Evening journal., 1890-05-31
THE CONvICTS CAPTURED
But It Was Only After a Des-
perate Fight with Officers.
ONE OF THE FUGITIyEs Is DEAD.

he Was killed by Shot @rom an Of
ncer's Revolver After He Had Inflicted
Dangerous and Probably Fatal Wound
ON ofacer Barber.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May 31.-Patrolman
Henry F. Barber, Of the Fifteenth police
district, attached to the Tacony sub-station,
came face to face yesterday with Tom
Thomas and Henry jackson, the negro
convicts who escaped from the New Jersey
state prison at Trenton, Wednesday even
ing, after having sandbagged and robbed
Doorkeeper Charles Parker. AS a result
Of that meeting. Barber lies wounded at
his home, one of the convicts is a corpse,
while his partner is prisoner.
Word was telegraphed from Holmesburg
In the morning to the Tacony sub-station
that two colored men resembling the es-
capped conyicts from Trenton were coming
down the Bristol turnpike. Officers Henry
+. Barber and George Milligan were sent
out to capture the colored men. The officers
met the fugitives near the end Of the long.
shore. The escaped men seemed to antici.
pate recapture, and they were prepared for
an attack. As soon as the officers ap
preached them they drew reyolvers. Barber
caught Henry jackson and Milligan ran
for Thomas who was the taller Of the two.
Omcer BARBER Shot Down.
A shot was fired, and on turning Milligan
saw Barber stagger and fall, while the con
yict he had been holding started of. Milli'
gan Immediately gave chase to the man who
shot Barber and emptied all the chambers
of his revolver after him. The wounded
officer was taken to his home in Wissinom.
inn. where the bullet which entered the
front part Of his body in the region Of his
stomach, was taken out OF his back The
doctor expressed slight hopes of his recov'
cry.
In the meantime Officers Smith, Ora.
ham. Wilson and others were sent out
after the fugitives. The officers followed
the trail from the point where the fleeing
darkies were last seen. They were seen
crossing a road near by and jumped the
fence into the woods. After going a short
distance Thomas dropped in the bushes,
and jackson, the one who shot Officer Bar
Der, kept on running.
The DTurderous Convict Killed.
Officers Graham and Smith kept after
him, and after he had turned and fired two
OF three shots at the officers, bullet from
the revolver of one Of the officers took
deadly effect, and jackson dropped on the
ground He was fatally wounded, living
but a few moments after the officers
reached the spot where he lay.
The search was continued for the other
convict, and finally Officer Smith stumbled
on Thomas, and threatened to shoot holes
through him on the spot il he offered any
resistance The negro was unarmed, hav.
sas thrown his pistol away. He was taken
10 the Taconey sub-station, where he told
the story Of the escape, but put the blame
Of everything THAI took place on his dead
eomrade He identified the body Of Jack
son. He said that jackson was better off
dead than he was alive.
Although the convicts had taken over
SIS in money and $500 in negotiable securi.
Ties when they escaped, but 81 and a few
pennies were found on their persons
Jacksonis body was removed to the
morgue and Thomas was locked up in the
city hall Keeper Patterson, Of Trenton,
has fully identified the two men.