The Portland daily press., 1897-05-24

King rose before o'clock. He left with
out any breakfast. By this time the fish
ermen and the guides were pretty sure OF
Kings identity, but before any steps
could be taken to detain him, the train
had left. There was only one passenger
car on this train, the rest being made up
of lumber cars. King sunk into a seat
and remained there the whole four hours
and half, while the train jumped over
the little road down to this town.
| In the meantime the fishermen and
guides had not been idle and the operator
at Rangeley worked the wires hard in
the vain attempt to arouse the stations
along the line. 1t was not, however, I'M
til Phillips had been passed, half way to
this city, that the operator realized the
much wanted fugitive was somewhere
on the road About half past ten this
forenoon, the Western Union operator
here, j. A. Walsh, received his tip of the
supposed presence of King on the down
train and he at once notified Deputy
Sheriff Dyer.
When the train pulled in, Dyer was on
the platform waiting, and half the train
crew jumped to tell him that King was
on the train, but when he looked for him
he had disappeared.
Suddenly Dyer caught sight of him
walking down the track toward the street
and hurried after him shouting, Hello. y
King knew at once that his wanderings
were over. Turning toward the officer,
he looked up ready for the next question,
which he knew would follow. YOU'RE
King, aren't you,' asked the officer 81
am the man you want, said the boy and
! the rest followed as matter Of course.
The little Jail here is two-story struc-
ture, with two tiers of cells. There were
four occupants in Jail when King arrived
and all for minor offenses. The first act
ion of the officers was to search King land
when out Of his clothes big bundles of
| bills were taken, the officials looked
down on more money than has been seen
outside of bank in Pennington for
many days. Exactly $50, S46.35 was what
was found in his clothes, but 81 of this
King declared was his own. The money
was counted and taken to the First Ma
tional bank where it was again counted
and the sheriff's count verified Then
the boy was taken to the cell room and
locked up, but not before he had broken
down, perhaps with the weight of his
crime somewhat off his mind. Then to
the officers and one or two reporters, he
told in dazed way, the story of his three
days wanderings. He declared that he
was on his way home when arrested and
that he was glad that it had come at
last. "The total amount of money which
had when left Boston" said King
was s31 ZOO. "Of this amount 81 was my
own. The $12S was spent entirely for
car fares and the hotel bills and the BIZ
cycle that bought in LOWELL
| Cashier Thompson of the First National
bank and Cashier G. B. Merrill of the
Savings bank, interviewed the prisoner
tonight. Mr.. Thompson volunteered to
send any message King might desire to
his parents at Wollaston, Mass. King
was given paper..and he penned the fol-
lowing despatch:
''Dear Father:
edo not worry about me; come to Bos-
| ton tomorrow.
(Signed)
'ALBERT M. KING"
Kings small wallet contained the re-
ceipt of $50 for bicycle bought in Low
ell, under the name of Albert Wright, a
railroad ticket from Boston to Lowell,
two ladies' visiting cards, two photo
graphs of actresses bearing the name of
Anna, written in pencil on the back, a
few postage stamps and slip OF figures,
apparently the combination of the safe.
He had recovered somewhat from his
breakdown tonight, but looks tired and
careworn
Deputy Sheriff Dyer thus describes the
circumstances attending Kings arrest.
Yesterday I saw Boston paper with
a story about bank messenger having
disappeared from Boston with $4,000 of
the banks funds. There was also some
thing about his being seen at Portland
and the thought came to me that possibly
ne might come this way. Soon afterWard
a friend gave me picture OF the missing
messenger, clipped from Boston paper.
lhls morning received telegram from