Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-11
HIS WANDER|nGS,
Pickpocket Drvis Returns From
Denver.
He Describes His Adventures Since
His Escape.
Sheriff Gibson Safely Lands the Elusive
Convict = How He Was Dis
covered in Denver.

day from Denver with Charley Davis, the
pickpocket, who escaped from the court
room here on April l1th and was recap
tured in Denver last week. Davis is one
of the most clever crooks in the country,
and his recent escape was one of the
coolest acts on record. On April 11th
Davis appeared in court for sentence,
having been convicted of stealing purse
from woman on an electric car coming
from the Arcade depot. The court pro-
nounced sentence, allotting to the
prisoner a term OF two years in San Quen-
tin. During the hustle which ensued
after the case was concluded Davis
calmly walked out of the hall of justice
and disappeared. The CONSERVATION
which resulted from the discovery of his
escape was intense. Sheriff Gibson at
once sent descriptions out in all direc-
tions, aud offered 800 reward for his
recapture. Last week one of the de-
scriptive cards led to the recognition OF
Davis, and today that slippery gentle
man will probably go to San Quentin to
serve his time.
| Sheriff Gibson was enthusiastic yes
| terday over the courtesy with which he
was received in the beautiful Colorado
city. The officer reports that he had no
| trouble with Davis on the way here,
and that the prisoner himself seemed
| anxious to make the trip as pleasant as
could be under the circumstances.
Davis was fettered at Denver with the
| heavy iron shackles which had secured
| Anschlag, the murderer, and which had
net been used since that beastly GRIM
inal had worn them. When the pris-
oner arrived here yesterday, it took
half an hour to file off the heads OF the
bolts which fastened the changing shack
les. The sheriff was thoroughly fa-
tigued from loss of sleep, and his own
wrists were bruised from the ''nippers'
which, during the night hours had
fastened him to the prisoner.
Davis was seen last evening in the
county jail. His tall, epare form and
cadaverous countenance had changed
but little. His expression was not
nearly so jaunty as it was on the day
when Chief Glass caught him on Second
street after tight run. In fact, the
prisoner seemed to feel rather bitter,
| and his conversation was marked by
strong expressions hardly acceptable in
polite society. He said:
W6lk6u Oub vi blt COuTt
crossed Temple street and through
the fruit stand near New High.
l did not take drink at the
came out of the building on New High
street, and where went after that is
nobody's business. After my escape. l
| remained in the city about week or
| ten days and then made my way to Bur-
bank, where I boarded train for
Frisco. / staid there few days and
am surprised to hear that Deputy Sheriff
Russell missed me by only six hours. l
didn't know they were go close on my
trail. From Frisco I went to Ogden,
and then to Salt Lake. There got a
tip that the Los Angeles people
were on to me and 1 skipped to
Denver. l would not have been caught
there. only 1 got into a little
trouble at the depot, was punched, and
one OF the deputies recognized me from
description card he had in bis pocket.
That's all there is to it. Bill Pink kerton
was in Denver when they took me, and
he gave the newspaper boys great
ghost story about me. To hear that man
talk, 1 am the worst scoundrel alive.
Such lies He claimed that at Chi
cago race track he had hit me on the
head and arrested me. He never did it.
He was after me, but ran up to
policeman and asked him to arrest me,
to keep Pinkerton from getting the
glory"
Ever since he left here, Davis has
gone by the name of Dan Foley. Deputy
Sheriff, now Jailor Russell, found a
letter addressed to that name in San
Francisco from Salt Lake, and that was
how the prisoner was located at Salt
Lake. In Denver, Davis, alias Foley,
was arrested, while following his "busi-
ness" at the Union depot, by a special
station officer. 1t was in the police
court room that Deputy Sheriff L. De
Lue recognized his man.
"That deputy" said Davis, fused to
belong to the gang, and he's slick peo-
pie, he is."
On Davis's person, when he was
searched last evening, was found curl
GUS contrivance in the shape of pair
of hollow silver cuff-buttons. The tops
unscrew from the button proper, and
reveal depression in which paper
money may be stored. Last. evening
there was $40 bill in one button, and
V in the other. Davis remarked with
smile that he had carried $500 bill
in each of the buttons.s The latter are
an invention of his own, and were made
to order.