Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-13
CONVICT HUNT IS HOT
1t Is $50 Apiece for Each of the
rugitives Captured, Dead
or Alive.
FARMERS ARE ON THE THUG TRAIL
Nine Have Been Rounded Up, Three
of Them Dead, Killed i'm
Running Fight.

United States prison here. With two
revolvers which had been Struggled
in to them as weapons, they overpow-
cred three of the guards, seized num-
Der of rifles, fought running fight
with other guards. battered down the
gate to the stockade and gained their
liberty.
Forty armed guards from the prison
and a number of troopers from the
Fourth cavalry are in pursuit, and the
whole region around this city is reused
both for protection and to aid in the
capture of the convicts. The following
is list of the killed and wounded dur
ing the fighting in the stockade: One
convict was killed, Ford Quinn, Ryan,
l. Il. The wounded are: c. Il. Bur
rows, guard. shot twice in neck, condi-
ton serious: Andrew Leonard, guard,
slight wounds: Arthur Treelford, cap
tain of guards, shot in leg: J. Il. VALID
rupe, guard shot in head and neck,
probably fatally.
Leavenworth, Kan, Nov. 9.-Eleven
of the twenty-six conyicts who escaped
from the stockade of the new federal
prison here Thursday afternoon have
been accounted for. Two of the eleven
are dead-James Hoffman and ]. j.
Poffenholz, soldier-convict. John
Green and Willard Drake are wounded
and recaptured, and the fifth, Fred
Moore, aged 16 Ga negro, is recaptured
unhurt. Donald Norie and r. l.. Dav-
export were captured yesterday in a
field two miles north of Jarbalo. They
were hiding in ravine and, being I'M
armed they surrendered without resist
ance. The sheriff of Douglass county
has captured two convicts at Law
renee, Kan. one being Ole Babo. half
breed Indian, and the other Joseph III.
| Deekin, soldier in for desertion ana
assault to kill, and two more were
caught last night at Topeka.
Running Fight With Posse.
The first five men We're discovered
in the barn of Fay Weishaar. quarter
of a mile from NortOpville, Kan, about
p. m. yesterday. Weishaar went into
the barn and was ordered out at the
points of guns. He rushed to Norton
vile and gathered a ndmber of men
who with revolvers, shotguns and a
few Winchesters, fastened to the
scene. The convicts saw the men COM
ing and rushed from the barn. They
had two shotguns and revolvers. The
posse pursued them, and running
duel resulted. The convicts We're at a
disadvantage and their shots had no
effect. while at every volley from the
posse one of the convicts fell After
fxun of than, had Fall ne oil
ers gave themselves up. one being
wounded, the other unhurt.
Good Shot as BOer.
The fifth was fully 200 yards away
when man with Winchester drew a
bead on him and fired. He was evi.
IDENTIFY hard hit, but tried to go on,
when "A volley was fired at him, and he
fell dead. None of the citizens was
hurt. Reports come from numerous
points of the arrest of men supposed to
be fugitive convicts, but none of the
suspects has been identified. Warden
McClaughey 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 expected
to use is guarded by armed men, the
farmers having turned out to earn the
$50 reward that will be paid for the re-
turn of eachs convict Those of the
men that are armed are likely to be
shot on sight.
Topeka. Kan, Nov. 11.-Sheriff Cook,
of this county, and Deputy Sheriff
Williams were captured by two es-
capped convicts from the Fort Leaven-
worth military prison yesterday after
noon at Paulina, five miles south of To
peka, and held prisoners in the farm
house of man name Wooster for sew
eral hours. The fugitive prisoners
finally escaped through line of police
sent from Topeka to reinforce the shel-
if. and are now at large. Both were
slightly wounded. Wooster was badly
wounded by one of the convicts when
he tried to fire on them. Mrs. Wooster
and Sheriff Cook We're utilized by the
conyicts as a shield in making their
escape. A posse Is I'm pursuit.