This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: RMurray99 Surnames: COOK, HENRY Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.indiana/6440/mb.ashx Message Board Post: We all have a few misfits within our family trees. Here is one of mine. Ellsworth Cook (1871-1935) s/o Andrew Cook and Rachel McGuire. Husband of Emma Henry (1872-1974) d/o Daniel B. Henry & Rachel Shank News Item - 26 Nov 1902 - Indiana Gazette - ARTFUL MR. COOK CAUGHT - After Twice Escaping Officers of the Law, He is Again in Jail Here - Ellsworth Cook, alias Elias Smith, who escaped from the Indiana county jail in February, and who has baen at large ever since, was arrested at Meyersdale, Somerset county, on Tuesday, November 18. He was brought to Indiana on Thursday by a Johnstown constable. Cook has the distinction of having escaped twice from the officers of the law. He was locked up in the Indiana county jail last December for stealing a cow near Indiana, which he drove to Barnesboro and sold there. He remained in jail until last February, when one day the sheriff's son unlocked the door of the jail to take out a prisoner to help him do some work. While the door was unlocked Cook slipped a wedge into one of the hinges so that it would not close tightly. The sheriff's son closed the door and turned the lock hastily, but it did not slip into place and in a few minutes ! Cook was gone. On the evening of the Republican primary election last March he was arrested at Cookport, During the night Cook made an excuse to leave the house and escaped. He was heard of no more until Sunday November 18, when the postmaster at Berkley's Mills, Somerset county, wrote Sheriff Thompson asking him If there was any reward for the capture of Cook. Another citizen wrote the sheriff a similar letter the same day. Sheriff Thompson thereupon started to Meyersdale to capture Cook and upon reaching Johnstown he telephoned Chief of Police Stump at Meyersdale to arrest his man. Chief Stump at once secured a team and drove to Berkley's Mills, svhere he learned that Cook had hired a team and driven to Salisbury, a distance of six miles. He followed and arrested Cook and was informed that the latter was on his way to Maryland to get married, being in company with another man's wife and having left his own wife behind. Cook is now safely housed with Sheriff Thompson. He w! ill be held until the December lerra of court when he will be tried fo r stealing the cow. New Item - 24 Dec 1902 - Ellsworth Cook, who was tried and convicted of stealing a cow from John D. Meekins, of Green township, was sentenced to serve a term of 15 months in the penitentiary, to pay a fine of $1 and the costs of prosecution. New Item - 9 Mar 1904 - Indian Progress - The following divorces were decrees upon payment of costs ... Emma Cook versus Ellsworth Cook ... Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Hey Murray, Contact me at vccook@verizon.net Thank You, VC On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:44 PM, gc-gateway@rootsweb.com < gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: RMurray99 > Surnames: COOK, HENRY > Classification: queries > >