Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-02-24
ASSISTED THE CAPTURE.
Former Linn County Man Writes
Us an Account of His
Suspicious.

w. H. Millhollen, of Port
land, Or, has written US of his
connection with the tracing and
final capture of the Lebanon
bank robbers. In communicating
with US Mr.. Millhollen seems to
be under the impression that the
GAZETTE was authority for a
statement to the effect that he
had been a Linn county deputy
years ago-or had been for years.
This impression he desires cor
rected. We are not authority
for any such declaration, and we
were surprised to learn that he
was acting in such capacity.
The GAZETTE said, "It appear
that Mr.. Millhollen was actina
as deputy sheriff. He must have
been deputized in Albany" Con-
tinuing, Mr.. Millhollen gives
the following account of his
part in tracing these criminals
81 was special deputy under
Sheriff Gaines and Sheriff Munk-
ers. I turned all the evid ace in
my possession over to Sheriff
Word, of Multnomah, about
eight hours before the arrests
were made and the houses raid
ed. Two of the men spotted,
Reynolds and Dunn, were ar
rested. Kingsley and Darling
(alias Rund, or Dorlund, as he
sometimes went by those names)
escaped the evening before.
"Sherif Word followed Kings
ley to Seattle on Saturday night,
but the latter escaped across the
British line the night following.
The men that I had under sus-
picion were Kingsley, Damn
Darling and Reynolds. These
; four were always found togefl2er
and were always spending la1sS
sums of money and never wozA-
ing. Frequently at the Emp {
restaurant Darling would throw
down 500 bills to have changed
when paying his bills.
Reynolds was spending large
sums of moneys fool1shly, which
indicated thatshe. did not labos
for it. Dunns@was never wolk
ing or earning dollar, yet ht
and his family. were spending
money lavishly.> Kingsley wa:
posing as an English gentleman
and living high.
81 think possibly we have ths
right gang that have been crack
ing safes in the Willamette Val
ley towns during the past sum
mer. l believe they were ais
guilty of holding up the Spokan
Flyer on the O. R. & NJ, as the,
were described as the big maj
and small man kingsley am
Dunn, and the short and slim
men Darling and Reynolds.)
''The evening before the BAN
robbery I saw Kingsley AM
Dunn on the streets in Albany
and later, when in Corvallis,
gave Sheriff Burnett descriI
ton of these men as had see
them the evening before. I poin
ed them out in Albany as bein
Portland Crooks. Reynolds,
think, is the last man to -joi
this gang. Darling, l believ'
was the organizer and leader I
this nest of robbers, as he fir
quently made trips into the coui
try, and at one time, probabl
three weeks before the Leblanc
robbery, he told Mr.. Bolande
of the Empire restaurant, Thil
street, that he had been
Lebanon, remarking that it W
a beautiful little town. MI
Bolander answered by telling hi
that she fully agreed with hir
as Lebanon was her home tow
After that he only went to Il
Empire restaurant of evening
showing that he thought he hi
made mistake. He had di
covered that Mrs. Bolander hi
at one time lived there.
81 have felt positive for Il
past eight or nine months tn
this quartet were gang
Crooks then after the O. R.
N. hold-up felt certain that
had spotted the right men.
had ample reasons for watchil
them as I did. I was more TIL
positive that ] was right"