The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-03-16
FRED WISE TO Be
SENTENCED TOMORROW

pass sentence at 1.30 p. m. Friday
Wise's bail at request of District At
torney Baker was increased from $500
to 81 900.
The case, in session since Thursday
morning, created no small interest be
cause of the sensations created at the
time of Wise's arrest. Officers, acting
on information, it was stated at for
mer illicit liquor trial in which Wise
was convicted in trial before Justice OF
the Peace Onthank and fined, that 6
delivery of moonshine was to be made,
awaited the arrival of a gasoline
| launch. The boat proved to be the
ferryboat operated by Frank Larson.
of Underwood, who was also at pre-
vious hearing fined on an illicit liquor
charge.
The jury asked that the court use
clemency in establishing the length of
Wise's sentence.
Deputy. Wood, who was COM
planning witness, Webster and Sheriff
Johnson were chief witnesses for the
prosecution. Wilbur Galligan, rancher,
whose place is at Hood, Wash, was
called to testify as to the conditions of
the water and shore line where the in
cidents occurred.
Deputy Wood swore that he and his
fellow officer Webster, while Sheriff
Johnson and three other deputies were
hidden behind driftwood, approached
the waters edge as the launch landed.
AS it grounded, he said they ordered
Wise to hold up his hands and submit
to arrest. He declares that the man
ordered the boat reversed. and that
they, grabbing the boat, were unable to
hold it and were pulled back to deep
water. He admitted under cross eX-
animation that the water is very deep
very close in to the shore and that he
and his fellow officer stepped beyond
their depth before they expected it.
Deputy Wood swore that.he was struck
over the hand and in the jaw by the
defendant, and that the latter. accom-
panying the assertion with vile epi-
thets declared that he had the men
where he wanted them and would
drown them.
The. Officers admitted under cross eX-
animation that they had no warrants
for the arrest of Wise and had no COM
plant sworn out. Their stories on di-
rect examination we're chiefly in cor
of Wood. 1t was declared
that no rifle was used in the shooting.
Officer Webster on cross examination
admitted that he had been aided by
Wise in pulling himself from the
water.
Sheriff Johnson stated that he. using
an automatic revolver, had fired nine
shots at the boat, hoping to prevent
the drowning of his deputies. He de-
clared that he thought them in danger. !
When Attorney John Collier finished |
his preliminary statement to the jury, |
it is likely that many in the court room |
concluded that instead of a conviction |
the jury might be called on to award |
Carnegie medal for heroism. Mr.. Col |
ier declared his client, at the request |
If Frank Larson, Underwood ferry
nan, had accompanied the latter across |
The Columbia on the evening of Janu
ary 10. The two men, he declared,
we're up town in Underwood, when |
Mrs. Larson called her husband, stat |
ng that she had seen a flashlight on
he Oregon shore, indicating that
wished to cross the stream.
Mr.. Collier produced Mrs. Larson as
A witness, her testimony carrying out
lis preliminary statement. Wise, on
he stand in his own behalf, said he
vas on the bow of the gasoline launch,
to jump ashore when two
men, approaching on the sand bar be-
ran shooting. He declared that one of
heir shots penetrated his hip. He
wore that the men then jumped into
he water, grasping the rim of the
oat. While Deputy Sheriff Wood and
ther witnesses had testified that Wise
ad ordered Larson, at the wheel of
he boat, to reverse the engine, Wise
wore that he ordered the ferryman to
am the craft ashore.
Wise swore that he had pulled Dep
ty Sheriff Webster out of the water
fter the latter was sinking the third
ime, and he declared that he thought
his act saved the mans life. He de-
Jared that while he was holding the
len up out of the water, growing
amt from the wound in his hip, one of
hem ordered that the other officers
idden on the shore open fire, telling !
hem to shoot to kill. Wise said he
aw a rifle among the officers.
Wise said bullets penetrated the
oat, where Larson had been standing,
nd that the ferryman would have
cen killed, had he not fallen to the
ottom of the boat. Wise said that
be engine of the launch was running
\ neutral all the time the fight was in
rogTess. He swOre that the boat {
7ould have been half way across the g
Columbia. had the engine been re-
ersed as the prosecution tended to I
how. Wise denied hitting or striking
t the officers with his feet. He I
laimed on the stand that he had S
elped Wood into the boat after the /
hooting had ceased. Then, according 1
D his statement: the man had snapped
is pistol at him.
Wise's story of the proceedings, af- :
er he was landed, was to the effect :
lat Sheriff Johnson had placed three :
equities behind him, trying to force
i'm to walk to town.
at was then," said the defendant, :
that | turned on him and used bad ]
lnguage in expressing myself. de {
rev his gun on me, swapping 1t on
" breast. Then the officers ordered a
g to take me to the Jail.
The defendant and his attorneys
ought to emphasize that Wise was
ept in Jail, instead of being sent to a !
,cal hospital, until his attorney,
ames II. McMenamin, of Portland,
ssociated with Mr.. Collier in the de- n
snse, came here.
The prosecution, however, showed I
lat physician was called at once and
lat the prisoner was given the best Y
lrgical care available.