Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-03-21
DEPUTY SIIERIFI?S MCKENZIE AND ELMER
FOUND MURDERED AND THEIR
BODIES BURIED
COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OFFER REWARD OF $1,000
FOR CAPTURE OF JOHN TURN0W AND $4,000 FOR !;
SLAYER OF JOHN and WILL BAUER
and MCKENZIE AND ELMER

up in the mountains, and We stated
that he had no doubt killed the dog,
but the animal came back into camp
late that night.
This morning we started up d
small creek, the one the officers told
Getty and Blair they were going to
follow, and about quarter of a mile
off the track we found the men.
Deputy Sheriff Carl Schwartz was
taken ill with an attack of fever
Tuesday and has not been able to
leave the camp. He is so sick that
he will have to be carried out We
left part of the posse to care for him.
Immediately after finding the
bodies. we started out to get the news
to the Office. The bodies were dis
covered at 12 o'clock noon. Our
search lasted half an hour and then
We made 20 miles to telephone and
gave you the first information. We
covered that 20 miles in four hours.
Deputy Sheriff Fitzgerald, George
Stone and Trapper Getty, sorry and
footsore trio, entered the office of
Sheriff Edward Payette at 8:45 last
night to tell the story of the finding
of the bodies of the two missing of.
ficers. The men had walked fast
through the woods to convey the sad
news to anxious and waiting friends,
and their trip in the auto, which con-
sumed four hours, had stiffened them
until they could hardly walk.
1T is no small matter to go up into
that country and search for men, who
have been shot down like animals,
and to feel that in the immediate vi
cinity the murderer may have bead
on you," stated Fitzgerald, last even
ing.
Mckenzie and Elmer, left Monte
sano about the first of March, hay
ing received information, that the
trappers had come across the carcass
of female elk, which had been
stripped of nearly all the meat and the
hide also taken. The men reached
the headwaters of the Wynooche,
March 4, and spent several days look.
ing around. Saturday. March 9, they
told the trappers that they were 60
ing up small creek to find out what
they could. During the day, they de.
tected evidences of camp fire in
the distance and were following up
the trail as they had no doubt come
in possession of information that Tur
now was near by. They had taken
precaution to tie blood hound in a
small shack, before leaving and had
only taken few raisins for food, in
forming the men they would return
that night.
Turnow was insane and for more
than a year was in private sanitar-
ium. When liberated, he swore ven.
gence on the men who had taken
away his liberty and Immediately
went into the wood to live the life
of a recluse. He has seldom been out
during the past few years. and was
considered harmless until the muir
der was committed.
That he is aware who is searching
for him, there is no doubt, as he nev-
er molested the trappers in that
but he evidently knew the
officers and lay in wait for them.
The work of bringing out the dead
bodies will require more than a
day. The posse will reach the scene
by tonight and tomorrow will be spent
in making an Investigation of the
country surrounding the spot. The
will be placed on pack hors-
es and brought to Montesano. Dep
uty Sheriff Fitzgerald, who knows this
country well, considered this route the
better to bring out the bodies, but il
will require considerable work to
blaze trail.
Deputy Sheriff Carl Schwartz, who
was taken ill with fever Monday, is