The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-08-18
ESCAPES ARREST
BUT MEETS DEATH
BY Running In Front of a Switch En-.
gine-TerribIe Fate of
Seattle Crook.


cape from the police, was run over
and ground to pieces by switch en-
CINE in the railroad yards at the foot
Of Monroe street about o'clock at
night says the Seattle Post Intelligen-
Ger. TIL body, after it had been
viewed by Coroner Hoye, was re-
moved to the Bonney- Watson morgue.
where papers found on his person in
cate that he man was from Ouray,
Colo.
Henry Nolan, a cripple, who is be-
lieved to have been a partner of Hills
in an attempt to pass $50 bill, said
10 be bogus, in the Snug Harbor sa-
loon, at the corner OF Railroad avnue
and University street, Is under arrest
at the police station. On his person
was found another of the bills of the
same denomination and kind.
Half an hour before the accident
Hill entered the Snug Harbor saloon.
A moment afterwards Nolan hobbled
in, and goinng up TO Bell asked him
for enough money to get a nights lOdg
ing. Bell replied that he would have
to change bill, and went to the bar,
where he gave the bartender the 500
bill On the State Bank Of New Bruins
wick, N. j., similar to one which came
to the notice of the police earlier in
the day. The bartender took TIE bill
back to F. E. Kelly, one Of the propri-
etOrs of the place. who was in the
rear of the saloon. Kelly saw at
once that it was worthless, and told
the bartender to hold the man until
he could inform the police Kelly
then telephoned the station and Pa,
trOlman Schaneman was sent to the
place.
Escapes from Saloon.
AS Kelly entered the door, return
ing from the phone. Hill started to
leave the place, Kelly drew a dummy
gun, but Hill, anxious to get away
rushed to the door. AS he was leav-
him.
Hill made speed to the water front.
About this time Schaneman started
in pursuit. Hill ran along Railroad
avenue, lodging behind freight cars
in his effort to get away. Finally ne
reached doorway and jumped in,
but Shaneman did not see where ne
went, and began to make a search for
him.
At this moment a switch engine in
charge of Foreman Thomas Farrell
passed along with a train of loaded
ware, which it WITS placing in differ
ent parts of the yard. The train was
showed down past the doorway, where
Hill stood crouching out of sight of
Schaneman.
Meanwhile, Patrolman Kelly, who i
on duty at the depot, started up
through the yards toward Marion
street. He was looking for suspic
ious characters, and had proceeded
but about half block north from
Columbia street when Hill evidently
saw him, and left the doorway and
started to run a cross Railroad eve
nue..
Runs Between Cars.
The switch engine and the train
of cars had pulled up, almost Oppo-
site Marion street and across the path
of Hill, on his way to the water
front. In his eagerness to get away
Hill attempted to jump between the
rail and the planking, and he fell
lengthwise along the track.
Foreman Farrell jumped from the
train and looked under the cars. By
the glare of the electric light, fifty
feet away, he saw the mangled form
of a man. The train was stopped and
the coroner notified
Hill was probably one Of those who
have been attempting to pass worth
less money in the city for several
days The police are convinced that
Nolan the cripple, when he entered
the Snug Harbor saloon and begged
for the price of a bed was doing it
simply to afford Hill an excuse to
change the money. He was arrested
by Patrolman Wickham, but refused
to say anything about his connection
with the case