The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-06-02
Verdict of Murder.

Verdict of Murder.
DuFUR, Ore, May 90, 1894.
Editor TNEs-MoUNTAINRER:
About $50 o'clock Saturday morning
a young man called upon Or. Dietrich at
his office IN Dufur and urgently requested
him TO attend a wounded companion,
whom he said was accidentally shot and
living at a camp about twenty miles above
Dufur, and on Fifteen Mile creek.
The stranger was heavily armed having
three or more revolyers IN convenient
places about his person, and soon was
The Dalles robbers. Nearly everyone in
town had some extra good plan TO effect
his capture As soon as be became known,
but the fellow renamed an hour or u.ore
on our streets and then rode quietly away
without being molested.
From the description of the wound the
physician concluded that it would be
better to have the patient removed to
Dutur, and sent E. T Hinman and l. j.
Powell to attend Hawthorne to camp with
spring wagon and bring The victim.
Having described the location of the
camp Hawthorne rode away, and was
seen no more.
After much searching Mr.. Powell dis
covered the body of a man IN the
described camp with blankets thrown
over 1t. calling Hinman, they proceeded
to uncover the corpse and found 1t still
warm, indicating that it had been dead
but a short time. Covering the body with
logs, to prevent disturbance 10y wild ami
mails, Messrs Hinman and Powell started
home to report. On the way they were
met by Deputy Sheriff Phlrman with
posse III pursuit of the robbers. Return
ing to the camp the whole posse remained
until Sunday morning, then came to Du-
fur.
Coroner Eastwood was notified and ap-
pointed Judge Brigham 10 hold an IN
vuest on the remains, aud a jury, accom-
panied by DR. Dietrich and 1IMEs-
MoUNTAINEER correspondent, proceeded
to the scene of action.
After q thorough post mortem examlna
ton, Dr. Dietrich reported that there
were TWO gunshot wounds on the body
one bullet entering the abdomen in the
right groin, and was found and extracted
on the right side of the spinal column,
near the third lumbar vertebra, it being
so near the surflce that the skin was
broken; the second wound was from a
large calibre gun and entered the right
temple, ranged little forward and passed
directly through the brain, causing in
stant death.
From appearances it is evident that
Hawthorne told the truth regarding the
accidental shooting Of the abdominal
wound, and from its nature it is extreme
ly doubtful If the victim ever recovered
consciousness after that shot was fired /;
but when Hawthorne returned from Du-
fur, and four tha, his wounded COM
panlon could not be taken along, he, and
his companion deliberately put shoe
under one side of the body, to get it into
the desired position, and fired bullet
through the brain, Justifying themselves
nth the saying of "Desd men tell no
tales"
The following Is the verdict OF the
coroner's jury:
We, the undersigned jurors, SUNNI oned
to sit upon the body of the man found on
Fifteen Mile creek some twenty miles,
more or less, above Dufur, after examin-
ing the surroundings and listening 10 the
report of the physician, making the post
mortem examination, do tind as follows:
That deceased was known as Jack Hayes.
That the wound in his abdomen was ac-
cidentally caused, but that the wound on
his cranIum was the direct cause of his
death, and was made by one or the other
OF his companions, whom all evidence
point out to u, 10 be John Hawthorne
and Waiter Rowe. We, therefore, do
charge said Rowe and Hawthorne, one or
both of them, with the crime of murder.
E. W. HINMAN,
FRANK PEABODY,
ID. NJ. PITMAN,
TIMOTHY BROWN,
FRANK Z BAR rLETT,
G. ROBERTS
Messrs. Thos. Driver and Richard Pal
mer arrived soon after Hawthorne had
left Dutur and were sworn In as consta-
bies. They followed Hawthorne about
twenty miles, but their horses gave COM
pletely out and they returned without the
criminals.
Hayes was rolled in blankets, put into
a box and buried near where he Gied.