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Three De Autremont Brothers Enter Oregon State Penitentiary
Salem dispatch reports Hugh Ray and Roy De Autremont arrived at the Oregon State Penitentiary to serve life terms for the Siskyou train hold up and killings. Hugh, 23, confessed in graphic detail how the trio planned and executed the 1923 crime, including the engineer and fireman deaths, while Ray and Roy pleaded guilty and were also sentenced. The brothers, linked to a wave of radical ideas, described their actions, motives, and subsequent evasions before capture.
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Salem
Ore
deAutremont Brothers
Hugh
Ray
Roy
Jacksonville
State
Roy de Autremont
Siskyyou Tunnel
Oregon
D’artigan
Schopenahner
Huxley
Darwin
Northwest
Sidney L. Bates
Dunsmuir
Cal
Martin Leng
Coyle O. Johnson
Ashland
de Autremonts
Eugene
Klamath Falls
Santa Ana
Texas
Mexico