Greensboro, Nov. 14—Otto Wood, supposed murderer of A.W. Kaplan, has been caught in West Virginia and is now in jail at Princeton, Mercer county, according to messages received by the Greensboro police.
The one-handed outlaw as apparently captured at Bramwell, a small town in Mercer county, and taken to Princeton, the county seat, for safe keeping.
He is being kept there for the arrival of officers of Greensboro with the $800 reward. West Virginia authorities did not know that the reward had been raised to $1,200.
Greensboro officers have gone to West Virginia to get the man they have been more anxious to catch than any other supposed criminal since the days when Carl Talley led the life of a hunted animal.
First news of the capture of Wood was received in a long distance telephone message from Chief of Police J.M. Harrison of Bramwell. It was later confirmed in a telegram. It was still further confirmed when the Daily News communicated over long distance telephone with Princeton and learned that authorities there are sure they have Wood in prison.
From the front page of The Reidsville Review, Nov. 14, 1923
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