East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-06-05

Succumbing to the bullet wound in
flieted by the revolver Of Lee Dale
Thursday evening, Charles ogilvie.
aged California Gulch farmer. died
yesterday evening at Pilot Rock two
hours after an operation had been
performed upon him. His body and
the body Of his wife who, too. was a
victim of Dale's drunken mania were
brought into the morgue of Coroner
Brown and this morning an autopsy
was performed by Drs. Parker and
Hattery
The operation developed the fact
that the aged man had no chance TO
survive. The wound had gone so long
unattended that gangrene had set in
Ihe intenstines had been perforated
and one section had to be taken out
Mr. Ogilvie never regained conscious
ness before he died.
The post-mortem examination was
made at the request Of District At
torney Steiwer. 1t was found that the
bullet had entered Mrs. Ogilvie's left
breast just under the arm and rang
ing downward and across the body
had passed through the tip Of the
heart and lodged on the right side OF
the body. The bullet was taken out
and will be held as evidence. 1t has
not yet been compared with the empty
cartridges,
The bullet has not yet been located
in the body Of Mr.. Ogilyie. It did not
enter as low down as first reports had
It. 1t entered the body on the right
side at the twelfth rib, punctured the
intestines in several places and passed
through the liver. Its final location
was not found.
Dale Maintains Innocence.
Dale today still maintains he knows
nothing of the shooting beyond what
he has been told. This morning he
was sober but was still badly shaken
by the combined effects of his de-
bauch and the terrible charge against
him. When Sheriff Taylor told him
of the written statement which the
aged farmer left, his only remark
was, Don't you think the old man
might have had it in for me because
Of the trouble We have had and laid
the blame on me?"
There had been more or less trou-
BILE between the accused murdered and
the two old people. 1t is said to have
been principally over money matters
and over the use of the range land
although people in the vicinity of Pi-
lot Rock declare there had also been
words between them over the atten-
tions paid by Dale to daughter Of
the Ogilvies. It is thought probable
the fatal quarrel arose over one of
these past difficulties. Another the
ory of the cause of the shooting has
also been advanced.
Dale had ridden into Pendleton sew
eral days ago and while here sold his
sadie horse for S72, so he claims
Through a misadventure with a wom-
an he claimed to have been robbed of
nearly all of the money and had be-
come so wrought up over the loss and
the lack of any legitimate excuse to
make to his wife that he had gone
to the district attorney in an effort
to recover the money. He began
drinking here and continued it in Pi-
lot Rock on the afternoon of Thurs
day. He purchased a bottle of liquor
at the Pilot Rock saloon before leav-
ing for home.
On the way he stopped at the
Knots farm and borrowed a saddle
horse which he rode to the ogilvie
ranch, on the way he met James
Stubblefield. who discovered the dead
body Of Mrs. ogilvie the next morn
ing. stubblefield was then going to
his home to spend the evening.
Some hold the theory that Dale
had stopped at the ogilvie ranch to
ask for some money so that he would