Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-11-09
CONVICTS ESCAPE.
Twenty-six Bolt from Federal
Prison at leavenworth.
Secure Two RevoIvers and Fight
Their Way to Liberty.
One Killed and Three Of the Prison Guards
Dangerously Wounded.

Leavenworth, kans., Nov. S.-One
man was killed. three others danger
Ously and Two badly wounded and %
desperate conVictS are at large. as a re-
Sulr Of mutiny late Thursday after
noon. at the site OF the new United
States prison. two miles southeast of
here. where 400 prisoners in the s'ederal
prison. il, charge of 20 armed guards,
We're At work
When Che trouble began the robellious
prisoners had only two revolvers
These had been secreted in one of the
walls of the building by some unknown
persons. Two walls are partly COM
Pleted and the remainder of the site of
the building is surrounded by high
wooden stOckade.
Gus Parker of Ardruore. !. r.. one of
the ringleaders Of the mutiny. under
corner of the stockade i'm which the re-
VOlVers We're concealed and under cover
OF some weeds, secured them without
being detected. He returned to the
gang and passed one of the revolvers
TO Frank Thompson, a negro. from
South McAlester. l. r., who secrea ted
ii about his person.
When T. =. Kinds. superintendent of
construction. and three armed guards
prepared TO round up the men at the
end of the days work, the two armed
conNictS covered them with tn. revol-
vers. and, encouraged by the other mu-
tinous convicts, forced ,ne men to walk
before them to the northwestern cor
of =
pected to make Il rush through the.
opening.
On the outside of the stockade was
an armed guard, and the convicts were
met at the opening by &. T.. Burrows,
u guard, who fought them back but
who received two shots i'll the neck.
The convicts then rushed over to the
south wall TO another opening and We're
met by Arthur Treeltord an armed
guard. who is in charg. of all the
convictS. Treelford resisted and was
shot twice but not dangerously
wounded.
Defeated in their attempt to escape
at this point, the men rushed to the
guard house. "A temporary frame struc-
ture. where the arms are kept The
guards from the outside rushed in anu
drove the convicts away from th..
guardhouse.
j. +. Waldruppe, a guard, shot and
killed Ford Quinn. from Ryan. |. T..
The prisoners then made n grand rush
for the main entrance and 26 of them
succeeded in escaping. Closely follow
ed by the guards. the men ran into a
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their purSuers.
The men went in the direction of
t,aston. Kan. and it is reported here
that they have held up many farmers.
taking horses and clothing.
The convicts in their flight compelled
Supt. of Construction Kinds TO go with
them and he was not allowed to return
until they had gone almost TWO miles.
W. +. Peaslce. one OF the fugitives, who
has only Il months more to serve. de =
serted the band a few moments after
Supt. Kinds was released. The two
men reached here almost Simultaneous
ly. They reported that the fugitives.
after holding consultation. decided
that they would form themselves into
several small parties so that some
captured
Twenty four members of the 4th
Cavalry FASTENED to the scene but
when they arrived the SOnvicts had es-
capped and the soldiers could not partici-
pate in the chase without orders. Forty
armed guards from the Federal prison
are in pursuit of the fugitives.
The wounded men are in the prison
hospital
Waldruppe was shot in the head and
in the neck and is in a precarious con-
dition. Burrows was shot twice in the
neck, receiving serious wounds. Treel-
ford was shot in the leg. but his wound
is slight
Andrew Legard a guard. is in the
hospital with a broken leg. He was
nurt as the prisoners We're escaping
through the main entrance of the stock
ade. one of the fugitiveS named otter
was shot but he was able to go on with
the others.