The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-17
PREPARE TO
QUIT HUNT
FOR BANDIT
Warden Maloney Concludes
Gardner Is Either Dead
or Has Left Island
BY Hal Armstrong


BY Hal Armstrong
M.NEm ISLAND. Sept Ia
Concluding that Roy Gardner Is
either dead or has left the
island. Henry Crowi. last Of the
Northern Pacific detectives,
quit the manhunt today.
Unless some unrnistal>ahlc
signs Of Gardner are found
within the next day or two.
Warden Thomas Msloney said
this morning the entire search
on the Island would be aban
doncd
Twenty-Five guards are still IA
trolling the waters Tho force In
land on the island has been re
duced TO 10.
Maloney said he had investigated
numerous reports that Gardner Is
being sheltered by farmers.
None OF these reports was verb
fed.
Search for the fugitlve's body
on tho theory that he has been
MORALLY wounded In his escape
from the prison last Labor day has
been positively given up.
Maioney said he had received
many letters signed Roy Gardner
from various parts OF tho country.
One letter was from Calexico. Com.
parison OF the handwriting with
that OF Gardner at tho prison
proved. the warden said. that none
OF the letters was written by the
escaped bandit himself.
CIVIL WAR THREATENS
ON ISLAND
Civil war on the island threatened
today as the latest phase OF the man
hunt.
Sympathy for the bandit has al
ready resulted in serious alterations
between island farmers and guards.
Residents OF the locality are not
trying TO conceal their hope that
Gardner will get safely away. IL he
has not already done so. and have
openly many times criticized guards
for "robhing the government at the
rate OF 81 per i2-hour shift
Several guards have abandoned the
hunt, either satisfied that Gardner
has given Warden Thomas Malcney
the slip or not caring whether he Is
caught or not
The most serious alteration Of tho
~cvil war" thus far occurred yester-
DAY when q farmer and a guard en-
ezged In . fist fight
Tho faryner. arriving from Ander-
0un Inland. was drawing his rowbcat
up on tho beach near the pcnlten-
tiary when Guardsman Ed Michael
son challenged him
The farmer didn't haft. as request
ed. and Nfichaelson ran after him.
seizing him roughly by the collar.
BIFFS HIM ON JAW,
KNOCKS HIM DOWN
You're Q coward. hiding there In
the brush from an unarmed man.
the farmer Is reported TO have said
whereupon Michaelson struck him
4 blow on the Jaw. knocking him
prone upon the sand
Tho farmer arose and mingled
with Nicholson
when the guard reached the pris-
on the marks Of the farmers teeth
were plainly visible In Michaelson's
hand and he was otherwise black
and blue
III. Mcdonald. another guard. at,
tempting to search a farmers barn
for Gardner. was ordered TO produce
Z search warrant
Henry Crovi and Jeff Hamilton.
guards, thought they had Gardner
hack OF a barn near the center Of
the island yesterday afternoon
With guns drawn. they crept mp
on the figure Of man asleep In
the shade. They found their quarry
was not the hunted fugitive but a
logger who had been working in q
nearby lumber camp.
Another day passed yesterday
without a shot being fired at "the
phantom" Warden Maloney admits
Gardner might easily have made his
getaway from the island In the
dense fog that has covered the
sound the last two nights and morn.
hgs-
MCNEIL ISLAND, Sept. IT.
Search for Roy Gardner on Mcneil
Island was virtually abandoned to-
day. when Warden Thomas Ma.
ioney recalled the 40 prison guards
who have been picketing and pa,
trolling the interior OF the island.
= Today IL was learned that Gard
ner had made a previous attempt
20 escape from the penitentiary
shortly after his Incarceration here.
He was caught with a coil OF rope,
It Is said. with which he inten Jed
to ascend from an excavation in the
prison grounds at some opportune
time.
One of the latest Gardner" cas-
ualties is the pet cat which a farm
er's wife found riddled with shot.
In the meantime, agents Of the
Southern Pacific railroad are look.
Ing for Gardner in Oregon and Cal
ifornia-