The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1913-04-17

He tricked and slew two men
Their bodies, bulletriddled lie in grasgrown clearing
near the PilishaE creek emptying into the Satsop
Sherif ScheIe Mathews left Montesano midnight
last night with posse. The trail is new The scent is
tongue
Tornows most victims-he has now killed eight
men-wee Louis Blair and Charles Lathrop young trap
pers who had long been persistent OF the beanan
Montesano said that Tornow dead They reasoned
pausby that he suooumbed to the bitter cold winter
III III ine mountains went INTO Iornows kingdom last week
TO learn, II could II this
found Iornows home in the hollow back OF the
Schaetzekc ranch where the Schaezekes father and sons
surprised lornow last December Schaetzeke and found
ndI.pGtaoIe proof that Tonow had returned the
3eGenoer-indeed that he had left the tree than
Though it had rained heavily two nights before, we
earth We found his bed-fresh-aid weeds and grasson
the floor OF the chamber in the hollow
been il not Tornow-had moved the pals OF drinking water
fresh drinking water We breathed atmosphere of the
washed body -
And lastly we had the testimony of the hound who
brised and strained at the leash and when dashed
into the underbrush with her close to the ground
-. II she had bayed' what courage had would have
left and would have fled inconneny by that
token would have known the hound had found
the beastman Instead she returned, painting. and
knew that Tornow not in the immediate neghbor-
hood
That proof printed in The Star yesterday together
with photograph OF the tree
Tornow left the tree few hours before arrived and
travelled north We know this in the light Of subsequent
doned shack in the clearing where the bodies OF the trappes
now lie.
Blair and Lathrop with Deputy Sheriff Giles Quimby.
early Yesterday encountered onow tracks two miles north
of the tree They led them to the cabin.
battle? 1t battle 1t a slaughter. Blair
and Lathrop had no chance to fight for their lives
For many minutes the man-hunters studied the shack
from the edge of the clearing No sound from within
But they felt certain that Torrow inside.
So they separated Quinby making deour and stealth
lily annroachng the cabin from the He had
.taprA rheda Of of
OF shots reached his
He dashed into the clearing and around the cabin and
Lathrop ground. motonless and Tornow
standing them and pumping lead from his rifle into their
With leap Quimby gained the undebrush whirled and
began shooting as fast as he could pull the trigger lie fired
hit Tornow or not. he does not know,
When his rifle empty. fear seized him, and he fled
from the clearing in a blind panic
1t was spent deputy who staggered into station of
the Simpson Logging Co. on the county logging road
10 miles away told the story The of the tragedy
teephoned to Sheldon and thence to Seattle and Mon
Tornow's movements prior to the killing of the trap
arc of purest conjecture Those who
know his matchcss cunning however do not believe he was
in the cabin at all. He knew he being followed. The
manhunters, reaching the cabin thought they had the
Instead they walked into the trap laid for
ornows eyes them when they studied the cabin
the edge OF the clearing To Iornows came their
lie Waited TO give Qqimby time get to the of the
cabin. Then. deliberately, he shot the trappers down.
At midnight night Sheriff Mathews and posse, COM
sistine of Deputies Cole Con Elliott and Fitzgerald left by
auto upper Satsop, covering the ground
cred last week They accompanied by County Comms
sioner Wilson OF Moncsano and the and four
or five other from Aberdeen
eve shall stop bring out the bodies said the
sheriff on leaving 1--WE shall press while the trail is
fresh
Montesano waits for word. Mathews able mansand
he has clever woodsmen with him. His plan is pick up
hounds from ranchers the way.
Blt Montcsano which last week was Tornow
dead is now that he will at last be caught killed
He has had overnight make his getaway The could
not until daylight and Tornow travels as swiftly in the
darkest night in the mondays