The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-09-11

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Friday morning at the O'Harl
eight miles from Olympia on
the Shelton highway. Is being
sought with desperate tenac-
Iity.
Notified that a man answering
tho description OF tho maniac had
been seen near the wessbo bridge
ON the road from Tacoma 10 Puyal
iup Sunday rvenins about $50. a
squadron Of police with snweacft
shosxuus started search of the brush
Immediately. They were soon ioinsd
By deputy rhsriffa and armed vol.
untecrs. and a largo party was OF.
sanissd.
Every road around N. tit Of
woods was watched Sunday night.
Comblng of this part Of Pierce coun.
! ~ started Monday morning. The
search hero was started by mo
torist who said that while his ma.
chino was stalled near the lonely
bridge on the puyaliup road a man
dressed IN dark clothes and wearing
a khaki shirt that appeared TO be
covered with blood passed near by
He challenged tho man. who at
once drew two revolvsrs and waved
them threateningiy and then dis
appeared in the brush without a
word.
Tho man was carrying a pair OF
overalls rolled under his arm.
In the edge Of the military
reservation of Camp Lewis. near
the NisauslIy river. another
search Is being made BY soldiers
and deputies from Olympia. This
search started when Sergeant
Ralph Lord Of the military DO.
lice, reported seeing n man act.
Ing suspiciousIy near the south.
ern end n the reservation about
2 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Fifty mounted men from Camp
Lfwis. under command of
Iieuts. q. \. Deadrich and I.
ID. yeaton. started the hunt.
Sheriff Ray Hoage. OF Olympia.
Joined the hunt with another posse
The deputies worked down the
river. while tho soldiers beat the
brush from the other direction.
Larger bodies OF soldiers were 20
Join tho hunt today and 10 10 thru
every foot Of cover large enough 20
hide a man.
While these two hunts were going
on. third that had started early
Friday morning in tho woods few
miles from the oTfara home was
stu In progress.
More than 200 Thurston coun.
| fy citizens. most Of whom have
been watching roads and follow
ing forest trails In search of the
fiend for more than 80 hours. are
keeping up their patrol. Scores
Of Olympia residents have joined
the hunt. taking tho places Of
men who are worn out by their
efforts during the three days and
| two nights that have elapsed
since the crime was committed.
| II is now believed In Olympia that
the fiend may have escaped to the
waters edge between olympia and
Oyster bay. or may have found a
boat. III this proves 10 be true, he
win be noticed by some rancher
soon as that part Of tho state is
lsparsely settled and n stranger would
attract attention.
There are few stores IN that dis.
Itrlct. too. and fugitive would be
forced sooner or later to ask for food
at some farm.
Olympia officers started Saturday
making a complete check Of all the
roomlng houses In town. Logging
loamps also are being searched.
Tacoma deputies arrested one sus.
pect Sunday at Midland. He wore
brown overalls but carried pnir OF
blue overalls. II is not believed that
he is the man wanted for the crime.
t. S. May, private detective, OF Sc
attic. made a careful examination OF
tho O'Hnra house Saturday and OBJ
ltained finger prints from the chin.
ney of the lamp. He said that man
answering the fiend's description had
been brought 10 Tacoma by a motor.
list Saturday night. The man had
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