The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-18
One Escaped, but the Principal and a
Man Supposed to BE His Brother
Were Taken Prisoners.
ARCH-DESpERADo Is WOUNDED
SHOT IN THE HEAD DURING THE
PROGRESS OF THE FIGHT.
After Identification He Was Taken to
Plymouth Jai1-WiIl BE Turned
Over to Ohio Officers.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LOGANSPORT, Ind, Jan. 17-Marvin
Kuhns, who escaped from the Ohio peni-
tentiary several weeks ago and signalized
his advent into this part Of the State by
a running fight with officers, in which Pa
trolman Dean was shot and seriously
wounded, and who since then has been liv-
ing near Albion, has been captured and
identified. In the fight which led to his
capture he was seriously wounded. At the
time he was taken his identity was not
known. The circumstances of the capture.
briefly, are as follows:
Three horse thieves and posse of Of
ficers and citizens engaged in a shooting
affray near Otterbein last night In an at
tempt of the latter to arrest the men who
had stolen a team from the vicinity of
Plymouth. The thieves had taken up
quarters in Mrs. Halls boarding house.
opened fire. More than fifty shots were
exchanged before the capture of two Of
the men was effected. the third escaping
by leaping from window and running
while the posse was engaged with the
others. Two members of the assaulting
party were shot by Kuhns, one being VI.
Volt, who was wounded in the back and
the other Lewis Hawkins. who was shot in
the arm. One of the captured men was
shot in the face, and a number of shots
were picked out after he was lodged in
jail at Lafayette. The culprit answered
the description of Kuhns. and the officers
determined 10 bring him here for purposes
of identification before proceeding to Ply
mouth to place him I'm Jail for stealing the
team, which, in the meantime, had been
recovered.
Kuhns and his companion, supposed to be
his brother John, arrived here this after
noon in charge of Thomas Cheney. sheriff
of Marshall county, and ]. +. Marshall,
the ex-sheriff. The party was met at the
Wabash depot by Captain Foley and half
dozen of the local police. Kuhns and
his companion were hurried through the
crowd of several hundred people who had
gathered to see the desperate and taken
in the patrol wagon to the police station.
Kuhns stoutly maintained that his name is
]. w. Wilson and that he is from Dakota,
but which Dakota he does not say. He
says he does not know Kuhns and only
came to Indiana about seven months ago.
At the police station, however, he was
positively identified by Capt ]. b. Somers,
OF the Panhandle detective force, as Mar
win Kuhns, and was further identified by
the scars and marks his body when
he was stripped and thoroughly examined.
He was also identified by the local police
as the man who gave them such a lively
battle in this city on the evening of Dec.
10 last and by Patroman Benjamin Dean
A. cto \; fbot
closed in on the desperate in the running
fight on that evening.
Through all this examination Kuhns re-
fused to talk further than to say that his
name was Wilson. After the examination
at the police station Kuhns was taken to
the county jail and locked up to await the
evening train the Vandalia road, the
officers taking him to Plymouth this even
ing where he will be held for horse stealing
until the time to turn him over TO the Ohio
authorities.
Kuhnss companion, a much smaller man,
who is thought to be his brother, main
tains that his name is w. III. Wilkinson,
OF Kansas He says he only recently met
Kuhns, alias Wilson, and knows nothing
about him. Both men are game and are
shrewd enough to keep silent. On his ar
rival here Kuhns was suffering consider
able pain from the wound in his head re-
ceived during his fight with the men at
Otterbein who effected his capture last
night. His head was almost completely
enveloped in bandages, but while the wound
is painful one, the indications are that
he is pretending TO suffer more than he
really does. He teigned unconsciousness
shortly after being taken to the Jail. Later
he said II he had been given a fair show he
would have cleaned out the gang" which
captured him.