Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-11-09
Two Shot Dead, Ten Are Captured,
Two Wounded.
THE MAN HUNT CONTINUES.
Desperate Encounter with Some An.
ueipated - Warden McCIsughry 20
XIII or Take the Remainder


sas. on Wednesday afternoon. had been
accounted for this morning. Two Of
them have been killed, two wounded
and five captured unhurt. or the sew
enteen still at large four are being pres
sed closely by armed prison guards and
citizens and word Is expected at any
moment that they have been captured
or killed The other fleeing convicts,
according to reports received at War
den McClaughry's office as late as this
morning, are still making foe the In
dian territory. They have lroken up
into twos and threes. This is indicated,
he says, by the fact that robberies of
stores and residences reported yester-
day when the convicts were known to
be travelling In gangs have ceased to be
reported.
Talking TO the Associated Press over
the lang distance telephone this morn
ing Warden Mcclaushrey expressed
confidence that he would ultimately
capture every one Of the missing con-
victs and that he expected to land sew
eral today.
ON THoMPsoN's TRACK.
A message from the sheriff at Law
renee TO the warden this morning said
that ten guards, number OF deputies
and a oroxpd ~ oiti,ano al haavti,,
armed. were on the track OF Frank
Thompson q negro convict. the origin
ator and ringleader of the conspiracy
TO escape, who Is travelling with two
other conyicts between Lawrence and
Nortonville. Thompson is desperate
man and Is sure to give battle before
he surrenders. He and his comrades are
armed. The sheriff at Lawrence also
reported that Gilbert Mullins. another
of the ringleaders, Is reported twelve
miles southwest OF that city, where he
had impressed horse into service this
morning and was making south.
NET RESULTS TO DATE.
The net result OF yesterdays chase
follows.
DEAD:
At Nortonvile, Kansas. James Hoff-
man, aged 20 white, from Cofferyville.
Kansas, killed Instantly; ]. F. Poffen-
kolz, aged %, white, military prisoner
from Chicago, killed instantly
WOUNDED AND CAPTURED.
At Nortonvile. John Green, aged q,
white. from Vineta, l. T., shot in hand
and knee, wounds serious: VIM. A.
Drake, aged 10, white, from Southwest
City. Mo, shot twice in arm, wounds
slight.
CAPTURED UNHURT.
At Nortonville, Fred More, aged 16,
negro. from Shawnee, o. T.
At Jarbalo, Kansas, Donald Norie,
white, from Ryan, |. t.. and r. L. uDav-
EXPORT, white, at Lawrence, o. T.; OLE
Bobo, a haif-breed Indian. from Mar
quette, !. T., and Joseph II. Decking,
white. a military prisoner.
Two men supposed TO be fugitives,
captured at North Topeka, proved to be
tramps.
Jay ]. Hoffenholz was a German sol
der who enlisted In the United States
army at the outbreak OF the Spanish
war He was private in Company A,
Fourth United States infantry, and wa
arrested and convicted by a court-mar-
tial at Balor, Southern Luzon, p. l. His
crime was burglary. He was brought
TO the federal prison, July Is, 1901, and
his sentence was for Ave years. He has
mother living In Chicago, which he
claimed as his home.
James Hoffman was convicted OF rob-
berry and brought TO the prison Decem-
Der 2s. 1897, to serve for five years. He
had bad prison record.
A telephone message from Leaven-
worth at noon reports the capture on
the outskirts of that city Of James Will
son, colored. the tenth convict 70 be
taken. Wilson's feet were still shackled.
In this condition he had Travelled two
miles from the scene OF the outbreak
since Wednesday afternoon and had
come out from cover to get food VIII
son was five-year prisoner, sent up
for larceny.
A Star special at noon also reports
the wounding and capture, south OF
Tonganoxie. OF Frank Thompson, the
negro leader Of the outbreak, but Il
ste-s' nv tNNh N'ia'fh ftAs
DEAD BODIES BROUGHT IN.
The dead bodies OF Hoffman and Pof-
fenholz were brought in today and pre-.
pared for burial In the prison grounds
A letter from Poffenholz's mother IA,
her son, written In Chicago. on fhe cay
OF the outbreak. was received al mi,
prison today. Mrs. Poffenholz urged the
nItlNrpar IN N g..
was, she said, trying TO get one OF In.
iiiinois senators 10 take up his case
with the war department to secure
pardon.
TWO MORE ESCAPES CAPTURED.
Kansas city, Mo. Nov. "a tele-
phone message from Lawrence, Kan
sae. says:
At $3.50 this afternoon Dave Lewis. a
farmer. brought In two convicts, Gus
Parker and David Grayson, both white.
Lewis had captured the men unaIded
az Midland, three miles north OF Law.
renee. Both are five year prisoners.
This makes total of twelve convicts
captured.
Four miles east OF Lawrence three
convicts abandoned their horses al the
Kansas river. rowed across In a stolen
boat and are now said TO be hiding In
the woods. The sheriff Of Lawrence
with number OF deputies, left for the
scene shortly after noon. Eight miles
northeast Of Lawrence. on Buck
Greek, farmers are said 10 have sur.
rounded three other convlcts In the
woods and to he closing In on them.
At 2 o'clock two white conyicts were
49, L..
eight miles west Of Leavenw0rth and
i've dellliles had lust Left IeaNonnnrfh