Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-13
MILLS JAILED AGAIN.
The Retaken Murderer Tells a Thrill
ing Story of His Chase.
WON'T PEACH ON HIS HARBORERS.
Little Washingtons Burgess Backs Down
and short skirts Win.
NEWSY NOTES FROM NEARBY TOWNS

SPECIAL rELEGRAy TO TIE DIsPArCH.,
BUTLER, March 12.-At 1880 this evening,
James F. Mills, indicted for murder, who
with five other prisoners escaped from the
Butler Jail, Friday evening, was again
placed behind the bars. He was taken out
of the car on the arrival of the train. rushed
into cab and driven rapidly to the jail
Thousands Of people thronged the streets
about the calaboose, and difficulty was ex-
perienced by the officers in forcing passage
way from the carriage
The fugitive prisoner looked haggard
when he was shut into his cell, and seemed
to be glad the chase is over. THE DIS
PATCH reporter confirmed the published re-
ports of his chase through the woods north
of town Saturday, and said that many times
the officers were quite near him. Unable to
run much further, he jumped into stream
and waded in the water for several hundred
feet, thus throwing the officers off the trail.
He took refuge under projecting rock,
where he remained until nightfall, when he
started for Millerstown, asking for and re-
ceiving some cold edibles at the farm houses
along the way.
Mills Tolls His Own Story.
slept IN q DaIu on SuuUuy uiSut, .HC
continued, "but it is not necessary to state
where it was. I walked on the streets of
Millerstown late Sunday evening, and spent
the latter part of the night in bar near
Petrolia." Mills was furnished with pair
of new shoes and overalls, but would not
say who gave them to him. 1t is plain that
he got assistance when he was in the vicin-
ity of Millerstown, and for this reason re-
fused to give connected story OF his
travels
Monday night was spent in the forest near
Parker City, where he narrowly escaped
being apprehended. He had built fire in
a secluded spot in the woods to cook some
meat, but was obliged to move on before he
had been there long to avoid being seen by
a man whom he saw approaching. He trav-
eled along the Allegheny river, and crossed
over the Foxburg bridge on Tuesday even
ing. He knew that officers were pursuing
him, and kept in the woods until Friday
afternoon, when he boarded a northbound
freight train at the Valley Farm coal bank.
He took passage on an open car and rode
to Tylersbnrg. Conductor William Thurs
ton suspected that the man he was hauling
was Mills, and telegraphed ahead to Tylers-
burg for an officer. The constable there
was unwilling to make the arrest, and the
car on which Mills was riding was thrown
on to siding. Mills took in the situation
and got into a box car partly filled with
barrel staves
A Machinist Braver Than the Officer.
T. j. Brick, young machinist. was at
the station. He and Conductor Thurston
together bolted the car door SO that Mills
could not get out The prisoner attempted
to put q barrel stave in the door to prevent
it from closing He failed, and when the
train pulled out he was securely Gagged and
knew it. Mr.. Brick was determined to see
that the man did not get away, so he
boarded the train and rode to Marienville,
where Deputy Sheriff John Kuhn was in
waiting, he having been notified by wire.
The Sheriff went to the car where Mills
was and called upon him to surrender.
Mills acknowledged that they had the drop
on him, and said: eff you give me fair
show will come out" His revolver was
useless, for the reason that the cartridges
he had were not the proper kind. He as
certained this fact when he tried to shoot
Detective Allen several days before. The
door was opened and he stepped out. He
was kept under guard at hotelAntil the
southbound train left this morning.