The morning call., 1894-01-22
FAR TO THE SOUTH
Evans and MOrrelI Seen
on the Border.
ESCAPING TO OLD MEXICO.
They Find a SchoolteaCher in a
Lonely Canyon.
ESCAPING TO OLD MEXICO.
AND FROM HIM INQUIRE THE WAY
Two Men Who Answer the Descrip-
tion of the Outlaws Making Their
Way Toward the Coast.

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 21.-Under Sheriff
Crenshaw received telephone message
Escoudldo to-day stating that two men
answering TO the description given of
Evans and Morell had been seen near there
yesterday.
The Information came from ex-Shel if
Crsvath, who said he had learned that the
men were seen in Keyes Canyon. about
eight miles TO the northeast Of EscondidO
by schoolteacher named Ross, who was
teaching school in the canyon.
The particulars of the story we're finally
received from A. 81. Beach of Escondido.
who said he had Just secured them from
Ross. The report had been current in
Escondido on Saturday, but was not be-
lieved.
The reports said that at 2 o'clock Thurs
day afternoon two men drove up to the
schoolhouse In Keves Canyon and stopped
to water their horse. They came up the
canyon, which Is lonely and out of the
way place. from the San Luis Rey River
road. This Is the old stage road from Los
Angeles to San Luis Rey and up the river
to Bear Valley.
The school teacher was at once struck
by the resem alliance Of the men to the
he had read. The man he took to be Evans
had lap robs thrown over his left shoul-
der and in front, which he held with his
right hand, but is slipped down and Ross
saw that the left arm was cut off. This
mans right eye was closed or missing.
The other man was driving. They drove
a single horse htched to light cart.
The sight of the men scared the school
teacher half out of his wits and he could
not tell whether they carried arms or not.
He did not recall having seen any. They
asked Ross the best and shortest road to
the Mexico line and he directed them as
best he could. They Immediately left, TAX
the road due south, leading to Warmers
ranch. and which would take them to
Campo on the Mexico line.
Ross returned to his task and taugh.
school the next day. going to Escondido
on Saturday and telling what he had seen.
BY that time the men were safely at the
line. or perhaps across it. No Importance
was attached to r sS' report, and con-
sequently the Sheriff's office was not mott
fed. Ross. however. is an intelligent man,
and bears good reputation, and can have
DO possible reason for having practiced
any deception about the matter.
Sheriff Hill was notified at once by hi:
deputy upon the receipt of the news and
he at once prepared to send a posse to ths
line 10 head of the men, but on learning
that they bad passed Keys Valley as Ions
ago as Thursday, he abandoned the idea
They are now probably in Lower Cali
fornia and have had time TO go past the
Juarez mining camp, as far even as Sar
Rafael Valley. The Campo telephone line
was down to-day and all means of commu
ncatlon was shut off.
From San Rafael Valley. in Lower Cal
ifornia. Government road, built BY
Thomas Blythe, leads to Trinidad Valley
and across the desert to San Felipe, on
the Gulf of California.
The Mexican authorities will be notified
in the morning and in case a further in.
vestigation reveals that the travellers were
really the Fresno fugitives q few tried
men Will be sent down from here to work
with the Mexican ruraes in following
them M