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SHOT DOWN in Ills TRACKS.
THE END or ONE or THE TWO ESCAPED
NEGRO CONFLICTS
no FIRST However. dangerously Wounds
Iohcem"n hHrbcr-ttIs COMPANION, Toua
Thomas, IL Hun Down In "a Wood

40 FIRST However. dangerously wounds
| Policeman hArbrr-ttIa Conipan on, Tou,
Thom"S. IL Kun Down In Wood.
PHILADELPHIA. May 80. One OF the two negro
convicts who escaped from Trenton peniten.
tiary after sandbaggnE Keeper Parker and
roobing him OF $500 was Killed TO-DAY and tho
other captured on the outskirts OF the city.
| The fatal shot was fred Ivy citizen after an
! exciting chase. in which about 800 persona
| Joined. The capture OF tho other was made In
| the neiGhborinE woods by two policemen The
convcts were Tom Thomas and Henry Jack.
| son. Jackson is dead. Policeman Barber In
| lying at his home probably fatally wounded By
shot from Jackson's pistol.
Early yesterday morning notice was sent to
| tho outlying sub-staions that two Suspicious
| looking negroes. who were probably the es.
| capped convicts from Trenton. were in the
| woods near HolmesburG. Policemen Barber
| and MulEnu were stationed on the Bristol
turnpike. when two negroes approached
them. When accosed one of them,
who turned out 10 be Jackson, pulled
revolver and fired at the policemen.
The ball penetrated the right side of Bar.
boris abdomen. infcting dangerous wound.
Milligan, in the mean time, had grappled with
Thomas The struggle in the road was fierce,
and alter Barber was shot. MlliGan released
his man and ran to his companions assistance
The two negroes took to their heels.
Tho particulars of the shooting were tele.
Graphed TO Police Superintendent Lamon, who
at once teiegraphed word to tho various sta.
tons to take tho desperate colored mon dead
or alive. Every district in the northern part
OF the city sent out squads Of extra men to
patrol the highways. Nearly an hour after.
ward the reserves from tho Franktord sub.
station ran across tho two men. Among
the squad was Policeman Henry Grand,
Finding that the men were too swift to be
caught, Grand fred at them. In the moan
time tho report OF the previous shooting had
spread through tho neighborhood. 1t was O
holiday and there were plenty OF idle men
about. posse was formed The Grand
Army men torsook the Decoration Day
Day 81 vices and people fiocked from all
directions. many Of them carrying guns or
pistols. They soon closed in on tho despera.
does. Policeman Grand was at the head OF tho
posse which came up with them at Honeysucklo
road, IL mile IRON the first encounter.
i ne negroes stoon at bay aud negan to fro
at their pur@uer.. Tue shots We're returned By
Grand until he stumbled and fell. He dropped
his revolver but caIled out 10 Richard Sinkler,
cltizeh who was bcsd him:
Take my gun and shoot the niggers"
The negroes Ind started TO run again Sink.
Ter nirked up the weapon, ran 100 yards and
then stopped and fired with deliberate aim
Jackson fell dead with bullet through his
-, The crowd, headed by Police Magistrato
mEomas Ieuth. went on after the other man.
Tholn mas, roneealed himself in some tall grass
-, lhe spot was surrounded. and In a short
time he was captured; The crowd went wild
the afternoon beside the body OF his dead com.
mortal fear OF the proposed lynching.
=, ne men had attired themselves in suits Of
and Casper. day men, WHO roomed in the
prison, The escape had been. we'll planned,
% all parts ofit. They earned this distinction motion
Six YEARS. ago thew we're es sevten:ed IN Fr.
hold. Monmouth county. to thrty-year terms
on S9n nb of series Of crimes
houses , barnSf and other buildings. A
Of The P h&y 9Mead keepe5 Peterson
At 6 O'Clock this evening. He was eiated over
the capture Of tn mas, but, disappointed In
" Mhen the keeper was led Into the presence OF
Thomas at Tacony for the purpose Of Identity.
49,, "YeS: yoH are" ssid tns Keeper. There'Sa
IN r1 aPSh@ R E
responsible tor the condition Of both"
r Thom d Io6 began tann to whmpor The keeper
he though! he had reformed and could bo
county man. it was Judge waiting Who im.
posed the long sentence on them. They were
li'tlo blIuh pOJS uL Ito Time Inc fola@
tlves ol Thomas are respect able colored peoplO.
James Drum. who has been sexton OF the Old
Baptist Church in Niddetown for forty years
or more; Is Thomas's grandfather. Whom
Drum, as the Middletown people cali him,
built the church fires rs he has been doing
every winter since. and looked after the COM
fort of the young stock who attend the
Sunday school. On the old seXton's ac.
count tho keeper took a friendly interost
in Thomas. He told him one day that II he
continued 10 be well behaved no would be par
doned some time. and II was the keeper's
intention TO amply for his pardon
this year. or next Thomas knew this.
he embroiled his hands in blood and rIsked
his life to secure ii. Capt Parker, the old
turnkey who WAS sandbagged, il in a very
dangerous condition. A part OF the time he is
lie declares that it was Jack
son who struck him, but that both rifed his
pockets.