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FOUND IN CAVE—Alert Boys Help Police Capture Escaped ConvictST. PAUL (AP) — Two alert boys who turned sleuth afterreading a newspaper story of the hunt for a fugitive killer brought about the man’s capture Saturday.He is William Raymond Nesbit, 50, who escaped from the South Dakota penitantiary three years ago while serving a sentence for the Dynamite slaying of Harold Baker to cover upa $37,000 jewel robery.Nesbit fled from the home of a prison deputy warden’s home, where as a trusty he was assigned, Sept., 4, 1946.M. B. Rhoades, agent in charge of the Twin Cities office of the FBI, gave a story of the hunt for Nesbit to the St. Paul Dispatch. The newspaper printed the story and a picture of ' Nesbit last Thursday.Two boys read it and, noting the photograph’s resemblance to a man they had seen living in a cave near the Milwaukee railroad tracks, set out to investigate. They went to the neighborhood of the cave Saturday morning. When the occupant emerged, they compared him with the newspaper likeness, then notified the St. Paul police. The latter quickly made the arrest.Nesbit carried a hunting knifebut offered no resistance. At the police station he gave his name as William Raymond Nesbit and said he had ben living in the cave about six months. Previously he had worked in northern Minnesota lumber camps and in the appleorchards of Washington.In the excitement, the police failed to obtain the boys’ names. Chief Charles Tierney ordered his men to look for them. There is a $100 reward awaiting at the South Dakota penitentiary for anyone giving information leading to Nes-bit’s capture.The prison warden, G. Norton Jamson, said Nesbit had been a model prisoner. Nesbit’s life sentence, imposed May 28, 1937, was cut in 1946 to one of 20 years. The man escaped a short time later.
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Albert Lea Sunday Tribune
Albert Lea, Minnesota, US
Sun, Mar 19, 1950
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