The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-02
MET IN THE DARK AT M'miLlIN.
Bioodhounds Useless Because of Too
Many Trails in Wet Brush.
The Aurderer's Companion, . Boy
Tramp Named Franklin Murray, fs
Captured He Says the Fugisive's
Name ls Hamilton. bat He May lie
Brooks, the Escaped smuggier.

| @. tue tNo men VINO shot Nlliiam jeffrey
at Pnyaliup aud who was arrested a, South
Prairie today. was taken 70 the county
| jail this afternoon. He gives his name rs
| franklin Murray, of Hillsboro, Or. where
/ his parents live. he is not over Is years
! OF age, and looks like lyrical vagrant.
He says that he had nothing to do with
the shooting. and simply ran away after 1t
had happened. He said that the other
mans name is Hamilton, and that he had
known him only few days When ASKED
Why Hamilton did the shooting he said
| Just because he wanted 20 do some shoot
| ing. / guess. | could not see any
| other reason" Mnrray's arrest came
about in this way: The Carbonate train
bound for Tacoma today passed man
this side of South Prairie. whom the con-
| ductor recognized as answering the de-
scripiion of the youth who was with the
murderer. When the train reached orting
| Sheriff Matthews was notified. and he
Immediately wired his South Prairie
deputies to be on the lookout. Presently
the youth came along and was arrested
He had no gun. but had a few shells on
his person. Murray was brought into the
city quietly and the officials at the Jail
decided not to let any one see him until
| the arrival of the sheriff. He took his
arrest quietly.
The Carbonado train also brought in,
wounded, Harry Moore, an old resident of
Puyalup, who has served in different
capacities as q peace officer of that place,
and was one of the first to go out in search
of the murderers. He was stationed by
| Sheriff Matthews at the bridge near Nc
Millin. He said that with two men from
McMillin one of whom was John Ball, he
was stationed in the road at McMiliin.
At O'Clock a. M. while il was very dark.
he detected man approaching. He
spoke, not daring to fire, as he did not
know who IL might be. AS soon as he
spoke there was the report of rifle whose
aim was so sure that the bullet struck him
in front, just at the belt, and passed out OF
the side. Moore's two companions fired
Immediately where they saw the flash. but
that was all. Mr.. Moore said II was the
larger man. and that he vas alone. A
physician was called from orting. who
dressed the wound. pronouncing il flesh
wound and no. dangerous. Moore is at
his home in Puyallup. Late tonight per-
itonitis set in and 1t is feared Moore will
die.
John Brooks, who escaped from Nc
Neii's island penitentiary last week, an
sgers the description Of the man who shot
Jeffrey. Brooks description is as follows:
Age ., sandy mustache, weight l65. height
feet 10 inches; fat, slightly hooked nose,
and some freckles on bis face. lie was
serving an eight months sentence for
smuggling opium. The drug captured In
his possession was en- route to Portland,
and Brooks is known as n Portland man.
The only material difference in the de-
scriptions of the two men is that the mus
tache of the man who murdered Jeffrey is
reported to be quite light and not like
Brooks, sandy in hue.
- All of Sheriff Matthews deputies have
instructions TO bold up any man who re-
sembles the murderer. and to take him
dead or alive If il comes to a showdown
fight Taking all the facts into consider
a;ion,sit was decided that the murderer
was in hiding near McMiliin aud ex-
peeIed To move during the night. There
fore the forces at the sheriff7s command
were concentrated about McMiilin. and
for distance of thirty miles about that
place nearly every rancher has been notified
and is out with loaded rife. anxious 10
capture the murderer of Jeffrey. Every
precaution va, ordered TO be taken to
prevent the killing of an innocent man in
lieu OF the murderer. However. any man
who shows fight when commanded in the
name of the law to account for himself.
is deemed fis target for bullet. From
the description given, II Is believed that
the murderer will be known when seen,
but il is expected that he will make dos
pera.e fght unless some good shot gets the
drop on him first.
move was made In the direction Of
starving him out, but some Of the men
acquainted with the woods were fearful
that the murderer would get away in the
darkness. The bioodhonnds. which were
brought over by Sheriff Mctirath, Of
Eilensburg, are the same ones that found
the trail of the Roslyn bank robbers. One,
a spotted animal, is an old Salt Lake City
man-hunter. and has done excellent sery-
ice. His mate, q black ard yellow dog, Is
also fine hound on a trail. However,
there had been SO many people walking
about In the vicinity of McMiilin this
morning tha; the dogs could DO nothing
ghen Sheriff Mc6rath arrived this fore
nooa. Several times 1t vas believed that
they were on the trail, but il ended in
failure. OF course. tbs murderer could
follow the example Of the negroes In the
south during the slave days When
pressed By bloodhounds the negroes fre-
auenily waded into stream and walked
for distance, thus throwing tie hounds
off rle trail. Itas 1stficult at this time 20
trail a man ia the brush, as the wet leaves
and rain render IL dificnlt for the hounds
10 get the necessary scent 10 fosios trail.
n and Ebout MeMillin the undefgrowth
is thick sIth saial and other brush, besides
dense gFowths of fr. into which the mur-
derer might ran
Ii is supposed that the murderer bought
a shotgun near AeMillin with which 10
XIII The odhonnds and the question
arises. did he knos that the blooanognGs
were 10 ee pas on his trail = II 80. Who
told hirn7 Because the clothes Of the
murderer and his youthful companion
we're partially vet. snd because they had
On nex shoes also. il wGs believed in
Ppyalgup today thss shey might have
teen from McNeil's isiand especially the
nan whc murdered Jefreys
Clifford sssxart, son 81 Editor G. G..
Stewart. Of the Hss aing Isten. has identi-
fsed Murray and his companion as two
men sho had taken possess.oa Of aa In-
dian shack On the Faysiinp reservation
across the bay from this city. Young
stewars vas On. tFosiing for salmon fri
dsy when they came upon asEa- They xese
araaea siEA heavy s4-ca.ibeE reviewers, aud