The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-07
IN JEFFREY's HELL.
An Escaped Desperate and Murderer at Bay There.

All sEScdpeQ DeSperauO ana MuTuerer at
 Bay There.
 Logan is in Jeffreys Hell, in North
 Carolina. He has been trailed to this almost inaccessible place by the detec- tiyes. He and his pal, who left Knox vile with him, reached this place on
 July F. and Logan feet were so sore that he could go no further. They de- cided to fortify themselves, and give the | fight of their lives and for their lives. The honor of trailing Logan to his lair
 belongs to Detective E. $. Reed of
 the Phkerton Detective agency, and Charles Mccall deputy United States marshal. They have trailed him hun dreds of miles like human blood hounds, l and have become acquainted with his every movement rom the time he las-
 soed the guard until he climbed the rocky bluff of Jeffrey's Hell hand over
 hand. and took up his rest beyond. It l is an interesting story, but the officers will not go into details or give the names of the friends who have assisted them on the trail Since the middle of last week these men have not had their clothes off, and have crawled up noun tain declivities and traversed noun tain wilderness that cannot be described
 They reached the city last night in or der that Mir Reed might get in touch with the home office and inform it of I the progress Of his work, and to get a
 posse of picked men who will go with him at daylight this morning on the man hunt in Jeffrey's Hell. These men must be men or iron nerve, and of suffi- cient hardihood to stand one of the most exhaustive trips that ever man made. One of the principal reasons for return- ing to the city was to get guns sufficient to cope with the desperadoes, who are armed to the teeth. Logan and his pal have eight pistols, two 56 calibers, and the remainder 45 Smith & Wesson's, and one Winchester. They have hat full of cartridges.
 While in the mountain the detectives learned that they were seen by Logan and his pal and their movements watched. They found the camp of To- gan before he disappeared into Jeffrey's Hell. where he will make the fight of his life. Logan's pal left the city with him and is Q native of these mountain regions, where they are hiding and knows every foot of that great unin- habited world. where the officers must go iii order to get their man. Will they
 have nerve to do it? Yes; the men who will leave here this morning will pos sibly not all come back, for Logan will sell his life dearly and the first few men that come to the open where he is will have to be bullet proof if they es- cape. ~. s The hunting party will be at a great disadvantage, and can be shot one at a time from ambush, and will be practi- cally helpless. Deputy Mccall has been in the mountains so much on moonshine raids that he knows how to handle the natives. and on this alone depends the
 success of the man hunt, They will get some one to take them to to the very spot where Logan is hiding, and then, will begin the duel to death. The off, cers know everything in connection with his hiding place, and the man who
 feeds him, but getting there right side
 up with care is the difficult problem. Logan's pal, it is understood, has been
 about the city for a long time waiting.
 for Logan to get out, and as soon as
 they got together they struck for the
 Cumberland mountains instead of the
 Chilhowees, as was supposed. They kept in the Cumberlands until some
 point in Virginia was reached, then they
 crossed to North Carolina and came
 down until they, reached their present hiding place. te :.s
 Jeffrey's Hell is one of those rocky
 wildernesses in the mountains with a
 area of several square miles, and so
 dense with rock, and shrub that one
 cannot see ten feet ahead of him. It Is
 almost impossible to get through it at
 all It was named after a man named
 Jeffrey, who became lost in there and
 did not get out for a week. The desola-
 ton of the place was so terrible that he
 said when he got out that it was Hell"
 Thus the name was given the locality.
 It will have cause, no doubt, to have it's
 title more firmly fixed by the coming
 tragedy which is bound to. occur in it's
 wild confnes.--Knoxville Journal and
 Tribune.