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Show E SCAPED INSANE MAN IS CAPTURED IN 2ION Al Pollock Must Now Go Back to the Asylum at Blaokfoot, Idaho. Salt Lake, an. 28. Confiding to a number of strangers whom he met in the Boston block, that he had perfected perfect-ed a life-preserver for avlator9 that was destined to make, aerial navigation naviga-tion as safe as driving an automobile, Al Pollock, who escaped from the insane in-sane asylum at Blackfoot.Idaho, about three weeks ago, caused a flurry of excitement In tho big orrtce building for a time Thursday afternoon. Pollock whispered confidentially to ,a number of persons that he had a collapsible, col-lapsible, double-action apparatus, patterned pat-terned along the lines of an umbrella, that would bring any aiator to the earth easily and not in too much of a hurry. Pollock claimed to have a working model In his card case, and announced his willingness to Jump from the top of tho Boston ulock to prove the efficiency of his machine. Just before Pollock was ready to make Mb leap. Detectives Jrlfiln and Egbert arrived on the scene In response re-sponse to a hurrp-up call sent to police headquarters. Botu detectives offered to Invest In the safety parachutes para-chutes and took Pollock to policG headquarters to sign the papers. He was placed in the padded cell aud will be returned to the Idaho aBylum. |