, 1892-01-02
They are Being Searched For in
Various Places.
Kingen Probably Stole a Horse in
His Nebraska Flight.
Sheriff Kelley viii Reach Home
This Morning.

their future addresses. Every principal
sheriff or police officer at all the surround
Ing towns for a radius of $50 miles has
been wired the particulars of the escape
and is now on the lookout for the fugi-
tives. There has also been a large num-
Der of men sent out from this city, and
these are securing the surrounding dis,
uicts thoroughly. The big game. OF
course, is Kingen, the Nebraska cattle
thief, with Miller. the l6-year-old boy
double murderer only a half-neck behind.
while johnson, who was awaiting trial on
a charge OF reversing DR.. Keeley's bi-chlo-
ride Of gold. and teaching poor Lo the
dangers of jagomania comes up several
lengths behind.
Kingen, the cattle thief. 1t is the pre-
vailing opinion. made good his escape for
some time at least. 1t is well known
that he has a large number of pals in the
vicinity of his home. just over the Wyo-
ming Nebraska line, and a reasonable
presumption is that he was on Nebraska
soil ere the first faint flashes of morning
light rose above the Eastern hills yester-
day morning. Kingen. besides having
the above named advantages, knows every
CANYON and place Of seclusion and every
stronghold in that s%parselv populated
section where the r~ustlers. of which he is
the chief. have held full sway for years.
Deputy Sheriff Wilkes. 10 speaking OF
tie matter. was disposed TO be cool and
think twice before speaking. He SAID:
When we get them back" (meaning
KinCen, Miller and Johnson) II will
keep them safe. | will place them in the
dungeon five days, then place a ball and
chain around their legs and put them in
the cage one day, when | will again return
them TO the dungeon. l will keep this
method up for the entire time they are
here, it doesn't make any difference if
they are allowed to remain here for tire
next FIVE years. But. and with n know
ing wink he added, I'VE will wait till they
are here before we say too much
1t is conceded by all who pretend to
know any thing about the facts in the
case. that Miller. the semi-idioiic boy
murderer, will be picked up easily and
returned
Meanwhile, kinch Mckinney, the erst-
while pal of Kingon, remains securely
locked in his cell, and not even any of the
Jail officials can unlock his door. for
Kingen has the Keys. The most plausible
reason yet given as to Why Kiugen took
the jail keys is. that punched together.
they weigh fully tso and a half pounds
and that they were the most formidable
weapon that kingen conld find at that
time around the Jail. so he tnok them in
case be should come into a hand to hand
combat with sPs person. However. bs
that as it NAV, Krnch Mckinney realizes
that the keys arc gone for his food has
to be cut up so that it will pass through
an opening in the cell which Is about
three inches square. Mckinney is dis
posed to take this manner of receiving his
food, which the ialler is necessarily COM
PEELED to resort to, with great
philosophy, Just as if it was an ordinary
way of receiving it. However he would
be a little better pleased it they did not
have 10 chew Up lis feed so id fine"
to use his own words. At supper time
yesterday, while taking his meal for the
third time in that fashion, hn remarked
that the only thinG that he was able to
get that wasn't mashed all to pieces was a
halt grown Irish pltato, and it noul Int
do to cook il too id done for fear of
MASKING il, too"
Sheriff Kelley, who was in Omaha at
the time of the escape, was wired a few
minutes after it took place. He tele-
graphed yesterday thst he would take
the first train for home, and he is ex-
pected on the fast mail from the east
which will arrive here shortly after s
o'clock this morning.
Every five or ten minutes during the
day the telephone bell was ringing at the
sherif's office. Many messages of in
qulry came from the ranches and more
from the villages which mad been In
formed OF the informal manner in which
the trio OF prisoners left the jail Thurs
dav evening.
AT each tinkle Of the bell Captain
Wilkes, who was In charge OF the Office.
betrayed a certain nervousness, thinking
and hoping that some clue as to the
whereabouts of the criminals, or even
their capture had been accomplished, but
at each time he was doomed to disap-
pointment. 1t was only some cne from
outside the city anxious to learn
whether or not any tracs OF them had
been found. The best clue as to the
routes they have taken is that a horse was
stolen during Thursday night at Hillsdale
and the remains of Il fire. still burning.
were found. At this fire the parties had
killed and devoured a chicken. This
horse was found at the Van Tassell ranch
some thirty miles from Hillsdale some
time during yesterday forenoon. The
man who took that horse was evidently
kln1a "