The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-04-27
during the. evening. He was taken


and held as an accessory, the sur
mise being that it was his revolver
that Ready used in shooting Osburn
and Dunn. He had spent the ear
Iy portion of the evening in Keadys
company, and at 1890 along with
Dell Strong. was with him in Chip
man S restaurant At first, Officer
Osburn surmised that it was Turner
who fired the shot near Broder's
saloon, and he searched Turner for
the gun, but did not find it. Tur-
ner, Strong and Keady=left the res
taurant shortly after II, and it was
soon afterward that the first shot
was fired. Turner'S story told to
a TIMES man in the presence of
Chief Lane corroberates the details
of Osburn's S effort first to get Ready
to go home and then to arrest him. |
He was close observer of the chase
across the street from Aliens drug i
store to the bank and south in the
street to the crowd at Halls. He
was also near when Osburn and |
Dunn followed Ready out of the
crowd as the latter backed asross
the street. In all these details, he
tells the story exactly as it is told |
by Adams. Turner was standing
with others on the pavement when
Ready shot Osburn. He tells this
story: CATER Ready shot Osburn
he stepped quickly on the pavement
in front of the barber shop, where 1
was standing. He came close to
me, with the revolver in his hand.
About that time John Vinyard step
ped out of the barber shop to see
what the shooting was about.
Ready saw him, and at once advan-
ced towards Vineyard. There was
an old grudge between them Ready
always claimed that on a former oc-
casion Vineyard had threatened to
cut Keady's insides out. Ready
half raised his gun, so that it poin-
ted at Vineyards knees and said.
$50 you will cut my insides out
will you?" Vineyard Immediately
turned back into the barber shop.
Ready raised the gun as if to shoot
him in the back, and seizing his
pistol arm I said, Don't shoot a
man in the back Ready did not
fire, and I proposed then that he
should go home At first he re-
fused, saying he wanted to whip
Guier, but at last he consented to
go with me andwe started southwark.
We turned west at the first corner
this side of Wades, and went out
to Fifth street. Others say that
the turn to the westward was past
Graham & Wells corner. We were
soon joined by Byron Taylor, who
commenced to talk to Peg about
giving up the gun, and going home
Peg turned at once and stuck the
muzzle of/his revolver against By
ron's body as if to shoot. Byron
said. ''you wouldn't shoot me,
would you Peg" and Ready burst
into tears and said: No you are
too good a friend to me- both
Byron and I kept talking to Ready
as we walked along about giving uI
the gun, but Ready wouldn't do it.
At last, Byron left US. Ready
and I kept going north on Fifth
street until we came to the north
side of college street, and there we
turned east, passing the Methodist
church. Near Taylor's house we
saw man coming, and Ready raj
sed his gun and said, whoever yor
are don't come nearer than 10 feet
or I'll shoot The man was Her.
man Breyer, and he said 'Ah Peg
don't shoot friend: take a fools ad
wise and put up that gun After
some talk Harman Breyer came uI
to us, and began to talk to Ready
advising him to give up the gun
and to surrender to the officers.
Ready said he would never do it.
Soon after that two men came from
the direction of the Methodist
church. Ready jumped off the side
walk and said he would fix EN-. ]
thought there was going to beshoot-
lug, and as the sheriff reached fo1
Ready, I jumped back about twenty
feet and stood there while the shoot
ing was going on. From that dis
trnce could not distinguish the
men, and I don't know who fired
the first shot. The shooting was
very fast, and it was all over in a
few minutes. After that two men
came running up to me and said
Throw up your hands, I surren-
| dered, and was taken in custody.
| The trouble began early in the eve
ming over the question OF
wheather or not Ready could
whip Ben Guier. Hyland the pain
ter and Ready also talked about
fighting, and at one time both
of them had off their coats" :"
| BREYER's STORY.
| There were five persons in the