The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-09
.CONV|CTS SHOT
FURsUERs OF LEAvENWORTH MU-
TIMERS KILL TWO IN A
RUNNING FIGHT
DEspERADoEs FOUGHT BACK
Seven of the Men Who Escaped Are
Recaptured. and Two of
the Number Are
Wounded.

LEAvENWORTH. Kan. Nov SEAIl
the police, deputy sherfffs and farmers in
the country adjacent to Leavenwortn were
on the lookout today for the twenty-six
federal convicts who escaped from the
stockade yesterday. AS a result two con-
victs have been killed. two wounded and
seven captured unhurt. The casualties
took place in a fight near Nortonville.
Kan. and resulted in the death of cap
tGre of five men. The dead are:
JAMES HOFFMAN, aged twenty,
white
j. j. POFFENHOLZ, aged twenty-five,
white, a soldier, convict.
John Green, aged twenty-one, white,
is badly wounded: Willard Drake, white.
aged nineteen years, is also wounded and
recaptured, and the fifth, Fred Moore,
aged sixteen, negro, is recaptured un-
hurt.
The five men were discovered In the
barn of Fay Weishaar, quarter Of
mile from Nortonville. Kan, this after
noon. Weishaar went into the barn and
was ordered out at the point of guns. He
rushed to Nortonville and gathered
wagon load of men, who, with revolvers.
shotguns and few Winchesters, hasten
ed to the scene. The convicts saw the
men coming and rushed from the barn
They had two shotguns and revolvers.
The posse pursued them and a running
duel resulted. The convicts were at a
disadvantage and their shots had no ef-
feet, while at every vo1ley from the posse
one of the convicts fell.
Give Up or Die.
After two of them fell two of the Others
gave themselves up, one being wounded,
the other unhurt. The fifth was fully 200
yards away when man with a Win
chester drew a bead on him and fired
He was evidently hit hard, but tried to
go on. volley was then fired at him
aud he fell dead. None of the citizens
were hurt.
Reports come from various points to-
day of the arrest of men supposed to be
fugitive convicts. The oldest of the fugi-
tives is twenty-eight
Quinn Fort, who was killed yesterday,
was nineteen. One of the convicts still
at large is military prisoner, and the
remainder were serving terms for rob-
berry or assault One is an Indian, and
two are negroes. Nearly all came from
Oklahoma and Indian territory, and they
are supposed to be making for that
country. They are hardy men, used to
firearms and horses. Some have obtain-
ed both, but others are afoot and de-
will capture every one of the men. In
the districts around the city every road
and river crossing that the fugitives
might be expected to use is guarded by
armed men, the farmers having turned
out to earn the $50 reward that will be
paid for the return of each convict.
Those of the men who are armed are
likely to be shot on sight.
Two of the convicts, Donald Dorie and
r. L. Davenport, were captured today in
field two miles north of Jarbalo. They
were hiding In a ravine, and. being un-
armed, they surrendered without resist
ance. The sheriff Of Douglass county
has also captured two convicts at Law
renee, Kan They are Ole Babo, half
breed Indian, and Joseph Fl. Deekin,
soldier serving a term for desertion and
assault to kill. Frank Thompson, the
negro desperate, who led the outbreak,
is supposed to be near Lawrence, heav-
lily armed. He will probably not be taken
alive.
Condition of the wounded guards: Jo-
seph B. Waldrupe, shot in forehead and
breast, still critical; Arthur Trelford,
shot in leg, not serious; c. q. Burrows,
shot in neck, slight; Andrew Leonard, leg
broken