The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-02-09
EVANS SCARED
The Bandits Caught
Mapping.
ESCAPED BY RUNNING
Their Cabin Captured and
Destroyed.
LOST THEIR AMMUNITION.
LOST THEIR AMMUNITION.
The Officers Struck the Trail
and Followed 1t.
STILL TRAILING THE OUTLAWS.
Sheriff Scott and His Posse Make a
Ten Strike i'm the Mountains
of Tulare.

FRESNO, Feb. s. S.-Judging from the news
received here this evening from the noun
tains of Tulare the course of the notorious
bandit, Chris Evans. and his partner, Ed
Morrell, will soon be run.
About O'Clock Tuesday evening part
of Sheriff Scott's posse surprised Evans
and Morrell at one of their hiding places
between Camp Badger and the Sequoia
Mills. and the bandits who had done so
much boasting fled hastily in their shirt
sleeves. not even taking time to fire shot
at their pursuers.
After the encounter at Slick Rock last
Sunday Sheriff Scott went at once to Camp
Badger. and with his posse and two others
engaged in the vicinity took the trail and
persistently followed it. The posse en-
gagged in scouting the territory above
Camp Badger was composed of two
squads acting in concert. One party was
searching the thick growth of manzanita,
chaparral and scrub oak that makes such
tangled mat OF those hillsides that it is
almost impossible to crawl through it.
One OF the squads found a narrow trail
that had been cut out where the growth
was thinnest. and finding tracks there they
knew at once that they were on the tracks
of the bandits, as the officers were satisfied
that they were in the vicinity.
This narrow trail was cut out under
meath the bushes. so that the officers had
TO crawl to get through. About quarter
of mile from the camp on Badger road,
they broke through this tangled brush.
and as they did so Will Henry saw Evans
and Morrell In their shirt sleeves, logging
| it up the canyon away from hu. we'll hid
under cliff, and the fugitives disap-
paared III the eopse on the other side of
the canyon. The officers fred three shots
after them, but without effect
Further pursuit at the time was impos-
sible. it being too dark. So the officers in
vestigated the hlding-place of the bandits
The cabin. which is hid under an over
hanging rock and also by the scrub oak
growth, was built of rough lumber, evil
IDENTIFY obtained from Moore 81 Smiths
mill by some sympathiZers and brought to
the proper point on the grade and then
packed down to the bottom OF the canyon.
In 1t the Sheriff found blankets, rubber
and cloth overcoats and over 500 rounds of
ammunition, as well as large quantity OF
provisions. They also found Evans false
hand. which the bandit claimed was of so
much service to him. The fugitives man.
aged to get away with their Winchesters,
but all the ammunition they had was that
which they carried in their belts.
After taking possession of the ammuni-
ton left by the bandits the cabin was de-
stroyed and the posse resumed the trail
the following morning and tracked the
bandits to Eshom Valley. across it and up
into the mountains 1t is almost certain
that they will be run down within day or
so. Sheriff Scott and Deputy Miles re-
turned to Reedly to-day. completely ex-
hausted by their rough trip.