The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-30
MAN HUNT IS
 ON FOR HALL,
 BERNERS BAY
Soldiers, Deputies Sur rounding Chilkoot
 Barracks Deserter


 Berners Bay with Edward Hall, U. s. Signal Corps. who deserted from Chilkoot Barracks after footing the safe, stealing a serv- ice rife, quantity of ammuni- ton, boat, Evsnrude engine and other supplies. as the fugitive, and Lieut.. Jackson with a de- tachment of six soldiers, armed with rifles, tear bombs, etc.. as- sisted by Deputy U. S. Marshals, as the pursuing force.
 Lieut.. Jackson and his soldiers have possession of a shack in which Hall has been camping | for sometime, his boat, eats and other supplies while Hall is in the woods near the Jualin mine with a shotgun and twelve rounds of ammunition This is word brought to Juneau via the U. S. Marshars patrol boat in which came Deputy Marshals Frank Price. E. H. Sherman and James Gibson. Major Rogers Notified Word came to the Marshal's s office last week that Hall was camping in shack at Berners Bay. Marshal Albert White i'm mediately sent Deputy Marshals Price and Gibson in his patrol boat which was at Sitka to Chil- koot Barracks to notify Major Thorton Rogers.
 At 10 o'clock Friday evening, under orders from Major Rogers to capture the fugitive, Lieut.. Jackson and six enlisted men left Chilkoot Barracks on the IpatroI boat. Deputy Marshal Sherman of Haines joined Deputy Marshals Price and Gibson. The patrol boat reached Jualin Sat urday and occupied the shack where Hall had been camping. Hall was not there. The soldiers were thrown out in such way as to intercept Hall in case he attempted to make an escape.
 Shots Are Fired
 It had been learned that Hall had traded his service rifle and ammunition for shotgun and ammunition. It was believed that he has only dozen rounds of ammunition for the shotgun. The deployed soldiers have con nected their various stations with telephones and they are in com munication with each other.
 Two shots were fired by Hall yesterday, the searchers report, but it is not known whether he killed game to eat or committed suicide.
 Last night the Marshal's patrol boat left the scene of the man hunt for Juneau, and the Deputy Marshals are here today. They will return to Berners Bay to- morrow. If Halls capture shall not have been effected by that time the boat will proceed to Chilkoot Barracks for additional supplies for the men who took a weeks rations when they left the Barracks.
 Seen by Soldiers Hall has been at Berners Bay for sometime" said Deputy Mar shal E.. H. Sherman, who is in Juneau. "There is no question:" he said, about his Identification, because he admitted 1t to John Wv. Dudley. caretaker for the Jualin mining property and o. M. Moore, who is aiding MT. Dudley, and he was seen Saturday by two soldiers who challenged him, and to whom he talked. The soldiers did not capture him for they refused to shoot him when he dropped some provisions he had and ran for the brush. They want to take him alive, and there is no chance for him to escape" MT. Sherman says Hall gave the rifle that he left Chilkoot Barracks with to MT. Moore, who turned it over to MT. sherman and 1t is now in Juneau. He took in exchange for it a .22 rifle and 100 cartridges. Later he left this rifle at the cabin of MT. Dudley and took shot, gun with a dozen cartridges.
 MT. Dudley had been trying to persuade Hall to return. to Chilkoot Barracks and surren- der, said MT. Sherman, and he had promised that he would do so.
 A warrant, issued at Haines |on a charge of grand larency, is in the hands of Deputy Mar shal Sherman for the arrest of Hall.
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