Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1958)
Files of Mail Tribune Record Jury Verdict After P'Autremont Trial Editor' note: Following are ex rrrpU of the tory of the convic tion of Hagh D'Autremont, which appeared in the Mail Tribnne on June 21, 1927. After deliberating only one hour and 24 minutes, the jury in the trial of Hugh D'Autre mont, charged with the mur der of Brakeman Coyle O. Johnson, in the attempted holdup of train 13 in the Sis kiyous Oct. 11, 1923, in which three other trainmen were murdered, found the defend ant guilty of murder in the first degree and recommended a punishment of life imprison ment. ' The defendant paled slight ly as County Clerk Stevens read the vardict which means Lawyers Exchange Bitter Words During D'Autremont Trial (Excerpt! from the of June 21, Mail Tribnne 1927) The fate of Hugh D'Autre mont, charged with the mur der of Charles O. (Coyle) Johnson during the Siskiyou tunnel holdup, drew closer to the jury this morning when United States District Attor ney George Neuner approach ed the close in the final argu- Speaker Urges Thinking. Action Portland -HJPD- Lane county lumberman Loran L. Stewart, first vice president of Associa ted Oregon Industries, Mon day called on labor, business, agriculture and government to "grow up in thinking and action so Oregon can grow as a state." Stewart, in a talk before the Portland Chamber o f Com merce, commented on nine factors which he said would govern Ore gon's growth in its second century of statehood. Of one of the factors, tax a lion, he sad: "This state re quires an equitable tax pro gram that adequately meets the legimiate needs of gov ernment without strangling its potential economic growth. Oregon's tax base is not yet broad enough to cov er the complex needs of a growing state about to enter its second century." The other factors in the state's growth which he nam ed were forest and water re sources, recreation, wilder ness areas, unemployment compensation, transportation, education and research. NEW SIDEKICK Officer Ben Palumbi of the Pitts burgh, Pa., police force meets his new partner, a 16-, month-old German shepherd named Fullback von T.ilT. From now on, Fullback will live and work with Officer Palumbi. The city intends to put several more dogs into police work. , ORDER Your NOW-from VILLAGE DAIRY SMITH P-5 East Main at Genessee At same low price as Savage Turkey he will spend the remainder of his life behind prison walls, but soon regained his com posure, arose and. accompa nied by the sherilT, went to the jail, where he has been since his arrival in Jackson ville many months ago. As he 'passed into the jail, he turned to Arthur Perry, the Mail Tribune reporter who has covered the trial for this paper and the Associated Press, and without a change in his expression, asked: "Well, Art, what do you think of it?" "What do you think of it, Hugh?" was the reply. With an expression of bit terness D'Autremont rejoined: ment for the state. . The fiery prosecutor turn ed once, his face livid, upon Defense Attorney Collier and shouted: "Why did you put in a self-declaration?" "Because it was testified to," replied Collier. Neuner then sprang before Attorney Gus Newbury and shouted: "And you said we were bas ing an inference on an infer ence." 'Talk to the jury, not to me," snapped Newbury. "I'll talk to you outside. "I'll talk to you inside," shouted Neuner, "where I like to talk to you, and I'll talk outside outside to you." The court calmed the ris ing storm. The charge of the defense that the evidence was framed nettled Neuner, and he con stantly left his train of argu ments to hurl words at de fense counsel. With scathing sarcasm, Neuner flayed what he called "the ridiculous reasoning of the defense" and spoke direct ly at defense attorneys'as he roared his charges. "It doesn't bother Hugh any more to have lawyers fling stinging accusations in his face." Ashland Man Train Holdup Ashland L. C. Ostrander, Southern Pacific agent here, recalls vividly his first knowl edge of the Southern Pacific mail train dynamiting in tun nel 13 of the Siskiyou moun tains. Roy, Ray and Hugh "Savage" Phone SP 3-4379 you would pay at 4 Farm itself. "Think of it. I'm not sup posed to think." A moment later, when he entered his cell he called out to no one in particular but loud