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Show Detective Joe Jones Says Pictures of Whitney Have Been Spread Broadcast and the Hunt Will Not End Until the Murderer is Either Captured Cap-tured or Known to Be Dead. "The search for Hugh Whitney will never, end until he is either captured or we are positive that he Is dead. It may take a few days or weeks or years, but the search will never end until we are certain of one of these two things," said Joseph Jones, special agent of the Oregon Short Line, while en route to Salt Lake ycesteiday. While Hugh Whitney, -murderer and bandit, has for the time being escaped the more than two hundred men who followed him or searched Xor him through the wild country south of Spencer, Idaho, and through the desolate deso-late region to the southeast part of the state, he is a marked man. Peace officers of-ficers in several counties in Idaho and Wyoming have an accurate descilption of the much wanted man. They arc carrying in their pockets photographs, and thev are sending copies of this picture pic-ture to every officer in the intermoun-tain intermoun-tain country. It is not because of the reward that Is offered for this man that they are working, but because they feel that "he is a menace to tho west, one of the fast disappearing type of "bad men," and that the sooner he Is captured the better It will be for law and justice, Whitney is known to be a dead shot. He has proven this in the past lie Is Knnn.n -. Vir t Vl rf ml prVl 1- n CT II fl VI t Ot with parts of the wild country in eastern east-ern Idaho and westera Wyoming. Pie may escape the officers for a time, but the" prediction is Treely and hopefully made that it will not be for long, and that he will be captured Railroad Man Hl6 Partner. A. F Sesler. a former railroad man, is believed to have been Whitney's partner In the holding up of the saloon at Monida on the night of June 26 The second man jumped from the train a few seconds after Whitney. Since that time no trace of the man has been found The idea that he was killed by his partner in crime or is dead is scoffed at by peace officers of Idaho and Montana Joseph Jones, special agent for the Oregon Short Line, who has returned from the man hunt in Idaho, speaks In the highest terms of the Idaho and Montana officers and the various posses that were organized "The Idaho officers did everything in their power to run down the man, as did the warden of the Montana prison," said Mr. Jones. '"It should be remembered however, that it is a wild country in which the bandit sought refuge. It was not an easy matter to follow his trail: added to this are many wild reports which reached the various nosses- every few hours. A report would come that the man had been at such and such a ranch at such and such a time A posse was organized and sent out. only to return with the information that no such man had been seen there. Much Time Wasted. The people, as was natural after they had heard of the murder of Conductor Con-ductor Kldd. werejnore or less excited and almost any stranger that might be seen in the neighborhood looked to them like the man wanted. For this reason much valuable time was lost in following false reports." Mr Jones was loud in his praise of tho following officers Sheriff Buck-lin Buck-lin of Bonneville county, Idaho, Sheriff Fisher of Fremont county, Idaho; Sheriff Sher-iff Cooper of Bannock county, Idaho. Sheriff Rich of Bear Lake county, Idaho; Ida-ho; Sheriff J H Ward of Uinta county, coun-ty, Wyoming, Sheriff DeKay of Bingham Bing-ham county. Idaho, Sheriff O'Rourke of Silver Bow county, Mont Sheriff Goss of Beaver Head county. Montana: Mon-tana: Huh Wood of Spencer, Ida., and John W Hart, state senator from Fremont Fre-mont county, Idaho. Knew Bloodhounds Were Following. "Warden Conley of the Montana state prison, bis deputies and the bloodhounds he brought," said Mr. Jones, "did all that was possible to assist in the capture of the man. The dogs were badly handicapped from time to time There was a heavy rainfall rain-fall between the time that the man left the train and the time that the dogs arrived Finally thev got tho scent many miles from where the man left the train It is evident that he expected ex-pected that bloodhounds would bo put on his trail, for he took to the streams on the horses which he had stolon At times he went up the stream and then doubled on his track and went down strenm For this reason it was "hard for the dogs to pick up the scent quickly. "I believe that had the man have kept a straight course the dogs would have followed him and we would have got him two days alter the murder of Conductor Kldd " Incidentally, Mr Jones paid a high compliment to Special-Agents W H Egley, W. G Knowles, W H Jones and J W Cioss of the Oregon Short Line, who, upon the first information of the murder, took the field and have not yet left it. Partner Still Living. When asked if he thought that Whitney had murdered his partner, Mr Jones smiled. "Well, hardly; that is about the most foolish story that I ever heard Why should he kill his partner? To make his escape more easy? That Is foolish. What they did was to separate, with the idea that, separated, one or both would have a better chance to escape than they would together. This was but natural." natu-ral." Mr. Jones' theory is upheld by members mem-bers of the train crew of the train on which Conductor Kldd was murdered They make the assertion that Whitney got off the right side of the train at a point between Spencer and High Bridge and went .to the west into the lava beds. Sesler. as they believe the other man to be, did not leave the train until It had traveled about half a mile, and he .got off tho east side and struck across the country. At the time the second man left tho train it was running about ten or twelve miles an hour, say members of the crew; but as ho was a railroad man and knew how to drop from a train, he landed all right. Following Up Clues. Following the series of sensational crimes the report was current that Whitney had pawned a revolver at Monida a few days before the robbery, and that he had later taken it out of pawn Information received in this city is that the revolver was pawned by'Whltney at Lima. Mont, and from that place he sent a telegram to friends at Cokeville, Wyo., for money, upon receipt of which he redeemed the revolver and then went to Monida. It Is said that the holding up of the saloon sa-loon occurred within a few hours after Whitney arrived at Monida. and that the robbers took ihe next train for the south. Still other information has been received re-ceived by the local officers, some of which they refuse to give out It Is said, however, that at the time the two robbers got on the Oregon Short Line train they were followed by an employe em-ploye of the saloon at Monida; that this man was armed with an automatic revolver, and that when the two men escaped from the train the man failed to use his revolver in an attempt to stop either of them. This part of the story Is, however, not affirmed nor denied de-nied bv local officers of the Oregon Short Line some eight feet when the present company com-pany acquired the property. Since then it has been continued to thirty feet. On the surface assays ranging from $2 to $500 were obtained and fiom present Indications It seems quite probable that ore of a fair milling grade will he devoloped. A townsite has been located, but the necessary elements of a Nevada boom are lacking, lack-ing, and consequently the camp is not growing ry rapidly. The now nearly near-ly deserted camp of Bannock is only five miles distant. Tho main things needed in Tellurlde are money and work. oo |