The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-05-12
OAK GROVE POSSE
CAPTURES SCONVICTS(?)

venture appeared in the Portland Tele-
gram Friday:
Great excitement reigned in the
Crapper district out on the west side
of the Hood River Valley yesterday |
afternoon when Constable Joe Hall and
posse of ranchers captured two sup
posed escaped convicts and took them
before Squire Charles g.. Lennon,
only to find that the suspected bad men |
were Harry p. Edward, Portland !,
newspaper man, and Burton Jayne,
son of A. A. Jayne, Hood River
attorney.
Shortly afternoon the telephones of
the orchardists began calling Constable
Hall, telling him that two escaped
convicts were making a run for the
mountains back of the Oak Grove
section, and giving him excited de-
scriptions of the two roughly dressed
men with heads shaven, who were
driving rig supposed to have been
stolen in the lower part of the valley.
at a reckless pace toward the south
west. Hall hastily gathered p posse
of deputies from the neighboring
ranches and half dozen ranchers
started out to head off the bad men.
In the posse were Coburn Allen, Dan
Skinner, Phillip Carroll, Count He.rl
de Redlng and Fred McCrea. They
concealed themselves in ambush about
mile west of the Crapper school
along the road which the bad men
were taking. AS the two suspects ap-
preached, Constable Hall emerged from
among the trees with drawn revolver
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surrounded the vehicle, giving its
occupants no chance to escape. In
stead of trying to escape, however, the
men in the buggy crawled under the
seat, fearing they were to be shot.
Ordered to mold up their hands the bad
men rose and stood while the strong
muscled farmers bound their hands
behind them. The two prisoners tried
to explain, but the excited ranchers
would listen to nothing and took them
down to the Oak Grove grange hall
where Justice Lennon holds court.
The two were then arraigned before
the squire, amid the excited villagers,
who crowded into the room.
Standing before the crowd one of the
young men insisted that he was the son
of Attorney Jayne, but rural client
of Mr.. Jayne Immediately came for
ward and declared he knew the law
yer's family and that the fellow was
Fsurely not Jayne.
Given an opportunity to speak, for
himself, the other prisoner said he
was a newspaper man, having recently
held a position on the Portland Tele-
gram and that he had come to Hood
River to do ranch work and gather
material for book he was writing on
Western pioneer life. He said that
he and the lawyers son were on their
way to a ranch IN the foot hills belong
ing to Mr.. Jayne, where they were
gong to clear some land. He explained
their heads being shaved by saying
they had taken this means to make
sure of cutting themselves off from
civilization. Inc friends of the young
men, who have not been accustomed
to the hard labor of grubbing out oaI
stumps, had joked them ABOUT the
work until fearing that they might
weaken in their resolve to spend {
month in the Jungle, they had theil
heads shaved. AS last resort, thu
prisoner, who was beginning to con
vince Squire Lennon OF his sincereity
produced his watch fob bearing hi
college fraternity emblem to sustain
tiate mis- claim to responsibility.
III Edwards was saved at this stage o
the game by one of the Hood Rive
University Club ranchers, who recog
nized in the supposed escaped convic
mis- classmate OF the University o
| Ohio. Further explanation was un
! necessary and the courageous posse
- which had begun to see visions OF bi
reward for the capture of fugitive
: from the convict road camp acros
the Columbia at Lyle Wash, was muc
disgruntled, slipping out of the court
room and wondering why any sane ma
N would have his head shaved.
n Mr.. Edwarts was reached over tht
II telephone last night after his thrillin
n experience with the rural posse an
n was very enthusiastic about the rapi
q manner in which the color for h
b pioneer life story was being daubed o.
n He and Jayne mad finally reache
81 their place and had cooked and cate
Il their own supper and the only dissal
II polntment to young Edwards, he salt
was The fact that 1t was night and /
" would have to wait so long unit
y nornlng to go to work with the gru
\ AK. He said, This simple life f'
+ mine and you can give my love al
n commiseration to everybody in civillz
ton.