The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-11-08
BOLD BREAK
FOR LIBERTY
CONvICTS MUTINY AND AS
SAULT GUARDS.
PRISONERS SECURE ARMS
Unknown Friends Smuggle Two
Revolvers Into One of the
Prison Cells.

Prison Cells.
Leavenworth, Kas., NOV. 7.-One
man was killed, three others danger |
ously wounded and 26 desperate con-
victs are at large as result of NUT
my late this afternoon at the site Of
the new United States prison, two |
miles southeast of here, where 400
prisoners from the federal prison, in
charge of 80 armed guards were at
work.
When the trouble began the rebel
lious prisoners had only two revol-
vers. These had been secreted in one
of the cells of the building by some
unknown person. There are two walls
partly completed and the remainder
of the site of the building is sur
rounded by high wooden stockade
Gus. Parker of Ardmore, I. T., one of
! the ring leaders of the mutiny under
pretense of necessity walked to the
corner of the stockade where the re-
volvers were concealed and under COW
er of some weeds secured them with
out being detected. He returned to
the gang and passed one of the revol-
vers to Frank Thompson negro,
from South McAlester who secreted
it about his person. When T. E.
cfr ofi
and three unarmel guards prepared
to round up the men IT the end of the
days work the two armed convicts
covered them with 'ne revOlvers and
encouraged by the other mutinous con-
victs force.' the men to walk before
them to the northwestern corner of
the stockale, where they expected to
make rush through an opening. On
the outside of the stockade was an
armed guard and the convicts were
met at .be opening by G. A. Burrows,
a guard who fought -hem back but
who received two shcts in the neck.
The convicts then rushed over to the
south wall to another opening and
were met by Arthur Treelford an
4 armed guard, who is in charge of all
the convicts. Treelford resisted the
convicts 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 structure, where
the arms are kept. The guards from
the outside rushed in at this point
and drove the convicts away Grom the
guard house. ]. P. Waldrupe, guard,
shot and killed Ford Quinn, from
Ryan, l. T. The prisoners then made
! a grand rush for the main entrance
u and 26 of them succeeded in escaping.
Most of the escaped men are from
!: the Indian Territory. Closely follow
!, ed by the guards the men ran to a
! nearby forest and succeeded in evad-
ing their pursuers.
! The men went in the direction of
Easton and it is reported here that
they held up many farmers, taking
horses and clothing en- route.
The convicts in their flight COM
PEELED F. E. Kinds, superintendent of
construction to go with them, and he
was not allowed to return until they
had gone almost two miles. w. B.
Teaslee, one Of the fugitives, who has
only Is months to serve, deserted
the band a few moments after Supt.
Kinds was released. The two men
reached here almost the same time.
They reported that the fugitives, af-
ter holding consultation, decided
that they would form themselves into
several small parties, so that some
might escape though others would be
captured. 1t is the intention of all
to attempt to reach the rough coun-
try southeast of here.
Twenty-four members of the Fourth
cavalry hastened to the scene of the
trouble but when they arrived the
convicts had escaped and the soldiers
could not participate in the chase
without orders from their superior.
Forty armed guards from the fed
eral prison are in pursuit of the fugi-
tives.
The wounded men are in the prison
hospital. ]. B. Waldrupe was shot in
the head and in the back and is in a
precarious condition.
C. E. Burrows was shot twice in the
neck, receiving serious wounds. Ar
thur Treelford was shot in the leg,
but his wound is slight.