Jacob Mourer
Jacob cash-claimed a quarter in 10, 7N 48W in 1890.
June 12, 1926 Chelan Falls Washington "Dutch Jake" Maureau (tombstone says
Mourer) of Chelan Falls died at Dr. Piro's hospital in Chelan Saturday
afternoon, as the result of injuries sustained when the truck in which they were
riding, and which was driven by Mr. Spurgeon, was struck by the down passenger
train Saturday morning, when they attempted to cross the tracks at Chelan Falls.
Despite the frantic warnings of George Hardenburg Jr., who stood in the road as
long as possible and tried to warn the driver of the ill-fated truck, they drove
out between a locomotive crane and a number of flat cars, in the face of the
oncoming train.
The truck was hit about the center, turned over on its side and was shoved down
the track ahead of the locomotive for about a hundred yards before the train
could be stopped. Both men were found unconscious in the truck when the train
stopped.
Mr. Maureau has lived here for some 25 years and for a time tended the brewery
at the Falls before it shut down. He was a man of about 80 years of age, and so
far is known, has no relatives.
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Jacob J. Mourer - 1857-1937 is buried in Geary, Blaine County, Oklahoma
Published in The Oklahoman on March 11, 1904:
JAIL DELIVERY PLOT AT ENID
It Was Planned By A Prisoner And Revealed to the Sheriff by a Colored Boy.
Enid, Okla., March 10.—Sheriff Kershaw has discovered a plot for a general
deliver from the county jail and in consequence William Padgett, a 16-year old
boy, is under arrest charged with assisting in the delivery. A
confession made by a colored boy, Jerry Washington, who was confined in the jail
during the time the plot was made, was the way to scheme to escape was
discovered. Jacob Maurer, a convicted prisoner, planned the scheme.
The colored boy informed the officers that they would better be on the look-out,
for there was going to be "something doing," and a search of the jail was
immediately made. A steel saw ten inches long was found in Maurer's cell.
Maurer told where he got the saw and the boy was arrested. He is a parole
prisoner, having been in court last term for stealing a
horse.
Maurer was convicted last term, also, for selling mortgaged property. He
had escaped the officers prior to his arrest by jumping his bond. He
was captured in Walla, Walla, Wash. He was convict and is now awaiting the
action of the court on a motion of new trial.