Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-08-16
INSURRECTION IN 4 PRISON.
Desperate Fight for Liberty by Kentucky
Douyicts.

n LoulsNllt, NY, sptCldl AIl> . iHcit
was desperate resurrection among the
conviois ia the peDiientiary at Frankfort
on Thursday morning, where about
eight hundred prisoners are confined.
About s o'clock John Wolf, convict who
was sentenced for forgery for twelve years.
came TO the prison Office with a box on his
shoulder, which. he said, was 10 De s.nt by
express. Captain Johnson, the turnkey,
opened the gate. and Wolf was allowed to
pass out with the box. which he left at the
oflice-Goor, few feet from the prison.
gate. Wolf then turned to 20 back
into the prison-yaTd, and as he passed
johnson dealt the officer terrible
bow on the head with 4 blunt instrument.
and followed il up with several other
blows, which folled Johnson 10 the ground
and rendered him insensibe. In an IN
slant George AlSop, desp,rate murderer.
sentenced from Louisville for life: Cash
Gro"e, HCb' Graves. sent up Tor TWEEN
ty-cne wears for murder. and William
Grant, sentenced 10 twenty-One yeals for
murder. ran out OF the llour.miii. passed
through the gate, and. running into the
PRISON armoTy, took possession OF the
stand OF arms. Then al ran ont, fully
armed with Henry Th,s and Ballard mus
kctoOns. Grant then opened the prison
gate Leaking TO the yard. and shouted
ut the top Of his voice 10 The con-
yicts to cope on, ~ they had con
troll Of the prison. Colonel G.. +. H)gc.
one CT the lc>sec> Of the convict labor, and
lis cleIk, Mr.. BlacklCy. who were bu>i-
" engaged in the prison Office, started
toward the door on hearing the noise, " hen
George Alsop fired two shots at them.
Captain Holloway, the states clerk At the
prison. was in All adjacent Office. He put
his head out OF the winGOw % see what
was up. when he was fired at by convict.
Captain Holloway .mpcd out OF The win.
dow and ran out at the entrance gate 10 the
street, the cOnvictS firing several shots al
him. The alarm was sounded to the prison
guards. and a fierce battle followed, which
lasted for two minutes, during which time
100 shots were fired. Captain Owen Rob
in,on. IN officer OF the prison, started To-
ward the gate from the yard, when Al,op
fred at lin from nccdlc-gun. The bail
struck Robinson 10 the right leg above the
knee. and il Is believed that ampuiation
will be necessary.
While the firing was going on the con-
vlcis kept backing toward the street. but
kept up the firing a. long a. they had
load left. bud" South. nephew oi
Captain Barry South, warden Of the peni-
Tertiary, ran out Of his house with his gun
rs soon IA he heard the FIST shot, and q,
soon A. he stepped on the pavement the
conyets fired several shots ~ bin. He got
behind a tree and fired with needie-gun.
Wolf, the ringleader, was dangerously and
verhaps mortally wOunded. llo was shot
with "A needlr-gun, the bail entering the
left thigh near the GROIN, badly shattering
the bone. and 1t Is thought his recovery
is Impossible. He is handsome young
fellow, who stood high in society.
He YVES for many years clerk in a
GeOree town bank. and his father is at pres
ent county clerk OF Scott county. Wolf
saws that there were nearly fifty IN the plot
10 escape. and was severe in his denuncia-
lions OF those who did not follow. calling
them "a lot Of - towards II said,
also. that he was sorry that he had not kill
ed George Alsop for going back on his
word. The arrangement between him and
Alison WAS 10 stand at the gate and Kill the
first guard who dared to approach them,
and TO remain there until The whole gang
in the plot came ou.. This, he says. Alsop
didn't do, while he himself was true TO his
word.
The news that there wa, an instruction
among the convicts spread like wild fire
throughout the city. \ convict. mounted
on horseback. came through the principal!
streets at a killing pace, and notified Judge
Thomson. The courthouse bell sounded
the call for the military, and members Of the
military companies and others were soon
coming in ali directions toward their ann
DIV FOR arms. In twenty minutes after
the outbreak fully two hundred citizen,
were armed and stationed themselves
around the prison.
Deputy sheriff Ben. SuteT, with large
posse Of citizens on horseback. armed with
nccdle-guns, started in pursuit OF Al'op.
Grant. and Cash Graves. the three despe-
rate murderers who made good their e'-
cape. They are all heavily armed with
guns md shoe. knives. A young man wA0
vss on his way to the city in buggy wa
stopped on the road about mile from the
city by three dcspcradoes and ordered 10
lump out or lose his LIE. He jumped out,
and the three cOEVicts g0t in and started
away from the young man with the horse
at = GALLON. Parties who saw them on the
road say two az them are undoubtedly
wounded. a. blood was flowing freely from
their faces. After driving the buggy for
three miles on the road they left Ii and took
to the hills.
1t is singular fact that all the ringlead
ers in this plot to escape were members OF
.he Sunday-school class. There has GER
ianly been TOO many outsiders allowed to
20 TO the prison Sunday scnool. and the
outbreak OF to-day. which may have been
melted by some visitor, will doubtless have
the effect OF excluding any one from going
into the prison on Sunday.