Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1910-12-02
REFUSING TO GIVE WARK SAID
TO BE THE CAUSE
MYSTERY SURROUNDS CASE
Cardwell Recovering Ffom Wound
But Will Not Talk About
Cause of Trouble.

Angered because Ed Cardwell did
not offer him a job on the gang
which is building road to the AL
media mines from Leland, Lige Boy
att, constable-elect, Sunday after
noon, about o'clock, shot Cardwell
at the road camp, seven miles from
Leland.
One shot was fired by Boyatt
which struck Cardwell in the arm
and passed through the fleshy part of
1t into the back and lodged just be-
low the shoulder blade Cardwell
arrived in Grants Pass Monday after
noon and was taken to the South Pa
cific hospital. Boyatt took to the
hills and so far has not been appre-
hended. Sheriff Russell is search
ing for the alleged would-be MUIR
derer at this time.
The cause of the shooting is en-
shrouded in mystery, for it is be-
lieved in many quarters that there
are other causes for the affair be-
sides the fact that Boyatt was re-
fused employment by Cardwell on
the road gang. Officials who have
been investigating the shooting have
been frustrated in arriving at a
solution of the trouble by the appar
cnt disinclination of those who are
eye witnesses to the crime to talk
ing.
Cardwell was sent to Leland to
engage men for the road gang one
day last week. Boyatt was cam
didate for job, but was not asked
to join the crew by Cardwell. Brood
ing over this fact, his friends assert
he visited the road camp Sunday
About four-thirty the crew, together
with Boyatt, had supper, When he
had finished his meal. Cardwell and
two other men adjourned to a
sleeping tent. Boyatt followed and
engaged Cardwell in a quarrel, ac-
cording to the testimony Of those
present, which is somewhat confused
and contradictory. The argument
soon reached the point where Card
we'll, so it is said. called Boyatt a
liar. whereupon Boyatt commenced
to intuition his overcoat, Cardwell
then left the tent and Boyatt follow
ed. exposing his revolver in the
meantime. When Cardwell had gone
five or six feet, he turned and Boyatt
fired. The bullet entered his up
raised arm. passed through It and en-
tered the back,
His wound is not serious, and un-
less blood poisoning sets in he will
recover at the hospital Immediately
after the shot was fired Boyatt enter
ed the brush, soon struck the trail
and about halfway to Leland again
re-entered the brush So far the Of
flcers have not been able to appre-
hend him.
Boyatt has sworn, so his friends
and relatives say, that he will not
be taken alive. His previous repu-
tation bears out this belief. It is
current gossip In Leland that he is
q bad man" and that he has been
pining for a gun scrap ever since he
came there He has been fond OF
boagting Of his proclivities In this
direction.
II is said that he has been in sew
erai gun fights and that he bears the
marks of several encounters Of this
tyne. Some OF his neighbors assert
that he bears the wounds Of at least
three gun battles before coming
here.
II is believed that Boyatt, who was
elected constable at the recent cleo
tion. will be compelled 70 give him
self nm. as the hills at this time Of
the wear are moor nlace In which
70 live. or tha' he will he found h'
tha offtcers. IN 'hls event n is OK
ns-,ed sha' Na''la wi'l resrlt whi"f
rili end IN ann'her tragedy. n the
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true.