Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-11-07
HUNTING FOR
ESCAPED CONVICTS
Forty Mounted Guards Beating the Country
Around LeayenwOrth- Three Are Sur.
rounded in Barn and Killed.

Leavenworth, Kan, Nov. S.-Forty
mounted guards are beating the coun-
try for d radius Of five miles around
ple federal penltenuary today IN
search Of the twenty-six conyicts who
succeeded in escaping from the guards
ate yesterday. The country is wild
and rough and affords ample opgoi-
tunity Tor escape and as all Of the con
ricts are desperate men and armed
conflicts WIN doubtless result before
they are captured.
The net known result Of the mutlny
and the following Eight with he qua IDS
was one convict Killed and four guards
shot or otherwise hurt, but Il Is be-
lieyed mat many ui the fleeing eonSicts
received wounds however serious from
the bullets sent after them by pursuing
guards.
THE DEAD.
Quinn Fort, desperate criminal
from the Indian Territory, who IL be-
neved to have been the rlngleader Of
the break.
WOUNDED.
Joseph d. Waldrupe, prison guard,
shot in forehead and breast, condition
still critical.
Arthur Trolford captain of the guard.
shot IN leg, not serious,
c. Il. Burrows, guarc, shot in neck,
slight
Andrew Leonard. guard, leg broken
IL develops that the muiny was
Matched several months ago, but thot
the men had never found a favorable
opportunity 70 carry 1t into effect until
yesterday The general plan was not
new, but 1t proved effective because OF
the limited number Of guards. AS the
better behaved prisoners are used IN
the outside work the conspiracy was
batched among the men in the inside
gangs.
The conviets chose the most favor
able moment OF the day, while many
OF the guards acting as foremen OF con-
struction Of the new dollhouse were
unarmed
As soon as the alarm was given,
guards were formed In marching order
and mounted men, armed 70 The teeth
were drawn up In front OF the main
entrance Of the prison. Most Of The
guards were old plainsmen and the d.
version OF hunting down criminals
stirred their blood as nothing else could
have dpne. The escaping cCnyicts were
counted the most desperate criminals
IN the southwest and the guards STAR
ed out on their hunt in full realization
of this fact
The scene Of nutlny, however. be-
ing SOME distance from the prisGn
proper the convicts hid secured good
ttart and, aided by the rough. wooded
country they had, before darkness fell,
placed q gotd gap between themselves
and their pursuers. The guards at
best could make but g desultory at
tempt at pursuit and were compelled
to await daylight TO take up the
search.
The officials at Kansas City Atchison,
st. Joseph Topeka and Leavenwortll
were asked TO keep their police on the
lookout and all night in each - the
cities named police and detectives pa
trolled the outskirts.
During the night reports came from
eleven directions Of thefts OF horses and
vehicles. clothing and food by the con-
victs and as the report that the con
victs were at large spread, citizens in
the outlying districts became terror
stricken and barred their houses.
Early this morning an increased sum
Der OF guards, we'll armed and mounted,
were started out from the penitentinry
and today was spent in as exciting a
man hunt, perhaps. as has been expert
enced in this part Of the country since
the border days.
il Is believed that all the convlcts
will ultimately be captured. II not over
taken by the guards and shot. Each
prisoner has undergone an examination