Evening journal., 1920-01-01
Lem PRICE EELUDES
POSSES AND DOGS
Continued from First Page

OF the second posse TO leave in an au
tomobile. The members Of this poss
presented picturesque setting in from
Of the City Building early today while
waiting for their automobile to arrive
Each man was heavily clothed and they
had cap visors pulled down over the
eyes. Each man also had shot gun.
State Detective Mccoy. another posse
leader, he'd a consultation with Chief
of Police Black prior to starting out on
his hunt. Detective Mccoy said he had
searched COatesville, Pa. thoroughly
yesterday, but no trace of Price had
been found.
The police dog from Philadelphia, was
taken along by this searching party.
The dog, which followed the trail OF
Price from the workhouse to the rail
road station, at Falkland failed TO
pick up. any scent yesterday, even at
Concordville, where II had been re-
ported a man answering the description
Of Price, had stopped for two nights
and a day. 1t was this fact that has
caused the searchers TO think that
! Price, after boarding a train bound for
Landenberg Pa, at the Falkland sta
! tion half an hour after he escaped, on
Monday, left the train at some north
ern point and proceeded towards Balti-
more or Washington.
II is pointed out that IL Price left the
train east Of Landenberg, he could
have made his way to Newark. where
he could have boarded a south-bound
train.
Deputy Sheriffs Parker and Moore re-
turned TO this city at 9 o'clock last
night when they Informed Attorney
General Reinhardt that they felt sure
the clue they uncovered at the Harvey
greenhouses, near Brandywine Summit
yesterday was a good one. The trail of
the Negro, who had spent two nights
and a day at COncordvllle near the
greenhouses was lost at Chadd's Ford,
Pa. however, and since then no trace
had been found.
According to the statements of the
deputy sheriffs, a Negro answering the
description of Price applied at the
home of Walter Collins, a Negro fire
man, employed on the night shift at
the greenhouses, at $50 o'clock Monday
evening. The man said he was home
less and had been offered employment
at the Sharpless Creamery at St5 a
week but refused to accept ii because
he said he could not secure cheap /
board Collins and his wife gave the !
man his supper and when Collins went |
to work he invited the stranger to go /
with him.
Collins says that the stranger wore /
three pairs of trousers, a rubber collar !
on a shirt without a collar hand and I
had on bad pair Of shoes. The man
said he was wearing large brOgans, but
had discarded them because they hurt
his feet.
Despite the fact that the stranger
was heavily clothed he insisted on
with his clothes on in the hot
houses, although Collins says he asked
him several times to take them off on
account Of the heat
On Tuesday morning Collins invited
the stranger to his home for break
fast and he ate good meal after
which he fell asleep. During the day
Mrs. Collins, who was at work in the
where the man was lying,
was startled when he jumped up from
A couch and said 20, l was dreaming.
thought the Germans were after me-"
The man stayed at the green houses
all night Tuesday and when he left
Early yesterday morning he said he
would return at midnight. Deputy s
Sheriff Parker and his posse were in 6
formed OF the presence Of the strange
Negro IN that vicinity yesterday morn !
ng by Ira Cakes. manager of the
3rOOkheld Farms at COncOrdville, who 9
lad seen the man along the road. He :
described the Negro to the deputy ;.
her'ffs, as did Mr. and Mrs Collins.
md all three identified the pictures of :
Price shown them by the officers az
hat Of the man who had stopped there. y
Oakes says that the man he thought =
vas the murderer had bohrded a !,
wagon of the D. B. Martin Company.
his team had been taken into Chadds b
'Ord. The officers followed the team. !,
eaching Chadd's Ford an hour after
Yards and the driver daid the man no =,
ad hs a passenger had left him at the =
utskirts Of that place. The team
river identified Prices picture as =,
eing that Of his passenger. :,
The posse led by Sheriff Parker was II
oined at Concordville by other posses {
nd search was made of all roads !,
eading to Coatesville, Chadd's Ford and q
ther towns in Pennsylvania. Among h
hose in the posses was r. w. Suddard, II
ormer chief clerk at the Workhouse, Fl
'ho rendered his resignation 20 the b
rustees Of the Workhouse at the meet
lg on Tuesday. Suddard, who released W
rice at the WOrkhouse thinking ne Il
'as a trusiy, remained with the posse oil
nder Constable Tinsman all day in the et
The posses were aided in1p'
leir probe in the different towns by ft
he police and every negro colony was it
thoroughly searched. W
DR.. Clifford J. Scott. a member of the
oard of trustees of the WorkhOuse adj =
lifted today that the humane policy ~
vogue at the institution might be
hanged as a result OF the escape Of
rice. Just what will be done he could
Dt state at This time, but he added that
le trustees planned TO confer with At Iot
rney General Reinhard about It. In.
1.-THE present theory" said Mr.. Scott, IN
n practice at penal institutions of the I
st repute favors humane treatment nv
inmates. There is a likelihood that m,
is can be carried TO exaggeratiOn To
rough administration by officials and bo
this is the fault at Greenbank. it must cel
corrected" IN
Cross last night admitted Of,
at during the past twelve months Nf
'enty-One prisoners who were dis at,
tis6ed with the conditions at the in !
tuition, took French leave" They he,
cluded two murdercrs. Lem Price, me
course, tops the list Of murderers du