The record-union., 1893-07-07
AN ARqFUL DODGER.
Outlaw Fredericks Still Playing a
Hide-and-Seek.
The Latest Report is That He Swan
the Yuba River-More Sus-
poets Elsewhere.

Outlaw Fredericks still appears to have
the whip-hand of his pursuers. The
woods are full of them, but he manages
to elude them at every point.
All sorts of stories come from Marys-
Vile, Grass Valley, and other places,
telling how the fugitive had been seen at
this and that place. At one time he is
going north. at another south, at another
east, and when next heard from he is
heading west.
The truth probably is that the fellow is
| himself bewildered and finds that the
only way he can elude his pursuers is by
doubling back and forth each night, all
the time taking advantage of the thickly-
wooded country that has sheltered him
ever since the eventful night at Grass
Valley week ago, when he shot and
killed Sheriff Pascoe.
A Sheriff O'Neil of this county and sew
eral deputies have joined in the hunt for
the outlaw.
Sheriff Conroy of Placer informed a
Marysville Appeat reporter that Freder-
lcks went into a saloon at Mooney Flat,
and stated that the officers were hunting
Tor him for the murder Of Sheriff Pascoe,
put that he was innocent and would not
be taken alive.
SWAN THE RIVER.
Railroad Detective True last evening
telegraphed the following to Superin-
tendent Wright, which reads as if it were
reliable:
MARYSVILLE, July 9Th.
J. B. Wright, Sacramento. 1 lust learned
trom Marshal Mabcn that man answering
Fredericks' description came to the Steven
son ranch last night, between sunset and
dark. from the direction OF the Nuba River,
with his clothes dripping wet He was offered
q job, but declined it, and started OH toward
Moores station. The Stevenson ranch is two
miles north OF Marysv1lle.
have wired Moore's Station also the Sher-
i'll at Oroville.
superintendent Wright wired True to
proceed at once to the locality named and
see If the report could be verified. If so,
True is to push on III the direction taken
by the fugitive, but it was not thought
that anything could be accomplished be-
fore this morning.
CUNNING AS A FOX.
Assistant Superintendent Jones said
last evening that he did not believe Fred
ericks had any intention of striking for
the railroad, as some OF the reports say
he is suspected Of doing.
u think" sad Mr.. Jones, "that the
fellow is too cunning TO risk himself at
any station along the line of the railroad,
as every body there Is on the lookout for
III III SehN li1S piCLO1 every
where.
He is more likely to keep off in the
woods in the hope of getting away into
the wilderness where the people have not
heard of him."
MORE SUSPECTS.
P. r. Beckley, telephoned from Frank
lin to the RECoRD-U UNION last night that
they had young man under arrest there
who answered the description of the out
law. While there is little likelihood of
the prisoner being Fredericks, the mat
ter will be looked into.
Away up in Sierra Valley, thirty miles
north of Truckee, they have arrested
two men on suspicion of being Freder-
icks, regardless of the fact that almost
impenetrable forests and deep snow
banks on the SUBMITS lie between Grass
Valley and that place, TO say nothing of
the long distance TO be travelled.
There can be no doubt that Fredericks
is still in Iuba or Nevada County, and it
does not seem at all likely that he will
escape, unless his pursuers get weary and
go home.