The Seward gateway., 1916-12-04
GREEK AND ALLIED TROOPS BATTLE IN ATHENS
STOKER IS QUIET
 AND SPEAKS LITTLE
Seemed to Believe that Union Labor Men Were His
 Enemies

Walter Stoker, the man who is supposed to have shot Hendricks and irving on Thanksgiving Day, is now .n the Seward federal jail. He was arrested in the cabin of a trappel nam,G ledge on Saturday afternoon about o'clock by a posse of men headed by Charley Emsweier.
 On the night after shooting Of the two men Stoker went to the cabin O. Lodge and stayed the night there. Believing that the authorities would nnd him there he left next day an, went in to the mountains where h, stayed by d huge bonfire that night
 ne went back once to his camp oL the railroad to get a load of supplies and it was probably during that trl that he met Dan Sullivan. He took out of the camp a bag of proyi- sions, very large quantity oi matches and a sleeping bag. This sleeping bag was thrown away by nim as his pack was too much and it was the bag seen by Marshall Evans The wet icc.corered clothes noticed b! sullivan were caused by the fact that Stok.r fell through the ice while crossing a swamp in the woods. Emsweiler and his aids had followed the tracks of Stoker through the soft snow in all directions. They saw the smoke of the camp fire and also StoI:cr'S tracks in that direction and they trailed him. On the way they met fresh tracks which led in the op- posite direction and showed that Stoker was on his way back towards the railroad again. EmsweiIer fol- lowed those tracks to the swamp ana across to the place where Stokel broke through the ice. On Saturday the trail led the pursuers to tho Lodge cabin and on arrival there smoke was seen issuing from tho chimney. They knew they had ihen man. With the pursuing party was Jackson, the partner of Stoker in cut ting ties, and Jackson called on the hunted man to come out and give himself up. At the time around thr house were Wild Bill Dewitt, Charley Emsweiler, Bill Weaver, Percy Pull len. Jackson and three or four more. All took care to keep a tree between each of them and the cabin. Jackson was behind tree which is believed to be some fifty or sixty feet from the cabin. Stoker at first refused to an swer or to come out but later he came to the door for a moment. He did not stay and went back into the cabin again, apparently deciding not to come out at all. He was warned that further refusal to surrende" would mean that shots would be fred through the cabin. Duing this time, members of the posse say, he was engaged keeping the frost rubbed from part of the window glass aS though watching carefully for the next move of the posse. After the threat to shoot through the cab'a Stoker asked for Ike Evans and intj- mated that he would surrender to hirl but he was told that no one there would hurt hlm. Then he came ouT without a gun and Emsweiler re-
 ,ucsted him to advance from the cabin some distance into the open. Some members of the posse called to him to hold up his hands but Ems weller stopped this for fear of excit- ing the man. When he had moved some distance from the cabin Ems weller advanced and got between him and the cabin to prevent his return. Handcuffs were then placed on him and he was brought to the city. Jim Robinson and Bill Dewitt are stand ing close guard over him in the aii' The posse members say that Stoker never attempted to deny the shoot