The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1914-04-16
Left to Die In
Wilderness

During his search ior iohn l., Lhafhn,
who escsped ison Tie rtatr prison 81
March ~ while an inmate II the hospi-
~. the warden ca,ne upon youth tied
10 post ~ a lonely cabin in the NOM
tsins, and with a rope stretched under
bis throat IN such manner that unlees
he stood upon bis tces he would stran-
gle himself with the weight OF his body.
| When Chnifin escaped be bad such O
start on the officers that he left prac-
ticaIiy dead trail and it was not until
week later that he was heard from in
the vicinity Of Horseshoe bend. Last
Monday the warden started out, travel
ed IN an automobile and wagon to Sweet
where, the roads being impassable, he
secured horse and. with Joe Jacques
OF that place, started horseback into the
mountains.
Chaffin had travelled from one sheep
camp to another, and though at each
place be stopped they would get some
word 81 him, he kept y few days ahead
Some time after they loft sweet, and
when they had reached country where
not more than a man week Is likely to
pass, they heard moaning and groan
Ing which they were unable to under
stand. Coming around clump OF
bushes they found cabin from which
the sounds proceeded Thinking posi-
bly, their man lay inside they advanced
cautiously, keeping the doorway COW
cred to prevent the escape OF anyone
who might be on the inside.
The sight that met their eyes was one
which rs the frenchman said, in telling
OF II sfterward, MAX ma hat stan" of
ma head" Bound TO post in the mid
dle OF the cabin. gagged with towel
folded across his mouth, and with
handkerchief across his nose so that he
could hardly breathe, was man in the
last stages OF exhaustion Though he
would have ueen released by the herder
who came TO the camp some four hours
later, he would not have lived for an
other hour. The rope whish bound him
had been stretched in such q way rs 10
compe' him to stand on his tip toes or
hang himself.
Not understanding the situation, the
warden told his companion to unite the
young man while he held his arms to
prevent any violence, had he been. as
they thought possible, "a shee pherder
who had gone crazy, and had been tieo
up while his companions had gone for
aid. The outh recovered Ia few min
utes sufficiently to tell his story. He
had been sent out by Andrew Little as
hefder, and as there was nothing to do
that day had been told to cut some
wood About o'clocx IL the afternoon
he had been slezed from behind by both
!; hands, dragged to the post and tied as
q they found him an hour later.
' The warden's frs, thought was tina,
(, his man had donv the work, but tn,
youth. who is an Emmett boy. Ear
= Fuller. said shat the man who hac
= bound him did not answer the descrip
ton at all, that he was big man Will
black mustache, probably foreigner
OF some sort Taking the bow Will
them they followed the trail Tor wa,
until they reached squaw butte, wher,
the warden was obliged TO turn off /,
9 keep alter Chaiiin. The boy lost re
:. volver and n .S0-.3O rifle with belts anc
. ammunition Tor each, together with Slj
in money
Continuing his hunt lor the convic
the warden came To the Charles King
, man ranch ON Sqnaw creek and sent his
companions back to Sweet. At IN,
/, Kingman ranch he asked ii anyone hac
seen the man, giving Chafhn's descrir
> ton. The foreman replied that he hao
> just hired the man, and had sent hiu
out to distant camp The warder
i made further inquiries and located tn,
camp.
"You had better send another mar
up with me,' said the warden as h,
started of, ''because your new herder il
. going to quit. The man is an escaped
+ convict, he continued, in answer to thu
wondering looks OF his hearers, sane
I've a steady job Tor him down il
: Boise
! Riding mp ON the camp, the warder
: saw Chathn some distance away. II,
: kept little ridge between them unit
! Chaiiin came within a few yards, wher
he ordered him to throw up his hands
and made him prisoner. Chatlin has
not expected to be trailed in the storm
! and had left his guns in the camp.
Ii Nothing more has been heard OF th'
t, foreigner who tied young Fuller and rob
bed him. The warden understands tina
the Oregon authorities have beer
searching 70. Mexican murderer il
the vicinity OF Huntington, and think
= that the man may be the one who cold
? oloodedly leit the boy to die in the will
isrness at the end Of hours OF torture.
; Many Released;