On the theory that "an Indian always comes back," deputy United States marshals have been patiently watching the movements of Joe Chesaw for three years until such time he would put himself in position to be arrested. Deputy Marshal Fred Thorpe, formerly sheriff of Okanogan County, where the crime occurred, kept tab on Joe Chesaw, half Indian and half Chinese, who assaulted Customs Officer Pallis at Molson in 1914 when the officer endeavored to arrest Chesaw for bringing across the border in a buggy a supply of whiskey. Chesaw evaded arrest by remaining in the Kootenais of Canada, occasionally taking a chance to visit his haunts in Okanogan county and using an assumed name.
At Inchelium Chesaw was arrested and brought to Spokane yesterday by J.W. Denniston, deputy United States marshal. Arraigned before Judge Rudkin, he pleaded guilty to assaulting a federal officer and was sentenced to McNeil's Island for 13 months. Chesaw was sent to the Monroe reformatory in 1912 for burglary when Thorpe was sheriff. He was violating his parole from Monroe when he assaulted the customs officer.
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