A special dispatch from here to Monday’s Charlotte Observer says “Otto Wood, escaped convict, blew into his old home community late last night, and spent today “joy riding” over the Boone Trail, eight miles west of this city.
Wood escaped from the state prison concealed in a box car two weeks ago. Since that time he has been sought by officers all over this state as well as in adjoining states. He was serving a long term for the murder of A.W. Kaplan, Greensboro pawnbroker. From the time of his sensational get-away, Wood has eluded officers of the law. He has been reported to have been in a number of cities in the Carolinas during the past week, but it is difficult to determine whether or not these reports were authentic. But Wood was certainly in Wilkes County Saturday night and all from the best information obtainable from those who have known him from the days of his youth, and who have resided for years in the Dellaplane section of this county, where he was born, the escaped convict arrived at a late hour last night. From what part of the state he traveled is not known. He talked to several “citizens of Dellaplane section just before his arrival, it is reported,” says this dispatch, which goes on to assert that he is driving a Dodge sedan.
Caught
Statesville, Dec. 7—Otto Wood is spending tonight in Iredell County jail. The arrest was made without resistance this afternoon just south of Mooresville.
From the front page of the North Wilkesboro Hustler, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 1925
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