The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-11-08
Search for Escaped Leaven-
worth Prison Convicts.
26 DESPERATE MEN
Mounted Guards, Former Plainsmen
Giving Pursuit.
CAPTURE OR KILLING IN SIGHT
r1tOry and Committing Depre-
dat1Ons on the Way.

Leavenworth, Kan, Nov. S.-Forty
mounted guards are beating the country
ror radius of five miles around the fed
eral penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth in
search of the twenty-six escaped con-
victs. The country is wild and rough and
anords ample opportunity for escape, and
| as all the convicts are desperate men and
armed, conflicts will doubtless result be-
fore they are captured. 1t is believed that
| many Of the fleeing convicts received
wounds from the bullets sent after them
by pursuing guards.
The dead:
QUINN FORT, a desperate criminal from
the Indian territory who is believed to have
been the ringleader of the outbreak
Wounded:
Joseph b. Waldrupe, prison guard, shot In
forehead and breast; condition still critical.
Arthur Trelford, captain of the guard, shot
| in leg; not serious
G. E. Burrows, guard, shot in neck; slight.
Andrew Leonard, guard, leg broken
The mutiny was hatched several months
ago, but men had never found favorable
| time to carry it into effect until yester-
day. AS the better behaved prisoners
are used in the outside work the con-
spiracy was Matched among the men in the
| inside gangs. The convicts chose the
most favorable moment of the day, while
many of the guards, acting as foremen of
construction of the new cell house were
unarmed.
Diamond Cut Diamond.
| Since last night the old prison has pre-
sented an air of activity that it has not
known for years. AS soon as the alarms
were given, guards were formed In march,
| ing order and mounted men, armed to the
teeth, were drawn up in front of the main
entrance. Most of the guards were old
| plainsmen and the diversion of hunting
down criminals stirred their blood as
nothing else could have DONE The es-
capped convicts were accounted among the
| most desperate criminals Of the south
west and the guards started out on their
| hunt in full realization Of this fact
| The scene of mutiny, however, being
some distance from the prison proper, the
convicts had secured good start and,
aided by the rough, wooded country, they
| had, before darkness fell, placed good
gap between themselves and their pursu-
| ers. The guards, at best, could make but
|
compelled to await daylight to take up
, the search.
Depredat1Ons.
The alarms were sent in all directions.
the officials OF Kansas City, Atchison, st.
Joseph, Topeka and Leavenworth being
| asked to keep the police on the lookout,
and all night, in each Of the cities, armed
! police and detectives patrolled the out
| skirts. During the night reports came in
I from all directions of thefts of horses and
vehicles, clothing and food by the convicts
and as the report that the convicts were
at large spread, citizens in the outlying
districts became terror-stricken and
barred their houses.
Bright and early this morning an in-
creased number of guards we'll armed and
mounted, were started out from the peni-
tentiary, and to-day was spent in as ex-
citing a man hunt, perhaps as has been
experienced in this part of the country
| since the border days.
| 1t is believed that all the convicts will
ultimately be captured if not overtaken
| by the guards and shot. Each prisoner
| has undergone an examination under the
Bertillion system and to-day these de-
scriptions were mailed to every chief Of
police in the country.
Headed for Indian Territory.
Advices received at the prison Indicate
that the conyicts are making for the In
dian Territory, a hundred miles south, at
breakneck speed Warden McCIaughry Is
making every effort to head them off be-
fore they reach the Kansas river. He
started telegraphing last night to get
sheriffs and other officers to guard the
bridges. Answering kilograms received
to-day from the neighborhood Of LinWood,
Kan, and several other points, say farm
ers, we'll armed, are watching the bridges.
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securing farmers horses and running
them at high speed until the animals
give out and then pressing in fresh ones
whenever found. By making these relays
they are trying to outride the officers to
the territory.
Nothing but guards and civil officers
out for the 100000 rewards are now in the
chase. The soldiers are keeping watch
over the reservation. All work Is sus-
pended and the convicts held in cells so
that the guards can take up the hunt.
VIII McClaughry, with force OF TRUSTEES,
is running off pictures of the convicts at
large. Two hundred sets will be mailed
out by tonight to different chiefs Of po-
lice.
At Missouri City, Mo. store was bro-
ken into and a quantity Of clothing and
shoes were stolen; at Weston, Mo-. two
or three horses were taken and at Long
anosec two horses and some clothing were
stolen.
Located Near LindwOOd.
Messages received from Tonganoxie,
Kan. at noon indicate that number of
convicts are trying to cross the Kansas
river near Linwood, which Is twenty miles
southwest from Leavenworth. Warden
McLaughry is centering his forces in the
Linwood neighborhood. Up to 1890
o'clock to-day not one of the twenty
convicts had been captured.
Guard Waldrupe, who was shot in the
head, is still alive, but the surgeons have
no hope of his recovery. Leonard whose