Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-11-09
Ten Escaped Convicts Have Been
Killed or Captured.
OTHERS ARE CLOSELY PURSUED
Rumor That the Leader Has Been
Wounded and Captured
CASE OF POFFENH OLz

LEAVENWORTH, Eas., November O.
Ten of the convicts who escaped from the
federal prison here on Wednesday after
noon have been accounted for. Two of them
have been killed, two wounded and six
others have been captured unhurt. OF the
sixteen still at large four are being pressed
closely by the armed prison guards and
citizens. and word is expected at any mo-
ment that they have been captured or
killed. The other fleeing convicts, accord
ing to reports received at Warden Nc
Claughry's office, are still making for the
Indian Territory.
Warden McCIaughry expressed confidence
that he would ultimately capture every
one of the fifteen missing convicts, and
said he expected to take several today.
message from the sheriff at Lawrence
to the warden this morning said that ten
guards a number of deputies and a crowd
OF citizens, all heavily armed, were on the
track of Frank Thompson. a negro convict,
the originator and ringleader of the con-
spiracy to escape, who is travelling with
two other cOnVicts between Lawrence and
Nortonville. Thompson Is considered a des-
perate man and is sure to give battle before
he surrenders. He and his comrades are
armed. The sheriff at Lawrence also re
ported that Gilbert Mullins another of the
rlngleaders, is reported twelve miles south
west of that city, where he had impressed a
ioFSS INTO service THIS morning and
making south.
Result of Nesterday's Chase.
The net result of yesterdays chase fol-
lows:
Dead. at Nortonvil!e. Kan:
James Huffman. aged twenty; white;
from Gofeyvilie, Kan; killed instantly
Jay j. Poffenkolz, aged twenty-five:
white; military prisoner from Chicago;
killed instantly.
Wounded and captured, at Nortonville:
John Green, aged twen,y-one: white;
trom Ninlta, l. t.; shot in hand and knee;
wounds serious
Willard Drake. aged nineteen; white
from Southwest City, Mo: shot twice in
arm: wound slight.
Captured. unhurt. at NortonviIIe.
Fred Moore. aged sixteen; negro; from
Shawnee. o. T.
AT Jarbalo. Kan:
Donald Norie: white: from Ryan l. It
X l. Davenport, white.
At Lawrence:
Ole Bobe. a half-breed Indian from Mar
quette, /. T.
Joseph H. Deekin; white; military pris-
oner.
Jay ]. PofenhoIz was German soldier
who enlisted in the United States army at
the outbreak of the Spanish war He was
private in Company a, 4th United States
Infantry. and was arrested and convicted
by court-martial at Balor southern
LuZon. His crime was burglary He was
brought to the federal prison July 2S. 1901
and his sentence was for five years lie
claimed Chicago as his home.
James Huffman was convicted of rob-
berry and brought to the prison December
2S. 1897, to serve for five years. He had a
bad prison record.
Capture Near LeavenwOrth
At noon today James Wilson, colored
was captured in the outskirts of this city,
making the tenth convict to be taken. VIII
sons feet were still shackled. In this con-
dition he had got two miles from the scene
of the outbreak since Wednesday afternoo
and had come out from cover to get food.
wilson was fiye-year prisoner sent up for
larceny.
report reached here at noon of the
WoundinS and capture south of TonganoXie
OF Frank Thompson, the negro leader of
the outbreak. but it has not been confirmed
The dead bodies of Huffman and Poffen-
holz were brought in today and prepared
FOR burial in the prison grounds. A letter
from Pohenholz's mother, written in Chi
cdso, on the day of the outbreak to her
son. was received at the prison today Mrs
Poffenholz urged the prisoner to make a
nne record. as she was. she said trying
TO get one of the Illinois senator's to take
up his case with the War Department to
secure a pardon.