Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-11-13
BOLD CONWCTS ESCAPE
lwentv-siX Desperate Men Bolt From
leavenworth Federal Prison.
tUGITlVtS KILLED BY FARMERS
One Man Lost His Life and Five Othcrs
"""ndedi In Fight Between Guards and
Prisoners - Two RevoIvers Had Been
Brought into Kansas Prison Stockadc
For rConvicts-Mnny Recapturea.


Leavenworth. Kau.-Twenty. ST, dos
perate convicts. aftcr numbering one
guard and seriously woundinc several
others. escancd from the new Federal
prison during the afternoon. They
were armed with fully n score of guns
ana revolvcrS. taken from tho guards.
Troops from Fort T.eavenwortb
guards from tho prison aud poIicc
from the city Immediately went in
pursuit
The mutiry is the worst of The Kind
which ever occurred here. About 300
OF tho convicts in The Federal nr;son
M Fort L"0Vcpwnrth ara taken each
daN from the old prison 10 the site of
me new on". now iu process or croc-
non, to work unor The new buildings
Ihe now prison is surrounded hv =
t"mrorary St1ckIdc or fence. aud is
Guarded by thirty guards. II was
here that the ConviciS cScoDcd To.
wards amounting to $GO. 600 have bocn
offered 70" he rccaniurc OF MI tho
convicts. Tho soldiers are l,ceplu,. .
watch over III" reservation. All vorj,
at the new ponitcn.iarv site is suS-
pended. and the Convi"js are held i'm
cells. 50 that The guards may take up
th" huut
Til" net result Of tho mutinv ana
TIE i%h' with The guards which fol
lowed thH cScapc WAS one convict
Killed and four guards shot or othcr-
wise hurr. Tho man Killed was Quinn
Fort. desnrratc criminal from the
indian Territory. WHO is believed to
have hoon the rin.Irader of tho ON
break. The wounded are:
JoSeph l.. Waldwinc. nrison guard
shot in thN forehrad ana breast; con.
diticn sin critical
Arthur TrelCord cantain of thc
guard; shot in the leg; not seriously
hurt.
c. Il. Burrows. guard. shot in the
neck. slightly wounded.
Andrew Leonard guard leg broken.
II was learned that the mutinv was
planned several months ago. but that
inc men had not found favorable on
-portunity 10 carry II into cffect. The
general plan was not new. hut II
proved effective hccauSc Of the limited
number of guards. As the bettcr-hr-
haNed prisoners are used in the ONT
side work. the conspiracy was Matched
among the men in the inside gangs
-Four hundred prisoners were nj work
on the new prison at the time. under
thirty armed guards When the out
break hc%an the mutinouS prisoners
had only two rCvolvcrS. which had
been secrcted in the walls o. the huiI-
ing by some unknown ucrson. The
convicis chose the most favorable mo-
mot cr the day. while many of the
guards who were acting rs fnrcmrn
of construction OF the row c.ll-norsp
We're unaj1ned. When Suprrinicudruj
Of Construction Hirds ana three
Guards began 10 round up the cony,cls
for the close of the days work ihc
two armed copvicts covered them
with their rcVolvers, and. encouraged
Ivy the other mutinouS conVic,S. forced
the men In walk before them 10 the
northwestern corner of The Stockadc.
where they expected TO make - rush
through the oDcnin%. ON the on. side
OF the stockade was an armed guard.
ana The convictS were met mt the ouan-
ing by g. ~. Burrows. guard who
fought them back. hut who received
two shots in the neck. The conVicts
III I'll rushed over 10 the south wall TO
another opening. and were met 10y an
other armed guard. He resisted. and
was shot twice, but not dangerously
wounded. The men then rushed 10
The guard house. where the arms are
Kept. The guards from the outside
drove the convictS away and killed
Fort. The prisoners then made Il rush
for the main entrance. ana twenty
six of them succeeded in escaping 10
II nearby forest.
Nine of the twenty-siX convictS vino
escaped were accounted for on the
day after the mutiny. Two OF them
are dead. These are James Hoffman,
aged twenty, white, and j. j. Poffcu-
holm. aged twenty-five. white. sol
dicr convict. John Green. aged TWEEN
ty-onc. white. Willard Drake. white.
aged nineteen, are wounded and recap
turcd. and Fred Moore. aged sixteen,
il negro is rccapturcd unhurt These
five men were discovered in the barn
of Fay Wcishaar near NortonVillc.
Kansas. about 3 o'clock. p. III. WciS-
haar went into the barn and was or
dcred out at the point of guns
He rushed to Nortonville and gath
cred posse of men who, with revolv-
ers. shotgunS, and few WnchcstcrS.
FASTENED to the scene. The convicts
saw the men coming and rushed from
the barn. They had two shotgunS
Il G"V"iVcrS. The posse pursued
them and running fight resulted. The
conNlCtS were al Il disadvantage. and
their shots had no effect, while at
every Volley from the posse one of
the convicts fell. After two of them
had fallen. two of the others gave
themselves up, one being wounded. the
other unhurt. The fifth was fully 200
yards away when n man with Win
chester drew a bead on him and fired.
He evidently had been hit, but tried
to go ON. when n volley was fired
ut him and he fell. He was not
fatally injured. Mono of the citizens
was hurt.