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1 We are Equipped to do Job Printin gf All Kinds. Short Notice - Lieuallen Tells How Capture Was Made Popular Traffic CopxDoes Money Given Through Sympathy ' Pendleton. Chief of Police Tom Gurdane and I got a tip that JViliiam E. Hickman might be headed this way on the Columbia River highway. ... We went, down the Old Oregon Trail and stopped by the side of the road about 3 miles below Pendleton. We saw a Hudson coming fast. turned my car around and over took him and blew my siren. He gradu ally slowed up and finally came to a stop. The chief kept him covered with his gun and opened the door and I covered him also. The Chief opened the door on his side and Hick man dropped a .45 automatic on to the floor of the car. We then made him put up his hands and get out of the car. We found a sawed off shotgum handy. There were two bums with him which he said he had picked up on the road. We are hold ing them for investigation. We stopped a car which came. along about that time and placed the pri soner under heavy guard and pro ceeded to Pendleton where we placed him under heavy guard. He appar ently made no effort to escape and jtked about the ghastly crime whiun he had committed. He seemed very anxious to know whether "they hang men or put them to death with the electric chair in California. He said that he had treated the girl like a brother while she was with him and that it was his partner with v horn he had been staging' several holdups that butchered the little gin and put her in the suitcase. He said that the father of the little girl was a friend of his, and when he said this he showed the only emotion that he showed at any time since he was picked up. Tears came to his eyas at this time. We searched Hick man's suitcase and found some bloody clothes and two 'more guns, making four guns in his pcsses&ion at this time with plenty of ammunition for them. ' We also found in the suitcase $1400 of the money which the little girl's father had given to Hickman. He" said he had spent a hundred dollars of the money. They were the original twenty-dollar bills and we identified him by the numbers on the bills. After we had "disarmed Hickman he shook like a leaf and said that he would have shot U3 if he had a chance. , - - V - . After we had him in jail he made a complete confession. He "denies killing the girl himself, but frankly admitted kidnaping her. In regard to the reward, I could certainly use some money, but I believe that some of this money has been put up by people who need it just as bad as I do. I do not wish to accept any money from any one who through sympathy donated money which they could not afford to give. Very truly yours, BUCK LIEUALLEN, Oregon State Traffic Policeman Hickman was asked by his captors why he did not make a fight when he was overhauled on the Old Oregon Trail west of here yesterday. "I, did not get a chance," said Hickman to Chief of Police Tom Gurdane.; N Relating the details of the cap ture, Gurdane said that he and State Traffic Officer Buck Lieuallen had driven to the top of a hill near Echo, when Lieuallen remarked that he was dead for a smoke. "We can pull off the road here and you can light your pipe," said Gurdane. "If anyone comes along, we can see." Just as they did so and Lteuallen had his tobacco ready, Gurdane spied a car approaching. "It's a green Hudson," he re marked. They made no move until the car passed them. The driver of the car wore goggles. "Those goggles were his undo ing," said Uurdane. I knew the minute I saw them that they were used as a disguise." . v These officers, accustomed to handling desperate characters of the -wide open spaces, did not take any" chance. "We drove up alongside, and I covered Hickman with my gun as we ran along. I told him to stop or I would shoot him. lie stopped and opened the door. I told him to get out and put up his hand3, which he did. As he stepped out of his car, his shotgun fell on the running board. The hammer wa? cock, and it was a wonder that the gun did not go- off." - On the way to Pendleton, Hick man talked freely of the kidnaping. I. W. W. HOLD POLICEMEN Sheriff Surrounds Hall and Releases Officers. Trinidad, Colo. Sixty-three mem bers of the I. W. W. are held In the county jail here following a raid, on the headquarters of the organization here during which Chief of. Police Cleary, Night Police Captain Mike, Foundy, Patrolman Mark Reynolds and Dr. James Espey, mayor pro tem of Trinidad, were held as hostages for nearly three hours. The officers were disarmed by their captors. -Sheriff Marty and a squad of depu ties rescued the four city officials from the I. W. W. hall and arrested all of the men, who now are in jail. State police were called from Walsen burg, but they arrived after the I. W. W. members had been taken to jail. Mclntyre Sedan Men From Thi Rcbber Shot DGwn In Front of Safe fSBlBl MORE THAN 1000 PAYING POSITIONS were filled last year by Behnke . Walker itudents and graduate, and at usual