Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-05-15 | Page 4 | Escaped Convict's Crime and Sensational Capture

ESCAPED CONVICTS CRIME AND SENSATIONAL CAPTURE Thrilling Story of British Br t sh Murderer Murder Who Stew Slew S H Husband band of Former Sweetheart Sw ethe rt Special Cable to The London May 14 A thrilling tale of the adventures and misdeeds of an escaped which do credit to the pages of the most sensational dime novels comes conies from Gateshead where Thomas Craig the hero heio of the story was arrested in the loft of a barn b am m after wandering wat dering through the country for three weeks during which time he killed the husband of his I former sweetheart Craig was sentenced about a year ear ago to serve seven years on the charge of burglary While in prison he sent numerous letters to his sweetheart Annie Walker her to wait for him and threatening to kill her if It she married anyone else But the girl girlin in inthe Inthe the meantime had met and married a aman aman man by the name of Thomas Hender Henderson son Three weeks ago Craig escaped from prison and he immediately made his way to his sweethearts dwelling He learned of her and uld traced her to her new home where he sur surprised surprised ur the young oung couple as they were hanging pictures After a few tew words of ot denunciation he drew a revolver and shot his rival in the back killing him instantly Mrs Henderson was Wa wounded but not dangerously Craig dashed out of the house and wandered through the woods for three weeks always managing to elude the police and now and then descending on a farmhouse at night to replenish his larder Yesterday six Gateshead policemen and twenty constables met at Cor Corbridge Corbridge Corbridge bridge and began a drive of the farms around They searched ed several plantations and then heard that a cowman and his wife named Gilbert Gilbertson son had bad picked some cigarettes up from the straw in the cow yard at Dilston DUston farm The farmer said that he lie had seen een no one about but Police Constable Reid of ot the Gateshead force began searching the place He and the farmer and Detective Johnston Johnst n climbed up to the loft ani Reid point pointing ing to a heaD heap in the corner carner said ald Theres a bag Theres no bag its only some straw said sald the farmer Reid stepped quietly to the corner found that the I heap was a man lying bin face downward I nearly buried in straw and ad gripped hold of him The man woke wol c and as he rolled over Reid Reia saw that he was Craig the tho hunted man Craig tried quickly to pull his revolver from his Docket but the two constables grappled him held him J im down dowl disarmed and handcuffed him They found that his revolver was wasP loaded in all five chambers and that th the he had some loose cartridges in his pocket Near him were lying bins battles of whis whisky ky 10 brandy and beer which he had ad stolen from houses he had broken into