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THE CAPITAL, JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
SLAYER CONVICTS AND SOME OF THE MEN WHO CAUGHT THEM
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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.
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