The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-06-20
BECOMES TIRED OF
DODGING OFFICERS
Man Who Thrilled Kennewick a
Few Years Ago Gives Him
self up to Spokane Police

Many Kennewick people will remem-
Der that about seven years ago local
real estate men were given real
thrill by diaper young man who rep
resented himself to be the millionaire
SON of European nobility and who
came to Kennewick with the expressed
purpose of investing heavily in close
in orchard lands. The young fellow.
who was accompanied by f. F. Fox,
Spokane salesman for the Northern
Pacific Irrigation company, set the
town talking with the plans which he
glibly unfolded for developing a large
tract of choice land which he selected
on the Highlands. Not only was he
going to develop wonderful orchard
on the lands for which he expected to
pay cash, but he was going to build
. veritable palace rs a country home.
What the young fellow really did
do was to steal Mr.. Fox's $500 diamond
pin. What happened to him since
then is told as follows in Fridays
Spokesman-Revicw.
How he walked out Of the county
Jail in 1911 and was happily fright
ened away from town before he could
secure guns and go back and aid three
murderers in escaping was told by Roy
Forget at the county Jail yesterday.
Forget was brought back Wednes-
day from San Quentin. He escaped
here after he had been sentenced for
stealing diamond pin valued at $500
in 1911. The pin belonged to Mrs. F.
F. Fox. Mr.. Fox introduced proof to
show that Mrs. Fox gave Forget the
pin when Forget went to her with an
order and pretended he had been sent
for it. When he escaped from Jail
Herman Roestel complained Forget
obtained $3.50 from his relatives by
pretending Roestel had sent for it.
"They may say that a fugitive has
no trouble, but from the time / got
out Of this Jail was lodging all the
time and felt I was being hunted. Az
ter I left here I did some forging and
have done time for it. I did that be-
cause / would think the officers here
were about to get me and had to haye
money.
II had been placed in the cell with
Paul Klein, who murdered a man at
Fort Wright; Bill Byrd, who killed
three men at Dishman, and Herman
Roestel, who killed his wife. I was
but % years old and these three men
planned to escape. They finally de-
cided that was the one to aid.
"Roestel told me to send for 5000 by
messenger and that we could use it in
the escape. The plan was to get an
automobile. / was to sneak out Of a
door used for handling refuse and
come to the entrance of the Jail with
the auto. was to have the automatic
revolvers and buffalo Murphy, the jail
er, into opening the door. We figured
that if I got the drop on Murphy he
would open the door and I could get
the keys and we could all get away
It was agreed that there was to be no
bloodshed.
Everything started of as planned.
The family sent the money over and
Roestel handed it to me. / was to 60
to hardware store and get the guns,
then rent car.
81 sneaked out of the door and went
downtown. then found there were
no hardware stores open.
"Just then I saw Chef Edwards a
city detective coming my way and I
was certain he saw me. / rented an
automobile and hurried to Occur
d'Alene. / rented launch there and
went to Harrison and hurried on thru
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