Daily inter mountain., 1900-01-27
A Colorado Convict Meets
With Sudden Death.
HE HAD KILLED A GUARD
In an Attempt to Make a Wholesale
Jail Delivery From the Penitentiary
at Canon City-The Lynchers We're
Determined. N

Denver, Colo, Jan. GA special to $he
News from Canon City. Colo, says Thom-
! as Reynolds. the convict who with three
Others escaped from the penltentiary
after numbering Night Captain Wm; C.
Rooney, was captured tonight near
Florence and brought to the latter place
in wagon, where he was taken from the
officers by mob and hanged to a tele-
graph pole.
Night Captain of Police Conner at Flor
ence, assisted by Policeman Powell, made
| the capture on the bridge of the Florence
and Cripple Creek road near Florence
When word was sent to Canon City of
the capture. special train with seven
guards and a bloodhound was dispatched
to the scene. In the meantime Captain
Conner had started overland with Rey-
! nolds. Immediately ou receipt of the
| news at Canon City the fire bells began
| to ring and the town was out en- masse
1t was just 1O:45 when the carriage
carrying the bound form of the murderer
crossed the First street bridge under a
| guard of four armed men, AS the car
rfage passed beneath the lectric light at
| the center of the bridge, dark forms
! emerged from the darkness at either end.
closing in rapidly and silently. Before
the guard comprehended what was in
tNAN0Ns luSy were OVeTpOWereO ana OlS-
armed. Not sound broke the stiffness
There We're several hundred men in the
crowd, but apparently not one had a
weapon. The doomed man was dragged
from the vehicle and had no more than
! struck the ground when a moose was
slipped around his neck and he was led
to the nearest telephone pole. A man
climbed the pole and throwing the rope
over the cross arm, shouted, Pull
! away"
It was then that a shout broke from
! the mob. When Reynolds was being
bound in Florence, it is said, he asked
the guard to put bullet through him
/ before turning him over to the citizens
| of Canon City. Af
! Warden Hoyt was helpless. He had
sent his best men to Florence, retaining
only enough at the prison to guard it
here Expecting Reynolds to be brought
| in on the special train in charge of Dep
, uty Warden Sargent, he had stationed
extra guards at the depot to render aid
in case an attempt was made to take the
prisoner. All the guards he could have
mustered, however, would have been pow
erless against the mob of determined
| men. It is stated that Wagner, anothe,
escaped convict, was with Reynolds when
he was first discovered, but he escaped.
Reynolds and Wagner, with Antoine
Woode and kid" Wallace, made their
! escape from the penitentiary last Mon
day night. Elaborate plans had been
made for a general delivery of the pris-
oners, but 1t was frustrated by the ac-
ton of one of the guards. who succeeded
in giving the alarm. Night Captain
Rooney was stabbed to death and two
other guards had been overpowered and
bound when the alarm was given and the
four convicts made hasty escape with
out liberating their fellow prisoners.
Wednesday night Woode and Wallace.
who are mere boys, were captured near
Victor. Reynolds is understood to be
the man who stabbed Captain Rooney.
Wagner holding the officer.