Arrested After Three Years

New York, 1895

Fred D. Murdock arrived at the jail in Riverhead on Friday, having been arrested at Cleveland, O., for robbing the oyster houses at Bayport and Saville early in February, 1892. James L. Ryan and Frank Corey, who helped him are serving terms in Sing Sing and Elmira Reformatory. Murdock escaped. On Christmas an express package arrived for his mother at Sayville from Ohio. Deputy Sheriff Wells found that Murdock had turned carpenter. He married in Ohio and has two children.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 18, 1895, p. 1.