Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-11
DECLARE SON IS
NOT IMPLICATED
DAUGHTER OF MRS. MILBURN
SAYS MOORE IS INNOCENT
Police Confident That Mediums Had
Nothing to Do With Mysterious
Death Of Wealthy Real
Estate Dealer
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Jackson county in that state. Accord
ing to the report Of the superintendent,
he was a bad prisoner and 1t was
relief to his custodians when he was
paroled September 1s, 1899, that he
might enlist in the army.
A dispatch from San Francisco Civ
ing the statement of the police Of that
city says:
ut may be supposed that Kent
Moore's services as a, soldier did not
improve his character, as he was ar
rested in Los Angeles for grand lar
ceny, after his discharge from the
army, and October 2, 1901 he was sent
to the Preston reform school. His dis
charge from that institution was eff
fected october IL of the year follow
ing, Then he went to San Francisco,
succeeded in lodging the police for a
while, but was finally arrested and
convicted on the charge of grand lar
ceny. He was sent to Folsom July IL,
1903, from department six of the su-
perior court of San Francisco, the SEN
tence reading ten years. He was then
23 years old.
Disguised as an electric lineman, in
working clothes, Kent Moore walked
out of the penltentiary May II, 1904,
but was recaptured July IL and given
three years additional sentence for his
escape. He is now serving out his
term
An account of Kent Moore's escape
under his prison name, Charles Muir
ray" was given in the Police News
of June 25, 1904, as follows:
Charles Murray, a convict in the
state prison at Folsom, Cal, made one
of the cleverest escapes from that in
stitution that has been engineered In
many years, walking out of the lines
under the very noses of the guards, and
even stopping to chat with them while
en- route to his liberty.
Murray, who was sent up from San
Francisco to serve term of ten years
for grand larceny, had been an inmate
of the prison about a year and was
employed on the rock crusher, which
is located near the railroad track that
leads out of the prison grounds to the
town. He had noticed that the en-
ployes of the Sacramento Electric, Gas
and Railroad company had free en-
trance to the prison along the rail-
road, and he had laid his plan accord
ingly.
This right of the electric linemen
to enter the lines of the prison was
procured by an injunction of the courts
prohibiting the prison authorities from
interfering with employees of the COM
pany while working on the canal or
dam. from which their power was pro-
cured.
Murray i'm some manner procured
suit of old clothes, and while at
work on the rock crusher slipped them
over his convict garb, picked up q
monkey wrench and rule, slipped down
on the railroad track and deliberately
walked up through the prison yard in
the direction of the dam. When he
arrived at that structure, he began
making measurements of certain pipes,
jotting down memoranda as he went
along.
Passing some of the guards he
joked with them and acted his part
so we'll that they became convinced
that he was an employe of the conf
pany Eventually he climbed up on
the dam, took some more measure
ments, frightened up some bolts with
his wrench and then swinging on to a
wire guy that led from a derrick on
the dam to a bank some fifty feet
away, he went hand over hand to the
bank, chatted awhile with a couple Of
guards who were in high guard post
at this point, and then strolled off
over the hills as though on his way to
Folsom.
"This happened about 10:SO o'clock
In the morning, and his escape was not
discovered until the noon lookup oc-
Cured, and an immediate chase after
the escaped convict was Instituted.
He was traced across country in the
direction of the Placerville and Sacra-
mento railroad, but eventually all trace
of him was lost"