The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-26
FERNAND FACKRELL SHOT
BY COUNTY JAIL BREAKERS

On Sunday morning at about 2
O'Clock three men in the Bingham
county jail passed through three pris-
on doors, supposedly by means of
keys furnished them by people on the
outside, and made good their escape.
They were Maruice Burton, Lawrence
West and Ray Hembree.
On Monday the officers got them
located in brush bordering the river
below the Porterville bridge, and at
about $3.50 in the evening posse
went to the bridge to watch for them.
At about $3.50 Monday evening a
party of deputies consisting of Roy
Clark, Fernan Fackrell, Dave Cham
berlain and Thomas Hall went out to
the Porterville bridge to watch for
the bandits. There are willows near
the road at the south end of the
bridge, and the river is lined with
them on both banks. Clark and
Hall stopped at the south end of the
bridge and Fackrell and Chamberlin
started across 1t. By the time the
latter had gotten half way across the
bridge, Maurice Burton stepped out
of the brush rife in hand, on the
east side fthe road within about
20 feet of Clark, and then stepped
back out of sight. Clark supposing
there were two others at his back,
assumed not to see Burton. He
walked to where Chamberlin was
land told him what he had seen and
suggested that he run across the
bridge and get the others to return.
While this was being done, two other
men emerged from the brush on the
west side of the road, walked south
to a point opposite the Hansen house
which is a few hundred feet from
the bridge, then went across the road
and appeared to enter the house.
When Burton was again located he
was held up and kept in custody by
Fackrell.
The posse took positions to watch
the house while one of their num-
ber telephoned to town for the
sheriff. In a short time sheriff Sim
mons, of Bingham county, and
Sheriff Clemens of Blaine county, ar
rived soon in the auto, and drove
into the yard between the house and
the barn. At about the same time
the lights in the house were extin-
guished and two figures appeared
running from the house across the
road to the west. They were COM
manded to halt, and answered with
rifle shots, one bullet shattering
Fackrell's left ankle. He fell in the
road and several shots were fred by
both parties. Two figures passed
through the fence and were heard
running across the field toward the
river on the west.
When the deputies approached
Fackrell, Burton was trying to take
a gun away from him, but was un-
able to do SO. While they were put
ting Fackrell into the car to take him
to town, Burton made dash to get
away but obeyed the second COM
mand to halt. After being placed
in the car he Unexpectedly handed
a 80 caliber Colts revolver to Sheriff
Simmons, saying, II don't want to
kill nobody"
Guards were placed at both
bridges and at intervals along the
river to watch for the bandits. Not
long after the fusilade, a horse and
buggy crossed the bridge travelling
towards town, and it was halted.
The buggy contained man and a
woman, and they seemed reticent
about telling who they were and
what their errand was. Sheriff Glenn
ems addressed the woman with the
question, aren't you Mrs. Burton?"
and she replied that she was not.
One of the men flashed match in
front of them, and Tom Hall identi-
fed her as Mrs. Button. The rig was
searched and was found to contain
packages of food, canned goods and
big revolver. The man was identi-
fed as Tex Walker, and both of them
were kept in custody, charged with