Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-10-25
ALBERT FERRIS
ARRESTED AS HE
LEAVES PRISON

''Out of the frying pan into tn
fire. was the practical as well a!
theoretical experience of Albert Fer
ris when he walked out of the stat
prison enclosure Monday morning {
free man, after completing a sen
tence of one and one-half years up
on conviction of the crime of lar
ceny from a dwelling, committed IL
Clackamas county, only to fall into
the loving embrace of Sheriff Mint
of this county, who took him in tow
upon the grave charge of assault and
robbery when armed with danger.
Gus weapon and he is now gazing
upon the beauties of nature between
the bars of the county Jail TO await
the action of the circuit court al
the next January term. Albert
Murray, who is serving an indeter.
inmate sentence in the penitentiary
for burglary, awaits the same exper-
iece when he is discharged from the
penal institute within few weeks
Murray and Ferris were two oi
the desperate gang of five convicts
who effected their escape from the
penitentiary a year ago this month,
while working with crew of trusty
convicts upon the county road near
the reform school, when they over
powered Guards Hertzel and Davis,
took their revolvers, money and val
uables away from them and de-
camped. The other three of the
gang were Michael Nicholich, George
Duncan and G. P. Carter, the latter
two of whom were killed in encoun-
ters with posses of officers from this
and Polk counties, at Buena Vista,
during the pursuit. and Nichollch.
Murray and Ferris were captured
after Ferris and Nicholich were
wounded, as a result of the encoun.
ter. and surrendered.
Duncan, Murray and Carter were
first encountered near Buena Vista
by Walter w. Johnson, who was
deputized as a state officer for the
purposes of the chase, when officer
johnson inflicted the wound upon
Carter, one of the most desperate of
the gang which ultimately caused
his death and Officer Johnson re-
ceived a gunshot wound in his leg.
Then the entire gang was overtaken
in the bush along the river some
distance out of Buena Vista by a
posse of officers composed of Sheriff
Mimic of this county and Sheriff
John Grant, of Polk county, Consta-
BILE Ira Hamilton and officer Emory
James of this city, the next day,
and all captured but Nicholich and
Murray, who were rounded up in n
small patch of timber near 1ndepen-
dence upon the following day and
apprehended.
Albert Murray, who is still sery-
ing his indeterminate sentence In
the penitentiary, was indicted along
with Ferris by the recent grand jury
of this county upon the charge of
assault and robbery upon the prison
guards, armed with a dangerous
weapon, but Michael Nicholich, the
Russian anarchist, who is regarded
by Sheriff Mimic as being the most
dangerous. If not the most desperate
of the whole gang of convicts who
attempted an escape, has thus far
escaped an indictment at the hands
of the grand jury upon the charge
lodged against his confederates.
Nicholich is serving a two-year SEN
tence in the penitentiary upon con-
victiOn of burglary, in breaking into
the Hunsaker farmhouse. near Tur-
ner, in this county, and was COM
mitted October "a. 1908.
AT the time of his arrest upon
the previous occasion Nicholich re-
sisted the officers and engaged them
in combat with firearms and was
twice wounded in the legs before he
surrendered. Two months of his
time has been served in the insane
asylum and If this time is deducted
from his prison sentence, which is a
matter that is left to the discretion
of the state officers, he will have
served his sentence and left the
country before his case can be at
tended to by another grand jury.