The Evening herald., August 18, 1925, Page 1, Image 1

Published Daily :it
KLAMATH FALLS
"An Bmplro Awakening"
Eighteenth rear Number
CONVICTS NOW IN PORTLAND
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S. P. LABORER MURDERED AT ALGOMA"" jjjg
COWARDICE SHOWN BY GMRDS Mexican Is Drien From Newlra
Vivid Story 01 State
Prison Escape Given
By Trio Of Convicts
Warden And Guards Run For Cover When
Shooting Starts, Says Murray to Man
He Held Captive Yesterday - Dra
matic Scenes Are Detailed
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 18. (AP) A vivid account of
how they made th;ir daring break from the Oregon pen
itentiary last Wednesday wus unfolded by the three es
caped convicts, Murray, Kelly and Willos, while they
held C. L. Newman captive in his summer home near
New Era. Pour others, Lawrence Jo.cobs, Leo Wilde,
Joe Lichle and Otto Lucht, r.lso were held prisoners
with Newman. Tey had been kidnaped in . Monitor
early in the morning when the convicts commandeered
Jacobs' automobile.
The story of their break was given to Newman, who
frequently questioned them concerning minor details
of the break. At the conclusion of the narrative, the
three convicts signed the statement and made their
finger-prints in ink on the margin of the page. The
story as told by Tom Murray waa as follows:
"It was our intention to pull the break, just a stickup;
we meant to get the guns from the turnkey, walk ahead
and open the gate, or else go through the tower. As it
was five guards were waiting with guns at the gate.
They were off regular shift and on special duty. I
and Jones were the first to slide down the rope, and
we went to the turnkey's office.
Ualrymplc Hun Attn; ,
,;:::' ik;,'::;rt.r;,l,:,:Dai-yman Peddles
koy'i offloi.o Dnlrymplc hnd two ffMoonM Gets Bin
guard i co mo out. I in them i" i
'I'll hoi-.. n1 III I it I I I lit I 1 1 - 1 f I W . I 1 lrV
!'. Tnoy WON! "it inn run. ii.ilryni
pit Kiilil U lie pSSSOd!!'lt'jl Tiiiii Nfur '
riiy". iii urn i no off i hi Minp mo.
lie loomed lo try i Hot mva.v from
mi'. Itn knew WO Acre making i
brash, mill i iiiii my boil i Ifiilml
tliiln tli'-iii. Tin1 Kiianl'i weYe una' mi-
nl uinv ii" (Dtlrynrpw) ran ubru
... ln, k,...' a..,. ... J
I ..1. 1... m.Hl ii f i ii. ,'..., I
li.f.in.-. in-..' in- ... in mi.-. t-u.
we do not know,
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there wA (SlstHhtorhouso) Duvtd
Mb tnd the turnkey. I knookeil
'Slsuchtonbouie' down wltb my nil
and tell him lylltli on Bhe fl iok
bbctlng formoroy, 1 1 1 t nrife Squeal
ing like ia piK. inn! i bucked tho
turnkey ovor lib the giin csio with
an opon, long'blbdod paring knife.
Thnn Jionoj oanie in. J'cpos did not
bothor 'Blatighterhouao' ami 'Slough- !
(OontlnUOd) on Pu0 Two)
Kissed By Chorus Girlies
BrownliiK Iflooe Kront Vow Vork Hoof (lardon io Krirftpp 'Mm
Want Him To Adopt Them!
NKW YORJC, Auk. 1 s (i(P)(P)
Edward W. Drowtilng, who:," adop
tion Ot Mary lamia.' Spas wiih mi- j
nulled recently; Mod from o roof,
ggrden early today, when chorus
ulrln klanoil him anil hOUted, "Oh,
there's my Olnddrelle man."
The resltor; who whs iIIhIhk on
the roof, trlod In ratfonl when two
doion kIiIm circled hie (oble and j
asket Him to ntlopl ' thorn, Then
a blond Inkonub enolrclod hi nock j
bo strongly thnl Ii was n miiiuto bo-j
University Libraiy
BUtfene. Oregon
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KOSKIIt'ltli. Ore. AllK. 1S.--J.
