The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-09-21
CHARLEY REED IN LIXBO
A JAIL FULL OF HIS COMPANIONS.
unssuat sunday in This city DUR
ing Hep festivai-The Reason Ter
lt-Arrcst, imprisonment and De.
pertasion OF Beetieggers.


pertasion OF Beetieggers.
Last Sunday was day OF activity and
interest in our city. Many hundreds of
people thronged our streets from early
morning till late at night. Chief in num-
Der and as a special attraction were the
hundreds Of Indians from many different
tribes who congregated here from the hop
fields OF this and neighboring valleys.
Many came to trade, in pursuance OF their
custom. Others came chiefly out of Curl
osity. The avenue, filled with blanketed
Indians, spotted ponies and sleepy dogs,
reminded the pioneers OF early days on
the frontier, save that the element of
rowdyism was absent. Although the
streets Of North Yakima are thus crowded
every Sunday during the hop harvest.
the very noticeable feature of last Sunday
was the absolute quietude that prevailed
during the entire day. II was q happy
depression from the usual situation in
former years. The direct cause Of il may
be found in the fact that Deputy United
States Marshal Frank Mcguire had sue
ceeded in locking up twenty-five of the
characterless scoundrels who sell intox.
icating liquors TO Indians. The few of
that class whom the vigilant eye OF the
officer had not yet detected were moping
around in doubt as to whether or not it
would be profitable to undertake TO ply
their trade under the circumstances. A
number of the Indians, too, whose palates
were levered with desire for drink, looked
melancholy. Their disappointment was
plainly observable. But Marshal Ma.
quire, with two assistants, was on the
alert, and the first fiend gho undertook
to elude him was promptly sent to join
his companions in the big steel cage in
the county bastile. Two or three more
were added to the list during the day, but
not an intoxicated siwash was seen on
the streets or in the vicinity of the town
on Sunday. This was the more remark
able in that an effort had had been made
on Marshal Maguire's introduction here
to discourage respect for his oath Of Office
in the matter Of running these offenders
in, the reason cited for former laxity in
that respect being that Uncle Sam was
slow to reimburse the officer for necessary
outlay of his private funds in convicting
his prisoners. No attention was given
this trifling feature OF the matter, how
ever, and the result is that never before
in the history Of the valley was the social
atmosphere among the Indians and their
white consorts so free from the murkiness
of dissipation and the disturbance of
drunken hilarity.
Deputy Mcclure, by the way, had
about two dozen of these offenders in the
county Jail, strongly guarded, until this
morning when he took twelve OF them to
Walla Walla. The effect has been to
destroy almost wholly the bootleg traffic.
Among these crooks is the notorious
Charley Reed, alias George Davidson,
alias Frank Morceau, one OF the smooth
est and most successful operators in law
less schemes on the Pacific coast. He has
served term or so in nearly every peni-
Tertiary from Mexico to British Columbia,
and among his victims are numbered
many prominent people. He pretends to
be a Mason and the fact that his father
hns held high places in that order made
it easy for him to work the deception with
profit. A few of his victims in that line
reside in North Yakima.
Charley Reed never confined his defiant
lawlessness to one line. When compelled
to Zee from one community where he
operated under one name. he quickly
bobbed up in another locality under
name and in another line of business.
His operations as timber-land locator
have been extensive in this state and in
oregon; but he wosked his plans so
adroitly that 1t was difficult to convict
him. Usually there was an element of
bold dlsrespect for law in his transactions,
in which offense his victims shared to
such an extent that it endangered their
safety to testify against him when he
was captured.
The fact that Reed was reduced to the
ne ;essity OF plying the illicit whskey
| business with the Indians is evidence
that his territory is becoming limited on
the coast. He fancied, perhaps, that he
was too practiced in his yillainy to be
caught at this business, but he reckoned
without his host when he attempted to
operate in the field covered by tile vigi.
liant watch OF Deputy Mcclure and two
OF the shrewdest assistants in the country.
1t is doubted. however, that the hight
| fingered Charley with a multiplicity of
| aliases succeeded in reaping profit from
the sale of single bottle OF tanglefoot.
When arrested, he cried like a BOBBY,
protesting his innocence with an eloquent
plea that would have won the overwhelm-
ing sympathy of an ordinary Jury, ex-
hibiting picture of his little girl'' for
whom he had such an imperishabiy tender
affection that bis conscience, elastic as it
may be, would forever forbid his doing a
disgraceful act. II would rather have
you swing me up to that telegraph POLE"
said the heroic flimfiamer between vio-
lent sobs, land separate my quarters
with brush knife than to pat me in that
dirty old JAIL" But the cruel officers of
the law were too hard of heart and cal
loused of conscience to hear his pitiful
plea. They 81 nply hurried the rogue's
march for the much despised skookum
house and soon he was a melancholy
| mourner in the shadow of Justice,
Chas. Calvin Blanchard was another
notable who suffered a similar fate. A
state warrent was already out for him,
however, on a charge OF horse-stealng.
He will probably be given time to reflect
that glittering gold is a filthy lucre for
which mans passion is sin, even
though it be gratified by lawful means.
MAGNETIC WATER IN MOYEE.