The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1911-08-18


| front part of the First and Last
Chance saloon was left alone for a
moment at $50 o'clock Monday
night a desperate was rifiing the
cash register when Leroy Cantril,
father of Frank Cantril, the pro-
prietor, entered from the back room.
Without a word the desperate pulled
a gun and shot the old man in the
abdomen inficting a wound from
which he died few hours later.
Jamming more than 40 silver dol
lars into his pockets and firing two
more shots at Frank Cantril anG his
porter as they appeared, the mur-
derer ran from the saloon. At the
door he met Deputy Sheriff William
Cole, who was about to enter un-
armed. A fash of the gun at short
range and the deputy's right arm
was put out of business. The villain
! fired a second shot which went wild,
then made his escape in the dark
ness.
A commotion by drunken man
in the back room had called the sa-
loon men from the bar room. While
! they were gone the stranger appear
! ed and grasped the opportunity to
| rob the cash register. Returning to
the bar room the old man was shot
down without a word Of warning.
Later the man who was making the
.'stall'' in the back room was founu
and placed under arrest. 1t is an
open question as to whether he was
a party TO the plan or not.
Several people were on the street
near the saloon when the shooting
began and a cry of police" brought
Deputy Sheriff Cole from his auto
mobile as he was passing. He was
returning from a trip in the country
with Deputy J. 3. Eastep and had
left Eastep at the court house only
moment before. Eastep had put
his automatic in his pocket as they
started on the trip and knowing this
Cole left his gun at home.
When the murder made his escape
from the saloon he dashed around
the corner on Upton street towards
the river but finding his escape in
that direction was cut of by the
river wall, he turned and ran around
on Main street down past the Reid
building and over the bank.
Crowds poured out of the Bunga-
low theater on the next corner and
from all up and down the street, but
they stopped il front Of the Last
Chance. The posse which secured
the railroad yards and the under
brush along the railroads towards
the fair grounds and the Crest con
sisted of half a dozen county and city
officers.
The dying man was soon removed
in an automobile to the hospital and
breathed his last at l o'clock, The
bullet entered the lower part Of the
abdomen and penetrated the lDtes-
tines. He was SIS years OF age and
is survived by wife and one son.
An operation showed that the bul
let had perforated the bowels, cut
ting the large intestine in two places
and the small intestine in one place
The large vein coming up from the
right leg was cut and the wounded
man died from hemorrhage The
autopsy revealed the bullet lodged
near the spinal column after grazing
the base of the appendix.
Deputy Sheriff Cole was shot II
the right arm above the elbow anC
the bullet passed through the mus
Gle and lodged under the skin on the
inside of the arm. The bullet hi
the bone and when removed was
found to be as fat as a coin. After
the wound was dressed Cole was
taken to the hospital.
A 32-caliber Iver johnson IeVoi
yer was the gun used by the hold
up man.
Descriptions of the fleeing maj
differed in many particulars. 1t was
reported that he wore a white shirt
black shirt, black coat, no coat,
gray or brown suit, black slouch hat
light hat and clothing of various 9th
er colors. Half dozen people ID a.
many different directions say tha'
the last shot fired by the desperate
was directed at them.
One or two suspects were pIacec
under arrest by the officers making
the search, during the early part o.
the night, but none OF them seemed
to exactly fill the bill.
The Capture.
Shortly after noon on Tuesday
telephone message to the sher1n
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