The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-11

followed to Evergreen, Montgomery,
Wetumpka, Sylacauga, where he fl !
nally learned that Mr.. and Mrs. Bob |
Blackwell had left the previous Sat
urday after receiving telegram
Then back to Montgomery, Evergreen
and Repton-blind trails mainly; he
finally learned that Bob had left his
fathers home and gone to his Uncle
Steve's on Burnt Corn creek; and of
his subsequent flight disguised as an
automobile mechanic. Moore then
went to Alexander City and the trail
began to grow warm. He received
word that Bob and his wife were go
ing to meet at Tallassee to go to
Mexico; he had Marshal Cannon
watch the train at Tallassee while he
made a 100-mile circle-back trip
through the country in an automobile
to cut him off on the other end. When
he reached his objective he learned of
Bob's arrest at Tallassee.
Moore declared that Bob told him
he had not been in Florida since July
and was able to prove it.
Brands Charge False.
The charge of bribery he described
as absolutely false. He didn't see.
Bob drop any key on the floor or get
any key off the floor.
Describing the famous getaway of
Will, the detective said that Sheriff
Sutton was the only man on the front
seat of the Ford and was driving the
car; while he was seated on the rear
seat with the two prisoners, cuffed
together, Wills right hand to Bob's
left. VIII was seated on the left
hand side of the machine, Moore on
the right. AS the machine was pull
ing into DeFuniak at about a fifteen
mile clip, Will suddenly shot from
the car; Moore shouted to Sutton and
! the brakes ground on; Moore looked
! through the back windw and saw Will
! rolling on the ground from the i'm
+ petus of the fall. He had almost
leaped head on into a telegraph pole.
! Sutton Selling Bob, Moore started in
pursuit. Moore gained on him a lit
I tie and had the detective not fallen
{ over a stump might have caught him.
! viii Circled around some railroad
cars on spur siding and plunged
into a blackjack thicket. Moore fired
at the fugitive three times.
The detective described how he and
the sheriff locked Bob up; how they
tried to get dogs; how they alarmed
the country. He described the search
and the clues he followed. He told
how he had traced the fugitive to
Preacher Brascher's house and other
places, sometime missing him by only
a few minutes, until finally he ran
him to earth in Williams smoke
house at Holt, with a possee consist
ing of Dan Cobb, Alexander RIGHT
bourg, Henry King and J. P. Stokes
then state attorney. Their lnforma-
ton was sure and they surrounded
the smokehouse. The night was dark
Moore opened the door and struck q
match. He saw a barrel and q cup
board. He craned forward, and in
the flicker of the match he saw Will
Blackwell's feet behind the little cup
board. He ordered him to come out
and bound him with wire to Alex
Richtbourg-there were no handcuffE
in the crowd. Moore was armed with
Wills own shotgun.
/ Wills condition, the detective de
scribed as frightful. He found the
fugitive's shoes on a sill under the
| Williams house-one of them was
thickly clotted with blood from the
gunshot wound inflicted by the vic
tim of the tragedy of Green Pond
: the shot fired by young Sutton, broth
er of the sheriff, who, Will declares
sold him the chance to escape.
Will Bad Prisoner.
Asked if he was friendly to the
r prisoner Will Blackwell, Mr.. Moore
said pointblank that he was not anC
had not been, since the recapturt
, when Will had cursed and iaEslltel
him in every way imaginable. Moore
: said he had on various times curseC
VIII Blackwell, but only when tina
gentleman started it.
Detective Moore and Bob Blackwes