K. Parker, a ilulryinmi ot tSo l.oon
Uiko district, aa ImI iiIkIii fliic.1
! 11,110(1 III I ln Ju.lli'.i ..;iiirl hero
ben hi odtnllltfd pMifMflOn (Wd
operation r a lone tin on hi"
)ruii't't v Iii that M'.'iln
Broufhl
bora i two itSte orjhlbtl 'ii offlo-
era Hie man did n l ilrn.r tolUttH
, ,,,. ,, ,,, .,, ,,.,
iii. i boon fUQUi-ny i lm piani lony.
, :.nii ol about twenty gutlon I'an
arlly, lofetber wllh muni' 't :ils
MiaJhutactured munh waa eelsod, Ho
wa glyen a tow Sow in which in
rolsQ iii:-. Pino,
SAN TllANCtSCO, Attg, is. Tho
ImuI.v of Clllborl Barbe, elatn by
I unnrloa Henry Bonwarti, wm given
a military litirlul hero liulay.
foro hw anna could b( pried loose
Othor dtnors took up hor cty
"WOil'l you mlnpl mr, .Mr. DtOWn-
Inn?" A h Ii t ok h t l o pa vo an -1
other chorus girl took him hy the
nrin .mm! Induced him in rtAhco hut i
h" mnm lirulc away M the OtcttOS
tro pUyed, "If thnt'i the kind of
n k'i'I you ar."
Karl Carroll, a Uroaihvay pro
ttucer, wus thf cause or the oub
ii. it v ii mi hiitfilPetited Rtixlety or
Rlrl.-t on hts payroll lor utiopllon,
latettum
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY,
KLAMATH GIRL IS LAWYER
Ml (liridlno Murdoch r Kvna
WILL ENTER LEGAL WORLD
Willi (lu announcement today
ih.tt him Christina Kardock, (faugh-1
Ur uf Mr. and Mr. It K. Murdnrk
of the .Kuo district, ha successful- ;
Iv punned tho examinations Of the
state board of bar xamincrs of ;
California, another product of Klani- .
nth county 1h about to en tar the
lonl World w hen it 1 expected bol
win naka n name for herself.
Miss M unlock, one of the prom
Utent young WOmOfl of thin commtin-;
Youths Who Robbed Local Garage
Are Caught By Portland Police;
Confess Several Other Hold-ups
(MP1
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 18. Officers today captured
three young men who they said signed confessions ad
mitting their participation in a number of garage hold
ups in Portland and the nearby districts and one in
Klamath Falls.
James Walmack, 20 Wallace Kruse, 23, and Donald
j Ward, 22, arc the young men held by the local author-
ities, who are endeavoring to connect them with other
! unexplained robberies. The robbery in Klamath Falls
was committed on August 14.
S P. Requests
Chamber Help
For Crossing,;
Promise Passenger Ser-I
vice on oprague
River Line
Support of tin cb timber of com
RterOe toward BOeUfiQS a permit Tor
the Oregon California and Bastern
railroad atross Sixth strt't't so that
the railroad ran rt'arti Its trrminal
property on Seventh and Klamath,
was askrd this noon at a moollnK
of t ii" chamber hoard ot directors
hy it. t Qroesboeki rOpreAittlng the
Sou thorn Pgolfic Knee.
with the permit would come n
gasolluo service car thut woUld bring
in Kiumiith bueinosii from comm uni
ties Situated along tho road out as
fur us SprngUQ Hlvor. 40 miles oast.
"Chlloeuln wants this business,"
the 8. v. representative pointed out,
"When the bfOpOjSefl road ti) Bprague
rlvoV rrom Cbnb,o.ultt Is completed
all this business will bo directed to
C&tloqitiii and Klamath Falls win be
the loser.
"Although the O. . A K. would
not seeure nny profit from tho pas
sotmer service out Spranue river. It
feels that It is morally obligated to
establish the service. "
"i strongly recommend the ra.il
road committee to take up the matter
and investigate it: with a view to
redo m mending to tho city council
that the perm 11 be granted. "
The chamber di rectors did not
commit themselves On the question
but Atuirew polller. president of the
ohamber, promised Mr. QroesbOck
that the matter would he Investigated
by the railroad committee.
when interviewed on tho proposd
al fol lOWtng the noon tueetliiK. Mr.
tiroesheck sul'd:
"The gasoline passenger service
Would be eBtabllShed as soon as the
permit would he grunted,"
Associated Press Leased Wire
PasWi
ity. where i h was born and rais-d.
graduated from the local high school
and later attended Stanford Uni
versity, studying law. and was a
graduate thin summer, from the
sou thorn college Miss Murdocg has
boon notified by the member!! of
the southern bar to appear in Sun
Francisco on Wednesday for ad
mission to the bar for thi practice
of law in .,!! state of California.
