The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-08-13
HERMANN WENDT
CAPTURED AGAIN
ESCAPE FROM M'NEIL'S ISLAND Is
NOW IN OLD SUIT OF
STRIPES.

Hermann Wendt, the convict who
escaped from the United States peni-
tertiary at McNeirs island, Friday
noon, was captured Sunday after be-
Jig out lacking a few hours of two
days. He had not got off the island
and was taken into custody on the
bluffs of the western shore, where the
island is separated from the main
land by a narrow passage. Guard
Smith of the pepitentiary and H. Ref
Of Seattle, game warden of King
county, made the capture. Wendt made
10 resistance and took his recapture
with equanamity. He was taken to
the penitentiary and placed in a dark
cell.
Wendt seemed to have Jared much
better during his days of freedom this
time than when he escaped a few
months ago. From all appearances he
had suffered but little from hunger,
having foraged to good purpose in
abandoned cabins and old logging
camps on the islands. Orchards in
bearing and raw garden truck also
furnished subsistence.
Found Suit of Old Clothes.
When captured Wendt had changed
his stripes for suit of old clothing he
had found in a cabin, mile and a half
from the penitentiary half an hour
after he had fled from the prison yard
Friday. The man went about his es
cape in methodical manner and in
another day might have got clear of
the island. When taken Tito custody
mer and two knives. With these it
was his intention to construct raft
with which to escape to the mainland.
When the hunt began for Wendt
Friday at noon he was traced to the
cabin where lie changed his clothing.
Leaving his striped suit at the cabin
with a note tucked in it to the warden
Of the penitentiary telling him that he
(WendD had a good suit of clothes
now and could keep warm. Wendt
made straight across the island to
the beach opposite Long Branch.
Guard Got There First.
Arriving on the bluffs overlooking
the narrow channel separating him
from the mainland he found guard
from the prison had got there ahead of
him and was patrolling the Narrows
in rowbOat. Then turning back into
the forest he zigzagged across the ISL
and to point opposite Anderson ISL
and. There he climbed down the bluff,
but it seems was scared quickly back
into thick cover and was lost All day
Saturday he lay in shelter somewhere
near the center of the island, and was
Lot seen nor was any trace of him
found by the two score men who were
ransacking every conceivable hiding
place. 1t is supposed that along toward
dusk Saturday he again went back to
the bluffs overlooking the Narrows.
Cabins are scattered through the for
ests of the island and in some of these
he got bedclothing and passed the
night III an old abandoned shack half
a mile from the point where he was
taken.
Light GIinted On His Saw.
At daylight yesterday Chief Deputy
Marshal Crosby, who had charge of
tiary accompanied by Guard Alvion
Smith and special deputies, Ref and
Wise. They followed the road across
the island to the Narrows. On APP
preaching the water they separated,
Smith and Ref going in one direction
and Crosby and Wise taking another
road in order to cover more territory.
AS Ref and Smith were following
road through the forest, they were at
tracted by the CLEAN of light on steel
the same time they saw Wendt. He
was coming in their direction Teter-
ing on his shoulder was the saw they
had seen. Stepping into the brush they
waited until the convict was almost
opposite them in the road
HoIIlllI tueH SleppeQ Out OIL the DfuSh
and covering Wendt with his rifle.
said:
What are you going to do, Wendt-
go into the logging business?'
Wendt gave a quick glance at the
two guards and laughed. Got me dead
| to rights, didn't you. And with the
goods on me. Sure I was going into
the logging business. Are you fellows
looking for job"
Wendt made no resistance and
walked back to the penitentiary. Be-
yond looking little thinner 10 change
was noticed in his appearance.
The searchers returned from the ISL
and yesterday afternoon. The blood
hounds of Bob Hodge of Black Dia-
mond were unable to track Wendt.
Hodge remained out all Saturday
night with his dogs vainly trying to
follow the trail, but the tracks last
found of Wendt We're more than a
day old and a slight rain had fallen
to kill the scent.
The search for Wendt has been the