The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-06-20
W|FE'S FORTUNE
HAD No CHARMS
Amid Prosperity Young
Husband Skips
HAS TWO LIVING WIVES

4.irty-EIyc-Year-Old Man Leaves
Wife I'm Birmingham and Marrles
Fifty-Six-Year-OId Woman in Tam
pa Worth $4,000 or 5000 and
When She is About to Buy Him a
Shoe Store He Leaves-Causht in
Pawtuckett and Brought south
Escapes al Norlina and Goes to
Spring Hope, Where He Lands Job.
But is decentralization Whis-
key and Horses"
w. F. Pounds, recently of Tampa,
Florida, and more recently a prospec-
tive m of the police force of
the town of Spring Hope, North Car
DINA, was in the city yesterday, golng
back to Florida in the custody Of
Deputy Sheriff George A. Bell, of
HillsborO county. to be tried for
bigaIny. Pounds evidently does not
like married life and money is no
inducement, as the last object of his
affections, though endowed with a
fortune ranging from $50, 900 to $780,
900, was unable to keep him l. Tam
pa, which is termed the town to tie
TO- Instead of tying to Tampa,
POund broke all bonds and left, in
spite Of the fact that his spouse was
about to put up the money to buy
him a shoe store. Being twenty-One
years his senior, she felt an interest
in him and was going to 90 a good
part by him., having given him a GER
tilted check for $462 to close an OPP
ton on a stock. Instead OF doing
this. the young man. who is only
thirty-five years old, caShed the check
and left town.
Had a Wife in Birmingham.
Sometime last summer, while living
In Birmingham. Pounds was married,
but he only lived with his wife five
months, at the expiration of which
time he went to Tampa, where he Sc
cured a position in a shoe store as
clerk. He later fell in love with a
ffty-six-year-old widow and they
We're married. The lad is said to
be worth between $4,000 and $780,
600, n after their marriage she de-
cided to buy Pounds a shoe store. She
gave him a check for $462 to secure
an option and he got the check cashed
and left, going first to Havana, Cuba.
1t was suggested that Pounds
showed poor sense-that he ought to
have stayed with his rich wife long
enough to have her bestow more
money on him, but this suggestion
was knocked out by the theory that
his former wife might have gotten
on to his whereabouts
Escapes From Cuban Authorities.
Pounds was captured in Cuba, but
while the authorities were negotiat-
ing about giving him up to the Flor
ida authorities he sailed away from
Cuba and migrated to the unsettled
land Of Mexico. Pounds evidently
likes adventure and he has already
proved himself game"
Strikes Out For North.
After remaining IN Mexico a while
Pounds decided to so north, SO he
struck out for New York and later
went to PaWtucket, Rhode Island
where he was captured. The uthor
ties in Tampa were notified and Dep
uty Bell went after the prisoner, who
acted in a very dOcile manner unit
they reached Norlina.
Deputy Talks to Raleigh Girl-Pris-
Oner Escapes.
While the train on which Pounds
and the deputy sheriff was passing
NOrlina at low speed, the deputy was
questioned by a Raleigh girl relative
to a certain train. The deputy, dis
playing true Southern chivalry, went
over to where the young lady sat, SC
the story goes, and engaged in a con
VersatiOn with her. AS Pounds had
been acting in q very becoming man.
ner and had not made any attempt tc
escape. he was not handcuffed.
While the deputy was in conversa-
ton with the Raleigh girl, the prison
er dived out the window. feet fore.
most and struck out through the
woods.
On to Spring Hope.
The deputy is left in the backgroun,
Tor the time being and the movement
of the prisoner are traced. LeaVin.
the train. he went on toward Mas
county, finally arriving at Sprin
Hope. There he told it that his healtI
mad broken down, that he was tryln
the out-of-door treatment and that h
was on a walking journey from New
York to Atlanta. He said he Wante