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.
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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
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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."
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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.
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Both were vice presidents under Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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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.
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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
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Erie, Pa. -(UPD- A six-month-old
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ter's three-year-old son Mon
day in a barn at the family's
home in Harborcreek. ,
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W. Wood said the boy died
from loss of blood. '
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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."
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