East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-11-18
HANEY DID NOT DIE
BY POSSES BULLET IS
INDICATION OF WOUND
Inquest to be Held This After
noon; Centralia Again Plung-
ed Into Sadness in Belief
Death Was Accident.

CENTRALIA, Nov. 1S.-An inquest
over John Haney's body this afternoon
may esta blish the fact that he was not
killed by a member of his own posse,
as was reported The wound indi-
Gates his death could not have been
caused by bullets used by any mem
Der of the posse.
Prosecutor Allen has announced
that four additional suspected reds
will be charged with murder this aft
ernoon in connection with the Armis-
tice Day shootings.
Accident Reported.
Haney. Tenino posse man, who was
shot in the hunt for 1. W. W. murder
suspects Saturday, died from
he fire of his own comrades, through
an accidental brush between separat-
ed parties, it was believed last night
after the body of the deputy was
brought to this city.
Sadness came to the city again in
the belief that Haney had died in vain
and regret at his death was mingled
with sympathy for the posse men who
were thought to have fired upon him,
believing that they were being ap-
preached by the radicals, armed and
desperate.
CENTRALIA, Wash. Nov. 1S.-Off
to the northwest, 30 to 25 miles from
this city. in fir forests thick with un-
dergrowth. scores of posse men are
converging upon an area of rough ter
ritory, where fugitive participants in
the Armistice day murders are lurk-
ing. There are rumors at present un-
confirmed that the armed searchers
are already pressing the radicals close
ly and that shots are frequently being
exchanged.
Brief telephone messages from the
outpost ranches at the edge of the
timber agree in asserting that there
has been much firing and liken the
rifle shots to machine gun staccato
But Captain Lloyd Dysart, command
ing the military police and directing
from local headquarters the eXpediti-
ons which are in the field against the
|. w. w, said early this evening that
he had received no confirmation of
clashes.
Continuous Firing Heard.
Another engagement with the l. w
w. fugitives may even now be in pro-
Sress in the Hannaford headwaters
according to telephone mes
'eA1N ASNNlNVO NtllS from lle-
putty Coroner Charles Sticknn. who
went to meet the party bringing out
The body of John Haney. As the party
of which Sticl1l'n is a member entered
the timber in midafteroon they
heard almost continuous firing. he re-
ported. 1T sounded like machine
guns. it was so rapid" tclephoned
Sticklin.
In Posses Grip.
At least three men. among them
Bert Bland, local leader of the radi-
Gals and accused of participation IL
the Armistice parade attack. are al
most certainly within the grip Of the
posses. The posse men to
the last one are picked ritlemen. who
know every foot of the tangled tim
her country at the source OF the
and Hannaford rivers.
n score of miles to the northeast.
But the report of at least one posse
man who has engaged the desperate
fugitiNes is that there are at least
three to be reckoncd with. and per
haps six or seven. This statement is
made hy Bon \. King OF Olympia
rhnretNp county game warden. who
was in the posse that engaged the
/. ". W. un saturday at Hunters
rabin, when John Haney was slain
from ambush.