East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-04-27
Stained Clothing, Mattress,
Rope, Shirt, Chaps Asked
About Of County Officers.
SHERIFF AND FORMER
DEPUTY DON'T AGREE
Identity Of Rifle is Question on
Which Testimony Clashes;
all Day Tomorrow Required.

Fred Patterson and not Charles
Won Derahe Is guilty of the murder
OF Matt Jepson.
Questions asked by the defense
when they opened their side of the
murder trial this morning indicate
that the fight to save the defendants
life, will be made ON the foregoing
assumption.
f. +. b. Ridgway, Sheriff Zoeth
Houser, Deputy Sheriff Dave Laven-
der Deputy Sheriff Jake Marin and
Mike Lynch, cattleman who operates
on the mountain near the Jepson
place, were the witnesses examined
during the morning.
The questions asked of all of the
witnesses by the defense were in re-
gard to the Investigation made by
the. officials last summer when Pat
terson was apprehended and held for
several weeks as the suspected mur-
derer. He was liberated when the
state had exhausted its clues which
promised to faster the preparation
OF the crime on him.
Clothing Figures in Case.
The officers told of their chase
after Patterson when he eluded them
In the timbered hills last August.
They saw him on a horse the first
time about noon on August Is, both
Ridgway and Houser testified. Later
1t BECAME necessary to track him
through the woods, Ridgway said.'
pHe found Patterson in his cabin early
next morning, he said.
Two shirts, a white saddle blanket.
cartridge belt, a pair Of chaps. q
pack ro Y, and mattress, all of
which bore. dark or brownish stains
on them figured in the stories told
by witnesses during the morning. !.
There are two rifles over which
the attorneys In the case are battl-
ing Both are claimed to be the
property of Patterson, and one was
found in the Jepson well, 1t Is
claimed. nt#
Describes Stained Mattress.
The mattress described by Ridgway
was taken by the officers from the
Hugh McCool cabin. 800 yards dist
+ ant from the Jepson cabin, Ridgway
testified. He said there was a big
spot on the mattress about one and
one-half feet across and that 1t had
been soaked clear through where the
padding was thin.
The shirt, blue cotton garment,
had a stain on the left front side, he
said. and the chaps had b stain on
the left hand side in front on the
= leather. There were stains on the
25-foot rope at intervals of nine feet
he told the jury.
Dave Lavender. deputy sheriff. de
scribed the appearance Of the Jep
son cabin when he entered it OF
the afternoon the body of the her
NIT was taken from the well. HI
also told of seeing a bundle of mai
hanging to the back door Knob. Tw'
slices of bread. some potatoe
and sugar. were on the table, he testi
fled. He was not cross examined.
Testimony Differs
One point of difference in the testi
rhony oNsered by Sheriff Zoeth House
and that 6f his former chief deput,
Z. F. b. Ridgwaxl was brought ou
when the stories of the two men wer
related bearing on the identity OF tn
rifle which both men say Patterso
had In a holster on his horse when th
car in which the officials were drivin
up the mountain passed Patterson.
Houser testified that the barrel {
the rifle protruded from the holstt
and that it was an octagonal barre
Ridgeway was just as positive that th
butt of the rifle was the part Of th
piece which was exposed to view an
that nothing of the barrel could
seen.
Two rifles we're brought to the cou
house as a result Of the investigatio
One was e5-s5 and the other ,
long rifle.
A dark stain about the size of
quarter on the front brfm Of Patte
sons hat was described by Ridgwa
He also Identified an axe which w
secured along with the tent which w
, taken at Government springs in Il
canyon below the Jepson place.
Mike Lynch told Of having Sc,
po.tarscr Jri~ - ri tho Hood cab
about -one and one-haif miles abo
Inc Jepson pace. Patterson had
saddle horse and pack horse VIII
he was seen By Lynch. the witness te
fitted