The age-herald., 1901-11-12
Deputy Sheriff Prescott and a Posse of Farmers Bring
 Him In
F CONV|GTS YET AT LARGE
Officers Report They Have Some Of
 Them Rounded Up-Three Board Freight Train .Air and Escape.

Topeka, Kan, November u.-With the capture of Frank Thompson. the negro leader of the federal penitentiary mutiny of last Thursday, fourteen of the twen- ty-six of the convicts have been re-taken. [
 Thompson was captured near Council Grove tonight by Deputy United States Marshal Prescott and a posse of farm CTS. He showed fight but was brought down by a load of buckshot. Thompson is not dangerously wounded and will be returned to the penitentiary tomorrow The twelve convicts yet at large are in- spring much fear among the inhabitants of the country districts. Tonight officers are at work in a dozen different counties and as some report that they have groups of convicts rounded up, more captures will be made before morning.
 From Council Grove where Thompson was captured tonight, six convicts have started to Cottonwood Falls and are hold ing up and robbing and plundering farms all along. Many have had encounters with the men and people along, the route are afraid to venture out of their houses tonight. In Lyon county citizens and of hcers are armed and patroling the approaches to the town as the convicts probably will pass that way. Three Board Freight Train. Three suspected convicts were seen boarding a freight train at Ottawa to- night and they are expected to drop off near Emporia. where there is some heavy timber suitable for hiding. Near Osage City Deputy Warden Lemon with four teen officers Is closely In touch with three convicts. whom he expects to cap ture before morning.
 The sheriff of Oswego Is in pursuit of a convict who held up some men there today. The sheriff at Alma reports that he has two suspected convicts surrounded.
 The convicts are seemingly becoming bolder and are invading towns. In tho Union Pacific yards at Wamego tonight two of the runaway convicts held mp a man and compelled him at the poiu. cf a revolver to give them s92 They then boarded a freight train and went west without any attempt being made to cap ture them.
 One Convict MortaIIy Wounded.
 Kansas City. November 11.-Lawrence Lewis. one of the escaped Fort Leaven- worth convicts. was captured this morn- ing. being mortally wounded. near Que memo, Kas., while making a dash through a cordon of armed deputies.
 Lewis is white boy 20 years of age. who was sent up in October, 1900. to un- dergo a five years sentence for lar cery. He was tracked to a wooded place near Quenemo by tne marphal of that place, winch Is forty miles south west from Leaverworth, and a dozen men bearing rifles. An order to sur render was met with defiance, and Lew is, unarmed, and although practically surrounded. darted for the nearest open i ing. He had gone scarcely hundred yards when a bullet from a Winchester | in the hands Of one of his pursuers pierced his lung from behind and brought him to the ground.
 From the descriptions received Warden McClalghey believes that the two cap tives of Sheriff Cook are Arthur Hewitt, white, and Lon Southerland "a part In d!an. Hewitt and Frank Thompson, a negro, were rir gleaders in the outbreak. Hewitt and SoLtherlard were both serv- ing five-year sentences for larceny. Flew itt is g years of age, while Soutterlaad is but IS.