Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-11-08
HUNTING FOR
ESCAPED CONvICTS
Forty Mounted Guards Beating the Country
Around LeayenwOrtf Three Are Sur.
rounded in Barn and Killed.

Leayenworth, Kan, Nov, s.-Forty
mounted guards are beating the coun-
try for radius OF five miles around
ne federal penitentiary today IN
search Of the twenty-six conyicts who
succeeded in escaping from tho guards
ate yesterday, The country is wild
and rough and affords ample opnoi-
tunity for escape and as OH Of the con.
ticts are desperate men and armed
conflicts WIN doubtless result before
they are captured.
The net known result Of the mutiny
ard the following Eight with he qua .ds
was one convict Killed and four guards
shot or otherwise hurt. but ID Is be-
lleNed that many of the fleeing conylcts
received wounds however serious from
the bullets sent after them by pursuing
guards.
THE DEAD.
Quinn Fort. desperate criminal
from the lndian Territory. who IL be-
neved TO have been the ringleader OF
the break.
WOUNDED
Joseph B. Waldrupe, prison guard.
shot in forehead and breast, condition
still critical.
Arthur Trelford captain of the guard,
shot Ia leg, not serious,
c. r.. Burrows, guare. shot In neck,
slight.
Andrew Leonard. guard, leg broken.
II develops that the mutiny was
Matched several months ago but that
the men had never found a favorable
opportunity to carry II into effect until
yesterday. The general plan was not
lew, but II proved effective because Of
the limited number Of guards. AS the
better behaved prisoners are used in
the outside work, the conspiracy was
hatched among the men in the inside
gangs.
The convicts chose the most favor
able moment Of the day, while many
Of the guards acting as foremen Of con-
struction Of the new dollhouse were
unarmed.
As soon as the alarm was given,
guards were formed In marching order
and mounted men, armed to the teeth.
were drawn UP In front OF the main
entrance Of the prison. Most of The
guards were old plainsmen and the d.
version OF hunting down criminals
stirred their blood as nothing else could
lave dime. The escaping ccnvicts were
counted the most desperate criminals
n the southwest and the guards starr
ed out on their hunt In full realization
of this fact
The scene OF nutiny. however. be-
ing some distance from the prison
proper the convicts had secured a good
start and, aided Oy the rough, lwoode1
country they had, before darkness fell,
placed u gotd gap between themselves
and their pursuers. The guards at
best could make but desultory at
tempt at pursuit and were compelled
to await daylight TO take up the
search.
The officials at Kansas City Atchison.
st. Joseph, Topeka and Leavenworth
were asked 10 keep their police on the
lookout and all night In each % the
cities named police and detectives pa
trolled the outskirts.
During the night reports came from
eleven directions of thefts OF horses and
vehicles. clothing and food by the con-
victs and as the report that the con-
vlcts we're at large spread, citizens in
the outlying districts became terror
stricken and barred their houses.
Early this morning an increased sum
Der Of guards. well armed and mounted,
were started out rom the penitentiary
and today was suent in as exciting a
man hunt perhaps as has been expert
enced in this part Of the country since
the border days.
II is believed that all the oonvicts
will ultimately be captured. II not over
taken by the guards and shot. Each
prisoner has undergone an examination