The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-09-10
SEARCH ABANDONED
FOR ELKO MURDERER

Sheriff Harris called up his Office
at Elko and told Under Sheriff Lamon
that he would start for home yester-
day morning unless something turned
up, according to the Free Press.
From the best information available
II seems that the officers have given
up the search and that Van Eaton is
safe in the hills adjacent to Rock
Creek. That portion of Idaho is al
most inaccessible and those who
know 1t say that a man could lay
quiet and thousand men couldn't
find him
One report says that Van Eaton
was trailed to the home of an uncle
on Rock Creek and here the trail was
lost and the officers were unable to
PICK 1t up. 1t Is believed that the
relatives of the young man extended
aid and help him to get to the hills
fully provisioned. In fact when Dis
trict Attorney Castle was at Contact
an uncle told him that II the boy
was in need of help his relatives
would give it to him and any sum of
money he wanted. But that II he de-
sired to come In and give himself up
that they would help him to get in
touch with the officers. AT one time
they had decided to give the young
man up. but we're afraid that he
would be taken and hanged by the
mob when the excitement was at its
height
The following is taken from the
Twin Falls Times of Wednesday:
"The trailing of Silvia Van Eaton,
going on for more than week, has
presented many phases and the pur-
suers have had many thrilling ex-
periences and setbacks.
Last night Box Canyon was thor
oughly searched. 1t developed that a
man answering the description of Van
Eaton had called at the home of Nick
Smith Monday morning. Smith had
heard of the case but the stranger ap-
for matches. saying. I have an auto
out of commission down there. indi-
eating the direction Smith noticed
that he did not go in the direction in
dicated when he left, but thought
nothing of 1t at the time. Next morn
ing having occasion to go where the
auto was supposed to have been he
found that there had been none.
Whether ghosts were aiding the
fugitive or not. something strange
happened this morning after the pur-
suit started. The pursuers had caught
a trail leading northeast and were
following II. They were scattered out,
partially out of sight of one another.
A signal had been agreed on to indi-
cate the finding of a new trail. Sud-
denly three quick shots, the precon-
certed signal, were fired four miles
to the west The party turned back
and travelled four miles. only to find
nothing and nobody. 1t is thought
that Van Eaton may have a friend
who crept near the camp while they
talked at night and learned what the
signal was. Anyhow it gave him
long start at the time. Deputy Sheriff
H. s. Hamilton reported this morn
ing that the pursuers had walked
about rs miles since he and Deputy
Sheriff H. C. Van Ausdeln joined the
party, going the widest and most
difficult canyons.
"'Joe, the squawman,' as he is pop
ularly called. was in the city today.
Joe resembles the typical real
frontiersman, rather than the manu-
factured article of the films. His wife
is an Indian, who has one of the char
acteristics which made soldiers of her
race among the most effective on the
front of Flanders. She understands
how to trail. Through deep canyons
and over dry lava beds where the eye
of the Caucasian could discern moth
ing, she followed the trail, uner-
ringly until she got to the Nick Smith