Statesville, Dec. 8—Otto Wood, prison-breaker and slayer, was still in Iredell county jail this morning awaiting orders from prison officials at Raleigh as to his return to State prison, following his quiet capture near Mooresville yesterday.
Wood told newspaper men last night that he was en route back to State prison at the time he was arrested. He said he spent the week-end past with friends in Wilkesboro.
Since his getaway from the penitentiary two weeks ago, the prisoner said that he had been through South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. He told officers that it was in West Virginia, where he visited his mother, that he decided to return to prison upon her insistence.
From the front page of The Albemarle Press—A Stanly County Weekly of Character—Published Every Thursday. Dec. 10, 1925
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