River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-11-14
ANOTHER CONVICT SHOT.
City Marshal Of Quenemo, Kan,
Fatally Wounds One of Es-
capped Prisoners.
THIS MAKES TIE THIRTEENTH CAPTURED

Resisting taDtuFe-A hArEccn sun
| at Large--BeIieved That Captors of
sheriff Cook Are surrounded and
viii he Captured soon.
| Kansas City, Mo, Nov. 12.-Another
Of the conyicts fleeing from the mill
tary prison at Fort Leavenworth was
| laid low Monday morning, near Quen-
| emo, 40 miles southwest from the pen
itentiary, when Lawrence Lewis
| (white), aged 20, was fatally wounded,
receiving a bullet in the back while at
| tempting to escape from the city mar
shall of that place. This makes a total
| Of 13 prisoners captured since the out
break Wednesday last, leaving 10 still
! at large. To date three of the mu-
tin6us convicts have been killed, and
! five. including the two who Sunday
made a captive of Sheriff Cook, of To-
peka, and then escaped. have been
wouA3oa. Lewis death viii make the
fourth fatality.
Prepared to Make Fierce Fight.
4 horde of armed men are searching
! for the captors of Cook, and il seems
impossible that they can get away. Re
enforced by the weapons taken from
the Wooster house and from the officer
! they are well prepared, however, to
make a fierce fight. They are desperate
men. and unless the wounds received
Sunday prove serious it is believed
! they will not be taken alive Other
posses are said to be pursuing two diff
ferent gangs of men, within so miles of
the penitentiary, and further captures
are looked for during the day.
Lawrence Lewis, the convict shot
Monday, was received at the peniten-
tiary in October, 1900, under a five
year sentence for larceny.
A Not Chase.
Topeka, Kan, Nov. 12.-With the
possible exception of one escaped CON
Wet reported captured al Lomax, Kan,
the ten or dozen conyicts known to
have been in this vicinity for the past
two days are still at large, although
officers and posses of citizens have had
several encounters with a number of
them.
After the exciting events of Sunday
the city and county officers of this city
have become thoroughly aroused. They
are bending every energy to overhaul
those known to be in hiding within a
radius of 30 miles of Topeka, and it is
believed several viii be captured be-
fore night.
At $3.50 Monday nothing had been
heard from the police officers sent out
a night to follow the two conyicts
who made such a sensational escape
from officers at Pauline last Sunday
| afternoon. The officers of the towns
in the vicinity of Pauline have been
/ notified, as well as the farmers for
mics around. and it is thought these
/ two desperate convicts viii be round
ed up before night. \ report from
/ Alma says that citizens posse near
that place had running fight with two
escaped conyicts Sunday evening.
One of the pursuers had his horse
shot from under him. At Alma the
couvicts stole two horses and made
good their escape.
Nothing has yet been heard from the
three conyicts seen north of this city
Sunday evening.
Exciting Capture Of sheriff Cook.
Topeka, Kan, Nov. Il. - Sheriff
Cook, of this county. captured by
two escaped convicts from the Fort
Leavenworth military prison Sunday
afternoon at Pauline. five miles
south of Topeka, and held prisoner
in the farmhouse of man named
Wooster for several hours. They
finally escaped between lines of po-
lice sent from Topeka to reenforce
the sheriff and are now at large.
Both were slightly wounded. Woos-
ter was badly wounded by one
Of the conycts when he tried
to fire on them. Mrs. Wooster and
Sheriff Cook were held before the
oonvjcts as shield by the prisoners
in making their escape. A posse is
] in BurSuit