The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1907-05-08
Chased Across Two States
By Officers i'm Automobile

| Travelled all night going to Moal
and then MP to iiauscr Junction
Fhcn along toward morning / came
back 10 Moab ana stayed arounl
thcre all die forenoon came back
'o see Mr.. O'Bricn, who | know I
was up at The lumber mill most Of
the time until along toward noon !
saw Mr. Jones. fIc used to know
me when we lived at Moab.
At his time Mr.. Jones did not
know that Johnnie had escaped or
tbat fbere were charges against him
The youngstor told him that he was
living in Spokane now, ana had just
driven up from there. Later he read
Of the boys escape and tried to get
word 20 Sheriff Doak. lie was an
hour in getting his connection with
Spokane, or thinks that Johnnie
might have been captured before he
got to Rathdrum. Continuing his
story, Johnnie said:
"After | saw Mr.. Jones | went
back TO Ilauser Junction and from
there to Rathdrum. ] had decided
TO go TO Burke, Idaho, where | knew
some people at the Tiger boarding
house, and q lot Of other men around
there. From Rathdrum / went to
Occur d'Alcne. When I got there
went into the electric car terminal
to get a drink, leaving the horse
hitehed outside. A policeman an
the man that owned it, | think it was
him, wee just taking it away, so |
waited til they we're gone before j
went out
Steals Another Wheel.
81 went down Fourth street until
| came to store called the Fair,
and outside of it there was a wheel,
SO | took ii ana rode to La Crosse.
When got there | went up to i
house and asked n lady if | could
steep there over NIGHT. She said she
hadn't any room, but she gave me
30 cents to so back to Occur d'Aleno
and get a room. went back to
Occur d'Alene ANA then rode down
to La Crosse again and got a room.
stayed there over night and this
morning spent all the money had
left, just / j cents for breakfast
That was all had to eat from the
time that I left the Jail until the
sheriff who arrested me got me some
Ching this morning.
"After breakfast / rode over 10
Post Falls, and was riding around
there when | saw the sheriff He
saw me and cauet me ana took me
back here
"Wher did I get the tobacco? Why
had that before was arrested
here in Spokane two weeks ago.
lad it hidden back of a sign board
down in the easy part Of the city
near a long bridge. When got out
of Jail went right over there and got
il. Then | went up 10 Frank Pass
moee's house because il was near
there The sheriff caught me about
noon
Johnnie was a sorry looking hoy.
Since his arrest he has had both Of
The juyenile detention rooms to play
i'm, but when he was broush bacl.
be was locked up in one room. When
he was told that if any other boys
were brought in they would be put
in the other room and that he must
stay alone, he broke down and cried
Confesscs 10 All Charges.
Though Johnnie's whole career as
a sure enough criminal covers bur
three weeks, the charges against him
have accumulated fast and he has
confessed to them all. Three weeks
ago he ran away from his home with
lis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson
Afaloy, of North Yakima Stealing
two horses there he started for AL
fdlfa. whele he intended to sell them
one Of The two horses, he says, got
away from him and went back home.
The other he sold for IS and started
for Spokane
Arrest 4 little red-headed chap
with freckles," was the message the
police got. ana after Johnnie arrived
iii Spokane he was caught No
charges were found against him and
he was taken from the juvenile jail
ANA told to 90 to the police station
and get ticket back home
This Johnnie didn't do Instead
he walked mp to the first good look
ing wheel he saw and took It. Forg-
ing a permit from his parents he
sold IT, This he repeated half 4