East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-06-03
Fighter and Mrs. Riley Of Port
land 0vertaken By Husband
in Long Auto Chase.
TRAGEDY OCCURS BETWEEN
OPAL CITY AND REDMOND
Angry Husband Comes Up With Party
When Longs Machine Breaks
Down-Riley shoots Three Times
at Long Killing Him Instantly
shoots and Seriously Injuries Wife.

Louie Long, prominent lightweight
pugilist and well known in this city,
where he has figured in the fistic
arena on several occasions, is dead
with three bullet holes in his body
near Prineville as a result OF at
tempting to run away with another
mans wife. The story is told in a
dispatch dated from Prineville yes
terday as follows,
Travellers on the county road be-
tween Opal City and Redmond stop
ped yesterday afternoon TO watch an
exciting automobile race between a
machine in which were Louie Long
the Vancouver, Wash, prizefighter
Mrs. ]. l.. Riley OF Portland and Miss
Mona Adams, and a light runabout
driven by J. L. Riley, a cigar sales
man of Portland and the Riley wom-
ans husband. While the spectators
were cheering Riley on to victory
when Longs machine broke down,
they saw him stop his machine near
the other car. draw a revolver, send
three bullets into Longs body, kill
ing him, and then shoot his own wife,
wounding her painfully.
The race was exciting and many
stopped along the road to watch It.
Longs car was ahead and racing mad
" when a tire blew off. The driver,
Joe Salsman, got out to repair II and
was working over the wheel when
Riley drew up. Riley, without a word
carefully took out his revolver and
fired at Long. The first bullet miss
ed, but the last three shots took ef-
feet Riley fired once at his wife, the
missile striking her in the fleshy part
of the right side. :.
Riley and his wife separated in
Portland a week or so ago. He ap-
parently came to the Deschutes coun-
try to endeavor to persuade her to
return to him. When he reached opal
City he got word that his wife, with
Long and the Adams woman had just
left for Redmond in an automobile.
Riley hired light car and drove af-
ter them. Long and his party soon
discovered they were being pursued.
Then the race began.
Riley was captured by Deputy
Sheriff Miller n few miles east of
Redmond and is now in the county
Jail. Mrs. Riley Is under the care of
n physician at Redmond.
Witnesses declared that the first
three shots did not kill Long. After
Riley had fired three shots Long ran
toward Riley, reeling. and they
cinched. Riley showed the muzzle
of his revolver against Longs back
while they were in the clinch, and
fired. Long fell to the ground and
died a moment or so later,
Longs first appearance here in
Pendloton was on the occasion of tho
convention of the state Woolgrowers
association in this city when he pull
ed off n bout in the oregon theater
with Billie Butts, Baker coloreS
scrapper in which he put the dinge
down for the count after several
rounds of fast fighting. \ month or
So later he pulled off another bout
here with Butts and scored another
Knockout. Sometime later he went
to Portland where he met frankie
Edwards Of Oakland, calf, and lost
the support OF fstic fans by quitting
in the sixth round claiming he had
been fouled. After that he went to
Spokane and Vancouver, b. c.
His last appearance in Pendleton
was on the occasion of the notorious
Ryan -Curran go several months ago
when he officiated as referee and
gave the fight to Ryan on a foul, al
though there were many who swear
no foul was committed. At this time
the police got busy and Long, with
Ryan and Barney Mullin, who pro-
NOTED the fight, made sudden exit