The Portland daily press., 1897-05-24
FATHER LOCKED HIM OUT.

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head. 1t took him about an hour to make
the collections about Boston and turn
the $4,000 United States certificate into
cash. He left the clearing house shortly
latter II O'Clock, and caught the noon
train at Lowell. He did not purchase a
trip ticket and for which he spent the
first of the banks money. He had there
fore, practically IAN hours start before his
absence from the city was even suspect
ed. He must have been walking around
Lowell when the police were notified to
keep sharp lookout for him. What
gave him the idea of buying a bicycle he
cannot as yet explain. He bought one,
however, paying out Sos more from the
quantity of cash on his person, together
with SIS for bicycle suit and sweater,
and mounting his wheel, started off on
the road down the Merrimac
7 If3the police of Lawrence had stopped
the dusty bicyclist as he wheeled thghrou
that city Wednesday afternoon, the honor
of the capture of a Boston bank robber
would have been theirs. On over the
New Hampshire roads went the boy, his
pockets fairly bullying with greenbacks.
Amesbury was left behind and it was
growing dark when he at last drew up
in the quaint little town of Hampton
Kings recollection of all his experiences
is somewhat obscure. He is sure that he
stayed in Hampton over night, but he be-
keyed it was Tuesday night instead of
"wednesday. He says, however, that he
continually felt himself urged to retrace
his steps and acknowledge his guilt.
Early Thursday morning he boarded a
train for Portland and took the bicycle
with him.
The Maine city was reached in few
hours and here he again left the rail for
the road. The distance from Portland
to Yarmouth was accomplished in an
hour or two, but what possessed him to
leave the bicycle there and not take it
along, King cannot tell. Some time
| Thursday afternoon, he boarded a train
on the Grand Trunk railroad, purchasing
his ticket at the Yarmouth station for
| Lewiston. He kept on the train until it
pulled into the latter station, an hour
or two after and then coolly jumping
the Androscoggin river and after few
| inquiries walked into Stetson's boarding
house. Here he stayed all night, unsus-
pected and apparently unnoticed He
was up early in the morning, but by this
| time his mind must have been in tho
roughly dazed condition, for with trains
| leaving Lewiston for points far to the east
and connecting beyond, he took train
for the north with but one destination.
He arrived in this town about noon Fri
day, but the connections between the
broad gauge of the Maine Central and
the narrow gauge of the Sandy river are
very close and it was therefore but few
minutes walk to leave one train and
purchasing his ticket jump into the little
car and start for the Rangeleys. Here
again, King cannot explain his idea of
going up to this fashionable resort, where
he must have known were many Massa-
chusetts and Boston fishermen, with the
whole story of his crime at their tongues
| end.
| 1t was therefore but few minutes af-
ter he arrived at Landlord Wright's
Rangeley Lake house before the fishermen
had come to the conclusion that he was
the much wanted boy. At the hotel he
registered as ''Alfred NJ Wright, of 5000,
Maine" and the substitution of an 80"
for an IA" in Saco was the first real
clew that the young man was acting I'M
der disguise.
Next he bought a Boston paper and
was confronted by picture of himself on
the front page. This probably had more
to do with his final breaking down than
anything else. He said himself that he
was completely unnamed. He realized
the enormity of his crime, and with a
light supper, he hurried to his room. Be-
fore he assembled the stairs, however, he
knew he was suspected and the night
was q sleepless one.
The first train out of Rangeley leaves
at 6.45-aAm. and in ordersto'catehthi $,