The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-11-26
"cle.er Detective work.

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THE CHRONICLE reporter was on
Thursday Entrusted with some 'sclever
detective secrets;' but as we do not be-
lieve in the policy of trying case until
it gets into court, nor revealing facts to
culprit fugitive until he is safely be-
hind the bars; we do not propose to
give away any of the secrets of work in
trusted to our keeping this week; and
whatever we may say here now has been
picked mp on the street. There is no
of twenty-one armed men; of how they
chartered teams and loaded themselves
and their beds blankets covering Win
chester). and baggage (satchels; filed
| with cartridges), and took their way out
of town in different vehicles, each ap-
pearing to be a stranger to the other.
They drove into the Inland Empire and
separated, TEN porarily; a part of their
party returned to The Dalles with Cal.
Hale, who has been identified as the
man who struck Mr.. Alternately over the
| head with a revolver in the Roslvn
bank, and was one of the cow boys i'm
plicated in that robbery. They also, by
this clever piece of detective service.
captured another man CKimsey), impli-
Gated in the same robbery, and have got
an eye on others. This is all news
] picked up on the street today.
I In addition to the above we are in
formed by one who was told by de-
tective, that the pointer" which put
them on track of the robbers was a
couple of horses captured from them at
the time the citizens posse was chasing
the band IN the mountains near Roslyn.
The Reslyn robbers belong to gang ex-
tending from Mexico to British Column
bia, and they steal horses in one place,
running them to another place, revers-
ing the order for security and sales.
J The captured horses had been stolen
from Eastern Oregon, in the vicinity OF
Fossil, and taken as a clew, lead to the
discovery of the rendezvous.
There are number of stories floating
about. one of which shifts out the light
cast upoI, the rendezvous of Sontag and
Evans as pictured by the San Francisco
Examiner man who pretended to visit
them recently in the mountains of Cal
ifornia. Our informant says "detec.
tive'' told him that hostler in stable
was told by tramp who got it from 6
Harney sheep herder that Sontag and
Evans are up this way, and that the
latest recruit at the rendezvous is Bur
dette Wolfe, whom they are after be
: cause of the reward. 1t is. said th'
{, other thugs, thieves and murderers il
t camp make it hot for Burdette, and
he only could be assured that his pen
{ atty might be imprisonment for life, h
n would gladly surrender. But his chum
: are watching him now, and he is, so t
!. speak, "placed between two fres."
All jokes aside this is a serious sub
q ject. Officers in pursuit of criminals de
g serve the support of the press and tn
public; and that justice may be don
they usually have. such support; bu
when they destroy the very influenc
n they are most in need of, and tell Tom
Is Dick and Harry this and that item
e (which forms the wool of the web the
is are weaving, it must be expected tha
} their plans wilfbe frustrated. This al
g ticle is compiled wholly from curren
d rumors on the street today. Had tn
is CHRoNIcLE been disposed to do so, th
3 story might have been published o
h Thursday. but we preferred To kee
It silent and give the detectives
chance.