The San Francisco call., 1896-08-16
Three Days Passed in Hiding
Place Without Food or
Drink.
woULD-BE LYNCHERs Fo1LED.
The Prisoner Hurried Away Before
Enraged Loggers Can Gather
in Force.

FRESNO, CAL, Aug. 15.-Cass Colvin,
the Sequoia cutthroat, surrendered to
Deputy Sheriff Timmins and Constable
Ingels at o'clock this morning and this
afternoon was incarcerated in the County
Jail in this city. Instead of trying TO
make his way out of the hills into the
valley, as was supposed, the murderer had
concealed himself under log landing
within 300 yards of where he slew lotion
on Tuesday evening.
For three days and nights Colvin lay
hidden without food or water. He was
starved out of the place and last night
about IL o'clock emerged with the purpose
OF giving himself up to the officers. He
crawled to the cabin of logger named
Mills and awoke him. Mills was afraid to
let the murderer in and asked him II he
still had the razor with which he cut the
throat of his brother-in-law. Colvln re-
piled that he had it with him. He agreed
to give it up to Mills and handed it to him
through a window. He was then let into
the cabin.
Mrs. Colvin and her babies were stop
ping in the Mills cabin, and the murderer
had a short talk with his wife. He then
asked Mills to take him to the officers, as
he desired to surrender himself. Colvin
was famished, and when given a drink of
water his stomach could not retain it.
Mills and the murderer made their way
out OF the logging camp as steathily as
possible, for if an alarm had been raised
the loggers would have turned out and
hanged the cuprit. Colvin was fully
aware of this. The two men walked to
the sawmills nine miles distant, where
the two officers were stopping at hotel,
having Just returned from search
through Sampson Flat to the Kings River.
Mills and the murderer walked into the
officeIof the hotel and sent the proprietor up
to awaken the officers.
The news that Colvin was at the hotel
quickly spread and the millhands, getting
up from their beds, began to congregate,
although it was then O'Clock in the
morning. The officers took Colvin to
their room and quickly had their carriage
brought to the door of the hotel. Then
they rusned their prisoner downstairs into
the vehicle and the whip was laid to the
back of the horse. The officers believe
that if they had waited twenty minutes
LONGER sufficient number of millhands
would have congregated to carry out their
loud threats of lynching.
On the way down from the mountains
ColYin proved himself yerltaole coward.
He placed his hands on the arm of each
officer and crouched down in front of
them in the carriage. When asked what
he was doing that for the murderer said
that be was afraid the infurlated loggers
and millhands were pursuing him and
would shoot kim. When Sanger was
reached Colvin asked if the news of his
surrender had been telephoned ahead.
When told that it had he expressed the
fear that the people of that place might
lynch him.
''No, they won't" said Constable Ingels,
who has charge of the Sanger bailiwick.
''as long as 1 am with you"
"Well, l won't try to leave you," said
the prisoner, who was deathly pale.
After he had committed the m urder on
Tuesday evening CoIvin ran directly into
the woods and hid under the landing from
which the logs are loaded on to the cars.
Four hundred men were searching all
around him for two days, but the thought
never occurred to them that the cut-
throat was under the landing. The Off
GERS and the Coroner got off the cars.
which run from the mills to the logging
camp, on to the landing. The body OF
ColVin's victim was lying on the landing q
few feet above him for several hours before
it was put on to the car to be taken to the
mills.
The logging men were confident. when
Deputy Sheriff Timmins and Constable
Ingels arrived at camp that the murderer
had gone into the Sampson Flat country,
because, tney Salo, tney naQ tracked him
in that direction for several miles.
When seen at the jail by CALL CORE
spondent this evening Colvin refused to
make a statement. On the way down
from the mountains, however, Colvin
gave the officers an account of the manner
in which he cut the throat of his brother
in-law, which was substantially the same
as that gwen at the inquest. His own ad-
missions are enough 10 hang him. The
prisoner appears to believe that the muir
der was justifable. He says there are
other matters of which he will not tell un-
til the trial.