Boo .ft for ha south last evening.
Hill Slope Is
Ablaze; Local
Homes Menaced
Brush Fire Covers
Acres; Fire Dept.
Watches
A mountain was nbtase this ot
tornooti unci homes in Hot Hpriugs
addition worn menaced for several
Honrs by an onstreeping brnsli fire
of tlUge proportions.
( lothett with Humes, the high hill
to the oOSt of town gave forth pil
lars of smoke that atl racleil scores
to the Beetle of (he conflagration ami
Induced the fire department to take
up n station on the west side of
the bill Slope lo protect the homes of
tin exclusive residence seetiou,
should the wind switch (o the west
ami whip the flames down the hill.
The fire started from the dump
pile to the east of town and with
111 strong southeast wind that blew
up clouds of dust throughout the
valley, whipped up t he t laiues ami
soon the hillside was ahla.e.
The fire was spreading rapidly In
a noctberl direction and had jump
ed a quarter of a Utile from its orig
llUlttou at the dump pile to an ad
joining hillside.
Confessed Slayer
Gives Himself Up
PH11.ADELPHIA, Aug. IS. ()
A ijsUn giving Ws name as Tinman
M A v o y Of Now Y t r k City, a n 1
who said he was the slaMT of Flor
ence Kane In Hivoklyn. sitrren.lei'
ed t the lo al pllce lute toda-. He
wuh held for Identification by the
New Y -rk authWUUrt,
IiOfl ANCKT.KS. Aug. IS. Jack
Dempeey today insisted he would
i not fight under 'he management of
JaeK Knat ns.
Hrralit
AUGUST JH, 1926
Dead From
Knife Cut
Sheriff Hawkins Makes
No Effort to Appre
hend Assailant
Valentino Nawaro, a
Mexican railroad worker,
aged twenty-five, died at
the Klamath General hos
pital this afternoon from
knife wounds inflicted at
Algoma early this morning
by an unknown assailant.
Sheriff Hawkins and
deputies have made no ef
fort to apprehend the vic
tim's assailant, although
thfy.were notified of the oc
curence early this morning.
The man who did the
stabbing another Mexican
is believed to have fled
the county. So far as of
ficialdom knows or cares,
he will have no trouble in
making his getaway.
Navarro was stabbed dur
ing the early morning hours
in a rough shack on the hill
above Algoma. A card
game staged during the long
hours of the night is believ
ed to have culminated in a
fight.
Residents of Algoma cal
led for an ambulance at
6:30 this morning. A. J.
Lyle, manager of the Klam
ath General hospital, accom-;
panied the ambulance to
Algoma.
Practically Dead
There thev found the un
conscious Mexican lving in
a crimson pool. There was
practically no pulse action.
-Vithin another hour, or less,
he would have died.
Stopping the flow of j
blood from a deep and jag
ged wound across the ;
shoulder and arm, hospital i
attendants bundled the:
stricken man into the ambu
lance and rushed him to the
hospital. There he was
placed on the operating
table in an effort to save his
life.
Takes Turn for Worse
Up until noon it was be
lieved lie had a good chance
to recover, but early this
t.fternoon he took a decid
ed turn for the worse, and
his life hung in the balance
until 1:30. when he died.
Before 10 o'clock this
morning Sheriff Hawkins
admitted he had heard of
the stabbing but had taken
no action looking toward an
investigation.
"Mr. Lyle of the hospital
made a telephone report
about it but that is all the
(Clllllllllll'll mi Pttgp SU)
Murray, Kelley and Willos Alight at Tenth and
Washington Streets Many Reports Filter
In of Their Supposed Whereabouts
At Other Points
PORTLAND, Ore. Aug. 18. Portland today was the
unwilling center of the greatest man hunt it has ever
known.
