The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-10-28
PASSED THROUGH CORVALLIS.

| Slayers Of Grant TO. be Tried Soon
i Grant Brought Both Whisky
From Toledo.
The alleged murderers of Indiar
Grant passed through Corvallis
Monday, on their way to Portland,
to await trial. The United States
/ grand jury is now in session, and il
is supposed that an indictment will
be returned. at once. 1t is expect
ed that the trial will take place in
in two or three weeks.
| The men are Abe Logan and Al
! bert Martin They had a pre1im-
mary examination at Toledo Sat
urday. Both waived examination
and were bound over to await the
action of the United States grand
jury. Il
From the story OF the killing, as
told at the preliminary examination
it seems that Logan and Martin
had arranged with Grant to bring
whisky from Toledo, and late in
| the afternoon Of the murder, the
two men were awaiting Grants ar
rival, near, the old Woodman ford
on the Siletz, which is. about a
quarter of a mile from the govern
ment Office. Grant, riding a white
horse, appeared about $40 in the
afternoon, bringing aquart bottle Of
whisky each for Logan and Martin.
also had pint flask for himself
The three men, according to the
testimony OF the surviving members
of the trio, began at once to drink.
AS time passed on, Grant and
Logan began tojolly Martin, telling.
him he did not know how to drink
whisky. whereupon Martin lifted
his bottle toshis lips, and drained
Fit dry. Within few minutes there
after, Martin claims that he knew
nothing. The testimony of several
other witnesses who saw Mar tin at
nine O'Clock and often thereafter, is
to- the effect that he was uncon
scious and practically dead until
about six o'clock the next morning.
The circumstances point to Lo-s
gan as the man who did the Kill
ling. On his face. hands and
clothing, there was blood, He was
wet up to his knees. which showed
that it was he who put Grants
body in the river. In fact, he ad-
mits the latter. rs
Grant was killed with stones,
with which the top of his head
was beaten in. The stones were
found on the bank. The murder
is supposed to have occurred. about
eight O'Clock, two or three hours
after Grants arrival from Toledo.
A watch on his person stopped at
that time. No one saw the tragedy.
About an hour after it happened
Logan appeared at the house of
Martin, where there were six or
eight persons, among them, Mrs. /
Newberry and her two sons Mar
tin called one Of the Newberry
boys out and told him that Grant
was killed. He said that Martin
had choked Grant to death. Sub
sequent investigation showed that
Grant had not been choked at all.
After hearing the news, the peo
pie at the Martin house took lam
tern and went down to the scene of
the murder. They found Martin
there in state Of stupor, There
was no blood about his person nor
on his clothing. They saw the
body of Grant in the river. They
carried Martin to the house. where
at six o'clock the next morning, he
began to sober up.
About three or four o'clock in
the morning, Logan got up and
told some of the inmates of the
house that Grants body must be
moved. He went alone to the scene
of the killing and moved the body
further out into the stream. He
came back to the house, wet to the
waist. He told some of his friends
that Martin had killed Grant, and
had agreed that.if nothing was said
about it that he, Logan, was to be
given COW by Martin. There is
evidence to the fact that Logan
once made a threat that he would
kill Grant whenever he got an op-
portunity.
Judge McFadden appeared for |
Martin at the preliminary examin
alton, and is to be his counsel at |
the trial to take place in the United |
States district court at Portland.
The details of the killing are elo-
quent with material for a lecture on
temperance, and another on the
baneful effects of breaking the law !