“PLEADED GUILTY TO FORGERY COUNT.” Owen Sound Sun Times. November 10, 1931. Page 10. ---- Had Previously Escaped from Prisoner’s Dock in Middlesex Court ---- LONDON, Ont. Nov. 10 — James Anderson, Mount Brydges farmhand who escaped from the prisoner's dock in the Middlesex county courtroom two weeks ago, pleaded guilty to uttering a forged check and escaping from custody when arraigned before Magistrate Hawkshaw today. He was remanded to Jail for a week for sentence.
Anderson, through his counsel, J. M, Donahue, said he ran away from the courtroom he thought he was going to be sent to a penitentiary for 14 years for forgery. He tried to cash a $65 cheque at a bank in Mount Brydes. Police hunted for a week before they found him after he had escaped from the courtroom.
[AL; Anderson in fact escaped the fate he feared, going to the Reformatory for two years less a day.]
