New Ulm review., 1901-11-13
ARE STILL BEING PURSUED
Guards and Citizens Of Kansas Hot
on the Trail of Escaped
Federal Prisoners.
THE RESULT OF FRIDAYS CHASE.
Two Were KILLED, Two wounded and
Five Others Captured Unhurt =
Four More Captured Saturday-Six
Are Reported Corraled Near Law
renee, Kan.

/ Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 11.-Nine of
the convicts who escaped from the
| federal prison at Fort Leavenworth,
been accounted for Saturday morn
| ing. Two of them have been killed,
! two wounded and five others have
| been captured unhurt. Of the
| II still at large, four are being
pressed closely by armed prison
guards and citizens and word is ex-
pected at any moment that they have
been captured or killed. The other
fleeing convicts, according to re-
ports received at Warden McClaugh-
| rvs Office as late as Saturday morn
ing, are still making for the Indian
territory. They have broken up into
twos and threes. This is indicated,
he says, by the fact that robberies of
stores and residences reported Fri
day when the convicts were known
to be travelling in gangs have ceased
to be reported
Saturday morning Warden Nc
Claughry expressed confidence that
he would ultimately capture every
one of the II missing convicts.
A message from the sheriff at
Lawrence to the warden said that
ten guards, number of deputies and
a crowd of citizens, all heavily armed,
were on the track of Frank Thomp-
son, a negro convict, the originator
and ringleader of the conspiracy to
escape, who is travelling with two
other convicts between Lawrence and
ate man and is sure to give battle
before he surrenders. He and his
comrades are armed. The sheriff at
Lawrence also reported that Gilbert
Mullins, another of the ringleaders,
is reported 12 miles southwest of
that city, where he had impressed
horse into service Saturday morning
and was making south.
Result of Fridays Hunt.
The net result Of Fridays chase
follows: Dead:
At Nortonville. Kan: James Huffman,
aged, 20, white. from Coffeyvile, Kan,
| killed instantly; Jay j. Poffenkolz, aged 25,
white, a military prisoner from Chicago,
killed instantly.
Wounded and captured-At Nortonvile:
John Green, aged 81. white, from Vinita.
/. T.. shot in hand and knee. wounds Sc
rious; Willard Drake, aged 10, white. from
Southwest City. Mo-. shot twice in arm,
wound slight.
Captured. unhurt-At Nortonville: Fred
Moore, aged 16, negro, from Shawnee, o. T.;
at Jarbalo Kan: Donald Norie, white,
from Ryan, I. T., and R. L. Davenport,
white; at Lawrence: Ole Bobe, half breed
Indian from Marquette, I. T., and Joseph
H. Deekin, white. military prisoner.
AT North Topeka. two, names not known
Jay j. Poffenholz was a German
soldier who enlisted in the United
States army at the outbreak of the
Spanish war. He was private in
company A, Fourth United States in
fantry, and was arrested and convict
ed by court-martial at Balor, south
ern Luzon. His crime was burglary.
He was brought to the federal prison
July %, 1901, and his sentence was
for five years. He has a mother liv-
ing in Chicago, which he claimed as
his home.
James Huffman was convicted of
robbery and brought to the prison
December %, 1897, to serve for five
years. He had bad prison record
The dead bodies of Huffman and
Poffenholz have been brought in and
prepared for burial in the prison
grounds.
A telephone message from Leaven-
worth at noon Saturday reports the
capture on the outskirts of that city
of James Wilson, colored. the tenth
convict to be taken. Wilson'S feet
were still shackled. In this condi-
tion he had travelled two miles from
the scene of the outbreak since
Wednesday afternoon and had come
out from cover to get food. Wilson
was five-year prisoner sent up for
larceny.
A Star special also reports the
wounding and capture south of
Tongano of Frank Thompson, the
negro leader of the outbreak, but it
has not been confirmed.
AT two o'clock two white convicts
were reported in hiding at the Bell
schoolhouse, eight miles west of
Leavenworth, and five deputies left
Leavenworth for that place. A farm
er just in from the schoolhouse had
been held up and robbed by the CON
victs.
A telephone message from Law
renee, Kan, says: At 2:ao Saturday
afternoon Dave Lewis, farmer,
brought in two convicts, Gus Parker
and David Grayson, both white.
Lewis had captured the men unaided
at Midland, three miles north of
Lawrence. Both are fve-year prison.
ers. This makes a total of 12 con-
! victs captured.
Six More Reported CorraIed.
A telephone message from Law
| renee Saturday afternoon reported
six convicts had been corraled near
| that city. Four miles east of Law
| renee three convicts abandoned their
horses at the Kansas river, rowed
across in a stolen boat and are now
said to be hiding in the woods The
| sheriff of Lawrence with a number
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