The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-05-24

SnleI WaGGS Will V1SIG the Express COM
pany to ascertain if the money arrived
safely.
KINGS FATHER IN AUBURN. Ev
Is Unable to Go Farther and Dispatches
Lawyer to His Son.
Lewiston, May 23.-Samuel M. King,
father of Albert M. King, late messenger
for the Boylston National bank of Boston,
now prisoner at Pennington, arrived in
Lewiston on the Pullman Sunday morn
ing at 1915 O'Clock. He was accompanied
by j. K. Berry, Esq, of Boston. The
party were driven to the Elm house, Au-
/. burn, where they were assigned rooms.
Attorney j. K. Berry secured the services
of f. N. Saunders, ESQ.,, of Lewiston and
the two drove to Pennington, a distance
Of forty-seven miles, leaving at LIS D.
M, Sunday.
| Mr.. King was broken down physically
by the strain of the last few days and was
unable to accompany the party. He
passed the day at the Elm house and re-
tired at 10 p. m. He did not know what
his attorney would do in the case, but ex-
pected to receive a despatch from him
Monday morning.
King VIII Make Fight. s~
Lewiston, MAY pa special to the
Sun from Pennington, Maine, says that
j. K. Berry, Esq, Of Boston and E. N.
Saunders, ESQ.,, of Lewiston, attorneys
for S. M. King, father of the late Boyl-
ston National bank messenger boy who is
| a prisoner in the Bennington Jail, arrived
in town this evening by team from Au-
burn, distance of AZ miles. From an
| Interview with Mr.. Saunders, ESQ.,, it
was learned that in all probability they
| would tight the demand for requisition
| papers. 1t is understood that they have
| instructed young King to refuse to leave
the State without papers. They will take
| the ground that breach of trust is not
crime or misdemeanor under Maine laws.
CAUGHT IN FARMINGTON.
King Arrested With Nearly All Missing
Greenbacks In His Pockets.
+ rmington, May 22.-Far up here in
the midst of the silent Maine woods
is tired, broken hearted, conscious
| stricken boy, with the guilt of a crime
which has blighted his young life heavy
upon him. For three days, Alfred NJ
King, the discredited messenger of the
Boylston National bank of Boston, wan
| dered aimlessly through three New Eng
land states loaded down with the fruits of
his thieving, until he could bear the
burden no longer, and when at last, to-
day he was arrested here by Deputy
Sheriff Dyer, he made no attempt to deny
his identity.
There are some surprising instances
connected with the crime, the flight and
the capture of young King. 1t seems
| strange that the young man whose like
ness and whose description was known to
three quarters of the inhabitants OF the
! region through which he passed, should
have been able to escape detect ion until
today. The police officers who were sent
out to run him down were hundreds of
miles away when the capture took place.
Ihe idea of escaping detection pursued
py uhe young man was certainly good
one Notwithstanding the fact that he now
claims 1t was not planned beforehand
A blcycler would be almost the last per-
son police official would ha We suspect
ed' and had King kept up this plan in
stead OF taking to the trains where all
railroad officials We're on the watch for
hlh' II Is more than likely that he might
nave been at large yet,
Going back to the morning of the
crime, King declares that when he left
tne pank with the mo ney in his posses
sloh' the idea never occurred to him. 1t
was not until just before he reached the
freeman's bank that the thought that
| he might steal the money came into his