The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-12
LEADER OF MUTINY TAKEN
FRANK THOMPSON, WHO LED THE
 LEAYENWORTH CONYJCTS.
Captured After Hard Fight With tho Officers During Which He Was Shot of the Escaped Convicts MortalIy
 Wnundcd-OniyT Twelve Now nt Large.

Kansas City Mo, Nov. 11.-Frank
 Thompson, the leader of the mutiny at
 the federal prison at Leavenworth
 which resulted in the escape last Thurs day of twenty-six prisoners, was cap- tured eight miles north of Council
 Grove, Kansas, this evening by posse
 under command of Deputy United
 States Marshal A. E. Prescott. Thomp-
 son would not surrender, but was taken
 after hard fight with the officers in which he was shot in the head but not
 seriously injured. No member of the | posse was hurt.
 Deputy Marshal Prescott has been at
 Council Grove since Saturday morning
 watching for escaped prisoners. A number of them are in this vicinity and, 1 several depredations on property have
 resulted from their presence This morning Prescott heard of the presence of negro convict a few miles north of
 the town and immediately set out to
 make the capture, assisted by Sheriff Michael and other officers. The officers had emerged from a wooded tract when they Saw Thompson running across the open. He was ordered to halt but he answered by wheeling around and do- ing some rapid firing with a 44-calibre revolver, The officers then fired and Thompson dropped. He was stunned and easily secured. He will be taken back to the penitentiary tomorrow
 Lawrence Lewis another of the es- capped convicts, was mortally wounded this morning near Quenemo, Kansas, while he was making a dash through cordon of armed deputies. Now there are but twelve prisoners at large.
 Lewis Is white boy, twenty years of age, who was sentenced in October, 1900, to undergo five years term of Imprisonment for larceny. He was tracked to a wooded place near Quene- mo by the city marshal of that place, which is situated forty miles southwest of Fort Leavenworth, and dozen men bearing rifles. An order to surrender was met with defiance by Lewis, and although unarmed and practically sur- rounded, he darted for the nearest opening. He had gone scarcely hun dred yards before a bullet from a Win chester in the hands of one of his pur- suers behind pierced his lung and brought him to the ground. Bleeding and fatally wounded, he was taken to the marshals office and cared for while | Warden McClaughey was notified.
 Three separate gangs of convicts have been reported at points within fifteen | miles about Topeka since last night and | a force of penitentiary guards, deputy | sheriffs and farmers have been active | all day.
 From the descriptions received War; den McClaughey believes that the two captors of Sheriff Cook, of Topeka, on were Arthur Hewitt, white. and Lon Southerland, a part Indian. Hew- itt and Thompson, the negro captured this afternoon, were the ringleaders in the outbreak, and to-day the warden increased the reward for their capture. Hewitt and Southerland were serving fve-year sentences for larceny. Hew- itt is twenty-three years old while is but eighteen.
 The officers at Topeka, both county and city, filled with revenge at being foiled at Pauline, were bending every energy to-day to overhaul these partic- ular convicts and have so far succeeded as to capture Thompson.
 At Alma, Kansas, running fight last night with two escaped convicts is re- ported. The convicts had stolen two horses and they made good their escape after shooting horse from under one of their pursuers.