When James E. Neumann escaped from the Lycoming County Prison Thursday night he took the wrong train out of town. The train carried him to Lewisburg, where he had attempted to escape from the penitentiary in 1945 and where he was capture at 10:30 this morning.

Neumann, a 27-year-old man, scaled the wall at the Lycoming County Prison between 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. He was not discovered missing until about 5:30 p.m.

This morning when a Reading Company freight train stopped in Lewisburg, the station agent, Davis Brooks, saw a man acting suspiciously as the man was sitting in a box car. Brooks then closed and locked the door of the box car and notified Lewisburg Penitentiary Warden, George W. Humphrey.

The warden, accompanied by several prison guards went immediately to the station. The car door was opened, and Neumann was identified and then apprehended.

Neumann evidently injured himself in his jump from the Lycoming County Prison.

Authorities said that Neumann had been transferred to Lewisburg from Washington in 1948 on federal bookmaking charges. He had also been incarcerated for a time in Chillicothe, Ohio.

He is being held at the penitentiary for questioning. It is not known if he will be transferred back to Williamsport for the escape charge.