The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-06
Absconder King Will Throw Hiniss1f Upon
 Mercy of the Court
7Continaed from Paga one)


 into Chicago, A lapse of about a week occurs when it was reported that lie was seen upon the streets of New York with his mrstaehe entirely shaved of. He was next traced to hiladelphia4 In St. Io7sss, as a book agent the police fe2rzed today King had been ern5nentIy successful but the cos1ssa1at fear Of detectson- which haunted him throughout his travels c1't Ve hin to a biai .al r1Ii lehat appar- 2 stltly landed R Ea siEl Vanaouxer. B. G.. svshere he vas suabecteafk !, ys canadia n ssatlnorit rities and only escaned capture through his own suspicion of 'sshad- 9ws put upon his trah He returned hss- IT, V of Chic ago and New York
 When 1t was stated that Attorney Aips had been making a living as q book agent his local friends wondered n osN he came to go into the business. Those who were intimate with him in the old days however, regarded It as the most natural course for him to pur- sue-tA Attorney King always has been a.egrsat. reader He is familiar with the works Of the best authors and. when he was suddenly confronted with inc problem of making a living he ! tried to get a position as book agent
 He secured 9. place with Dodd, Mead & Co., prorniRent New York publish CTS. to represent them as agent in estern territory He had 8 contract hx which he was to receive small sslarH and fcornn1ission on all books he sold. The publishers were putting, o'st special editions of fayor.te authors and the lawyer undertook to sell these editions y It sis said that he met with considerable success. too
 SheriT Pease said. this nlorning that. the message. from Attor2ey King late yesterday Jaftarnoon ca he as a sur pT se me saerin was at his home 44l.i 44l..i Fs1-feld when the lawyer te1ephonedf frtsrn New York to the jail Attorney King talk ed with Deputy Ja1ler D. E. 0 Neil and. asked him to have the snersr meetsthe 6:27 train from New Work Tn case Sheriff Pease could not he on hand the lawyer asked that Deputy Sheriff Thomas J Cunningham be sent.
 Word. was then sent to Attorney Gray and to members or the King family Attorney Gray. Sheriff Pease and Marshall F2sng son of the lawyer, < efe at the station when-t the train ar rived After brief greetings the party hurried to an attom obi1e ins which the lawyer was rushed to the county jail NO one at the station appeared to rec ognize the short stocky pan with the flowing beard.
 The trip to the jail was not marked 1,y- much conversatfon Attorney King did not say much about his absence exc6pf to remark that he had IraNe4ieu considerably and was glad to be back Fae said his health was fairly good @
 It is about ten weeks since AAttoTs- nsr King caused a sensation by his sudden flight His departure follow ed closely upon certain disclosures which seemed to indicate that the lawyer. had been guilty of irregular dealing in real estate transactions-
 The two counts upon which the bench warrant was Issued concerned two alleged forged endorsements on rno4-tgage deeds. One of these was a deed given by Frank Saun of Fairfield fo Samuel KeeIef Of Ridgefield in re- 41Irn for a loan Of s1 TOO. Saum de- caared afterward that the endorse naent was not his. The other count was a forged endorsement on a mort eaAse given by former Postmaster F. w S. Pickett and Attorney King to samuel KeeIer. The amount in this case was $1s000.
 Cther persons who had business transactions with the lawyer said he had rnisappropriate their funds and these charges caused the total of his shortage to increase.
 A few weeks ago the grievance com nittee of the Fairfield County Bar enfed atpetition in the superior court 1 asking that Attorney King be ordered to appear and show cause why he should not be disbarred. The same charges mentioned ih the bench war rant were cited. This petition was on this weeks assignment list in the superior court but was not reached