Show HOT ON HIS TRAIL half a th thousand scouring Scour lne the country fop for chris evans fresno cal dec 29 the city is up in arms arins and the whole country roundabout ie is excited over tho the escape last night from jail J H 0 of I 1 ch chris ris i evang evans the bandit mur murderer aal berer and desperate character generally it now appears that cIa elaborate borate plans wore laid for the tile escape in the morning word was received from milca miles south that a youn young man had bad riven given information of in an intended train robbery and four deputies were sent to the tile scene and about tho the aimee of the escape several runaways down town attracted others from tile jail so that jailer scott was the only man left on watch he ile admitted chris evanss wife without question or search and admitted NN alter ed morel from a neighboring restaurant with supper in tike same way when morel came to the door to go out scott unlocked the door and at once found himself covered by two revolvers in the hands of morel and E evans vans they took him with them and proceeded up tho the street near advent church they came upon city TH marshal arshal morean morgan and NV I 1 M 1 wyatt a capitalist morel told them to holu bold up their hands thov they did EO so morel then took morgans p pistol 1 astol and larne turned a to wyatt when morgan seized morel 1 r 44 T rs tamn FA ca and it d 0 ordered d ered 1 morgan ti 0 let morel go and fired hitting morgan in the shoulder morel and evars then started for a spirited team waiting for them but frightened by tho tile ft firing abia they broke away and the fugitives t then ran to mono and Q streets where they co compelled a newspaper carrier named coch n ran to giro give up uv ins his cart in which they drove away and havo have not since been seen scott the tile alarm at once spread and citizens rushed to the hardware and gun stores L seized rifles and ammunition and started in pursuit probably men are scouring san joaquin valley in every direction the tito southern you thern has also sent out a train from sanger on oil the potterville branch in the direction of tile mountains this posse seems to have gone in the right t diree direction tion as word has been been received that a jaded borso attached to a cart was found on tho the roadside near there tho the deputies who went to after the tile supposed train robbers found a young oung boy giving the name of E EE E MI he ile said lie was knoof one of the gang but had decided not to commit the tile crime he did not however tell a straight story nor turn up the confederates aerates er ates so the tile deputies arrested him it is believed that lie be ii iq cell connected with the plot to free evans early this morning the police arrested two girls cirl and sand a boy broth brother er and sister at whose house morel boari boarded ltd td the tito younger girl lias has made damaging statements to the police the natu nature roof of which is not made public mrs evans was left in it a faint on the jail floor she is still detained DALTON HIM it 11 19 is now said bill dlton dalton assisted evans to escape as ta the to latter helped dalton out of visalia jail in 1391 tho the posse who went to ganger sanger is calling for reinforcements it is rumored tho the bandits are surrounded in ill kin kings kins s river bottom and will probably bo be cip captured before night |