more positions were open than we could fill. Write for FREE Socccm atftlof-Enrotl mytinne, A mtrira'l Gold Medal whooL SIN It Dr. W. Boyd Whyte CHIROPRACTOR SORlANDlOKeOON f ; JStangier Building, Pendleton, Oregon, Walla Walla. Refusing to obey a thrice repeated call to hold up his hands Kenneth McLeod, 19, of this city, was fatally wounded in the C. J. Breier company store at 3:45 o'clock Tuesday morning, five buckshot from a cawed-off shotgun in the hands of L. J. Brice, deputy sheriff, pene trating his chest. McLeod died just 12hours later. .William Kelly, 22, of Seattle is held as look-out man in the alleged robbery and Armel Coch ran, 24, ex-employe of Breier's, is held as an alleged accomplice charged with giving the combination of the safe to McLecd. A fourth man 13 also held. Officers have not announced his name or his connection with the case. Officers had hidden in the store thrue nights on a tip that the place was to be rob bed. The intruder opened the cash register, then went to the safe. I. E. (Joe) Gibbons, manager of the store, flashed on the lights and Brice called "hands up." The man over the safe stood with a .45 automatic in his hands trying to locate the voice. Two more calls of "hands up" and he still waved the gun. Then Brice let drive with the sa wed-off shotgun loadej with buckshot, five of the 12 pellets hitting McLeod in the chest Deputy Rarxe Holcomb also fired his pLstoi S37 J bul did not hit UtLeod, i A Good Resolution One of Hie New Year resolutions that would menu increase of happiness in many n family fs this: Not to speak of tnlstk which make no difference. How ryiritiB over nothings mara the home Inn tr:nii,v. An .erroneous opinion may nc d mrrectlon, but what pos sible ilinvivnee does It make whether Aunt June came to dinner Tuesday or V (Iiicsdiiy, or whether It raAied Friiiii.v or Saturday. Advent Chris tinn Missions. ' Good Timber Tree - The black walnut is more fortunate linn many trees in that It has only a few common names. Throughout its entire range of 630,000 square miles It Is called walnut, black walnut or walnut tree, says the American Tree association, ft Is found from southern New England to Minnesota and south to Florida, and Is nn Important timber tree, producing excellent lumber and fine nuts. Woman Seeking Mother Walla Walla. Renn Thompson, county treasurer, received an appeal today from Mrs. Marry Bond Walker of Garrett, Ind., to try and find her mother, brother and sisters, whom she has not seen since she was 4 years old. She believes they are in this section. Her letter states that her mother, Sally Wilson Bond, and father, Allen Bond, separated when she was a child. While on a visit with an aunt in Kentucky she said her father kidnaped her, and since then she has never heard from her mother, sister Alice or brother George. Harry Ede, ex-Convict Sho In the Capture Made At Portland. Alex Mslntyre's Buick Sedan, stolen in Pendleton Tuesday night of last week, was recovered in Portland, Fri day, when Harry Ede, 24, ex-convict was found driving the car on the streets. Ede was pursued by a couple of officers, and was shot when he left the car and tried to escape. The Portland Journal gives the following account of recovery of the sedan and Ede's capture: A bullet wound and three years spent in the state prison for auto mobile theft taught Harry Ede, 24, nothing. , ' Yesterday just two months after his release from Salem peniten tiary he was caught 'red-handed in a stolen automobile and again shot while fleeing from two members of the police automobile theft squad By coincidence one of the patrol men in Friday's affair was the officer who shot him three years ago. Ede is in the hospital with a severe wound through the left knee, in flicted by a bullet from the revolver of Patrolman Henry Sinner. His part ner Friday was Patrolman Pat Keegan. It was a bullet from Keegan's revolver that brought down Ede three years ago. Informed that Ede was driving a Buick sedan stolen in Pendleton and that the car had been seen at The Dalles Thursday headed for Portland, Keegan and Sinner were patroling East Side streets. . They sighted the car at Williams avenue and Sacremento street. Ede saw that he was followed and gave the car full speed. At Kerby and Russell streets he saw he was about to be captured. He- stopped the car and leaped to the pavement. The patrolman stopped and chased him between houses and through al leyways. With drawn revolvers the officers soon spotted Ede, and Sinner fired when Ede refused to stop. At the hospital cursory examination showed that the wound was not se rious unless infection developes. On January 15, 1924, Pat Keegan, teamed with Patrolman Harvey Tol son in the automobile theft squad, overhauled Ede fleeing with a stolen car The same sort of chase ensued Keegan fired and caught Ede's left wrist. He was given a prison term. Two months ago he came to Portland and police say has been living with a brother at No. 653 Kerby street. 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