The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-04-08

tearing off through the brush.
We could scarcely see him. John,
who was In the back seat with
ME. grabbed up his rifle and let
fly five times as fast as he could
pull the trigger. And, when we
found the deer he had five bull
let's through his heart, and you
could have covered all five wounds
with silver dollar"
Sheriff Ed Payette. who has
charge of the hunt for Tornow,
said; II have never seen Tor
now's equal with a rifle, and
there are many good shots In this
section. He never wastes a cart
ridge. II he were standing in a
road 1 feet wide, with thick
brush on both sides, and 20 deer
were to try to cross the road at
full speed. one behind another,
he would get them all at 200
yards"
Tornow has two friends in
the world-Watson and an old
hound. He hated women because.
as he said, they talk too much"
and he found men nearly as bad
Tor the same reason. He liked
Watson because the latter appre-
ciated his distaste for talk. Wat
son surprised him. on hunting
and fishing trips, into little out
bursts of friendliness OF which he
seemed ashamed.
You amt like the Others" he
said once. you don't yap all
the time.
Generally, however, he proved
his friendship in other ways.
You fish here; it's the best
place." he would say. Or, II he
had killed a deer, he would say,
You can have it."
He Never Missed.
A very few times he was per-
suaded to go hunting with a par
ty. When deer was started, he
would let all the others shoot
first, and IL they missed, he would
drop the animal Just before 1t
reached cover. He would not
ever take the trouble to keep his
rifle loaded. He loaded and fired
with one lightning motion.
Yes, Johns crazy, / guess"
said Watson. 81 hate to think IL.
He must be II he killed all those
men. He always was queer. RI
was at the Tornows' one evening |
when he made a table dance with
out touching it in a darkened
room. There were some girls |
there and they squealed, the way
girls do, and 1t made John mao.
suppose. Anyway, when the
lights were turned up he was
gone He didn't show up for a
About three years ago a trap
per reported that John was liv-
ing in cabin 20 miles in the !
woods and that he was crazy. |
Ed. with whom John had quar-
relied most frequently and violent
ly, had him arrested and placed |
in sanitarium in Portland.
John took French leave, and,
rs the authorities had their doubts
about his being insane, they let
him go. He tramped the $50
miles back to Satsop in line as
straight as the crow flies, scorn-
ing trains and even roads.
From then he spent practi-
aclly all his time in the woods.
His mother died in 1910, and
hey sent for Jonh to come to the
He came as far as the
edge of the clearing only. His
'ather died soon after. He refus-
I'd to come to the house.
Quarreled Over Dog.
On one of his infrequent visits I
% the homestead he asked for Ed.
Eds gone hunting with one
If the dogs" was the reply.
Whose dog?"
yours"
The Tornow boys, all crack
'Iiots, kept many hounds on the
,lace. Some of them were thor
,ughbreds and valuable. Matter
'f-fact ED appraised dog by its
iunting ability and market value.
he laughed at Joins old
I'D hound, crotchety. cross
grained, rheumatic, wheezy, 7