BANDITS AT LARGE

Evening Star, Issue 19023, 19 August 1925, Page 5

BANDITS AT LARGE

REIGN OF TERROR SHOOTINGS AND KIDNAPPINGS Press Association —By 'Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, August IS. (Received August 19, at 11.5 a.m.) The entire State of Oregon is terrorised by the wild shootings and kidnappings of a trio of desperadoes—Tom Murray, Ellsworth Kelly, and James Willos, all convicted murderers and highwaymen, who broke from the Salem Penitentiary, killing the guards, a fortnight ago. Since thou hundreds of sheriffs and their deputies have been hunting them all over the State. The bandits dodge hero and there, stealing money, ammunition, and food. The latest exploit, concerns lour friends who were playing cards in the village of Monitor at '2 o’clock cm Monday morning, when the bandits kidnapped the quartet in two motor cars and forced them to drive towards Portland. Daylight found them close to the suburbs of the city. They -approached a farmhouse, which tho bandits took possession of, forcing the Newman, family and tho card players to remain in the house all day. Late at night they took automobiles and drove towards the city.

The bandit chief is Murray, who dictated a statement explaining regret at the killings, so that my mother may know tho truth.” ho said. He left a finger-print at the farmhouse so that tho police would recognise that it was genuine.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.