East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-09-07
Capture is Made Yesterday by
Sheriff Taylor and the Man From
Whom Prisoners Had Stolen Gun.
ARE FOUND NEAR BIG CREEK
No Effort Made to Escape-Official
Covers Gray as Latter Makes Reach
for Gun-PaFty Walks 20 Miles 10
Lehman Springs Where Automo-
bile Takes Them 10 City.

Coleman Gray, G. W Raymond and
, Ralph Peale are today again inmates
Of the Umatilla county Jail after nine
days Of liberty in the mountains dur
ing which time they led Sheriff Tay-
lor and Deputy j. H. Estes merry
chase. But the persistence OF the Of
ficers and the thorOughness with
which they had spread their nets
proved in the end too much for the
fugitives and they franbly acknow-
/ ledged themselves outpeinted in the
chase "GreyhOunds aint got moth
ing on you guys" was the way Gray
expressed it.
Sheriff Taylor and Fayette Mettie,
the man robbed Of his gun and pro-
visions Saturday, made the capture
Of the three men, Deputy Sheriff Es-
ties having returned to Lehman
Springs yesterday to secure the blood
hound sent out by Deputy Sheriff
| Blakely. Good fortune smiled upon
the pursueTs for they came up to the
fugitiyes at the exact moment to
make capture the most easy.
The point where the officers came
upon the jailbreakers was on one
prong Of Big creek, about eight miles
south of Lookout Mountain The
sheriff and Mettie were following the
main government trail and as they
came up over point, they saw their
quarry not thirty yards ahead OF
them. The escaped had not been on
the same trail but had intersected 1t
at this point and had stopped at Big
creek to take a drink before climb
ing straight over the ridges and drop
\ ping down onto the John Day
Sheriff Taylor caught sight OF Peale
/ and Raymond first and Peale saw him
almost at the same instant. The %
rifle which they had stolen from the
Dodson camp was standing against a
tree nearby but Peale made no ef-
I fort to get it. The guns Of Taylor
and Mettie were upon them and,
while Mettie remained covering the
4 two, the sheriff walked a few feet
and saw Gray. The rifle stolen from
Mettie was at his feet and the mo-
ment he saw the sheriff. ne grabbed
the gun. Before he could get it to
his shoulder the sheriff's rifle was
pointing straight at him Taylor
called him by name and ordered him
to put down the gun Reluctantly he
did so after the second command
was given and the sheriff required
him to walk a few feet away while
he took charge of the gun.
With Mettie leading the way and
the sheriff bringing up the rear and
both riding the back trail was taken
up. 1t was eight miles to Lookout
and twelve from there to Lehman
where the sheriffs car was. Between
Lookout and Lehman, they met Dep
uty Estes, None OF the three men
made an effort to escape on the way
though Gray said afterwards he
would have taken chance had he
not known the bloodhound would
soon have been put on his trail Cole
man was the one OF the trio whom
the officers feared Besides being a
holdup man. he is an ex-soldier and
likes companionship with a gun. Had
the sheriff not come upon the three
at time when they had laid down
their arms, there might have been
shooting before the capture was ef.
fected.
After their 90 mile walk the three
We're put in the auto at Lehman and