The San Francisco call., 1898-09-24
COULD
 AGAIN IN PRISON Recaptured Near Camp
 Taylor. MARIN'S MAN HUNT ENDED RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF THE
 ESCAPE.
MARIN's MAN HUNT ENDED
He Shows Fight When Overtaken and Is Wounded by Bullet From an Officers
 Revolver.
Special Dispatch to The Gail.


 SAN RAFAEL, Sept. 23.-For just four days and five nights Alton H.. Gould, the convict "trusty" who es- capped from San Quentin by scaling the walls at night, was permitted to inhale the air of freedom and amuse himself by rifiing houses of valuables. Last Sunday evening Gould effected his es- cape. Tonight the fellow lies in a dungeon, with the prospect of ten years more in prison instead of five before him.
 The credit of the capture belongs to Constable Louis Hughes and Guard Ben1arnin Merritt. At risk of life they accomplished what whole posses had failed to do.
 At II o'clock last night Hughes, Mer- ritt and The Call correspondent took the trail of Gould, near Fairfax, after he had obtained shotgun and am munition by robbing cabin near san Anselmo, and followed it unceasingly until his capture was effected at noon to-day. The trail led for the most part along the road leading to Olema and Gould's footsteps were distinguishable by the fact that they appeared as though his sho ,s were tied to his feet with ropes. The night was pitch dark in the lonely canyons and the trail could be followed only by lighting candle and looking for Gould's foot prints at intervals of hundred yards and at crossroads.
 Gould travelled very fast and suc- ceeded in temporarily baff1ing his pur- suers. At about 4:30 o'clock this morn ing he took path diverging from the main road. His pursuers h Irried to Tocaloma, about five miles further on, in the hope of ambushing the convict. Missing him there they returned and were informed by Mrs. Stedman that Gould had passed through her yard, carrying a shotgun under brown overcoat. He wore leggings stolen at San Anselmo, which accounted for the peculiar prints made by his feet. Mrs. Stedman said Gould had crossed the street and entered the brush.
 The correspondent was dispatched to Warden Hale with the news and re- quest for endorsements, while Hughes and Merritt retraced their steps. At 10 o'clock man named Rodgers, liv- ing near Camp Taylor, told them Gould was only a short distance ahead and keeping in the bed of the creek flow ing near the road. They overlook him within half mile of Tocaloma. Creep ing up as close as possible Hughes pre- ScnIeQ HIS SilOl6uu anu SflOuleu.
 Your hands up. Gould"
 With an oath, the convict turned and started to raise his gun, but a scatter ing charge of bird shot changed his mind, and he sprinted for the brush with his pursuers fast gaining. Hughes second cartridge snapped and he drew his revolver and began to pep per away. Merritt shot four times with his revolver and as Gould Ieaped a fence and entered the brush they closed in. The convict was found ly- ing under some scrub oaks and was forced to surrender. He was manacled and brought to San Anselmo on the train.
 There Warden Hale and Captain Bir- lem were waiting with carriage.
 Gould complained of pain in his left side, and an examination by Dr. Law Tor, the prison physician, showed that a revolver bullet had inflicted a flesh wound.
 Gould's haggard face plainly tells of little food and less sleep. He says he is suffering with consumption and if kept in prison cannot live longer than