Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-11-14
VICIOUS EX-CONV|CT
SHOOTS ADA DEPUTY
FORMER NAMPA BOY HAS DE
vELOPEO INTO LAWBREAKER
WITH BAD RECORD.

About noon Sunday Chief Of Police
Malorey received a message from
Boise asking him TO be on the lookout
for Clarence Roush who an hour be-
fore had shot and severely wounded
William Clawson. a deputy sheriff Of
Ada county near tha Boise fair
grounds where clawson had gone to
arrest him on a charge of forgery.
The sherins Office OF Ad. county hud
been looking for Rous1 for about
three weeks and on Sunday morning
got tip that he could be found at
the home of his mother. ClaWsOn took
| an interurban car and went to the
| Koush home where Mrs. Roush told
him that her son had gone to Nampa
| The deputy accepted her statement
but In leaving the premises met his
man and told him he had a warrant
! for his arrest. Roush offered no OBJ
| jection and read the warrant and re-
turned II TO the officer. AS Clawson
was putting the paper back in his
pocket Roush without warning pulled
a revolver and fired twice with the
gun 80 close to Lawsons face that
he was powder marked. Only one
bullet found Its mark entering the
left side Of the jaw and was DETECTED 1
by the lower teeth. going into the
tongue and part of the lead lodging
In the right side of the neck.
Officer Showed Good Nerve.
Although dazed by the shock Claw
son pulled his gun and fred three
times at the fleeing prisoner but |
failed to hit him. Bleeding profusely |
Clawson went TO the nearest house
and telephoned the sheriffs Office. An
automobile was sent out with the
other officers who took up the trail
while Clawson was taken to a hos
pital where his wounds were treated
II no complications set in there seems
no doubt of his recovery
No trace of Roush.
Up to noon Tuesday no reliable
trace of Roush had been found al
though the officers of Ada county Il
and at Nampa. Caldwell and all adj
jacent localities have kept close
watch of all roads and trains
A conductor on No 10 tells of a
party answering the description of the
fugitive boarding his train at Kuna on
the blind baggage. When the conduc-
tor ordered him off he pulled a gun
and refused to leave The conductor
backed into the baggage car and call
al the crew and put the man off at
Keisel siding. other train crews were
notified TO watch out for him but he
was not seen by them
Has Bad Record.
Roush seems to have started on his
'rimlnal career at an early age While
resident of Nampa, in September.
9O9 he was sent to the county jail
o await trial on a charge Of burglary 4
lie was treated as a Juvenile prisoner
nd after conviction was committed l
o the state industrial school at st.
anthony. While in Jail pending the
ime that the sheriff would have OPP
ortunity to conduct him to the state
Roush managed to elude
he vigilance of the jailer and escaped
tealing horse he rode to Nampa
My to be captured here a few days Z
tier while in hiding at the home of
ne OF his friends.
Roush was returned to the county r
I'll where a few days later ne at
'mpted to effect an escape by setting
re to the Jail. The attempt was frus-
'ated by the discovery of tho fire be
IRE 1t had gained much Roadway.
As a result of the escapade, Roush
as committed TO the pennitentiary
istead of the state industrial school
heriff Brechears filed complaint
,arging him with Jail breaking and
of the property of the
,nnty. The young man was con-
ctcd and sentenced to serve from
months to FIVE years in the peni-
While in that institution he =
said 10 have been a model prisoner
1t since his release has not made
rod or made any creditable endeav-
to do so