SEATTLE, Oct. 18 — Loaded with camping gear and an Army manual on how to escape capture, David Warriner, the last of seven men who escaped from King County Jail, was captured as a poacher Tuesday night.

Washington Fish and Game agent Bob Ford thought at first he had a game poacher. Instead, it was a Warriner, flashing a light through bushes six miles east of Blaine near the Canadian border.

Warriner, 26, of Seattle, was the last of a mob of escapees who broke out of the jail in Seattle Sunday night. One was killed and the others were quickly captured. A policeman and several other escapees were wounded.

“I just told him to stand in front of my car and keep his hands on the hood … at that time, we carried on a casual conversation,” Ford, who stopped Warringer in the woods just before midnight, recalled Wednesday.

Warriner carried a knife with an 8-to-10-inch blade but no firearm, said Gene Guyant, deputy chief patrol agent for the Border Patrol.

Guyant said Warriner was sighted by Ford on a road that parallels the border. Ford said the State Patrol told him there was a man, possibly a poacher, about 100 yards south of the border.

When Ford approached, the man tried to flee, but Ford stopped him. “If he would have played it smart with the Fish and Game official (and said he was just hiking), nothing would have happened,” said Guyant.

Border Patrol agent Keith Miller responded to Ford’s call, and took the man into custody. Guyant said Warriner told authorities he was John Carins, born in Victoria, British Columbia. He also claimed he was an escapee from a Canadian facility and had a prison record in Canada, Guyant said.

Guyant said none of that information could be verified, and Miller called Seattle Police, which dispatched officers to Blaine for positive identification.

The camping and survival equipment Warriner carried was new, said Guyant. “All of the labels were still on.”

Warriner was sentenced to life in prison as a habitual criminal. His background includes convictions for burglary, shoplifting and violation of state drug laws.

At a news conference Wednesday, Seattle Police Chief Patrick Fitzsimons said police believed Warriner was driven to the border area by friends, who may also have supplied the survival equipment. He said the possibility of others being involved was under investigation.

Also, Seattle police said Lawrence Edward Bailey, an outsider who was wounded while allegedly helping engineer Sunday’s jailbreak, was associated with the Charles
Manson family. Police also said Bailey was involved in a 1971 shootout with Los Angeles police while trying to steal guns.

The 30-year-old, Bailey, is a member of the Wellspring Communion located on a Humboldt County ranch in northern California, said Capt. John Leach. Bailey also has used the names Larry Wayne Jones and Lawrence Giddings.

Leach said the Wellspring group was headed by Artie Ray Baker, 26, of San Francisco, who was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday in the May 24 shooting death of a U.S. Customs guard in Lynden, Wash.

California records show that Bailey, wounded in the jail break, also was a member of the Charles Manson cult before Manson directed a murder spree across Southern California in 1969 that left seven persons dead, including actress Sharon Tate.