Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-06-16
ESCAPED FROM PRISON.
Fifteen United States C0nY lets Mutiny
One Killed.

-One hilleu.
A mutiny broke out among the
convicts at the United States peni-
tentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan
sas, on the morning of the 1st, and
fifteen escaped. Two hours later
James Musgrove, an Indian Terri
tory desperado, who was the lead
er. was shot down, struck by eight
bullets.
The mutiny took place within
the stockade of the governments s
new penitentiary where many con-
victs are at work erecting walls to
their own prison. This stockade
is 500 by 800 feet and is guarded
during the day by men in towers.
On the morning of the mutiny
eighty-one convicts were marched
into the north gate as usual, under
escort of eight guards. Six of the
guards left the prisoners in the
centre of the stockade while they
went TO their respective towers.
Just as these guards entered the
towers the convicts, who had been
in two squads, seized the two re-
naming guards, Harry Duffy and
James Ernest, and toak their re-
volvers from them. The convicts
then made their prisoners march
in front of them to protect them
from the guns of the nearest tower
guard until another guard, King,
was reached, and he was made to
surrender his gun at the point of a
pistol. The three guards were
then held for protection until a
southeast gate, near the woods on
Sheridan's drive, was reached =,
when all who desired to escape
passed out.
Some of the conyicts who had
not been let into the plans of
the mutiny were taken by sur
prise, and, while they marched TO
tihttsr tbs x I1it- Gaitte- fe,tns9d 70 Leave The
into the woods, but returned of
their own accord. Some of the
civilian employees working on the
walls of the prison were made tenn
porary prisoners and held for half
an hour from giving an alarm.
Sixty-six prisoners who refused to
escape marched quietly to the stone
quarry a mile away under escort
and fell in with the force at that
place, when all were returned to
the old penitentiary and a check
ing up was made. Ali work was
suspended and the other five hun
dred men locked up in cells, when
a half dozen posses LETT TO hunt
the runaways down. The nine
regular soldiers at the fort Joined,
and winchester rifles were furnish.
ed citizens.
The convicts had one shotgun
with four loads in it and two re.
volvers, and it was feared they
would put up a hard fight. The |
escapers kept in the woods well |
together and travelled westward
When the escape was made, James |
Musgrove took the shotgun. After
travelling awhile with the SQUAD
be started off alone. He was over.
taken when about to entor a field
When Harry Legate, a guard. came
up Musgrove stated that he would
not surrender. He threw the gun
down on Legate to kill him. when
.wo guards, standing behind the
prisoner, shot eight rifle balls into
Musgrove, tearing his back to
pieces. In spite of his terrible
Musgrove lived until
brought to the old prison in an
The fifteen convicts who broke
AWAY are "bad men," and hall of
hem desperadoes from the Indian
Territory. The names, Crimes
md terms are as follows:
w. Worth, Denver, robbing post.
'tfice, four years, out June 5, 1900
Ulysses r. Retler. Vinita, 1T
even years, out August y, 1903
w. Pierce, Topeka, breaking
nto postoffice, five years, out June t
1, 1900.
John Adams, Paris, Texas, rob.
'ery, five years, out May l, 1901.
John Nichols, Paul's Valley, [. Il
', larcency, five years, out De-
ember Is, 1901.
Robert Wiggam, Ardmore, l. T,
lrceny, five years, out December
1, 1902.
Charles Thacker, Ardmore, /. T..
,rgery, three years, out April %,
S99.
Jack" Holly. Paris, Tex, lar
sny. four years, out April u,
S99.
Charles Shifter, Paris, Tex lar
,ny, four years, out April %,
500.
S. L. Hollenbeck, .Ardmore, i. ,
E, larceny, five years, out June
}, 1903.
James White, Ardmore, larceny, !
We year,, out June 80, 1903.
Thomas Johns, Little Rock,
rk., counterfeiting, five years, out ?
lne II, 1902.
Marion Moss, Vini,a, I. T., lar p
my, live years, out May, 1901.
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