The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-08
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in which the guards are stationed while
the prisoners are at work
When the convicts are marched in
during the morning they are held close
~ packed together in a little barbed
wire enclosure called the bull pen.''
Here they are detained until half of the
sixteen guards mount the walls and are
given the rifles and revolverS of the
other eight guards, who move about
among the prisoners. The eight guards
in the towers and on the walls therefore
constitute the entire armed force The
others direct the work of the cOnvicrs
They are not armed, because they
would probably be overpowered by the
$50 working prisoners who are SO close
to them and their weapons taken
away.
These conditions prevailed at the time
the mutiny broke out. Unobserved the
three leaders of the revolt went to the
place where their revolvers were
buried unearthed them, and proceeded
to execute most daring "hold-up-
THOSE WHO ESCAPED.
The names of the convicts who are
now at large, with their crimes, ages,
etc.. follow:
No. rs, Gilbert Mullins; white received
November Z. 1897, years; larceny; age
No. Ats, John Greene; white; received
June 8, 1885, z years; larceny; aged Il.
No. 53S, James Huffman; white; re-
ceived December %, 1897; years; rob
No. 547, Fred Robinson; white; re-
ceived March 2, 1898; years; larceny;
age 10.
No 562 David Hunt; white; received
June 10, 1898; years; larceny; age IS.
No. sos. willard Drake; white; received
October 80, 1898; years; assault; age
10.
No. $50 David Grayson; white; re-
ceived February "a, 1899; years; bur-
No. 1913. Lol Switzerland; Indian; re-
ceiyed November %, 1893; years; lar
No 1916, Turner Barnes; white; re-
ceived November %, 1899; 10 years; as
sault; age 81.
No. 1884, Gus Parker; white; received
February %, 1900; years; larceny; age
No. 2o64, Frank Thompson; colored !:
received April r. 1900; years; larceny;
age %.
No. 2176. James seymore; white: re
ceived May 20, 1900; years; breaking
into postoffice; age %.
No. 219o, Bob Clark; white; received
June 4, 1900; 5 years; breaking into post
office; age "a.
No. 2255. Joseph H. Deekin; white; re-
ceived July 10, 1900; years; desertion
and assault to kill; age %; military
No 22s1, Lawrence Lewis; white; re-
| ceived October &c, 1900; years; larceny;
age 90
No. 22s3, Tom Rating; white; received
October 26, 1900; 5 years; larceny; age
| "a.
No 1926, Ole Bobo; white; received
october &c, 1900; years; larceny; age
No 2s1o, Arthur Hewitt; white; re-
| ceived November %, 1900; 5 years; lar
| ceny; age g.
No. 1912, w O. Murray; white; re-
| ceived November %, 1900; . years;
| larceny; age %.
No. 231s, Neal Jaco; white; received
November %, 1900; years; introducing
| whisky into Indian Territory; age %.
| No. 1891, r. J.. Davenport; white; re-
ceived March Fl. 1901; AZ years; robbing
| postoffice; age 25.
No. 2404. Donald Norie; white; re-
ceived March Is, 1901; years; larceny;
| age 20.
No 24s7, Frank Lawrence; white; re-
ceived May II, 1901; years; robbing
No. 251s, James Wilson; colored; re-
ceived June II, 1901; years; larceny;
No. 1924, Fred Moore; colored; re-
ceived June II, 1901; years; larceny;
aged 10.
ceived July %, 1901; years; burglary
violation section So, articles of war; age
| 81; military prisoner.
OTHERS DIDN'T TRY.
| Over 400 prisoners were left inside the
| stockade. They might have escaped,
some of the guards being unarmed, but
they refused to seek liberty. Their
| sympathies were with the revolving con-
V1ctS however, Tor as the squad OF deS-
! peradoes and their captives walked
| through the opening in the fence a
| great cheer went up from those who
| voluntarily remained behind.
A few guards were still on top of the
walls and their rifles were ready for
| action. AS the squad left the stockade
headed in a southWesterly direction for
| the hills and rough country that lie in
| that direction, the officers who were
still armed fired into the crowd, run
ming the risk of hitting their fellow
| guards, the foreman and the engineer.
| The convicts fired back, keeping their
| prisoners between them and the walls.
| The helpless men were subjected to a
| double danger. The firing grew into a
| fusillade and the rifles cracked per-
| haps a hundred times. The retreat was
| quick and the fleeing ones were finally
| out of range. Their prisoners were held
until a quarter of a mile had been COW
| cred.
You can go back now" commanded
| one of the ruffians. Kinds and his COM
| panions FASTENED toward the prison site
and the escaped men were lost in the