Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-11-28
HUNTING TRAIN. .WREBKERS
A Detective Arrives With
Tramp No. 1.
HI Is MYSTERIOUSLY RELEASED.
Local Employees Refuse to Iden.
tify Him, But He Will
not Talk.
HI Is MYSTERIOuSLy RELEASED.

one Frank Burns plasterer, from
no known residence, a kind of a
tramp In fact.
A JOURNAL reporter. knowing
that Mr.. Smith was also n special
detective for the Southern Pacific,
one of q large force employed in
this wreck, attacked him for tn.
facts. He was at first reluctant t.
give out anything, but evidently
thinking 1t would help the company
to have a tramp train-wrecker mad,
public, divulged the following:
STATEMENT OF THE DETECTIVE.
II will be remembered that on the
night of the I.abish wreck a man
was seen by Mr.. Hogan, tailor n
the Indian school, and Miss Baugh
man also at the school, and an In.
dian boy by the name Of Lincoln
Tredway, midway between tn,
school and the scene of the wreck,
walking rapidly towards town. III
answer to questions put to him by
Hr. H.gan and Miss Baughman b.
said he had been on the train and
that the engine and tender only had
gone off the trestle; he guessed th.
engineer was killed but thought the
fireman was all right. The same
man was passed by City Marshal
Ross who was on his way to the
wreck, who only saw his outline and
build but not his face and did not
speak to him, but merely saw him
hurrying away from the wreck.
The man was next seen at the wait.
ingroom OF the Salem depot, where
he was seen and recognized by
Mr.. and Mrs. Darling who con-
versed with him. He told them he
WAS not on the wrecked train. He
acted 50 suspiciously that Mrs. Dar-
ling wanted her husband 10 arrest
him. He left the depot at daylight.
City Marshal Ross got trace OF his
passing through Turner on foot. He
was next seen at Eugene by Deputy
sheriff Day and Constable Cochran
He was afterwards seen by wa ood-
piler at Springfield, three miles
above Eugene. was at Salem the
Monday after the wreck, and have
been on his track ever since. The
man lave secured has told parties
in Portland that he was the man
referred to in the papers as seen by
Hogan and has confessed to seeing
Hogan on that night, remembering
his brass buttons and government
uniform. This man answers th'
description of man seen hanging
around the tool house by the Salen
section hands and carpenter
: crew. l found him at Van
couver yesterday. He hat
told Deputy Sheriff w. w. Morgan
at Portland the keeper of the Red
front lodging house, and others tina
he was the man seen coming away
from the wreck, and pointed to hi
wounded head as evidence OF hi
having been at the wreck. and tha
he was injured In it. l went t.
Vancouver and found him In camI
} with a lot of tramps, representing
myself as an attorney and got hin
TO make the same statements to M
that he did to Morgan at Portland
brought him along to bring sui
for damages against the company
but upon reaching this side Of th'
river, disclosed myself and h'
told me had got the wrong man
that 1t was a job put up between
himself and two tramp partners t.
defraud the railway company If pos
sible; that two days before the wreci
he had got into fight at lndepen
dence where he got his wound; ant
Icing arrested under the name o
Frank Sheffield he had had hi
; wound sewn up in jail; this las
statement l found true and have re
: leased him this morning. l hav
the following letter from Con
stable Cochran at Eugene:
THE LETTER.
EUGENE, Nov. 81, 100.
Will Smith: The man who yOl