Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-13
OF INDIAN
MURDERER RESUMED
THREE POSSES TAKE FIELD
AFTER WILLIE BOY
Hardened Men, Used to Desert and
Familiar with Country, Leave
for Scene of Battle with
Fugitive
Especial TO The Aerald.1

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SAN BERNARDINO, Oct. 12.-With
a party of ten men, headed by Ben
de Crevecouer of Banning, including
! Sheriff Wilson of Riverside and sew
eral of his deputies, already headed
for the scene of Willie Boys last
stand, at daybreak tomorrow there
will be three separate posses again
seeking out the trail and hiding place
of the desperate Indian murderer.
| Sheriff John Ralphs, commanding the
expedition, with the main posse, will
| leave this city at an early hour in the
morning with a dozen men mounted on
horses that have been carefully Sc
lected for the long hunt. Scores of ap-
plications to accompany the expedition
have been made to the sheriff, but
only men known to be rugged and able
to keep up the pace which will be set
by the most experienced trailers to be
had have been selected. Included in
the dozen men who will leave this city
with the sheriff are former soldiers,
members of the militia, COW punchers,
mining prospectors and others who
have been picked with the greatest
care.
Deputy Sheriff George Hewins of this
city will lead the posse which starts
from Victorville at the same time that
his chief leaves for the desert by the
way of Big Bear valley. Included in
his party are six horsemen picked from
the settlers in that vicinity, most of
whom know the desert equally as well
as the fugitive. In addition to the six
horsemen there will be three others
who will accompany the supply wagon
which will move forward with the
party.
Two Parties Made Up
In the party which leaves this city
will be- in addition to Sheriff Ralphs
and Segunda Chino, the Indian trailer
and a member of the last posse, John
Showalter, A. A. Powell, L. A. Strong,
Claude Wees, w. R. Ingram, L. A.
Moore, William Jordon, Winfield Scott,
Ed Harris, f. L. Ball. r. G. Booth. In
the posse that left Banning at day
break this morning are Ben de Creve-
couer, viii and Henry Pablo, Bob St.
Marie, Sheriff Wilson, Jack Liebock,
F. c, Clarke, c. Colby, Messrs. Now
lin. Waite and Nevins.
With instructions from the sheriff to
meet with him Friday night at Rock
Coral, within a short distance of the
battle-ground on which Willie Boy des-
perately wounded Charles Reche and
routed the party of trailers who cor
nered him in the granite peaks, the
parties from Banning and Victorville
will endeavor, as they proceed towards
that country, to pick up some trace of
the murderer Sheriff Ralphs will ap-
proach Rock Coral from the Big Bear
valley country and through The Pipes,
near where he killed the girl.
To Pick Up Trail
Following the combining of the forces
T1ril fuI7F +ba
trail of the Indian is not picked up
leading in some other direction, the
expedition will storm the garrison
where the murderer is now possibly
awaiting the approach of the officers
At least he will be tracked to that
point From the flesh of the four
horses slain in the encounter and
which were left where they fell. the
fugitive will be able to strengthen his
weakened system and lay in store of
dried meat in preparation for a SIEGE
Although the firing of the solitary
shot long after dark on the night fol-
lowing the battle puzzles the officers,
they place little faith in the theory that
1t might have ended his life and are
rather inclined to the belief that he
either fired at an imaginary approach
of an officer through the gloom or de-
sired to give the impression that he
had suicided. One of the members of
the party, ambushed by the murderer,
managed to creep from rock to rock
until he discovered a deep crevice in
the big granite peak in front of which
was a small bushy tree and believing
that the fugitive was directing his
deadly fire from this point, shot once.
But a few moments before the Ir7
fired three times at Trailer Hyde as he
dashed across an open stretch of thirty
feet to go for assistance, but from that
time no further shooting was done by
Willie Boy, even one of the horses,
which had been saved by a shelterinG
boulder and overlooked by the r0''r-
derer, wandered out in plain view and
grazed about for several hours, but
was not killed.
Robbery Causes Excitement
It is possible that the one shot fired
into the garrison of the murder wound
ed him and then after realizing that
he could not ascape in this condition
shot himself.
The news of the robbery cf the Clyde
cabin, on the slope of Bullion noun
tain, in the region into which the In
dian fed, has caused CONSERVATION
among the officers, it being the belief
that either relatives or sympathizers
are endeavoring to render aid TO the
fugitive. Among the articles taken
was a large mirror, with which, by a
series of signals existing among the
Plute Indians, news of the whereabouts
of the pursuers and other informa-
tio,l can be flashed to the fleeing muir
derer.