enough for everyone in the jail to hear: . "Guilty as charged." Thus ended the most sensa tional and cold-blooded mur ders in the criminal history of the Pacific Coast, and which has attracted attention throughout the country, and the world. ' Hugh, as usual, was be tween his father and his moth er when the jury filed in. Asked by Judge Thomas if they had reached a verdict, Foreman M. J. Kearney of Central Point answered "Yes," handing the written paper to County Clerk Delilia Stevens, who read it. As the fatal sentences rang out, Paul D'Autremont, the father, stiffened slightly in his chair, but looked . straight ahead, showing no signs of the emotion he felt. Mrs D'Autremont seemed to crum ble and leaned her head on her hand crying softly. No words passed between Hugh and his parents as he Depot Crowds Dodged by Ruse (Excerpts from the Mail Tribune of June 21, 1927) Manacled to Sheriff Ralph Jennings and Deputy Lewis Jennings, Roy and Ray D'Au tremont, Siskiyou tunnel ban dit suspects arrested in Steu benville, Ohio, arrived in Med- ford this morning on the 8:45 train and were immediately rushed to the county jail at Jacksonville before a milling crowd could gain a glimpse of the world-hunted twins. In leaving the train a clever ruse was used in giving the of ficers freedom from the crowd. A Negro porter on the front end of the last car mo tioned as if to indicate that the officers would leave the train at that end. Immediately the crowd rushed to that point, while the officers and prison ers calmly left by the rear, going immediately to the wait ing cars. Recalls Knowledge D'Autremont were later con victed at Jacksonville of the crime. Ostrander said he was "sec ond trick" telegraph operator in a tiny shack at Siskiyou in 1923. On the day of the attack Ostrander said he awakened in his rooms and wandered down to the Ma sonic hall in Ashland. Friends kidded him because he, a rail road employee, knew nothing of the "big train robbery." "Whistles were blowing and there was quite a hubbub in Ashland," Ostrander said. He added that the national guard was called into the manhunt. Ostrander got into the thick of things as soon as he re ported for his "trick." The bulk of his messages from Siskiyou in succeeding days concerned search develop ments. And for two weeks Ostrander and his fellow telegraphers hosted up to 10 militiamen, who daily scoured the mountains in a vain search for the men who were not captured until four years later. Pressure on CAB BeProhed Washington -(LTD- House in fluence investigators promis ed to produce testimony to day showing behind-the-scenes pressures on the Civil Aer onautics board during scram bles for multi-million dollar airline routes. Chairman Oren Harris CD Ark.), of the House Influence investigating sub committee said the subcommittee would dig into several "sample cas es" particularly the award of the New York-Miami "Gold Coast" route to North east Airlines, Inc. The subcommittee summon ed for q u e s tioning CAB chairman James R. Durfee, other board members and CAB staff officials. It dropped until Wednesday its investigation of whether applicants for Pittsburgh TV channel 't deliberately manu factured rumors that former Chairman George C. McCon naughey of the Federal Com munications commisison put price tags on his vote. Rep. John Bell Williams (D-Miss.), a subcommittee member, said all the rumors appeared to "funnel to Earl Reed," presi dent of Television City, Inc., the successful applicant. arose to go to the jail, which will be the first step in what the law decrees will be a life behind prison bars. There was no demonstration whatever in the courtroom. Twins Tell of Efforts Made To Avoid Arrest (Excerpts from the Mail Tribune of June 21, 1927) Living the life of a hunted thing, dodging about the East to escape recognition and ar rest, maintaining an aloofness hardly in keeping with their friend - making propensities, Roy and Ray D'Autremont, charged with Hugh, their brother, with four brutal mur ders and the dynamiting of a mail train, finally fell into the hands of an ever-searching government. They told of being wit nesses in .Ohio, of greeting the sheriff of one county as they emerged from the court room, of passing the bulletin board in the same court, on which were their likenesses on a government reward poster. They