King Gilbert04

Waupaca County Post

March 1, 1906

KING GOT AWAY

Sheriff Hess, for the first time in the nearly six years he has been sheriff and under-sheriff, has had a prisoner escape from him. He went to Clintonville last Friday and arrested Gilbert King on the charge of having burglarized the Blue Front restaurant this winter, and was bringing him home by train, when King made his escape. When the train was between Appleton Junction and Neenah, early Saturday morning, King went to the toilet room, and, although the train was running thirty miles an hour, he opened the window and jumped. Sheriff Hess went back after him as soon as he reached Appleton, but was unable to find him. He has notified the officers in various parts of the state to be on the lookout for him, and he will probably be caught in a few days.

Before King got away, he told Mr. Hess that he had been the man who had committed the petty burglaries in this city this winter and he also implicated his elder brother, Herbert King, who was arrested on Friday, and is now in jail awaiting a hearing. Gilbert King is a typical country town tough, never having been known to do a day’s honest toil, spending his time hanging around saloons and bowling alleys. He is described as follows:

“Weight, 155 pounds, height 5 feet 10 inches; age 15, complexion medium, dark hair and has a rather large face. When last seen, Feb. 24, he had on a dark cap, a dark overcoat, with silk lining which he stole from a Wisconsin Central conductor, overshoes, a neck seater with red stripes and a brown belt.

Waupaca Republican

March 9, 1906

SLIPPERY KING CAUGHT

Gilbert King who slid out of the window and escaped from Sheriff Hess was brought to the jail by deputy-sheriff Bellinger of Weyauwega Saturday. The Sheriff had informed the station agent at Medina Junction to be on the watch for the fellow so Saturday afternoon he wired Mr. Hess that his man was on the afternoon train just off for Waupaca. The Sheriff phoned Bellinger to watch out for him at Weyauwega, and deputy Arthur Hess and the police took charge of possible avenues of escape here in case he was not seen at Weyauwega. But Bellinger found the slippery burglar in an emigrant car, put the wristlet’s on him and brought him right along, where he is safely cared for until a later date for examination.