The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-10-12
HALEY SAID TO BE BAD MAN
MAN LIBERATED By GOVERNOR
ONE OF WORST CRIMINALS
IN THE WEST
Hs.s Served Terms in Three States
Prisons and Did Time in British
Columbia.

In pardoning James Haley a con-
Wet at the state penitentiary, the Ia
coma authorities maintain that Cover
nor Mead has released one of the most
desperate and hardened criminals in
the west. A Seattle Times special
from Tacoma has this to say concern
ing the governors actions:
That the governor, in pardoning Ha
ley, or Creighton, which is his real
name, acted without investigating the
statement presented to him by the
convict and his attorney, is indicated
by the governors official announce
ment yesterday, in which he says that
Haley was a respectable citizen.
Part Of HaIey's Record.
A very slight investigation in Taco
ma would have revealed to the COVER
nor that Haley was far from being a
respectable citizen; that he had been
arrested in this city in February, 1902,
for having burglar tools in his posses
sion; that upon failure to make out
a case because no one was obtained
who would swear to the character Of
the Implements brought in evidence
against MIN, Haley was run out Of
town; that he went from here to Seat
tie and got INFO further trouble and
served a sentence in the Seattle Jail
from April II to May II; that he
thereafter returned to Tacoma, stole
a pair of shoes from j. F. Galbraith
and was arrested and fined $50; which
fine ne served out in the city and coun-
ty Jail and there saw and knew Chief
Of Police Fackler; that at the explra-
ton of his sentence ne was escorted to
the Seattle steamer and told to leave
town which he did not do; that on
June 10 Chief of Police Fackler at
tempted to take Haley again to Jail,
when Haley pulled 3S-caliber revolt
yer and attempte1, to disarm the chief;
that after a desperate struggle, during
which Haley obtained the chiefs re-
volver for time, he was at last over
powered by citizens and taken to Jail;
that he was thereafter convicted of
robbery and sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for twelve years.
More of Haey's Record.
1t is claimed here that little fur
Their investigation would have shown
the governor that Haley in 1879, under
the name of Bruce Creighton, was
sentenced in San Francisco to ten
years for burglary and that he secured
a pardon through the influence of rel
atives; that in 1888, under the name OF
Samuel Hayward he was convicted in
Portland of assault and sentenced to
ten years: that thereafter in Portland
he was convicted of highway robbery
and sentenced to five years; that nj
1897, under the name of James Rice,
he was convicted in Vancouver, B. c.,
of bringing stolen goods into Canada
and sentenced to five years in prison.
The robbery sentence which Haley
was serving in Walla Walla was i'm
posed upon conviction for robbery in
the taking away from Chief Fackler
the latter's revolver at the time of his
arrest for this crime. Haley had two
revolvers of his own on his person and
in addition to the revolvers there was
in his possession what is called by
burglars an outsider" which is pair
of pinchers for turning a key in the
lock fro.n the outside.
At the time OF his trial, Haley did
not deny the story of his attempted
hold-up of the chief of police. He adj
mitted on the stand pulling his own
revolver and taking away from the
chief the latter's gun.
Haley in appearance has all the looks
of a hardened criminal.