly effected by the pros pect of hanging. Ho, too, haa pro tested Innocence of any capital ot to use. Return U Quiet. Their hoiiivcoming was In sharp Contrast to the return of Murray just after noon Saturday, when a 11 loom 1)1 1 t-B containing a hundred or more curloiw people wore clus tered about the gnto and the war den' office was crowded with of ficers, reporter and photogra ph ors. Accompanied by their four cap to r In an automobile Willos and Keller were returned to the prison yesterday morning just after 10:30. The warden, a h;inlfnl y his subordinates and two news papermen were the only ouea to greet them. Neither had more than a few words to say and they were "drowed In" at once and placed In the solitary colU In the north end of the cell houe that ire reserved for condemned men. Their cells, like Murray's, ore double locked and covered with icrecns to prevent anyone paselng anything in to them. Day and night a guard paases back and forth before them. Dotween Murray. and Wltloa are two vacant cells, and another un occupied cell Gopcratea Willos and Kelley. Eat nnd Sice Well. All three of tho men have eaten well and slept well, Deputy War den Lllley report. While they contemplate and brood over tho events of their im mediate pant and future. District Attorney John Carson and his as sistant, l-ylo J. Page, are devoting their entire time to weaving a rhaln of evidence In support of the three Indictment of first do ureo murder that will he asked of the Marlon county grand Jury when It convenes here in epeclal Heeaion Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. How exhaustive will he tho Inquiry of the grand Jurors Carson a waa not prepared today to say, but he expects their delibera tions to extend over three or four days. With their report the trial Judge w ill be aaked to cet the date ot their trial as earlv as possible. ;lnd Hunt IvntlcM The men were actually, to all appearance. gU4 that the man hunt bn J cnile,! without bloodied. Willos seemed more regretful at having to return to the peniten tiary. A roadhouse was passed. Its electric sign glaring the newa that chicken dinner were nerved, "(lood-bye, chicken dinner," aald Wlllod. lioth Willos anj Kelly appear ed fortified by strong hope that they would not be tried aa accom plice In the murder of the alnin guards. Kelly had but one re quest as to a statement to the pub lic. "Tell them," he said, "that X have aever killed anybody, that I have never carried a gun, never shot anybody or blackjacked any body. I had no dee Ire to kill any of the posses that wore hunting us. Hut I waa dwipeiate thoee first tew days and would have gone any length to have prevented capture. I never expected to be taken alive, r didn't Intend to be." Kelly I'leads to no Slit Indeed, this afternoon, when the Portland officers overhauled them in a little woodland glen eluht miles ea of liobtendale, Kelly pleaded vMth the officers to shoot him. "Kor fled' aake, ahoot me quick." were th first word utter ed after the officers had command ed the two to "etlek 'em tip!" Bottle of rolon lxist "I meant It, at the time," eitd Kelly, who then aplabfd to the question of newp.iper iwn that he had lost the little bottle ot cyanide of potassium with which he intend ed to kill himself. He aald he thought It dropped out of his pocket lat night when be waa climbing a fenco at fllngen. Kelly ttaid he found tho cyanide In a blacksmith shop near Monitor. "They use It, you know, to tem per atcel Implement," ho aald. Willos talked a some do who have led lives of wickedness and who have recently been on the mourners' bench at an evangelistic meeting. Hi statement for the press wns ltsued to the youth of the land. 'io Straight," Says. Willos "Tell 'em to go alraglht' be na Id. "It doesn't pay to get In with the wrong crowd. I have made up my mind to go back and be good. I hope what I hare to nay may have tome effect on the young boys growing up " Willos said that tho newspapers and the officers had been Incor rect In statements about his family. He declared he was not mixed Indian or Mexican. HI family af fairs be refused to divulge. "Ive got a good Christian mother." he said, "and If I told you my real ncme It's not Willos by a long night she would learn of my downfall and dlswace and be broken-hearted. It hurts me when I think about my mother. It would kill her to know." Trio Itldo freight Train Willos and Kelly on. the way down from Hood ltiver told of their trip with Murray from Port land. TUry remained In Portland only about tw o hours. The trio waa