Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-02-06
KIDNAPPED GIRLS ARE FOUND
FRED MARSHALL HAS SEARCHED
THREE YEARS FOR THEM.
They Were Stolen at Boise-Their Fa-
Their Accid, ntly Meets Them i'm n
Store at Pendleton, Oregon They
Tell of Rough Treatment Their
Lives Threatened.

Pendleton, Oregon, Feb. 2.-After
searching three and half years and
spending $4,000, his entire savings,
Fred Marshall, a teamster of this city,
has recovered his two little daughters
who were kidnapped from his home at
Boise nearly four years ago. He met
them accidentally in store here last
Friday, and the shock was so great
that he reeled and staggered. He did
not make public his find until today.
The story is one of rough treatment of
the children, and as the father tells of
his search tears come to his eyes.
Because of threats made by Dan
Clifford the villain who stole them
away, breaking up the family and TAX
ing the wife with him, the little ones
seem afraid to tell all they know.
Bessie said:
LAS soon as they carried us from
home they put us in boys clothes; they
named me Dick and Ruths name was
Tom. We did not like boys clothes,
but we were afraid of the man who
said he would kill us. We were in La
Grande, Meacham, Pendleton and
Echo, where mother died. The man
did not like me as well as he did
Ruth, and said when she grew up he
would take her away and make her
work for him.
EAT mothers death the man left
Ruth with people in Echo and he took
me to the mountains above Weiser,
where he kept me in cabin. l had
to cook for him. He would get drunk
and treat me rough. He told me l
was never to mention my father s
name, and if l did he said he would
kill me. He told me if father ever
saw me he would kill me.
"When l saw father in the store
was afraid of him, and intended tc
run, but l soon saw that | would not
be hurt. Several months ago was III
DR.. e. j. Smiths Office and l saw
Grandpa Marshall, but was afraid t
would kill me, so l hurried out of tht
office before | was noticed"
Rev. g. w. Rigby of this cit,
preached the funeral service of Mrs
Marshall when she. died at Echo
year ago last August. When he say
the children he was taken with them
and tried to get them to go to thu
home of his daughter, Mrs. L. E.
Cook, on the reservation, near here.
Clifford then disappeared with tn,
girls and went to Weston. FINAL,
Mr.. Rigby located the little ones q
Weston, and eventually got them to e
to Mr.. Cook S. 1t was not discovered
that they were girls until people al
Echo were caring for them.
Marshall sold his home and horses
getting about $4,000, and spent that il
hunting them. He went to severa
eastern states, as his wife had relatives
in Pennsylvania. He had sheriffs
looking for them throughout the coun-
try. He would sometimes get trace
of them in eastern Oregon, but the
| clew was always of two boys, and
threw him off the track. He thought
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is the reason he came and lived at
Pendleton. Many times in his search
he crossed their path, but would miss
them, sometimes by few minutes.
Last spring he was working at Free
water, and Clifford was there, but got
out before Marshall saw him. Mar
shall asid:
1t will not be well for Clifford if /
find him. l will continue my search
for him. He got away with about
$4,000 of my money. l would never
have given up the search until l found
the children.
Marshall married Ella Andrews
after his first wife's death.