The Green Forest tribune., 1901-11-16
PRISONERS REVOLT. /.
More Than Twenty Desperate Men Escaped at LeavenwOrth.

Oe o'ooOI1l iJUeQ III JIllS sec. tlon was put in execution at the new United States penitentiary on the Fort Leavenworth Reser- vahon this afternoon. There was regular pitched battle between guards and rebellious convicts. and one guard was killed and three wounded, while one convict was killed outright and another fatally wounded.
 After gaining their liberty the convicts took possession of farm wagons, buggies, and the like, and ran people into their homes and created a reign of terror in the western outskirts of Leaven- worth, and the farming districts they passed through in their wild effort to make good their escape. The militia at Fort Leavensworth was called on to help restore or der at the new penitentiary site, and held in check the convicts who did not leave the stockade. No organized effort was made to capture the mutineers until after dark, as 1t required all the efforts of the officials to handle those who did not get away.
 Everything that has developed since the convicts escaped shows that it was a cunningly planned conspiracy to overpower the guards.
 Part of the guards go to the towers to keep a watch during the day. About half the guards remained among the convicts, di- recting their work. These guards have no guns or pistols about them. The arms are kept with the tower guards. By some means or other the convicts man. aged to get hold of three revol- vers. They were not the kind used by the guards and were evil .dently furnished by some outside source.
 The guns were dirty, indicating, that they had been buried. At $40 this afternoon, twenty min-, utes before the time for all con- victs to gather in the barbed wire counting pen, three convicts quietly walked into the office of the constructing engineer. The leader of the three convicts com- manded: Surrender and hold up your hands" j"
 Three pistols were showed in the faces of the officials, and while two of the convicts kept the officers covered the third tore the telephone down from the wall. Without any ceremony the of ficers were told to walk in front of the convicts as shields while they started for the nearest tower. The convicts kept the pistols up against the officers head. The center tower held by guard Hoff- man was the first one approach ed. He noticed something was wrong and raised his gun to shoot. MT. Hines, who kept cool, called to Hoffman not to shoot, telling him that he did not want to be killed between two fires. The captured off cers W re per- feet shield to the conVlcts.
 The convicts walked up to Hoffman and getting into his tower, secured three rifles and three more revolvers. Hoffman was made to join the band of cap- tured officers. Other convicts in the conspiracy told of the newly captured arms. At this stage Capt. Tellford lodged around the wall and ran. The convicts fired several shots at him and wound- ed him in the leg. Without any loss of time the march was re- sumed to another tower guard, using officers as shields.
 Charles Burrows, the tower guard, refused to obey the orders of the captured officers not to shoot, and he exchanged a num- Der of shots with the convicts. Burrows received a shot in the neck. which is serious, and he fatally wounded negro convict.
 When Burrows fell the convicts took his arms and the arms of tb~ee other guards stored in his tower.
 At this point orders were given