Hastily recruited police, some of them on vacations,
many of them in their beds, were ordered out to scour
the town for Tom Murray, Ellsworth Kelly and Jamns
Willos, desperadoes who casually alighted from-an auto
some where in th3 downtown section at 10:30 last night.
They had learned, through C. L. Newman, who, with
his family, was kept prisoner in his home all day yes
terday near New Era by the fugitive trio, that no one
of the bandits, grown case hardened and rscklsss by
their experience since their prison break last Wednes
day, intended to be taken alive.
Kelly has with him a bottle of poison, and in am
pocket a bullet that fits the revolver he carries. The
other two fugitives have a bullet each, but no poison.
"That bullet's for me," Murray told 'Newman yes
terday, pulling it from his pocket, "I'm not going to bs
taken alive."
Chief of Police Jerikins" personally superintended the
throwing out of guard lines, to all the main roads leav
ing the city, and on all bridges.
Railroad officials have called out their special police,
and each yard is heavily guarded to prevent escape by
that route.
A dozen detectives are searching rooming houses in
the hope of uncovering the hiding place of the trio.
There will be little rest for the entire police bureau
until the trio is captured, Chief Jenkins declared. All
reliefs will be ordered out and will work double shifts,
he said.
Convicts To
Kill Selves
If Cornered
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. IS.
"This is pdlsotl and I'm '"-'
tag to take H if I'm cornered or
knocked over by some bull's'
gunV' Ktfhi Kits worth Kolh;y iiiy
morose iiu'inber of the bniitlH
trio h ho Invaded Portlai5 Ujusl
night.
He uiade this assort ton to
Charles New uinu. whom thej -terday
rorced to act s host to
theill in his home near ew.Kra.
He exhibited a small worn I i
of newspaper cnntaJnlitg n deadly
drug. He carried it in bis shirt.
"Itlaekie (.Initio Willos) and
1 have agreed to reserve our last
shots for ourselves," volunteer - tl
Tom .Murray, leader of tho lie's
perado gang
Charles Aper is In today on ;
bUblnjOBS visit from his home In tit;
Spring Lake district.
CHILDREN HELP LAND JOB
Teacher (Uven District School Iterance of Adopted Voting"! ers
ATTENDANCE INCREASES
Becguse of her three adopted ehil
dren. Miss Lola Nordlund has been
given a post at one of the manliest
'district schools in the county.
Crescent school last year had five
1 pupils. The neighboring school of
J La Pine boasted of eight.
The two communities will not tol
erate consolidation. It is reported,
iso the county school board has been
forced to maintain two schools
! serving thirteen pupils.
BUY AT HOME; LOCAL
MERCHANTS CAN GIVE
YOU BETTER BARGAINS
PRICE FIVE CENTS
- PORTLAND, Ore.. Aug. 1 S.(P) -Tom
Murray. Ellsworth Kelly and
James Willos, the three convicts who
lan Wednesday shot their way out
of the state penitentiary, leaving two
guards and one of their companions
dead from gunshot wounds, last night
entered Portland in n romrnandeered
automobile. Two hundred Portland
officers under -tho personal supdr-
vision of Chief Jenkins today t
making an extensive search of Wro
; hotels for the three escapees.
The dash to Portland by the cwi
: victs followed their seizure of ;an
j automobile in Monitor early y ester
iday morning and the kidnaping of
the owner and his three companions.
'The convicts remained hidden all
yesterday at the home of C. L. New
j man. father of one of the kidnaped
! boys, between Qregon City and New
I Kra, and last evening forced New
. man's son, Leslie, and a friend of
i Newman to drive them to Portland in
j Newman's machine. They warned
i Nev man that both of the hostages
t would be killed it any word of their
flight should be divulged.
I'Yoo Hostages
i When they arrived in tin I'm!
'land donwtowtt district they left Ihe
j automobile with their guns eoueeab d
(Continued On Page 1'ive)
Miss Nordlund applied for a por
tion to teach. She Is 25 yearn of rfg
and had adopted three children, nil
of school age. before coming to
Klamath. . .
So to Increase the enrollment , of
tho Crescent school. Miss Nordlund
wus assigned as teat her for that
chord, Instead of a larger school
W hen the school opens Its doors
next month there will he'lgnt pU-
j pils instead of five,