The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-11-14
Mutiny of Federal Prisoners at
Fort LeavenwOrth.
One Prisoner Killed by Guards. One
Fatally Wounded and Three Others Bad
ly Hurt by Escaping Prisoners.

worth this afternoon and twenty
five escaped. One was killed and
another fatally wounded in a bat
tie between the guards and des-
perate prisoners. J. B. Wal
drup, a guard, was fatally wound
ed, and @. II. Burrows, Arthur
Tedford and Andrew Leonard,
guards, were wounded.
Warden r. w. McClaughry,
was in Kansas City arranging
for the national prison congress
when the outbreak occurred. He
returned here this evening, and
soon organized parties to go out
and hunt down the escaping con-
victs. Everything connected
with the mutiny shows that there
was a well planned conspiracy
among them to overpower the
guards. Shortly before quitting
time this afternoon three con-
victs, led by Frank Thompson, a
powerful negro, entered the Of
fee of Frank Kinds, the con-
structing engineer.
f. E. Carroll, Harmon Bone,
two foremen, and Arthur Tel
ford, captain of guards. were in
the room. The convicts COM
manded the officers to hold up
their hands, presenting pistols
to their heads. The officers COM
piled, and while two convicts
covered the officers the third
jerked the telephone from the
wall so that no one might send
in an alarm. The officers were
made to march as shields in
front of the convicts. while they
approached Tower Guard Hoff.
man. This guard was command
ed not to shoot by Mr.. Kinds,
who was IN danger from two
sources.
The conv.cts entered Hoff.
mans box and took his arms and
three stands of arms of other
guards placed there. These
guns were handed to other con-
victs in the conspiracy and a
march was made to another
tower, using the officers for pro-
lection. At this place Guard
Burrows started shooting and in
gun fight was hit in the neck.
His arms were secured.
The march was resumed to
Guard Waldrups. He gave the
convicts battle and killed Quin-
fort, one of the leaders of the
mutiny. Guard Waldrup was
shot twice. By this time the
guards in other towers were try
ing long distance shots at the
retreatinU conyictS.
The convlcts seized a heavy
timber and broke down a high
board gate and called on all to
follow. Only twenty-five left
the stockade. Much shooting
followed after the mutlneers got
outside. They kept the captur-
ed officers with them for a quar-
ter of a mile after leaving the
stockade until they seized teams
to ride away.
The convicts ran people into
their houses, took forcible pos
session of rigs and everything
that suited them. They stopped
citizens along the road as far out
as ten miles and made them give
up their clothing in exchange
for the convicts' garb'
Word was finally sent into the
main pen at Fort Leavenworth
of the mutiny and battle at the
stockade and a force of reserve
guards hurried to the place.
The military authorities were
asked for aid and a troop of cav
airy waf; soon in motion. The
soldiers, armed with carbines,
surrounded the stockade and
helped form an armed square in
marching the remaining convicts
back to the old penitentiary.
No efforts were made to hunt
down the escaping convicts until
after dark. It required several
hours to check up and learn who
were missing. The cavalry will
assist the guards in capturing
the c0nvicts. It is said that the
convlcts scattered and broke up
in small parties after getting out
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