Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-26 | Page 1 | Posse Captures Fugitive after Sheriff is Slain

POSSE CAPTURES FUGITIVE AFTER SHERIFNS SUN Six Inmates of Pendleton Jail Escape, Shooting Official Who Blocks Path I PENDLETON, Ore., July 2 6. Pos I ses today captured Albert Lindgrefl ; on of five men who escaped from 1 tho Umatilla county Jail hero yesterday yester-day afternoon when Sheriff T. J Taylor was shot and killed. Taylor was sheriff eighteen years I and was one of the principal participants partici-pants In the annual Pendleton round- j UP3- About 300- men with bloodhounds were searching wooded country east I of here for tho other escaped prisoners. prison-ers. PENDLETON. Ore.. July 2S. Six of the seven men in the Umatilla county Jail here escaped today after fatally wounding Sheriff T D. Taylor Tay-lor and overpowering Deputy Sheriff Jacob Martin A large posso of citizens cit-izens was formed to pursue the fugitives, fug-itives, who boarded a freight train on which they rode four miles and then fled Into tho woods. Tho sheriff died tonight