left by young Newman, they said, at Tenth and Madison street (previously reported a Tenth and Washington). They made their wny Into Mock's Itottom, where they deposited their rifles. Thence they hastened to tho ). V. li, & N. freight ynnls and caught a through freight, leaving It at Hood Itivor, Tho men, :iorrdlng to their story, arrived In Hood ltiver be fore daybreak and went Into Im mediate hiding In the Columbia Jungles. Willos said that ho walked up through the busines nertitm of Hood ltiver. Last night while the officer and their captives stopped in front of a restaurant awdtln.; tho preparation of sandwiches J. C. Devin, Hood ltiver traffic offi cer, kept the crowd back from the auto. WHle Paid lie r.-cgnio-J Devin, because of fnmt gnld teeth as a man to whom he yp"ke last Tucfuluv while on hi promenade. Kelly Shaves J'.canl Rarly Tuesday nfght the convicts caught a freight train for The Dalles, going then to tho point where the O.-W. It. A N. tracks p.ifs under the Oregon Trunk rail lino. Here on Wednesday night they walked across the - Oregon Trunk Columbia river bridge to Kail bridge, spending the day hid ing In Columbia Jungle near that city. At night they prowled about houses, pilfering. Somew here In the l'ull bridge vicinity Kelly said ho found an old safely razor with which tho men shaved, he remov ing hi beard for the first time. He left his mustaclui. Three Iftno In Cninp The men caught a westbound Se attle, Portland & Spokane freight train after midnight Thursday and arrived at Hingen Just before day. They branded as utterly false the stories of Plngen me.i to the effect WANT TO EMIGRATE Dublin In evidence before the commission on the slate of the Irish language in the Irish speak ing districts. Dr. William 0' Jeirne. medical officer of Coun ty Galway, ea'.n that Inch wae seldom need by officials of the lo cal bodieo in the county, very few solicit. ira were a'llp to con verse In Irish and he knew of only one barrister who had mas tered the torgue. Ho did not believe, he said, that the soil in these wester: districts waa sufficient to maintain the present population Ui'.li depend ed a good deal od friends and fam ilies in America. 'From the time they leave school at the age or 12 or 13, the poor children or Con ieniara have their ''loughts xed on America, and how they can get nway tc it." he declared. TO REVIVE ANCIENT COURT AT OXFORI Oxford, Eng. An Oxford ui dergraduato Is to be tried in tli ordinary court of assize on charge ot mans.aughter nrlein out of a irctor accident. The .fn quency of motor emashes In whip undergraduates are concerned rn the gravity of their at tend. u consequences has led a famous la' don to suggest that tho court c the lord high steword should tr and punish the offenders. that they had visited stores there. The men said they did nOt leave their concealed camp until well after dark. There may have bocu two vagrant, one excessively tall and the other undersized. In the lt!iv:en vicinity, but the two con victs denied having seen any such men. It was nt Hlngon. pion nftcr the arrival of the trio, they said, where the quarrel between Murray and Willow occurred. i "My determination to break into an old baggage car hnd nothing to do with the quarrel." said Willos, "for tiiere wasn't any baggage car there. We mixed not a fight, but just a nasiy disagreement be cause To mwanted all of us to cet on tho next westbound freight. Kelly and I wanted to get to the cant, it made Tom mad and be just shnpty decided to leave us. Willoa and Kelly said they plan ned their getaway In the automo bile stolen nt Jtlngen as they pro ceeded with their series of bur glaries. They entered the Lewis store prlmnrlly to appease their hunger. Finding an unlocked eafe and a till handy they helped them selves. They also fitted them selves from Mr, Lewis' stock of shoe and took along extra pairs. You may cat what you like and when you like if you use Shaefer's Dyspepsia Tablets a Box Only nt Scitaefer s Drug Store Yellow Front Phone 197 133 N. Commercial St. The Pcnslar" Store For Information About Railroad Trips rhone 727 OREGON j!k ELECTRIC $5.0.0 Down Buys a Bicycle Come in and pick out the wheel you want pay only $5 cash and the balance on f 1.50 each week. Take time to look them over we welcome your inspection Harry W. Scott "The Cycle Man" 147 South Commercial Street ' Buy a Fisk Heavy Duty lal!oons Cords It will pay you to get ' our prices Hughes does Expert Vulcanizing Salem Vulcanizing Works 474 Ferry. 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