The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-12-02
WAS A Bad MAN.
~
The Long Valley Murderer Evidently
a Long Standing Criminal.
SOMETHING ABOUT ST. CLAIR.
Was the Man Said to Have Introduced Count
erfeitng Into the Rapid River Country.

The name of the Long Valley muir
dercr, St. Clair, has sounded familiar
ever since first hearing of the terrible
crime, but it was q difficult matter to
place him.
The following from the Boise
Statesman, causes all to come to
mind as clear as day:
II. c. ST Clair. the man who is stand
ing under the shadow of the gallows in
Boise county, sentenced to hang in Jan
uary for the murder OF John Decker.
seems TO have been pursuing n criminal
career for long time. Orlando Robbins
knew him many years ago during the In
dian troubles, and al that Time st. Clair
seemed TO be worthless sort OF character.
More recently, when Mr.. Robbins was
chief of police in Boise st. Clair was
here and professed to him TO know some
thing of the plans Of desperate characters
| for the robbery of business houses in this
CITY ST Clair disappeared. the burglary
did not rnaterialize. and he was forgotten
until he turned up in Long valley in the
i'iV V' I" ~ ~ i.' ,,,it,','.l'1, e.
,,;,,, l,,,a Irni,od S,,,ns .uthori,ins bnvn
n,,;a,o., ,.l'ich cnnyinces ,hen, he &c The
man who robbed the Weiser postoflice II
few years ago His lawess operations in
that county appear not to have been con-
fined to that bold robbery. State Auditor
Anderson, when visiting his home II few
DAYS ago. learned that St CLAIR when in
thai vicinity approached number of
people enoeaVor'hs 70 lnuuoe .rea' W o''
Counterfeit money His advances were
SpurSen 1 "nu ne 'r,. 1", me ex,"nsiv @ com
trrfeiting operations that were so lonl
4 and SO successfully conducted IN That ter
f,tory i!lns "'ons s''I ''ne ,,o .nto ''p"'"'''
+, 10 rroh,hla thut 81 Clair will b,
brought to Ada county for spfe keeping
until summoned to explale the crime
which he sl"nus oonN'o.eu "n So
,,ias ho ,yill he lodned in the iail here
The iail nj Idaho CITY is entirely unfitte,
for the purposes Tor winch II is put IL
located ~ eo,sluernoie u's'"",e ,a .,O,
,h,, would nn, resisr an altemnt ON III
part of desperate man TO break out. o
,ne en1f's ol mr. ll'c""s a" ri"h, ," 01.,1 ho oye,
powered and the prisoner released with
puS pu'o,, ,ne ,,sant"d n,'e"',9" VI ""' '''' W."
Roodino the above immcdiatel
called TO mind how and when he ha
onneared before the public here pre-
r., u,o Gov,
It '''N'
S OIL oep'einpei o'"' low "pPe''0 =
# the following:
Tuesday morning a stranger came
town from over in Oregon and went
Dr. Numbers and had knife wour
b. dressed. The cut was serious one net
d the heart and was deep enough to pen
y trate the lung He got a room at Il
Vendome aud lay in bed all the afiernoo
Wednesday morning he had slid out
u town, no one knows where. The cut W
y one which it is not well for "a man to
le running around promscuously with.
p did not state where or how he got it,
!. In the same issue was also the a
- count of the Weiser postoflice ro
III hitch .oo, nl.oa tho ca,
:; i,
A'e''''9
eli issue OF March llln' 1885, Tue 0i
is NAL said:
IS IL has lust come out that the stranl
10 who came into Weiser one night last su
,e. mer from Vale with an ugly knife wou
I'd IN ms breast wh'cn nc "'u u''S'e'
be ~ n,,oaaa =, no S,ox
re- ,i,,o1 ,vas counterfeiter-one Eue,
ie St. Clair. He made an offer to Milt CT
mi mi AIRY to teach him the artof counterleit
ur ana represented 'n''' ne cou'" 'e"0'' .
for no" ~ "'' coo .r, ~, - az ro,d n,oce
rh) argued that Mill should not work w
he could have plenty of money mi