The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-12-03
! aN PIERRE CAPTURED
After Several Months Freedom
the Fugitive is Finally
Run to Earth.
lRAD MAN WITH A BAD RECORD
Has Served Time in the Peniten-
tiary and Is Slated for Anoth-
CT Protracted Incarceration.

Last Monday Sheriff Thorp met c..
]. Bunbury at this place and they
quietly slipped off on still hunt for
the Indian fugitive San Pierre, who
has string of crimes to his credit long
tiary.the balance of his natural life.
The officers were mum regarding their
mission, and the real object of the COM
bined endeavor was not known until
the two drove down from the north
With the prisoner. 1t seems that Sher-
n III Thorp had a hunch that Pierre was
At his home, short distance below
Oroville. A visit there proved wat
er haul. Officer Bunbury thought he
had the man staked out on Sheep creek
near Penticton, where Pierre was sup
posed to be working on ditch with
others of his flesh. From Penticton
the party drove as close to the scene of
the ditch digging as poss BILE. Here
Mr.. Bunbury, the Canadian official,
started afoot and coming suddenly up
on Pierre at work in the ditch covered
him and invited him to throw up the
job. Pierre was taken completely off
his guard, and had no chance to resist
He was very docile, and had no chance
to give the officers trouble. Sheriff
Thorp left on the stage with his man
Thursday morning for Riverside, from
whence he will reach Conconully.
San Pierre is probably the toughest
redman in this upper country. He
will halt at no crime. and especially if
under the influence of liquor. He
served a term in the penitentiary for a
criminal assault upon his own grand
mother. He is one of those ghouls
cursed with the blood lust, and is can
nibelistic in his viciousness, as he has
bitten chunks of flesh out of several
Indians. He says when he is worked
up to frenzy he wants to see and taste
hlDod. some montbs ago he stabbed
young Indian in drunken brawl at
the Similkameen bridge. He was ar
rested and broke Jail. In his flight he
attempted an assault on white wO-
man, and was foiled in his brutal plan
by the approach of travellers. Deputy
Sheriff Mills and Marshal Case got a
few shots at him some weeks after
wards, but the willy Indian got away.
AS illustl ating the willingness of
Pierre to take desperate chances Off
Ger Bunbury states that at Okanogan
Falls he slept in the same room with
the Indian, who was of course mani
cled. When they went to the room
Pierre laid down on one of the beds,
and the officer, who had removed his
revolver, threw his belt and scabbard
on the foot of the other bed and his
coat over them. Bunbury then turned
to the dresser as though to make his
toilet, and could observe Pierre's move
ments in the looking-glass. No sooner
was the officers back turned than with
the noiseless snake-like movements
traditional with Indians, Pierre raised
up and reached over for the belt, sup
posing the revolver to be in the sheath.
AS his hand touched the belt Bunbury
let out gay haw, haw, and the foiled
Indian fell back with a curse. Had
the gun been there and the Indian got
hold of it, the friends of Bundury prob
ably would be wearing weeds today.