The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-11-07

| Leonard Tomasso'S saloon The dog
at the saloon raised such an uproar
that the thieves were frightened
away, not however. before Mr.. To-
masso had gotten a good look at
them.
| Wednesday morning several cti-
zens of kennewick, including Tomas
so. Roseman. TUT. the marshal, Mike
Glover and Il deputy, after notifying
the sheriff at Prosser, started along
the river 10 a large hobo camp to
see If they could find any of the stol-
EN- articles.
They had gone but short dis
lance, when they saw two men. one
appearing about thirty while the
other was much younger, camped
near some trees on the river bank.
AS the marshal had been searching
every place else he went through this
outfit also. but found nothing that
was at all suspicious. Feeling certain
that the guilty parties had made
good their escape. Glover and the
rest of the party took their way back
to the town to await the arrival of
Mcneil and his men from Prosser.
Immediately upon his arrival the
sheriff and his posse made another
search and had come to the place
where the two tramps had been seen
in the morning when man appear
ed suddenly from among clump of
six small trees, AMI raising his rifle
called out, IF you - -
bulls are looking for trouble it will
start right now" At this time he
stood on the river bank half mile
southeast of Kennewick and 100
yards north of the Northern Pacific
bridge. Glover and Halsey We're APP
preaching from the river and were
within twenty yards of the place
where the desperadoes We're partly
concealed, while Mcneil was farther
up the bank on a slight raise not over
thirty feet to the right of the older
outlaw. The younger of the two
criminals was about ten feet on the
/ other side and little in front of the
older man. After calling to the Off
GERS the older fired three shots in
/ quick succession in the direction Of
the party These all went wild; his
next shot killed Glover instantly his
next hit Halsey. who was trying to
gain the cover of the river bank,
| wounding him badly. After falling
Halsey attempted to crawl little
| farther but the murderer fired one
more shot at him, stopping him in
his tracks. This all took but few
seconds and up to this time both
Sheriff Mcneil and the young rob
her had fired few wild shots. Nc
Neil was firing with revolver at the
man who was doing the shooting. His
first shots failed to take effect, how
ever, and one of the boys shots
caught him across the abdomen. cut
ting long shallow flesh wound. but
failed to injure the inner walls of the
bowels Seeing Halsey out of action,
the older robber turned and fired two
shots al the sheriff, the first one go
ing wild and the second tearing away
the thumb from his left hand, caus-
ing him to drop his gun. Thinking
that the sheriff also was done for the
bandits now turned their whole fire
onto man named Roseman who
was coming up from the left As ne
was several yards farther from him,
the man who had killed Glover and
Iialsey dropped to one knee so as
to get better aim. As he did so Nc
Neil. who had recovered his revol-
yer. fired again. hitting the older des-
perado in the groin and killing him
instantly The officers then with
drew and the remaining outlaw got
under cover along the cut banks of
/ the stream, where there was heavy
growth of overhanging creepers
I Guards remained near the place
and later mob of excited men
who had been drinking heavily all
/ afternoon. came ont after the hidden
| fugitive. In the meantime this man
had cut his way through the creepers
/ along the bank for fully ten yards,
and was close enough TO his pursuers
| to hear their conversation. Someone
mentioned bloodhounds and the
! thought of these savage brutes caus-
ed aim To lose his nerve While this
! ot OF men were irresolutely talking
! he matter over and waiting for
some one To take the initiative the
Young fellow, seeing all hope of es-
cape cut off, raised up out of mis-
/ hiding place with his rife in his
/ hands and called out, Il give up" As
the frightened boy rose from the
weeds, F F. Perry. who had been
faithfully watching the place all aft
ernoon. covered him and commanded
him to throw up his hands 1t was at
this time that the worst feature of
the whole affair took place. Thinking
that Perry. who was a few yards be-
yond the boy. was another bandit, the
mob, many of whom were intoxicat-
ed, fired a volley al him, wounding
him so desperately that he died in a
short time, after suffering terrible
agonies.
During the excitement incident to
the shooting of Perry. two men who