Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-24
DE- AUTREMCNT GIVES DRAMATIC
CONFESSION OF HOLDlP, MURDERS


ten days.
I'VE talked things ever and Ray
/ decided that ne would &c to Eugene
and get the car we had bought iii
| Portland. Roy and I stayed behind.
/ He lett tla5 night and was coming
back to take us away.
"All that night, Roy and waited
! without sleeping. We could hear
| the electric bell on the engine ring
nag. It was ringing all the time. I
tell you, ii they had rung a bel
during my trial, would have jump
ed up and told it all. couldn't
have steo5 it. Sometimes I still
can hear that bell. 4a
"A few days later Ray came back.
There have not Teen many sweet
things i'll my life, but tic act that
stands out as the big nlemcry, was
Rays act in returning to warn us.
He worked few days at Central
Point near Medford, on a ranch.
There was n man there by the name
OF Bud Finley-I think He told
Ray he vas going out to hunt the
DE Altre1nonts He went. to town
that night, and while Ray was eat
| ing he saw olW pictures in paper.
itay hoppeG a freight and came to-
.S5skfyou. He passed by the camp
flres tof the posses and finally reach
ed us. He made lis way through
| lungleS-I have been III the Philip
pines where lllagle5 are jungles-he
might have gone his way, but he
wouldn't leave lis brothers He has
good metal in him. -N-.
Then We got cut oil here and tied
into the night. through the brush.
We we're trying TO reach the coast
VIC went over Mount Ashland
"One day an airplane that was
! hunting for lis was SO close could
have spit on it, The three OF us
laid down by cree. II passed on.
| For ten days we roalned those
hills, fs.1d were 30 weak from hunger
We threw our blankets away Roy
wanted to give up and get some
thing to eat.
In our family, Roy the eternal
optlmist. Ray is the eternal pessl-
mist i am the happy medium
can be ION the heights, or In the
depths, as things nappen to be-.
I'VE headed south and all OF us
we've hungry. When Ray and l
wantec to give up, Roy, the eternal
ootiEnist,' said: We dire three broth
'srs. Everybody wants us to die
we then decided, as everybody
wanted US to. die, we wanted to live,
and went on.
we came TO logging camp near
Hllt. / stole some beef from the
store house, It saved us.
Ray and Roy ate the beet raw,
which was fat,t but I cannot stand
grease. / had to wait until we got
2 chance to cGOk it I was helpless,
and so was Ray but Roy could 70
out and rustic. He. would come back
with biscuits and other tood. t5e
is a great little brother!
We went on to Hornbl ook. We
passed special agents by the dozen.
Whenever we did,, we laughed ana
Joked and talked like we were nome
guards and they never bothered lis.
When We were at FIi4t just conf
ing out OF the brush, after we stole
the beef, there were three railroad;
Dicks on the station platform. We
bumped into them before we knew
1t, We kept on goirg,i while they
Whlstled at us and yelled, Hey! Boys:
l1ey!'
The three boys laughed when
Hugh narrated this portion OF their
flight and Roy wllistled in imita-
1 tion cf the officers
1--WE hung around ISornbrook. We
knew what we were up against ana
acted accordingly. One evening W.
! We're laying near the tracks ane
|. three special agents came along
They were walking right towards us.
RAY wanted to go out III flashes oil
guns, and all of that sort OF thing,
and Roy kidded rim out. OF il. They
never stopped. They kept right on
gcing. It was just another OF our
ScloSe calls.
THE next day, we went down the
klamath river. Ray was clue anG
vas the. same. Roy speared a
4 salmon IN the klamath river and
acted like a girl scout. He cheered
us Ep. We stayed there two days,
1t was on the Klamath that VIC
diced to part, and meet again at
4 Santa Ana, Tex. on New Years. We
we're to write each other there. /
4 was to be James G. Price, Ray was to
4 be William Elliott, and Roy was to
be Ed Anderson
There was nothing to tie part
inG. cat llandshakc.
I'VE wen. our different roads.
! II never went to San Francisco. I,
continued Hugh. Il went to Los
/ Angeles and to Long Beach and
worked there a few days, and then
doWn into Mexico 1 saw our pic
lures, and van1ooSed back across the
1 line, stopping at Mexicall CImperlal
I Valley. then went to Yuma. /
was thinking OF New Mexico. I then
went to Ell Paso. knew a. girl
I there. I thought I could make con-
nectiors with her, but Z was afraid.
God:--How wanted to get into
Mexico! The posters all said We
spoke Spanish.
4 Il want to take you back to the
1 tunnel for minute. I could still
near that damned bell ringing
I'When Roy and I boarded the train
! our faces were as brown as Mexi-
Z cans. We met Mexican section hands
and talked Spanish to them We