The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-12-11
Carl O. Carlson Tells Sher-
if Meyer the Secret Of
Loveday's Escape From
Many Prisons.
EASY TO FOOL OFFICERS
carlson Says That officers Rarely #
Ever Suspect Belts Of Prisoners
Tells Story of Kenosha Crime AL
over Again On Way 70 Prison.

Carl o. Carlson, who went to the
tate prison for life term with Sheriff
Joseph Meyer yesterday, spilled the
beans and relieved the curiosity Of Ke-
nosha officials as to the manI in
which Earl Loveday and himself e An
aged to get saws into the prisons in
Kenosha and Clearwater.
sold Bill Collins didn t help Love
day bit in getting away, was the
statement Of Carlson to the sheriff.
When Loveday went into Jail at Hot
Springs, he had implements to escape
and all he had to do was to wait for
the right time to use them. OF course,
] know that the police searched Love
day and they searched me down at
Clearwater after i was arrested, but
just the same both of us had saws and
Loveday used his successfully. I don t
mind telling one of the secrets now.
The saws Loveday had and the saws
! had were sewed up in the belts we
W5.a roul the waist.
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Long while ago we sewed those
saws into the belts and it would have
taken d better expert than an average
police officer or sheriff to discover them.
] know that Loveday had three saws
in his belt when we were together. He
kept them there all the time and it was
strange that no one ever thought of
looking for them. After we were in
jail it was an easy matter to rip open
the belt and get the saws and go right
ahead with the saving. We didn t
claim any patent on the plan and it is
one that lot of men cleverer than we
have used. I haven It doubt but that
this is the way that Loveday got out
of the Kenosha lookup. don t believe
that old Bill Collins helped him at ALL
regardless of the fact that he was will
ing to help
Chatters on Way to Prison.
Carlson kept up continuous rapid
lre of talk from the time he left Ke-
nOsha until he was registered at the
state prison. He told the sheriff tho
whole story of the Kenosha crime and
reiterated the fact that Loveday had
killed Pingatore and that Loveday
knew that he was going to be forced
60 stand trial on a charge of burglary
and murder.
II don u believe that it will be very
easy to get Loveday. You wouldn It
know him if you should see him
today declared Carlson. stLoveday s
best disguise is wig, He always
wears it when travelling and | was
surprised that they did not find one on
him. Loveday will beat it at once to
South America and / wouldn,t be sur
prised to know that he is now on the
ocean. He knows the ropes down
there and will have no trouble finding
someone to give him refuge. Love
day knows that I have told my story
and it is going to take mighty clever
detective TO get him.
Gertz "Just on visit. -
Carlson did not know his companion,
Gertz, and he was given to understand
that Gertz was on his way to prison
for visit. Gertz was just as talka-
tive as Carlson on the trip and the fact
that he showed a mighty intimate
knowledge of the underworld in Chi.
cago and its denizens led the sheriff
to believe that possibly after all his
trip to Kenosha might not have been
his first excursion along criminal lines.
Both of the men had been put to
work in the prison before Sheriff Mey-
er left the institution late Tuesday af-
ternoon.