The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-08-19
HUNTED DOWN LIKE WOLVES.
SHOOTING; ESCAPED CoNvICTs.

An AMBUSH-ESCAPE OF THE THIRD.
The Denver News gives the followiDg
details OF an incident already reported oy
telegraph: A telegram from Monument,
on the Denver aud Rio Grande railway,
yesterday noon, stated that Even E. Hail,
William Wilder, and Henry Leighton, thv
escaped prisoners, had been surprised FIldas
night, twelve mites west OF thst place, Dy
Deputy Sheriff Wilcox's and Sheriff Lundy's
and the third one badly, il
not MORALLY, wounded. This report,
which underwent variety of phases and
changes in the course OF the afternoon was
not entirely confirmed until about Z
O'Clock in the evening, when a wagon con-
tanning the dead bodies of Hall and Leigh
ton, stopped IN front of the undertaking
establishment of Rogers q Brown, on
Larimer street. The wagon rad come,
with its peculiar freight, from the Divide,
seventy miles, via Judy's rancho, since
O'Clock In the morning. As the BODIES,
wrapped in blankets, were lifted from the
wagon and carried into the store, crowd Of
curious spectators. constantly augmenting,
pressed about the door, and not few were
admitted. The bodies were laid
upon boards, the clothing removed,
and the wounds counted and carefully ex
amined. The clothing was matted together
with gore, and the bullet riddled, blackened
and CHASTITY figures, as they lay stretched on
boards, were repulsive and sickening sights.
Halls face wore dark lorbidding and ago
nizsd expression. The tip OF his tongue
protrudsd from between his clencht teeth.
The officers and uDdeIt iker5 turned Leigh
toms body upon its side, and the bystaDders
cnunted seven bullet holes in his back, four
or five under the shoulders, and the re-
maiuder about the hips. Halls body had
been pierced by three bullets, and his right
arm was mutilsted and shattered by
charge of buckshot. There were traces OF
blood about the heads of both. but no
wounds. The remains we're washed, re-
clothed aud conveyed 10 the vault in the
city cemetery. The pursuing party, mum
boring thirteen in all, and Differed By
Deputy Sheriff Wilcox, of Denver, and
Sheriff Hooker, of Ebert county, had made
a. s. Judy's rancho, on Running Creek, 90
miles from here, a place of RI ndeZvous since
the
ACTIVE AND ORGANIZED PURSUIT
began. Most OF the party kept on the look
out day and night. Hall, Wilder and Leigh
ton were known to be skulking 10 the tim
Der and canons on the Divide, changing
their hiding and sleeping places daily, not
visiting one ranch regularly for their pro-
visions. This rancho was closed, guarded,
and Thursday night The entire party kept
vigilance over the place until daylight, when
a neighbor who had remained there over
night cane out and went over the hills TO
his home. Shortly Rfterward, while the
owner and occupant of the house was feed
ing his stock, John Rsilly, James Dugan
George Graham, Deputy Hooker and one or
two others approached the astonis he'd rouch
man, Who Uas at loss to know where they
cams from so suddenly. Alter some CONVEX
saliOn the ranchman was invited TO accom-
psny the squad 20 camp, mile or two away.
After walking some distance he asked per-
mission TO return TO The stable and get his
II. FL
then proceeded TO camp. He was ques-
tionsd about Hall and the other prisoners,
and at first pretended Ignorance OF
their movements or whereabouts,
but finally agreed to tell where thev
were, on promise that he should be pro-
tected from their vengeance. he had been
IN daily communication with his prisoners,
a peculiar whistle being the signal employed
when an interview was desired. Friday
afternoon was spent in scheming for the
capture of the three men. The plan finally
agreed upon was this: The friend and
aSettor, who enjoyed the fullest confidence
of Hall and Wilder, was, on preteDse of
putting them in possession Of their own
horses, to decoy them to a corral, near an
unOocupied house, near Blakesley's mill, on
West Cherry creek. The corral stands on
the bank of the creek, and there is but one
house, and That one Immediately on the
premises, within mile or more. Accord
ing to the plan laid down, the friend sought
Hall and his comrades, in the timbsr, Fri
day evening, and told them that their horses,
''Crop-ear" and "Old Dunn" had been
brought over from Corners mill and placed
in the corral, and that they could take them
out that night. That was agreed to, and at
a quarter TO IL O'Clock the party, with the
friend mounted and in the lead, reached the
corral, which was to prove
FATAL TRAP.
While this trap had been maturing, and the
prisoners and their betrayer were coming
down out of the pineries, the pursuers had
been getting themselves into position, all in
a row, at tine mouth of the lane leading to
the corral. Hall and his party came up,
cautiously, and stopped at the mouth of the
lane, the abettor alone riding on into the
corral, leaving the prisoners on watch while
hs went In after the horses. At that mo-
ment four men with shot guns opened fire,
followed almost instantly by fusilade of
rifle shots, and kept up until forty or fifty
cartridges had been exploded. Leighton
and Hall both dropped, but Wilder ran
guIches and pineries were secured by .
party in the morning, is still at large, so tar
as known at least. Hall, though knocked
down by the shots, quickly recovered his
feet again, and bounded away through the
darkness with the heetness of deer. A
scouting party, with James Dugan In the
lead, whilo hunting around over the prairie,
a few minutes later, heard some one
moaning in the rail- grass. Advancing, they
found Hall lying at full length in a sort of
qusgmire, and covered with mud and blood.
Boys" said ne family, "this is bad work,
to hunt man down in this way" He WIS
wrapped in blanket and four men carried
him 10 camp fire over hill, near by. He
refused to reveal any secrets, and swore and
lied to the last, his chief complaint being
that the "boys had hunted him down like a
wolf. Once or twice he wished be were
dead, and, after a night of awful agony,
which was borne with admirable pluck, he
died a. quarter past FIVE o'clock yesterday
morning. A short time before his death he
dictated stiff and dignified letter to his
father, J. II. Hall, of Avilla, Jasper couI ty,
Mo. Leighton lived three-quarters of al
hour after the attack, and, in a whispered
con vars afinr WIT dAnntv sheriff Wilcox