The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-09-16
ESCAPED FROM
CALIFORNIA PEN
Wants to Go Back There to
Avoid Result of His Crime
in Canada

Ed Davis was taken from Han
nah to Langdon this afternoon and
will be lodged in the Cavalier =
county jail tonight. Miss Price .
left Manitou, Man., about 3 o'clock =
this afternoon, and will arrive in
Langdon about 4:30 to identity, II .
possible. the man under arrest. .
s.s . . . .
Hannah, N. D.. Sept. 16.-"Bill"
Miner. who later stated his name is
Ed. Davis, the abductor of Miss
Elenor Grace Price, the Pembina val
10y school teacher, was captured at
the Hallisy farm three miles west Of
this place this morning, after having
eluded the Canadian mounted police
and posse of from 200 to 500 men
since the commission the crime last
Monday which has aroused the whole
southern Manitoba to pitch of ex-
element never before seen. He fell
into q trap laid by farmers and was
arrested with little effort, and few
hours after his capture made q sworn
statement to the effect that he was an
escaped convict from the California
penitentiary. although refusing to
make any confession of guilt in con-
nection with the Manitoba abduction.
Davis had laid aside his gun and
part Of his clothes In q shack on the
Tony Johnson farm near Hannah yes
terday, but spent most OF his timo
yesterday III a. strawstack. This
morning he came. forth and had q
favx yuffh. q ,,o,,n ~ - r,,o - ,,,skx, &t. -
suit that he went to the Hallisy
farm, three miles west Of Hannah,
where breakfast was given. With
Davis at the breakfast table one of
the boys on the farm mounted q
horse and rode. to the nearest tele-
phone. notifying Hannah oficials and
q half hour later. after Davis had
gone to q haymow, an automobile
carrying the. Hannah party arrived.
Surprised in the haymow, and un-
armed, Davis submitted tamely.
James Gleason got the drop on him,
and as Davis held up his hands he
declared that he would not have been
90 easy IL he had been armed, and
that Gleason never would have gotten
the drop on him.
Davis declared that he wanted to
be taken to Hannah instead Of Snow
lake. Man.. evidently fearing violence
should he be taken to the latter city.
In Hannah he was held q prisoner at
the state bank until the arrival of
the sheriff from Langdon,
The Captors.
In the party effecting the capture
Of Davis were G. B. McMillen, Lou
Gardner, Charles Davis, Joseph
Thompson, James Gleason and Jack
May.
Davis seemingly has been on this
side OF the line since Thursday night
or early Friday morning, as the
Johnson farm where he remained
practically all day Friday while
searchers were combing the Pembina
valley district in Manitoba, is half
mile south Of the boundary.
Makes Confession,
Fearful that he would be returned
% Canada and that he would have to
face the anger Of the southern Mani
toba posses that have been searching
for him brought from the captured
man confession shortly before noon
today In which he declares his right
ful name is Ed Davis, that he is an
escaped convict from the California
penitentiary and that he is willing to
return there to complete a thirty
three year sentence for highway rob-
berry. His statement made before G.
.. McMillen, follows:
The Statement
Said Davis being by me first duly
sworn, deposes and says that he is
about 80 years Of age and that he is
the one and the identical person who
was. on or about the year 1901, SEN
fenced to thirty-three years in the
penitentiary at Folsom, Cal, and that
he served about eighteen months of
said sentence and that on July 27.
1908 he. in company with twelve other
prisoners, escaped from the peniten-
tiary; that he was sentenced to said
California penitentiary for the crime
Of highway robbery; that since that
time this affante has been wandering
and working through this state and
the western provinces Of Canada, and
that Immediately after his said escape
he made his way to Buenos Ayres
where he remained until three years
ago.
Afante further states that on or
about Sept. 16, 1911. at or about the