Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-02-18

lie craved warming drink ana
more substantial food After dark h.
entered the village and found lunch
wagon near the railroad station IL
was while eating In this roadside cara.
vansary that he overheard two men
gossiping about the $1,000 reward Of
fered for his recapture.
ut was a daring escape" said the
man next him. The newspapers all
wrote IL mp In fine style and announced
that the police would pay the reward
asked Constable Miklejohn about Ii.
and he told me that soon description
and his pictures would be In the hands
or every police office everywhere"
Montgomery finished his meal In 81
lence. paid for IL from the money he
had brought with him from prison and
departed
He realized that within a week or
ten days he would not dare show his
face to a police officer ia city or VII
lage. He would have to get beyond
the police net II he could. 1t would
take time for him 10 grow a beard and
change his appearance. He would
seek refuge in part Of the country
where villages and towns were not so
closely crowded together. In some re-
mote corner be could. perhaps. secure
for himself some little social standing.
Just enough to feel as II be had some
identity other than that written In the
police records. He would willingly
work his hands TO the quick I'm any
form OF honest toll for this boon
He secured time table at the rail-
road station and. finding that a south
ern express paused there. bought a
ticker to Richmond. Va.
On the train he secured copies OF the
New York newspapers and read the
accounts OF the search for the escaped
convict In all OF the stories reference
was made TO the fact that he was an
expert machinist. and he felt that the
police would surely look for him among
those OF his craft His heart sank with
in him. His craft was To bring him the
means by which some day his name
would be cleared so that he would
have the inestinable boon OF moving
without Il police shadow at his heels.
OF living i'm the open and or doing his
best In the struggle or life.
Montgomery fingered in Richmond
for several days. taking "A humble lodg
ing in cheap boarding house and
gradualS equipping himself with
modest wardrobe. He lived with
strictest economy. boarding his scanty
supply or money He yearned for a
chance 10 work with his hands, but he
feared 10 show himself i'm the daytime
as yet At the END OF a week he learn
ed from an afternoon paper that the
local police had posted circulars offer
ing u reward for his capture He saw
MS own picture on the front page o.
the paper and under 1t close and ac-
curate description OF himself He
would have TO move on.
He did not return To his lodging
house for the little supply OF clothes
he had gathered though he had paid
for his room in advance. He knew
that every other city in the country
would soon be added 10 the police
paved streets for the quiet and seclu-
sion of country roads. In IA section OF
the city where the poorer people did
their shopping he bought a tin OF meat
and box OF crackers. He still had
$50, and he would have spent the most
of il for kit OF tools. but he did not
dare run the risk He managed to
I'll IL ntt..sr
outfit. light hammer. resin. a spool
of wire and few other essentials for
Il tinker's outfit He made "A light pack
and as night was falling found his
way southwark out OF the city. Ii
was summer, and he could sleep in
barns and stables or in the open dur
ing fair weather He determined to
travel Oh foot by night and sleep by
day until his beard was fully grown.
Into the lower bay or New York
came yelling one OF the highest tides
of the early summer. Higher and
higher the water rose until the nests
OF the marsh fowl hoated away and
only the top OF the New Jersey sedge
was TO be seen. The highest OF the
hummocks in the meadows was Gov
cred. With the turning of the tide
their gatherings OF spindrift were re-
turned TO the waters whence they came
and Athe dead friend of Montgomery
1oated from Newark bay through the
Kill Won Kull TO the harbor OF New
York
Among the scores of telephone re-
ports from HarbOr Squad A at Pier
No. /. North river. during this busy
season OF the year for the men on the
police boats. one read, Body of con
vict found floating near Tompkinsville.
Staten Island Sent TO morgue"
This report was made direct to cen
tral Office. Mike Kearney was pepar-
ing new circular TO send broadcast
and stimulate interest in the reca pture
OF James Montgomery when the desk