The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-07-28

friends, visiting back and forth and
exchanging work.
Quarrel Over Land: Murphy Shot.
In the spring of 1854 both Marion
and Murphy were chopping wood.
They had worked during the morning
and at noon sat on the same log and
ate their lunches. As the meal pro-
crossed the question of the division
line between the two properties came
up for discussion. The dispute grew
warm and angry words followed. Sud
denly. it is charged. Marion seized his
rifle and shot Murphy.
Before his death Murphy told the
story and in a general way it was
agreed to by Marion.
At the first trial the jury disagreed.
Following the second trial Marion was
found guilty of murder and a day later
he was discovered to have escaped
from the Jail.
The wanderings of Marion have
been continuous during the quarter of
a century since his escape from the
little Jail. He says that he is glad that
he has been arrested, for now he is no
longer a hunted if not haunted man.
For twenty-five years he says that in
every town he visited he expected to
look into the muZzle of revolver held
by some officer of the law.
Wandcrs Over Far West.
Speaking of his travels. he says that
after his escape he went to the noun
tains of Wyoming where for year
he worked in mining camps in locali-
ties as far as possible removed from
towns. Then he wandered south and
eventually reached Mexico. where for
a couple of years he worked on
ranches and in the mines.
Becoming bolder he returned to the
states, and in California worked sew
eral years in the orchards, but he
never forgot that he was hunted and
that there was price on his head.
From California he drifted into Brit
ish Columbia, and when the Klondike
gold craze started was one of the first
to ship for Nome, where he lived for
five years and made considerable
money.
While in the Klondille he often saw
men whom he knew, but they did not
recognize him. Coming back to the
United States, Marion went east, but,
having been raised in the west, and
having lived there all his life, he was
dissatisfied and returned to the west,
going around instead of through Ne
braSka.
Intended to Leave for Japan.
Again reaching Washington, he
found employment on ranch, where
he worked for nearly five years and
until the time of his arrest. He had
given up work, drawn his money, and
gone to Stevenson, intending to go
from there to Seattle and ship to
Japan, there to settle down and live.
One day, while walking the streets
of Stevenson, he saw DR.. Harris, a res
ident of the town, and who. at the
time of the killing of Murphy( was
coroner of Cherry county, Neb. While
he recognized DR.. Harris. Marion did
not think that the doctor knew him,
he had changed so much. having be-
come stopped, aged, and white haired
He felt secured and decided to re-
main a few days longer. but that de-
cision was his undoing, for the doctor
notified Sheriff Knox of Skamania
county, and this sheriff in turn notified
Sheriff Foster of Cherry county, Neb.
asking if Marion still was wanted. The
answer came back: Yes. Arrest and
hold"
Forthwith Marion, who had been
watched, was placed under arrest and
lodged in Jail, where he was visited by
DR.. Harris. When the doctor called
Marion admitted that he was the Ne
braskan who for so long a time had
been lodging officers.