East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-12-21
Believed to Have Slain Sew
eraI Others in Oregon and
Iowa.
NEIGHBORS FEARED HIM
Authorities Are Thoroughly Satisfied
of Guilt of Wealthy Clackamas
County Nurseryman-Prisonc Dc
mes Guilt.

mes Guilt.
Oregon City, Dec. 21.-Evidenc'
that the officers who have been work
ing on the murder of the Hill family
near Ardenwald since June 8 last say
Is subsequently conclusive has been
discovered against Nathan b. Harvey
the middle aged neighbor of the Hills,
arrested and charged with their MUIR
der.
A series of crimes that has followed
the Harvey family throughout the en-
tire present generation and that points
strongly to hereditary criminal in
stincts is one of the sensational phas-
es of the case Nearly every member
of the Harvey family who has died
within the past 20 years has met a
violent death. In several cases at
least, suspicion pointed strongly to
Nathan Harvey, the enigmatic elder
son.
Say Proof is Positive.
Furthermore. Sheriff Mass Of Clack-
amas county and Detective L. l.. Lev
ings. who have been working on the
Ardenyald murder mystery since the
morning of the killings, say they have
positive proof that the Hills were
killed between 12:45 and 1850 on the
morning of June and that Nathan
was at-they do not yet say in--the
Hill house exactly at that time.
And while suspicion was not direct
ed against Harvey until 10 days after
the Hills had been killed, they say
they have proof that five days after
the murder Harvey came to Portland
and gave a firm of attorneys in Port
land a mortgage for $4,000 on his
valuable Ardenwald nuseries with the
understanding 1t was TO be their fee
for defending him should he be charg-
ed with the murder of the four Hills.
On Night OF Murder.
Sheriff Mass said that he had abso-
lutte proof that Nathan was in Port
land the night of Thursday, June s,
and that he took the last CaZadero
train for home. This train leaves
portland at 1906 a. m, and arrives in
Ardenwald at 1925. The sheriff says
he has witnesses who saw Harvey
leave the train at Ardenwald at that
time. He says that Harvey started to
walk toward his home on the Arden
wald road and reached the Delk house
which is between the station and the
Harvey and Hill homes, at 12:4O. The
ak with which the Hills were killed
was lying on the steps of the Delk
place and evidently was taken from
there by the murderer.
Nathan b. Harvey lives about 800
feet south of the little cabin in which
William and Ruth Hill and their two
children, Dorothy and Philip, were
killed. Between his home and the
Hill house are two small cottages oc-
cupied by Cashier Mathews of the
Wells Fargo Express company in
Portland, and his mother.
Lived Long ut Ardcnwald.
Harvey has lived at Ardenwald,
which is a small station on the oregon
Water Power division of the Portland
Railway Light & Power company
southeast of Milwaukee, for 2S years
Prior to that time he was in the COM
mission business in Front street. Port
land He is married and has two chill
dren, a girl IA years old and son II.
A brother, Henry Harvey, lives on
ranch near Gresham.
Harvey was in his sitting room
when he was arrested by Sheriff T. L.
Mass and Deputy +. A. Miles. He ex-
pressed no surprise when he was ar
rested and went quietly with the
sheriff to the Oregon City Jail. When
placed in a cell he merely remarked:
II ought not to be here"
Unexpected developments in the
murder case made Harvey's arrest
necessary according to the detectives
who have been at work watching him
for the past six months. What these
developments were they would not say
further than that while heretofore
they thought they were safe in mere
ly watching Harvey closely, 1t became
necessary to place him in Jail.
Long List OF Crimes.
Those who have been looking up
the past history of the Harveys claim
to have found an appalling list of
crimes and gruesome affairs that Ma
than B. Harvey has been closely con-
nected with. Fifteen years ago Har-
vey's mother was shot to death by
the accused mans brother in q cor
ner room in the very house in which
Nathan Harvey was living when ar
rester Tuesday. The murderer COM
mitted suicide. He was said to be a
moral pervert. The murderer of the
Hills was beyond question q moral
pervert.
About II years ago Mamie welch,
an 1S-year-old girl, was outraged and
murdered in the strawberry patch ad-
Joining the Harvey house. The body