Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-11-23
SHOOT
STATE OFFICIAL
AND RANCHER AS
THEY SIT DINING
Authorities Hold Three
Men and Two Women
in Portland Crime.
$4,000 TAKEN FROM Inn
Safe, PATRONS AND COP

VII 65 uVssO sHs0 wi
Portland, Ore, Nov. %
Three men alleged by the police
to have murdered Jasper n.
Burgess, state highway commits
sioner, and George E. Perring-
er, wealthy Umatilla county
rancher, during holdup of the
Claremont tavern near here
where they with a man and
two women friends were din
ing-late Friday night, were
placed. behind the bars of the
city prison late today.
The men under arrest as sus-
poets in the case are James
Ogle, said to be former con-
vict; Walter Banaster, cook, %
years old; and David Smith, ma
chinist, %.
Several other persons found
in the house where the three
were arrested, across the Villa
mette from the scene of last
nights murder and robbery.
were taken into custody and are
being held by the police, pending
further investigation.
Say He Confessed.
Ogle, who is said by the police
to have served time in the Mon
tana prison at Deer Lodge, is
alleged by the police to have
made a complete statement con-
corning his participation in the
robbery and killing, amounting,
it is said, virtually to a confess
sion. The statement was made
to Deputy District Attorney
Deich, and Ogle is alleged to
have admitted participation in
the robbery, but not in the kill
ing of Burgess and Perringer.
In the house where the men
were arrested the police found
three rifles and six revolvers.
Burgess and Perringer, in
company with E. P. Marshall,
another Pendleton man, and
three women, according to the
police, were seated at table in
a private dining room at the
road house shortly before mid
night, when three masked high
waymen entered the room.
Burgess and Perringer were killed in.
stantly.
Is Guests Relieved Of Cash.
The robbers are alleged to have re-
heved about 70 guests at the road houss
OF the money and jewelry, obtaining, it
Is said, about $3.50 from individuals
and the tavern safe.
Policeman Case, it was reported. who
entered the building during the robbery
was forced to give up his revolver and
stand up with the patrons of the place
and submit to being robbed.
All OF the robbers wore masks mada
" v. hanueACnlciS, ACCorulng to the police
They forced the patrons into the ball
room at one end of the building. one
standing guard while Others were round-
ed up. 1t was during this roundup. the
police say. that the men entered the
private dining room and killed Burgess
and Perringer.
Rewards Total $1,000.
Rewards aggregating S11, 600 had been
posted at noon for the capture of the
highwaymen. The city of Portland of
fered $1,000, the state $1,000, W. l..
Thompson and friends 5000, j. NJ.
keeney $1,000, and Simon Benson,
wealthy timber owner. $1,000.
OGlE'S TERM AT DEER LODGE
Butte, Nov 2o--James Ogle was re-
ceived at the Deer Lodge penitentiary;
September Is, 1917, being committed
from Toole county for grand larceny.
He was discharged July Is. 1918. Ha
served time in the Washing
ton reformatory at Monroe and ut the
penitentiary at Walla Walla for grand
a rceny. He was machinist by trade
and was born In Ohio.
"A ARRESTED AS PROFiTEERS.
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