told of hasty depar tures from this town and that, of the night when officers closed in on their home to effect their arrest only to find tnem nown; ot a woman neighbor who told them she had "once been hostess for one of the twins" though she never had, and of Ray's wife, Hazel, and their year-old baby, Jackie Hugh. The twins were eager for the opportunity to talk until the case itself was mentioned were not crossing any bridges until we get to them,1 said Roy. "Better leave the case out of this." "My only wish is that my mother and father and my brothers might be spared the heartaches this case has caus ed. You may say that I only wish I might bear, here," and he tapped his chest, "all the burden of this sorrow." Accra, Ghana -(UPD- Ghana plans to launch an earth sat ellite in 1970 or later, a uni versity college spokesman said today. in ii iiiig''8ifi i i urn mi i i' iiiiiiY ''riiii mi n liiwiiiiirtioniMiiii WILL CUT BUDGET? President Eisenhower is shown with House Republican leader Joseph Martin (right) as Martin leaves the White House after breakfast with the President. The Massachusetts congressman told newsmen later that Mr. Eisenhower would make tremendous efforts to cut spending in the 1960 fiscal year, to avoid increasing the government debt. Edmund E. Vice-Presiden Rcific Northwest Compant Sac 1913 7 SUITE 303, FLUHRER BLDG. PHONE SP 3-7319 5 .SOUTH CENTRAL AVENUE Consult With Mr. Hass on Investment and Retirement Programs Using the Securities of . . .' Utilities Banks Insurance Industrial Investment Company Shares. Dependable Incomes of 5 to 6 Can Be Obtained Other offices in Portland, Salem, Eugene, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Aberdeen, Bellingham, Yakima, Wenatchea and Walla Walla. VEEPS CHAT Two former vice presidents, Harry S, Truman (left) and John Nance Garner, chat in Uvalde, Texas, where the latter celebrated his 90th birthday. Both were vice presidents under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Truman, who became president on the death of F.D.R., smiles as Garner tells of his days in Washington. Date for Release " Of D'Autremont Not To Be Public Salem When Hugh D'Autremont is released from prison, and where he goes, may never be known pub licly. H. M.. Randall, secretary of the state board of parole and probation, said today this in formation is kept confidential in an attempt to help paroled prisoners avoid undue pub licity, which might harm their chances for living a nor mal life on the outside. This is particularly the case in such motorious cases as the D'Autremont case, he said. Randall stated he does not know yet when the release will be made. Training Period D'Autremont will go through the regular pre-re- Hass lease training period, given all prisoners leaving the peni tentiary, Randall said. This consists of a. .series of four meetings, one each week in the evenings. The first is an "orientation" discussion with staff members of the parole office and the prison discus sing that the newly-freed men can expect, and assisting them in getting into the right frame of mind for freedom. The second and third meet ings are addressed by a va riety of "outsiders," such as labor union officials, repre sentatives of employers, small businessmen, and others, who give the men an "outsider's slant" on what to expect in the way of attitudes, and of their new position in the world. " The fourth meeting, for pa rolees only, is a discussion of the rules of parole, of the dan gers to watch for, and so on, with full answers given to any questions the men might have. - A job and a place to" live are pre-requisites to release on parole. Strike at Studebaker Enters Second Day South Bend, Ind. -(UPD- A. strike of 6,200 United Auto Workers went into its second day at' Studebaker-Packard Corp. today, and there was no sign of settlement. . No immediate meetings be tween union and company of ficials were scheduled. With other leading Rambler saves every way. On first cost. Rambler saves you many, many dollars over other leading low-priced cars. New carburetion gives mare mileage on regular gas. Rambler saves you more than ever on maintenance with Single Unit Construction and "Deep-Dip" Rustproofing. Rambler alone offers you Personalized Comfort Individual, adjustable front seats, Airliner Reclining Seats, Adjustable - headsests.Twin Travel Beds. Weather Eye heating-ventilating. Drive Rambler today. See how it out-saves all '59 cars. Sen. Morse Defends Testimony Given in 1931 Civil Action (Continued from Page 1) , "By way of contrast;" he added, "Hatfield tried to alibi his way out of responsibility in an extremely serious situa tion, and it was the Supreme Court of Oregon that com mented on . . . Hatfield's un reliable testimony." Morse continued, "the undeniable fact is that Hat field under oath testified that he didn't see the little girl because of the grass around the mail box. Photographs of the scene of the accident in troduced into the record of the case showed that there was no grass that hid the mail box from full view and the Su preme Court found that the decedent was 1 slightly taller than the mail box." He said the jury rejected Hatfield's testimony "in re spect to his false claim that the girl was concealed by tall grass.. In the Miller vs. Spen cer case the jury Verdict was consistent with my testimony. I admitted that I did not see the other car; I admitted that the car I was driving had veered to the left of the mid dle of the highway." Occurred At Night ' Morse said, "the accident occurred at night. My inabil ity to see the Miller car was caused by the fact that the state police had parked their car on the side of the road at right angles to the road in order to throw the headlights of the police car on another car on the other side, of the road that had been involved in another accident a' few minutes before. Upon a sig nal from the police I proceed ed through the beam of light shown across the highway by the police car and in so doing I drove too far over to the left and hit the Miller car which was coming from the opposite direction. I testifed truthfully as to the approx imate cause of the accident. The fact that I didn't see the Miller car was the truth and is uncontradicted in the rec ord of the case." Testimony Said Factual, He said "Hatfield's ; testi mony was found to be un reliable. My testimony was factual." He said attempts by "apologists for Hatfield" to claim the cases are similar "is a good example of the all too common journalistic fal lacy of false analogy." ' "To my critics may I say good-naturedly better luck next time, this time you have flunked in logic. I am perfect ly willing to let the official Pet Dog Kills Son of Master Erie, Pa. -(UPD- A six-month-old pet German Shepherd dog attacked and killed his mas ter's three-year-old son Mon day in a barn at the family's home in Harborcreek. , The dog bit at Michael Ka minski's face and neck and then dragged the child to the rear of the barn. Coroner W. W. Wood said the boy died from loss of blood. ' cars way up in price and LEA MOTORS Bart left at 5th, Med ford MAIL TRIBUNE. Medford", Oregon, court records of the two cases speak for themselves." After the Morse campaign attack on Hatfield, J. O. Bai ley, former chief justice of, the Oregon Supreme Court, said "in every law suit there are two sides A .' Bailey added "no two witnesses see the same situation exactly alike." Jiig i ii iiii f 1 1 1 1 ii lIj titi ilft 1 i it 1 1 1 j i titf L 3 'icPis.- t(;6: . .. ... RESERVE I rewarding whisky you can buy The way to judge whisky is by the pleasure it gives you. And Schenley Reserve gives you more real pleasure i per glass than any other whisky. Eve"ry bottle is uniformly light, mellow, and velvet-smooth. Try it and see! $90 Z. PINT Code No. 255C $4U 145 s QT. CodeNo.255B Schenley Distillers Co., N.Y.C. Blended Whisky of Elegance 86 Proof, 5 Grain Neutral Spirits size .-. . TflQ3'S Ollly 0116 bllY in the low - New 100-Inch wheelbase RAMBLER AMERICAN Tuesday, November 25, 1958 S Hunter, Lost Since Sunday, Shows Up .Vancouver, Wash. -flJPD- A 25-year-old Ridgefield hunter, Kenneth Weber, showed up safely Monday after being re ported lost in the Yacolt Burn area east of Yacolt Sunday. The man apparently be came separated from his hunt ing party Sunday morning, ac cording to the Clark county sheriff's office here. The halo sometimes seen around the moon is caused by refraction of light from ice crystals in the upper atmo sphere. is the most price field $1835 Sotmtetf 4tlivri prm tt Kenosha, Wit cOftSM, lor 2-4oor todaa it left SUto and tool taxts, if arty, ivtonutic tramonnmi no opuoaw vqsipnwH, maim.
