The morning call., 1894-02-22
WEARS A VERY BIG NUMBER.
His Wife Upbraided Him for
Surrendering.
MoRRELL is HELD FOR ROBBERY
Interesting History Connected With
Brighton, Who Is Said TO Have
Betrayed the Fugitives.

Folsom, Feb. q. Chris Evans, in
charge of Sheriff Scott and Deruty Tim
minis OF Fresno, arrived on this morning
train from Sacramento, and was received
by delegation of several hundred citi-
zens. He was placed in the prison wagon,
his wife accompanying him, and was
taken to the penitentiary. He conyersed
freely while on the way here. and emphat-
ically denied that he had kicked or ever
laid hand on Mrs. Brighton. as stated liz
the dispatches.
He said he was acquainted with Morrell
i've or six months, and knew of no reason
why Morrell joined him except that prob
ably he mesmerized him. This was said
with laugh, and that is all he would say
on the subject. He said he went to his
home in Visalia partly to rest from the
tramp in the hills and partly to see his
children, and that he had been betrayed
by George Byrd and his mother to the
Sheriff of TuIare County. When Evans
saw so many old friends aud neighbors as
sem led around his house he did not have
the heart TO fire on them. MOrrell left the
question OF surrender entirely to Evans
judgment. The cabin in the hills discov-
cred and destroyed by Sheriff SCOTS posse
was built by Evans and Sontag year ago,
and Sheriff Scott would never have discoy-
cred lis location If he bad not been told by
some pretended and false friend.
On arrival at the prison Evans was given
bath and had his beard and hair shaved
off and he was attired in royal Bengal
tiger clothes. His most intimate friends
would not know him. He looked pretty
tough. and seemed to feel it. He was
allowed fve-minute interview with his
wife, in which he showed much more feel
ing than she did. She wore determined
expression, and all the way up regretted
that he had surrendered, and said he
ought to have stood up like a man and
fought to the death. Evans number is
''3050." No reporters or any one else will
be allowed to see him except his own
family.
George Sontag. limping around the yard,
smiled grimly when he saw Evans going to
the barber-shop.
FRESNO. Feb. 21.-Ed Morrell had a pre-
liminary examination before Justice
Crichton this morning on the charge of
highway robbery. City Marshal Morgan
was the only witness examined, he giving
the facts concerning Evans and MOrrell's
holding him up at the time of their escape
from Jail December %. At the close of
the examination MorrelI was held to appear
in the Superior Court in SIS, 900 bonds, in
default of which be was sent back to jail.
SACRAMENTO. Feb. 21.-Warden AuH
of the Folsom prison was in this city to-
day, and in conversation with a reporter
said that in his judgment Chris Evans had
been given too much notoriety already
for the good Of the State. Now that he
had been tried, convicted and delivered to
the State prison in execution of the judy
ment of the court nothing that he could
say would be of possible interest to the
public.
Asked if he anticipated any trouble with
Evans. Warden Aull said: "Not the
slightest. Within three months he will be
unnotced and unthought of. which will be
the most serious punishment that can be
inflicted Oh him. Nothing takes the
bravado out of a convict so quick as to
refuse to notice or consider him bad. They
exist Oh this reputation, and when that is
gone there is no further satisfaction to
them in living. His family may visit him
under restrictions. also his attorney, but
no one else."
will you allow him to write letters?"
Eyes, to his family and attorney, SUBJ
ject to the rules of the prison."