The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-11-15
THE LEADER TAKEN.
Negro Who Started Convict Mutiny
Again Back in Prison.
He Was Caught Near Council Grove,
Kan, After a Fight in Which He
was WOunded-What Hap
pened to Sheriff Cook.

Fort Leavenworth, Kan, Nov. ~
Of the 81 convicts who led a mutiny
in the federal prison here last Thurs
day, Is have been accounted for.
Quinn Fort, aged II, was shot dead
before getting out of the stOckade;
Jay J. POfenkOIz and. James Huff
man were shot to death by a posse
near NortonyilIe while resisting cap
tuFe; Lawrence Lewis was killed by
the city marshal of QUenemo, 40 miles
southwest of here in Franklin county,
while fleeing from arrest; James VIII
son was captured on the outskirts of
Leavenworth, being betrayed by q
man of his own race for the $50 re-
ward; David Grayson and Gus Parker
were captured by a farmer named
Lewis at Midland, three miles north
Of Lawrence; John Green, Fred Moore
and Willard Drake, after battle with
8 posse near Nortonville, were cap
tured; at Jarbalo, R. L. Davenport
and Donald Norie were captured by
penitentiary guards; at Lawrence, Ole
Babe and Joseph Decking were cap
tured by officers.
The most important capture was
made Monday afternoon when Frank
Thompson, the negro leader of the
mutiny and the most desperate of all
the criminals, was taken by a posse
of farmers headed by Deputy United
States Marshal Prescott near Council
Grove. Thompson showed fight, but
was brought down by load of buck
shot. The federal prison authorities
were more anxious to get Thompson
than any of the other men and War
den McLaughry had personally in
creased the reward for him from $50
to s1OO.
The convicts are seemingly becom-
ing holder and are invading towns.
In the Union Pacific yards at Wamego
last night two of the runaways held
up a man and compelled him at the
point of a revolver to give them $92.
They then boarded freight train and
went west without any attempt being
made to capture them.
Nothing like the present condition
of affairs has been experienced by
Kansas since the border ruffian times
Gilbert Mullins, Fred Robinson and
Sol Sutherland, three of the escaped
southwest of Cottonwood Falls, on
the Hessenbarger ranch, by Capt.
Jackson, Arthur Trelford and nine
other Leavenworth guards and num-
Der of citizens of this county. Null
Inns and Sutherland are the pair
who captured and held Sheriff Cook
and broke away from the Topeka po-
lice force Sunday.
The Capture of Sher1R Cook.
Topeka, Kan, Nov. IA telephone
message was received by Sheriff Cook
at two o'clock Sunday afternoon
stating that two of the escaped con-
victs had been discovered near Pau
line, about six miles from Topeka.
Sheriff Cook and Hall Williams, a dep
uty, proceeded at once to the place
and attempted to arrest the fugitives.
A few shots were exchanged, and in
the melee the escaped prisonrs got
the drop on the officers and succeeded
in driving the sheriff into the farm
house of Mr.. Wooster, where they
held him under guard. Finding it
impossible to maintain a guard at
the house in which Sheriff Cook was
corraled they marched Cook and Mrs.
Wooster in front of them to the edge
Of cOrnfeld, where the fugitives
disappeared, going in an easterIy di-
rectiOn. They used Cook and the wo-
man as shield to prevent the posse
from firing upon them.