The San Francisco call., 1898-01-06
.FILKINS
 AGAIN IN
 CUSTODY Los Angeles Officers Recapture the
 Convict. Locate Him Through the Woman Who Aided in His Escape. Though Confronted by Pistols, He Makes a Dash for
 Liberty. STOPPED BY A FENCE. The Prisoner Talks of His Wild Leap From @ Train Near
 Fresno.
STOPPED BY A FENCE.
The Prisoner Talks of His Wild Leap From @ Train Near
 Fresno.
Special Dispatch to The Call.


 LOS ANGELES. Jan. 5.-C. W. Fil- kins. after desperate fight, was taken into custody this afternoon and is to- night en route to the penitentiary. where he will serve five years for bur- glary.
 Filkins is the most shrewd and dar- ing criminal Los Angeles County has contributed in its quota of Folsom in- mates in many day. He was formerly more or less prominent as a real estate operator in Southern California, but it has since been demonstrated that as a side line he followed the profession of burglary and with great success. Fi- nally, however, the police landed him, and then the supposed respectable business man was uncovered as the most sagacious house burglar who had ever operated in this section. It was impossible to get more than one case against him, but he was given the full term when he was sentenced.
 Filkins during his trial received many attentions from Mae de Long, a woman of the half-world. She en- deavored to plan for his escape, but was frustrated in her designs.
 Filkins, however, was more success full. While he was being conveyed to the penitentiary he jumped through the car window of a moving train at Fresno. He had an oregon boot at- tached to his left leg. This impedi- ment did not prevent his getting away. He had plenty of money and must have used it, for his scheme to get away suc- ceeded
 Sheriff Burr did not drop the affair. Filkins was shadowed rom Fresno to this city. For three weeks the Sherif l. -g- . been endeavoring to locate him. Finally they succeeded. and 1t was through the woman who had helped Filkins so much that the escaped convict was at last uncovered in a Wilmington-street lodging house. As soon as it was as- certained to a certainty that Filkins was there a force of i've deputies was detailed to bring him. They proceeded to the house. Under Sheriff Clements and Deputy Mcclure entered from the rear. Filkins was evidently warned, for he made break for the front door and started out. AS soon as he opened it his eyes rested on three stalwart Deputy Sheriffs. They all drew re- volvers and ordered him to hold up his hands.
 For reply he stepped back into the house and slammed and locked the door. He then ran down the hall into side room, lodging Clements and Mcclure, and jumped through a win dow. They followed, and Mcclure fired at him. Filkins was caught like a rat in a trap. for he could not scale the back fence. He threw up his hands and surrendered. He was con- veyed to jail. and at 10 o'clock this evening Mcclure started with him for the penitentiary. Sheriff Burr accom- panies him.
 Filkins curses his fate, but still states with the same insistency that he showed before that he will not serve his sentence.
 Before the train left for the north tonight Filkins consented to tell a brief story of his experiences. After he jumped through the window near Fresno he lay in a haystack hidden for a day and a half. Then at night he dragged himself to a blacksmith shop and filed the Oregon boot off. He then took a brake beam ride to Por- terville. Thence he proceeded to Tip ton. and. boarding a Southern Pacific train, arrived in Los Angeles on Christmas eve on a brake beam. He has since been living with the woman, moving about in various parts of the city. If the officers had been five min utes later he would have been gone, for he had his effects all packed ready to jump to Arizona.