WAUPACA 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 18, 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.”