The record-union., 1893-06-14
Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.

Critical.
Special to the RECORD-UNIoN.
VIsALIA, June 13.-Chris Evans, the
bandit, is in jail. He was captured about
four miles from the scene of the fight on
Sunday night. His right arm is broken,
there is flesh wound through the left
arm and he has lost an eye by bullet.
He is badly wounded, but not so seri-
ously injured as Sontag. He was able to
walk part of the way and entered the Jail
without assistance.
A son of Widow Perkins, living in
Wilcox Canyon, twenty-five miles north
east of this city, came to town last night
about 10 o'clock and going to Sheriff
Kay's Office informed Under Sheriff Hall
that Evans was at his house badly
wounded. Hall secured posse of depu-
ties and started after the bandit.
Sheriff Scott of Fresno and his deputy,
Rapelje, also received word by another
source. Rapelje claims that he was on
the front porch when Hall and posse
entered by back door, and the latter be-
ing piloted upstairs by young Perkins,
and there being no light left on the lower
floor, Hall made the arrest. Evans was
lying on a cot, his head and arms band
aged, acknowledging individual. He
was unable to make resistance had he de-
sired to, and did not. He was immedi-
ately bundled into spring wagon and
started for town, Under Sheriff Hall rid
ing along with the driver.
The arrest was made about l O'Clock
this morning, and they arrived here a
little after o'clock.
When Hall walked into the room
where Evans was he said: You're my
prisoner, Chris" and Evans answered,
AN right, Billy" When asked if he
had arms, Evans said that he had pis-
tol under the pillow.
Evans left the place of Sunday nights
shooting about o'clock, and it took him
till daylight to reach Perkins place, a
distance of six miles. He washed his
wounds at the well and entered the house
and bed without being heard.
The first that Perkins knew what oc-
Cured was when they found blood at the
well, and going upstairs they found
Evans in bed. They asked him to de-
liver himself up, but he refused, saying
he would get well in few days and
would leave the country. Evidently the
Perkins family labored with him all day,
as it was 10 O'Clock at night before Eli
Perkins came down and gave the infor-
nation.
The early hour at which Evans was
brought to town this morning found
most people in bed. There was not that
though it required the services of four
officers to keep those who had assembled
from blocking the way to the door. Evans
was helped out of the wagon by two men
and assisted to the jail entrance. Among
the fifty men present there were one or
two who stepped up to the wagon and
said "Hello, Chris" He nodded his head
to two men, but did not speak, only
when one of the men handling him
touched his crippled arm. The jail door
soon closed on the bandit and the crowd
quietly dispersed. There is feeling of
relief among citizens and the usual ex-
preston all day has been, "WelI, the
agony is over"
Only few struggling men have been
going toward the jail since 9 O'Clock,
while yesterday there was continual
stream all day.
Evans corroborates the statements of
Sontag about the latter wishing to be
shot.
When Evans was asked about the fight
at Bacon cabin he said that the officers
fired first and he was hit twice, but he re-
turned the shots. He says that at about
the tenth shot Sontag complained of be-
ing shot in the side. Evans then fell and
fired from the ground. After Sontag was
hit he kept asking for water. When
Evans asked him if he was much hurt.
Sontag replied: YES, am shot to pieces.
can't stand this. old pard; kill me.''
Evans says that the fight kept up until
it was very dark. He says he was shot
by man standing near the fence.
y physician examined him at the Jail.
and found he was shot in the right eve
brow, closing the eye. Another bullet
plowed across the small of his back, max
ing a wound nine inches long. He was
also shot in the left wrist, the ball passing
upward through the forearm. These
wounds are comparatively painless, but
the one that broke both bones of the
right wrist is badly swollen and very
painful.
All the wounds were made by rifle bull
lets. However, he is not as seriously
hurt as Sontag, and will have a speedy
recovery.
Both bandits are in Jail.
THE BANDITS HOLD A LEvEE.
Shortly after o'clock this afternoon
Evans and Sontag held levee, and fifty
or more persons marched up the stairs in
the Jail and took look at them, and then
marched down again after satisfying
their craving. Then the doors were
closed to all corners.
Mrs. Evans and daughter were at the
isil this afternoon. Mrs. Evans was in
the room with her husband and Eva in
the adjoining room with Sontag.
Sheriff Scott of Fresno County has
served Jury warrants on both men for
train robbery and killing McGinnis and
Wilson. They will be taken to Fresno as
soon as able to travel, Marshal Gard hav-
ing consented to lay his Government
warrant aside for the time being.
The physicians are dubious about Son
tags condition. He has been kept under
opiates a good portion of the time to-day
to relieve pain.
FRESNO OFFICERS COMPLAIN.
ronSfdor T-l,ot VfSaIfa Officers Did