The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-04-08
TODHUNTER'N SLAYERO.
One of the Pair Arrested Up in
Siskiyou County.
His Na~ lie Is Martin, and He Confesses
All-Gang of Counterfeiters
Broken Up.

One of the men concerned in the killing
Of Louis Todhunter two weeks ago, near
the Yolo side of the river, has been
captured. and the other-the one who
fired the fatal SHOTS expected to be in
custody very soon, if he is not already.
The one arrested is named Martin, and
he was captured at the lumber village of
Mott, Siskiyou County, where he was
found on Wednesday by Sheriff Bogart
and Deputy Sheriff Sehorn of Glenn
County, while trailing the counterfeiters
who had been operating in Tehama,
Colusa and Glenn Counties the past
winter.
Martin has confessed that he and his
companion-whose name he says is John
Moore-are the men whom Richard Tod
hunter and his young son Louis inter
cepted and undertook to arrest on the
river that fatal night. He says that
when they found themselves on the
little island, or bit of old levee, a
hundred yards from the Yolo shore, they
swan out and escaped to the Sacramento
side. Here, he says, they got aboard
train going north and rode to Roseville,
where they separated, he going up the
Oregon road and Moore going south.
side Martin does not explain, but as he
has pistol-shot wound in his leg CORE
spending to the perforated pants found
near the stolen skilf in the American
River a couple of days after the murder,
II is more than likely that he and his
companion are the same men seen at the
Twelfth-street bridge by saloon-keeper
Haedrich, and that they did not get away
from Sacramento the night young Tod
hunter was killed.
Martin was taken to Willows, Glenn
County, and lodged in Jail. He is a young
man, about 20 years of age, and when ar
rested broke down and cried like child.
He is said by the officers to have the APP
pearance of an innocent sort of youth
who had been led astray by hardened
criminals.
He told the officers how he and Moore
had belonged to a gang OF counterteiters
whose camp was on an island in the Sac
ramento River near Jacinto, Colusa
County, and how they made the bogus
money that was palmed off on the limo
cent country people along the river. He
said his mother resides in Oakland, and
would be heartbroken if she should hear
OF the life he had been living.
AFTER THE MAN MOORE.
Yesterday Sheriff Bogart and Deputy
SehOrn of Glenn County and Sheriff
Wyckoff of Y olo County, came to this
Moore. While here Sheriff Bogart re-
lated the story of how Martin was located
by means of letters addressed to him by
one Charles Akers, who worked on a
farm in Glenn County, but was one of the
counterfeiting gang, and supplied the
coiners with food while running their
mint on the island.
NORTH, OR SOUTH.
1t was understood here yesterday that
the officers were heading southwark after
Moore, but a telephone message to the
RECoRD-UNIoN from Woodland last
night stated that Sheriff Wyckoff had
reached Nevada County, which seems the
more likely direction for the murderer to
have taken.
DUMPED INTO THE RIVER.
Martin informed the officers that after
the shooting OF young Todhunter, he
and Moore throw all their bogus money
from their boat into the river.
The officers have received information
that lead them to believe that three others
of the connterfeiting gang arrived in this
city last Sunday evening by boat.