The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-10-12
HELD FOR MURDER.
Arrest Of Two Tough Tacoma
Migrants in Portland.
caoseYs assassIss. PERHAPS.
Cenfrzfsa fan Register Proves 50 siiss
sarore-rha Other ssieep Ia n Eex-
Car During shs Shooting.

Io-s1s4 IN all Both are professional vaga-
lessas AID ihsT ere charged With TIE
russr<fer q Enoch Crosby "A
.4~see of this city isst Saturday
right. james Layton. $ yo8ng nan era
rEr~~ss IN the ofaee o. 4. sse!nnaeh, q this
CTR. has sesn doing detective work. Last
Tuesday evening Chis. of Police Cheney
reesivesf a telegram asking for = Gs.ctzF-
ssna 1T tie murderer from con-
stable st Wfnicck. when Layton
told the chief 20 send weTi
10 arrest the mar ard that he wonid 70
hsfsea and see the mar. When Re arrived
AZ WIrsock the mar bad net been arrested,
hmt on che following day The constaoie
wsat out ard foand his man, WHO
turned cut 20 tas UaNp
ranea stokes, who said 3 man asked MN
something abogt the murder on saturday
flvhf. and begsed . cents from him \
6.s,rft,,sr,y, az the man was taken and Lay.
ton vent 20 Portland, where hs found
Nundy. Ebo appeared 10 answer
a. The description. Il appears
that after the murder Layton
went 70 the scene. and after = couple 81
DAYS search found a fail suit % clothes, n
witch was wrapDen a si-caliore smith q
wesson revolver with one barrel empty
II va eYidsu; that th% man had heen some
place in the intervening sinls anf cnsngea
his clothes On going 60 tie 81 Charles
hotel rear nv be asked g any person iiad
acted snsV.eioGsly az that pisee, ard was
tod that = snan who slgned bis name IS
"Edwerd Csrrfi." bad come there on sun
day morning. too& room. and disappeared
coupe 81 hours later, ani
that be hssl left some discharged cartridges
or the bed !a the room 20 which he naf
been assigned Layton cat the signature
oat % the register and pas % Ia h!s pocket
anil when he capiured Murray he told hish
10 write bis mare. IL c0rresponded
with the sguaipre somewhat,
AMI be then told hiT ~ write the name Of
Edward Curtis. 81. which Layton says Muir
ray turBed daaibly pale. Tie two sigma
tnres are almost exactly alike.
Hoyt. who vas brought from Portland,
says be knows nothing Of the murder
Both men are now in the county jail, where
they are allowed 10 see no one
Posr-fSrELIteEscF reporter had
talk with Hoyt. the accused man. in jail
this evening. bat the interview revealed
nothing new. He denies the charge aud
refuses 10 say anything more. Hoyt is
companion To Murray. both of whom are
ray we're In Tacoma during the recent ire
aud stole some leather and were
eap,ared. for which Murray took
all the blame and Hoyt was let
20 free. Murray was soon afterwards re
leased. The two men answer the descrip-
ton q the men said to have done the
shooting. az Hoyt l. tall and slender and
Wilson short and thick.
Few people late tonight believe Murray
n guilty. bat the belief is growing that
Hoyt Is the man.
III g. learned later this evening that Mar
ray was in ial ia CentFalia the night the
murder was committed go il would have
been impossible for him To have committed
the murder.
TACaNk. Oct IA number of gentle
men who took prominent part In the citi-
Yens' meeting on TUESDAY. met ~ the a
coma this afternoon aad appointed COM
mittce To select DO names from which 100
names will DO chosen To act As citizens
committee 20 improve the morals and en-
force the laws of the city.
PORTLAND, Oct li.--At police headquar-
tiers not word can be learned abou; the
arrest Of the alleged Crosby muFderers-
The first lntimation received in Portland
was a telegram OF inquiry from a Tacoma
paper Ia It's correspondent. This vas q. ?
O'clock this morainE. CHIEF Parrish was
angry shen he learned that the
news had got out Chief GTtE-
macher OF the detective corps
positively refused 10 give any Information
on the subject, and would not even give
the names OF the men. From outsile
sources It was learned that they we're
Frank Hoyt. an ex-convict and T. Murray.
who recently worked in The Puysilup hop
fields
iIoyt stated that he knew nothing 81 the
murder, as he slept ia boH-cAr two miles
this .ide % Tacoma Saturday night and
retained - tiai city the following dav.
Murray clSims that $40 went 10 Tacoma on
SATURDAY, iast and got on a spree. hut pro-
claims iis Innocence az having participated
ia aUy crime 80 say nothing o( murder
Vie sekuoNiedsss however. that he came
a. tins c.ty ora the same train With Hoyt
Tie officers who tnuh gharGc of Hoyt and
MURRAY got their clue ftom an it.nerant
tinker NAMED Stokes no W,ulo,k. also an
ex-convict. Who informed the cts marshal
there that Hoyt had asked him
g. "a whether he had heard any
thaE sbsut the murder ~ Crosby.
Hovf when iutsrrucated GA that
point, did n0, deny having asked Stokes
that question but be asked ths question
IS, say ether PcT,on would Murray
an lioyt were taken IA Tacoma ga last
night train Chief Parrish gave them to
the charge 81 the Wnlock marshal and an
ether man, neither ol whom had warrant
foT the arrest The meu wcat with them
willingly