The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-18
''DEAD" TWO YEARS. ALBRITTONI ISFOUND IN H0QUIEM, WASH.
GadSden Man, Supposedly Drowned in July, 1920, Fi- naIIy Located and Placed
 Under Arrest

E. s. Albritton, supposed to have been drowned on July 1, 1920, when his car ran over an embankment and into the Tennessee river near Gun tersville, for whose death Mrs. AL britton has been a#arded Judgment against an insurance company for $2,500, and who had over S110,000 in life insurance, pending the outcome of an appeal taken by the company to the supreme court, was brought back to life yesterday, and arrested by Detectives J. B. Coyle and A. Van Arsdale of the Bodeker National De- tective agency of Birmingham, in Hoquiem, Wash.
 A1britton and his captors began their journey back to Alabama last night and will arrive here during the early part of next week, according to wire received by George H. Bode- ker, head of the detective bureau. Albritton has confessed his Identity, the wire said.
 Albritton was arrested under the name of J. D. Ellis, while employed at the Natiyaal lumber mill in Ho- quiem, Wash. He will be charged with conspiracy to defraud upon his arrival here, according to Bodeker.
 Albritton. at the time he was sup posed to have been drowned, was &C., companied in the automobile by Ar thur Elvaredo and a son, Earl AL britton, both of whom reported upon their arrival back to Gadsden that Albritton had been pinned beneath the steering wheel of the car and had drowned, while they narrowly es- capped death.
 Bodeker stated that insurance com- panies with whom Albritton had taken out policies amounting to S115,000, were skeptical of the story told of the death of their client and withheld payment of the policies. After they had employed several pri- vate detective agencies and had failed in their attempts to locate All britton, the insurance companies turned the case over to the Bodeker firm, with the guarantee of hand some bonus in the event the man was arrested within 30 days, this limit to have expired on August 22.
 First Clue Is Found Bodeker stated that rne first clue as to the whereabouts of the long searched for prisoner was obtained by Dan A. Bodeker and was dropped in the form of a piece of paper bear ing the address of the fugitive, by a relative of Albritton in local tele- graph office, as the relative was sending a telegram to Albritton, in Tacoma, Wash. Van Arsdale and Doyle were immediately dispatched to Washington, but with only a meagre description of the man, al- though they arrested him on specific information furnished them from the local headquarters of the firm.
 Albritton is said by the head of the bureau to have had several other aliases and to have received his mail in round about way. Bodeker said that mail matter, it was learned, would be sent from Birmingham and Gadsden to Cleveland. O., thence to Tacoma, Wash, being transferred by relatives who were stationed in those cities.
 Signs Confession
 Bodeker stated thas the prisoner was arrested in Hoquiem about 6 o'clock Wednesday evening, as he was walking toward his residence in that place. He evidently recognized the Alabama detectives, as he sought safety in flight, but was captured about a block away. He was then taken 40 miles through the country in an automobile to Tacoma, where he was positively identified by an agent of the Bodeker firm, who was sta- toned in that city. At this juncture Albritton Is said to have broken down in his bravado and to have signed a written confession and to have agreed to return to Alabama without a warrant or extradition papers.
 Insurance companies interested in the case are the New York Life In surance company, Standard Accident Insurance company, Pacific Mutual Life and several other companies, with whom A1britton is said to have carried policies aggregating s115.000. At the time he was reported to have been drowned, Albritton was proprie- tor of the Etowah Motor company, which went to the wall and bank rupted several leading citizens of Cadsdan