The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-11-09
Two of These are Dead and Two
Wounded.
WERE. C0RRALLED IN A BARN.
Ran When Posse Approached, and in the
Running Fight Three OF the Desperadoes
We're Killed, Anothsr Wounded and
th, Other Gave Up-Those
Armed Will Be stot
on Sight.

(By Associated Prcss.)

LEAVENWORTH,y yKAS., Nov.-All the
police, guards, deputy sheriffs and farm
ers in the county adjacent to Leavenworth
were on the lookout to-day for the twenty
six Federal prisoners who escaped from
the stockade yesterday. AS q result two
coEvicts have been killed and wounded
and five captured unhurt. The casualties
took place in a fight near Nortonvllle,
Kan, ana resulted in the death or capture
of five men. The dead:
JAMES HOFFMAN,, aged %, white.
B. J. gPOFFENHOLN, aged 25, white,
soldier convict.
John Green and Willard Drake, white,
tured, and the fifth, Fred Moore, aged
aged nineteen, are wounded and recap
tured, and the fifth Fred Moore, aged
sixteen, a negro, is recaptured unhurt.
Two unarmed conYicts were found hid
ing in a ravine on a farm neares-Jarbo,
Kan, and they surrendered without re-
sistance. The sheriff EofEDouglass county
has captured two convicts at Lawrence,
Kan.
rne five men We're discovered in the
barn of Fay Weishar, near NortOnvill.,
Kansas, about-3 o'clock this afternoon.
,Weishar went. into the barn and was or
dered out at the point of guns. He rushed
men. who with reroivers.s shotgunsS and
a few Winchesters, Mastered to the
scene.
RUNNING. FIGHT
The .convicts saw the men coming and
rushed from the barn.They had two shot
guns and irevolvers. The. posse pursued
thenl.: and a running duel resulted. The
conyicts were atsa5disad advantage and thei.
shots had no effect, while at every yolley
nf "a TO- fc11
After two of them had fallen two of the
others gave themselves up, one being
wounded, the other unhurt. The .ifth
was fully two hundred yards away whe.
man with a Winchester drew bead
on him. He evidently had been hit. but
tried to go on: a voley was fired at him
and he fell dead None Of the citizens
were hurt.
Reports came from numerous points to-
day OF the arrest of men supposed 10 t..
fugitive convictS, but none Of the sus-
poets have been identified. The Oldest of
the fuGitives is aged twenty-eight Quinn
Fort, who was killed yesterday, was nine
teen years of age.
EVERY ROAD GUARDED.
One of the convicts still at large is a
military prisoner, and the remainder
were serving terms for robbery or assault
One is an Indian and two are negroes.
Nearly all came from Oklahoma and In
dian Territory, and they are supposed to
be making for that country. They are
hardy men, used to firearms and horses
Some have obtained both but others are
on foot and defenseless.
Warden McClagre says he will capture
every one of the men. In the districts
around the city every road and river
crossing that the fugitives might be ex-
pected to use is guarded by armed men,
the farmers having turned out. to earn
the $50 reward that will be paid for the
return of each convict. Those of the men
who are armed are likely to be shot on
sight.
The convicts captureG at Lawrence were
Ole Baba. a half-breed sIndian. and Jo-
seph II. Deekin. a soldier, serving a term
for desertion and assault to kill: Frank
Thompson. the negro desperado who led
the outbreak. is supposed to be near Law
renee. heavily armed. He will probably
not be taken alive.