The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-12-23
Jaded and Worn by Trail Travel
He Gives Up When Ut.
terly Exhausted.
TOLD TWICE TO PUT HANDS UP
Fifteen Charges Rest Against the Man
Who 10 Glad to Have q Chance 70
Put In q Nights Sleep in the
Security Of the County Jail.

Drenched by rain. bespattered by
mud. trail worn. tired and glad to have
the rest Of bunk" In a cell. Fred
Stauch was brought In last night. sur
rounded by officers and newspaper men,
and even the Oregon boot that adorned
his leg feels to him like jewelry COM
pared with the miring and grief that he
has seen since he made his way through
the bars OF the county Jail Saturday
night.
Sheriff Linville is lucky man.
Going up on the evening train with
n prisoner for Salem, and In quest OF
one at Spokane. he arrested young
Lowe. implicated with. stanch. and.
then, on his return. the sheriff had the
pleasure OF riding home with the Sec
ond prisoner (Stauch), who was in
charge OF Sheriff White of Columbia
county.
After leaving the Jail Saturday night
Stauch and Lowe separated. Lowe
keeping to the railroad and Stauch
striking across country toward the up
per bend OF the Columbia river. Stauch
was en- route for Goldendale. Wash,
where he has friends and relatives. and
Lowe was simply trying to get out of
the country. Lowe only accompanied
Stauch because of the older mans per-
suasion. and had he stayed in Jail. could
scarcely have gotten more than six
months sentence in the county jail,
His fate now Ia with the good mercy
OF the circuit judge.
The capture OF Stauch, as effected
by Sheriff White. was a dramatic one,
and the manner of II was refutation
OF the opinion held by the local au-
thorities that Stauch would die fight
ing. AS a matter OF fact, his only
weapon was a razor, and he did not
have the slightest intention OF using
that as a weapon de guerre.
Sheriff white had line" ON the
whereabouts OF his man, and he rode
over hard roads all night, arriving at
the farmhouse where Stauch had eaten
his breakfast just in time to catch
him walking up to looking glass in
the kitchen where he was going to
shave.
Hands up!" called the sheriff.
who the hell are you?" said Stauch,
Jam 'em upl Quick!" was the reply,
and Sheriff White was just unlocking
six lead pills In Stauch's direction
when the refugee put em up
Stauch submitted to Handwriting, and
the sheriff secured a rig and drove his
game to Claskanine, where they caught
the same train upon which Sheriff Lin
vile Of this county was returning
from Spokane.
Had Stauch been of the proclivities
that actuated Tracy, this story would
have read differently, however, he
went unarmed and had no intention of '
making a fight for his liberty. He
thought he knew the country better
than the officers did, and he lost.
on Tuesday evening had Staucn
been armed Frank Cook and Jailor Al
len Anderson would have been near to
death. Stauch heard them coming and
he stepped behind a hemlock tree and
allowed them to go by. It was dusk,
and they were at his mercy. had he
stolen even one of the three guns that
were offered him.
Notwithstanding his Is charges
which will keep him in Jail an ordl-
nary mans lifetime, stauch had no in
to fight. He only wanted
10 get away, Cook and Anderson may
thank the stars that give happy fate
that stauch was not "the man behind