The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-24
AIDED BY AN OLD MAN.
Food Carried to the Hiding
Place of the Hunted
Outlaw.
SHOTS IN THE UNDERBRUSH.
1t Is Feared One of the Man-Hunters
Has Been Killed by the
Fugitive.

BEDDING, CAL, June 23.-Bandit
Brady is still in hiding in the thick under
| brush that extends from Clear Creek al
most to the Happy Valley limits. 1t
was thought yesterday that he would
surely be captured to-day, but sew
eral circumstances occurred to prevent
| it, and as a result he is still at large, but
officers who returned from the front to-
night report it utterly impossible for him
to escape. Hunting a bandit in under
brush is indeed slow work but the officers,
Indians and armed citizens are bravely
staying with the pursuit, and several have
been constantly at work since Brady's es-
| cape from Bowers and Martin.
| That Brady is not alone, and that he is
receiving help and assistance from other
parties is now conceded fact by all the
officers in the pursuing parties. Only twice
since last Wednesday, when he stood off
Bowers and Martin in the battle at Clear
Creek, has he received any food from the
farmers in the neighborhood. Water, too.
is scarce in the hills where he is hiding,
and it would be impossible for a man in
Brady's condition to subsist on berries and
fruit alone.
! Not only does this indicate that there is
some one keeping him supplied with pro-
visions, but another and more important
discovery in this regard has been made.
For the past three days Sheriff Houston
and one or two of the officers have been
closely watching the movements of
| susplclous-looklng man. On several
| occasion this mysterious person,
who is quite an old man, ana
rides in dogcart drawn by
black horse, has been going and coming
from the neighborhood in which Brady is
known to be hiding. He is not known by
any of the farmers living near. and has
nothing whatever to say to any of the Of
ficers or pursuing parties. Twice he has
been seen with provisions in his cart going
into the woods and returning empty
| handed. Where he went and where he
| left the provisions is now mystery, but
| he Is supposed to be a comrade of Brady
and this morning Sheriff Houston ordered
his arrest, which will take place as soon as
| he is seen tomorrow.
| To-day at o'clock Brady's bed was dis
| covered. He has been sleeping on several
| blankets and quilts on the ground in q
| canyon about mile from the Johns house.
where he took dinner yesterday. The bed
ding was taken by the officers. 1t was
within stones throw of the blackberry
patch which the bandit is supposed to have
been raiding nightly.
To-day, while the Sheriff and posse were
searching for Brady near Johns place,
three distinct shots were heard, two fired
in rapid succession. The officers were
about half a mile from the spot the shots
appeared to come from, and Immediately
went to find the cause. No one could be
seen, and no trace of any one could be
found. The Sheriff is of the opinion that
one of the pursuing party ran onto the
bandit and was shot, but at this hour no
definite information can be secured.
A report reached here last night that
Brady was seen near Red Buff, Friday
morning, by carpenter, to whom he told
about the fight at Clear Creek. The car
penter says Brady showed him his wounds,
and remarked that had it not been for
brace in his leg he would have lost it, as a
bullet hit the brace. The carpenter did
not tell any one about seeing the bandit
until last night, when he told Sheriff b.
gard, brother of Brady's victim. The
story is not given much credit, for it is
pretty thoroughly known that Brady has
been hiding within three miles of Clear
Creek ever since the shooting.
| Tonight more men left town to help in
| the search.