The Most Noted Killer in the West Sits Smoking His Pipe

Colville, April 25. — William Frederick Jahns, alias James F. Logan, alias Frank Romandorff, convicted in the superior court in February of the killing of Agnes J. Janson and cremating her body in a burning pine log heap near Bissell on Oct. 28 last, and who was sentenced by Judge D. H. Carey to die by hanging in the state penitentiary at Walla Walla April 16, has passed the first highest point of human jeopardy.

His appeal from the final order of the court in his case to the supreme court of the state has not yet been fully made up, and will not be ready for transmission to the higher tribunal before the end of the present term. The supreme court will not get the case in time to dispose of it before the October term.

In the meantime Logan, as he is familiarly known, is cheerful and seems confident that he will never hang. He sits in his steel cell, reads the daily newspapers, smokes his pipe with the utmost enjoyment and seems delighted to have callers. Every day a few and sometimes dozens of curious people ask the sheriff for the privilege of a view of the most noted character who has figured in the criminal annals of the west.

If his name is called Logan walks to the front bars and talks about everything of public interest excepting his case. About himself and the Janson matter he refuses to say a word or allow any one to inquire about it.