Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-08-13
BOAT BURNERS CONFESS.
They Waive Examination and Are
Bound Over.

and Chas. Pyburn were arrested
Thursday morning for burning the
steamer r. G. Young, Mr.. Nc
Carthy, the detective who so beauti-
fully captured them has secured a
full confession from each of the
men. While the men were in Nc
Carthy's room at the Willamette
hotel last Wednesday evening, Nc
Cartby asked 10 be excused a
moment. He had man secreted
behind some portraits, and this man
overheard their conversation. They
then decided that they must get
the tools and sink them and walk to
the spot if it was necessary.
Since they have been III Jail one
at time they have weakened and
told the whole history of their
crime. Some time ago Young and
Dove had decided with Morgan who
was then purser, to burn the boat.
Morgan consented in order to get
S40O that was due him, but the job
fell through. Morgan is at Corvallis
but cannot be implicated. Since that
time several efforts have been made
by the men to burn her, but every
time their courage failed until July
22d, when Chas. Pyburn, the fire.
man, agreed to do the job for 5000. On
that day Dove drove the engineer to
the logging camp to get him out OF
the way. Before going he had a
long talk with his wife in the cabin.
Pyburn says they had a stormy
time, but she finally left the boat, but
no doubt against her will. This left
Young and Pyburn alone on the
boat. They then poured oil over the
floor and boiler casing, when Pyburn
touched it off. 1t burned so rapidly
that nothing but the tools could
be secured. Dove admits that he hid
the compass behind tree,j just where
it was found by Deputy Wrightman.
He also said: II told them l would
rather have a judgment on me than
a crime. 1 don't know how many
days nor how long ago, but it must
have been two or three weeks after
that before L came down to Salem
and bought the supplies. There were
some parties here that provoked me
and Young too. They had accounts
against us and Young claimed that
it would be no worse to set fire to
the thing and burn it up than to be
attached. l told him all right-to go
ahead and do it. Dave, Young, Py-
burn and 1 talked it over and we
concluded to let Pyburn fire it. And
that day / took the engineer and
went above. About two hours and
a half or three hours after We were
gone my brothers. stepson came and
told us the boat had burned up. l
went down and found it So"
Mr.. Mccarthy says he will as
sist the officers In prosecuting the
case through. He considers the
man Morgan equally as bad as the
three men who are arrested, but of
course he cannot be convicted, be-
cause he was simply an accessory
before the fact. He says he does
not believe the Salem Iron works
can collect their share of the insur-
ance, because of the illegality of the
entire claim. They will however
try TO collect the same by law, as
they are innocent parties and will
insist ON their rights.
The prisoners We're this morning
brought up before Justice Batch
ellor, and after waving examina-
ton, were bound over to appear be-
fore the grand jury. Their bail was
at first fixed at $1,000 each, but up
on advice of the prosecuting attor-
ney and Mr.. Mccarthy it was put
at $500 each.