Imperial Valley press., 1914-08-17
PAVEY'S RECORD
WAS A LONG ONE

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ounterfeiter convict. leadec i'll dcl-
en- desperate attempts at jail dcliv-
cries, himself twice escape from fed
eral custody and later reported dead,
David Ellsworth, alias David Latin,
alias d. l.. Pavey, was taken into GUS
tody at Ell Centre yesterday on the
instructions of Special Treasury
Agent Hazen of this city, on the
charge of counterfciting. The arrest
was made by Sheriff Meadows of
Imperial county. A complete coun-
terfeiting plant was found in his
room and seized.
Since Ellsworth's escape from the
Arizona penitentiary at Florence in
December, 1912, Special Agent Hazen
has been on the lookout for the man,
in spite of the fact that he was re-
ported to have perished on the des-
ert. Instructions were sent to Sher-
iff Meadows, on the belief that he was
operating near Ell Centro.
Ellsworth is nephew of w. A.
Pavey, highly respected citizen OF
Springfield, Ill. Of the twenty five
years that he has been on the Pa
ciic coast he has spent twenty-five be-
hind prison walls. He was at one time
a druggist, but got into bad COM
pany, and in 1889, at Spokane, was
sentenced to twenty years in the pen
| itentiary at Walla Walla for the mur-
Ger OF his partner. He was pardone1
on August Is, 1902, after spending
| thirteen years in prison, and had tax
en- part in half a dozen unsuccessful
efforts to escape.
He then took up the counterfeiting
gam, and on December 2, 1902, was
arrested at Santa Barbara, after hav-
| ing been out of confinement only
since the previous August. George w
Mccullough of this city, who at the
time was deputy United States
marshal, went to Santa Barbara fol
the fellow, but in some way Ellsworth
got away. Later on he was arrested
at Ell Paso and brought here fol
trial Under the Santa Barbara charge
He pleaded guilty in the United States
district court and Judge Wellborn sen,
fenced Ellsworth to San Quentin fol
fifteen years. He was afterwaro
transferred to the Florence, Ariz.
prison on the plea that he was troub-
led with tuberculosis. On July 7
| 1911, he WAS paroled from Florence
Tut not until he had signalized his
stay there by creating a panic in thy
big prison one night by in some way
turning out the electric lights, whet
he made an unsuccessful attempt t.
ESCAPE.
But he coulG not stay out of tn,
ooun:e1feiting work. On February Is
1912, having been free but seve,
months, he was again arrested in Tue
son, charged with counterfeiting. HI
was found IN company with an ex
convict, Fred Bender, whom he hac
met ut Florence, and after trial a.
Phoenix Bender was convicted an(
given seven years at Atlanta, Ga.
while Ellsworth was sent back for i;
violation of his parole.
On December II, 1912, Ellsworth
escaped from Florence. He disap
Feared as completely as if the eartl
had swallowed him up. When .
searcning party found lot of hui
man bones on the desert, it was de
clared that he had perished while
trying to make his way to freedom
But Ellsworth was not dead. He i,
some way reached Salem, Ore, where
it appears he entered the Oregon Stat,
tuberculosis hospital. Here he re
mained some time and afterwart
tramped over the state selling an al
legged tuberculosis cure. He came t.
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