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Show APPREHENDED AFTER A LONG CHASE Los Angeles. Cal., Jan. 11. With th Ftatement that he was worried to distraction with being hunted as the Perpetrator of crimes at Mlnden. Kearney Kear-ney county. Nebraska, for which a price of $1.00 hung over his head, a nan giving his naruo as Bert M. Taylor, Tay-lor, surrendered himself yeptcrday to a . Southern Pacific passenger hrako-nian hrako-nian at Redlands, Cal.. on whose tnin he was riding, and Is today locked in the train at San Bernardino, awaiting word from the Nebraska of-lvers. of-lvers. Taylor related a etory of the death of his two young 6lsters-ln-law after n brutal assault upon them, the murder mur-der of one of thera. and the final destruction des-truction of the home by fire after Kerosene had been poured over the todies of the victims on April IS, ll'Og. Taylor denies his own guilt, and asserts that James Martin, a man with whom he had had trouble, had committed the outrages and then laid the crimes to him. Ho 6aid that Martin Mar-tin had a-paulted and bound him in his room before attacking his sisters- in law. Taylor said Martin told him that he had been careful to arrange so that the blame would fall upon him l Taylor) and then fled. Finally released. re-leased. Taylor said he fled from the country, fearing injury to himself aud followed Martin for many months through different states In an effort to overtake and capture him. Ho lost all trace of him In Wichita. Kas., rfter which he came to California. Los Angeles, Jan. 11. Bert M. Taylor, Tay-lor, for whose arrest on charges of rape, arson, assault and murder a reward re-ward of $1,000 is offered, has been apprehended at San Bernardino and is now In jail there. Taylor Is wanted t Mlnden, Kearney county, Neb. He surrendered to a brakeman on a southern south-ern Pacific train, saying that he was tired of being hunted. He denies his guilt and lavs tho blame for the crimes on another man, whom ho alk-ges assaulted and bound him In his room and then committed the crimes alleged' against the two young sisters-in-law of Taylor. The date of the alleged crimes was April 20. 1908. B.th girls were rescued from tho flames, but the eldest died on May 8. Taylor says the man impersonated im-personated him and that since, the dav of the crimes, he has been following follow-ing him in a fruitless effort to capture cap-ture him. The crime with which Taylor is charged is the murder at Mlnden. Neb., of his slstor-ln-law, Miss Pearl Taylor, aged 17, after a criminal assault and murderouslv attacking her younger sister, Ida., aged 13. whom he left for dead, aud setting fire to the house in which they lived in an effort to hide his crime. Although of the same name, no blooi relation existed between Taylor and the twx women. Pearl Taylor died several days late,- and her sister recovered. |