The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-12
Detsctiyes ~ the Track Of the
Nan Who Shot Roberts.
sgLlEvgp TO be AN Ex-coNv,cT
WeuaAeA In His Dsel With ODeer
Uo6wh. He stole . Doat, Cfossea
Lake Washingtos and II Sow
Th0Ught % Ne Headed for DvSfish
oInUbaa-Wen Armed Detectives
Dslaevo 1hsy Are Close 20 fains.

III murderer OF DpeeiaI OufceT IHomds
aObarfo Il being run 70 earth. 1t In race
e. e1s and both pursuers ard pursued are
Nera1niug every nerve TO win OUT There
r ~ one chance IN ten that the police
- % the wrong track. The chain Of evi-
lpeo = practically complete and Il shows
60 whAn Officer Deigh fired his FINK shot
- wounded the murderer. He ola not leave
$500 ln his flight down Eighteenth ave-
80 bu& hs ala in the boat with which he
lwooss1 Lake Washington. and when b
lumsl his wound IN the woods near
lgaDon Early yesterday morning.
lAy ions tbs officers Of the law wers
1n)1@ias the wounded man. They knew
- although he had long start. he Wa
wuuplsA. ana ssin In every limb from iy-
NJ = the bush Sunday and part Of Sum
80 sight They gained on him rapidly
- q To o'clock last evening had him
lsanit1ly located ten miles ahead OF them
from WoodinvIile. on the Seattle 4 Inter
Satf0nai railroad. making his way toward
snshomish.
Chief Of Police Reed ordered HIS uaen 20
secure horses and follow at all hazards. ana
a. an additional precaution telegraphed to
the officers at snohomizh and 6umaS TO
guard every avenue Of escape.
The chief II positive that his men are
on the right track. and he II hopeful that
bAfcge sunset the slayer Of Roberts viii b
In de hands OF the law.
II q thought that the man being pursued
q none other than Shafer. alias Lee. alias
Smith. an ex-conyicf. who arrived In Seat
tls some time ago from waIla waila. He
u known to be desperate man and Is
the one that refused 10 throw up bis hands
when Detective Barbes met him late one
uieht at tho head OF the Terrace street
stsrs After tina, he disappeared from the
dts, bat Detective Powers mas learned pos
itvoiy that he was back again last Satnr-
Ast.sand no could not be found Sunday or
t&etcrday.
The description OF the murderer tallies
with that OF 6hafer in every particular.
ana tho police are known 10 b working
on the theory that II they run down the
man who = making his way TO British Co
luu1hia they will have shafer on their
hands.
Village Postmaster Saw Him.
The information that cansed the machin-
cry Ct the police department to be set in
motlon more vigorously than ever to bring
Re6erts slayer to justice came yesterday
morning from Kirkland Rev Mr.. Thurs
ton reported that Postmaster Rayner. OF
Aoughton. little town on tho east shore
Of Lake Washington. had seen a man sit
TING on the end OF a log In the bushes.
dreering a wound in his body. Al the sight
OF the postmaster the man arose with
difficulty and made hia way into the bushes.
From his actions the postmaster conclud-
I'd tha: his limbs were very sfiff. and
that he had been exposed To the elements
some time.
.rtswas also reported that the postmaster
attempted to speak with the man bu, was
unsuccessful. The moment he asked the
0u&)tien; What II the ma,terss' the man
looked at him mo'nent In silence and
than disappeared
The Information, although meager, APP
pesrrd Ia the chief as reliable and he los,
ne time In acting. Detectives Meredith,
Williams and Bsrbee and Deputy Sheriff
Lane were dispatched 10 Hoeghton q.
follow the man day and night, so long AZ
there was the slightest hope OF getting
their clutches on him. Each officer was
armed with heavy Colts revolver, except
Meredith, who had "A cut-or shotgun
loadcc with huekshoi.
About the middle or the afternoon came
cha Information that established IN the
Nina of the police the connection be-
yond auesiion or doubt between Roberts
mnsSfrc and the man seen nj Houghton.
a fowhoat wss discovered on the east
shefe OF Lake Washington, and although
thssssPert did not state the exact point.
II wasssepposed 90 ke near Houxhtsn, In
eide IL was blood. indicating that the &C.
cupan' had been bleeding On the bow
appeared the number III" When this
pnnt was investigated the police had the
snfQmatnn In their Possession that the
eeaf found on the east shore of the lake
had been stolen some time Sunday night