The Washington times., 1908-07-19
RAYMOND TO FIGHT
\ TO RETAIN LIBERTY
Libeler of Commissioners
VIII Charge Faulty
Conviction. ~
TELLS OF LIFE
AS A FUGITIVE
Travelled With Faithful Wife Over
Entire Country, Until Arrest
ed in St. Louis.

Albert n. Raymond, who was brought
back to Washington yesterday after
wandering about the country for three
years, a fugitive from justice with a
five-year sentence hanging over his
head, does not intend to go 10 Atlanta
penitentiary without putting up a fght
for freedom.
Tomorrow morning his counsel. VIII
liam z. Ambrose, will ask for a writ
OF habeas corpus in the District SD
preme Court. baslng the petition upon
alleged irregularities IN the records OF
the case.
Although broken In health, and aged
ten years in appearance during the
three years which he has spent wan
dering about the country, a hunted
man, Raymond stu has fight in him.
He will go down still battling for his
freedom. And aided by the faithful wife
who remained by his side through thick
and thin. he will inaugurate q contest
in the Supreme Court which holds out
a chance. even though IL is a slim one,
Of liberty.
Used Own Name
time he was away from Washington did
he go under an assumed name. and he
laughs at the washington police, ridi-
culing what he calls their slowness. He
spent three weeks in washington in
August, 1906, he says. visiting friends.
and his usual L4unts, making no effort
10 hide himself. He declares that he
even went so far as 10 apprise the At
torney General and Lieutenant Falvey,
of the Ninth precinct, OF his presence in
the city.
Raymond's arrest in St. Louis by the
police OF that city was a most exciting
one. He was detected at the postoffice,
whittier he went with his wife 10 re-
ceive mail of the Devara Art Company,
which he and another man started as q
| school for portrait painting.
Sitting in a little ante-roOm OF the
marshaTs office at City Hall. just be
fore he was taken TO the District jail,
he told the story OF his long flight TO a
| Times reporter. BY his side sat his
wife and SOC, the former occasionally
refreshing his memory as TO places they
| had been.
She, too, exhibited the same unbroken
spirit that characterized the man who
! three years ago was sentenced 70 i've
years in the penitentiary for nbeling
the District Commissioners by impun-
ing their honesty in widely distributed
| circulars.
Went to New York.
when 1 left washington 1 went d.
rectly TO New York" he said. and
from there I took a trip Ito Galveston,
! Tex. My health has been roOr for the
/ past twenty years. 1 have suffered
| from lead poisoning, and 1 was advised
/ that the climate of Texas would be
| beneficial.
! From Galveston 1 went TO Santa Fe
/ N NJ After a few months there my
health picked up a little, and came
| North-to New York, whence I came
| TO washington. That was in August
1906 I remained here three weeks
And let me tell you. II the police
Of washington wanted me very badly
they we're dead slow II they did not
take me then. Why, I wrote to Lieuten
ant FaIvey, OF the Ninth precinct, and Il
the Attorney General that 1 was IL
town, yet they never disturbed me
From this city I went TO New Yorl
again. I had plenty Of money, enough
that I did not have TO worry, and
went to Texas again. this time TO Hou
stOn. I was but a few weeks ther'
when I went to New Orleans TO trans
act some business, and there l wa
joined by Mrs Raymond. That wa
| In the early part Of 1907, and she IA
been with me ever since. I laugh
painting in that city, and lived yer,
| comfortably On my earnings until
had to give il DIP on account Of tn
lead poisoning which has been the ban
. Of my existence. Besides what 1 hay
/ -
, since I first left Washington.
Wife Became Ill.
ITO make our troubles greater m
) wife became sick, too. and we went I
} Houston, and then when sire got better
to San Antonio. and later to Los An
, geles. In a few weeks We went Z
5 Portland. Ore, and 1 settled down
2 teaching once more. For a whole yea
we stopped at one hotel in that cit!
receiving mail in my own name, Yet n
one ever disturbed me
. ''It may seem strange, but In all thes
months neither my wife nor myself Ia
feared that 1 would be arrested.
was not the dread Of detection tha
drove me from place to place, as som
Emay mink We went TO those place
which were beneficial TO our health.
The constant teaching made n
worae, and to secure the bracing effeC
S of a sea trip we took a boat to Sa
= Francisco. Unfortunately the weatht
8 there was unfavorable, and the bubon
plague was beginning to appear. w
left without delay, going first 10 Kan
sas City, thence 20 Topeka and the
I ! to St. Louis
r I'VE were in ST. Louis three month
= before I was arrested. With A /
. | Devara I was organizing a school Il
portraiture. We had a hundred pupil
! and received $3.50 an hour from eac
Q for Lessons. Il had beer planned
: open up July 10. but 1 was arreste
O before that.
n Door Broken Down.
IT wan TO say right here that IL wa
: owing TO no keen work on the part {
the police of st. Louis that I was al
y rested. 1 went to the postofice one da
TO secure the mail for the school. Nj
wife was with me. Just as she weI
UP 20 the delivery window 1 observe
two men in the darkness of a corner.
II overheard one OF theEi say distinc
". There they are" My wife did nj
think it meant anything, but was Sun
e we were being Swallowed and thought
II changing our lodging house the nel
!, day
q I'VE had retired for the night. an
l. had just heard the clock in a toWC
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