Murderer and His Wife Are Caught at Chester Hotel

Wilson Ashbridge and his wife were arrested at the Keystone Hotel, Chester, Pa., at 11:30 o'clock this morning. This afternoon they waived requisition and are being qbrought back to Camden by Captain William Schregler and Detective David Hunt. This announcement came by telegraph at noon to Assistant Chief of Police Edward S. Hyde. It electrified the authorities of the city and county. The telegram was brief. It stated that Ashbridge, who was wanted for killing Jailer Isaac J. Hibbs and wounding Jailer Joseph Ellis, and escaped with George J. Thompson, a forger, registered at the Keystone Hotel at one o'clock this morning. The Chester police had received word from the Camden authorities about the disappearance of Ashbridge and Thompson. They were on the lookout. All hotels in Chester had been notified by the police there. The clerks watched all late comers. At one o'clock this morning Ashbridge, who was awaiting trial here for the murder of Mrs. Elisabeth Dunbar, and the woman, whom he had wronged so often in the past, came into the hotel and registered under an assumed name. They were not recognized then but this morning when guests began reading the morning news ing and the foolish young woman who is wanted as his accomplice. The arrest of Ashbridge with his wife plainly shows that Thompson, the forger, separated from him after the successful and bloody get-away last night. Prosecutor Kraft learned this morning that Mrs. Ashbridge drew $100, her total savings from the Broadway Trust Company on the first of July. She visited her husband in the county jail on July 10. She left three days ago from a house in which she was living on Twenty-sixth street above Federal street and told neighbors she was going to Wildwood. It is now believed she used the $100 to finance the escape. It was learned by Prosecutor Kraft at noon to-day that Ashbridge gave a letter to Howard Marshall, of 17[?]2 South Sixth street, on Sunday and told him to be sure and mail it. The letter was addressed to a Mrs. Shelton, of Baltimore. Marshall was a friend of Ashbridge and visited him in the county jail Sunday. It is thought Mrs. Shelton was Mrs. Ashbridge and that she remained in Baltimore until the appointed time and came north to Chester, where she joined her hisband. Sheriff Haines announced at noon to-day that constables will be added to the present force of keepers in the [illegible] Tell Story of Capture of Ashbridge Hotel Proprietor's Suspicions Aroused Over Nervousness of Murderer and Wife Afterward Read Story in Newspaper and Called Police Captain Schregler arrived in Camden at 2:05 o'clock this afternoon with his party in an automobile, with Wilson Ashbridge and his wife as prisoners