The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-11-12
A REIGN OF TERROR.
DepredatiOns of Escaped COAylcts
Have Caused Much Alarm.
R0BBERIES ARE FREQUENT
Kansas Citizens Afraid 10 Leave Their
Homes.
LEADER OF THE MUTINY CAPTURED.
Would Not Surrender Until He Was Shot
Down By the Posse.
LEADER OF THE MUTINY CAPTURED.
b VELYE ESCAPES NOW ATLARGE
Two WI " Yesterday and officers
Are Ht@l Of Trail OF Several
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Topeka, Kan, November 11.--With the
capture Of Frank Thompson, the leader
Of the Federal pententlary mutiny last
Thursday fourteen Of the twenty six Fed
eral conyicts have been rotakcn. Thomp-
son was captured near Council Grove to.
night by Deputy United States Marshal
Prescott aud posse Of farmers. lie
showed fight hut was brought down by
load of huckshot. Thompson is not dan
gerously wounded and win he returned
to the penitcnuary tomorrow. The twelve
convicts vet Mt large are inspiring much
fear among the inhabitants Of the country
districts Tonight officers are at work
in dozen different counties and some
report that they have groups Of convlcts
rounded M, and more captures viii be made
before morning
From Council Grove, where Thompson
was captured tonight, six convicts have
started to Cottonwood Falls and are hold
ing up and robbng people and plundering
farms all along Many people had encouu-
tiers with the men and people along the
route arc afraid to venture ont of their
houses tonight In Lyon county citizens
and officers are armed and are patroling
the approaches to the town as the conyicts
probably will pass that way,
Three suspected convicts were seen board
ing a freight train at Ottawa tonight aud
they are expected to drop off near En-.
poriu, where there is some heavy timber
suitable for hiding. Near Usage City Dep
uty Warden Lemon with fourteen officers
is closely I'm touch with three cOnvicts
| whom he expects TO capture before morn
The sheriff Mt oswego is in pursuit OF
| q convict who held up some men there TO-
! day. The sheriff Mt Alma reports that
| he has two suspected convlcts surrounded
The convicts are seemingly becoming
/ holder and are invading towns In the
| Union Pacific yards AT Wamego tonight two
/ Of the runaways held up a man ana com
PEELED him MT the point of n revolver 70
give them 500 They then boarded freight
train and went West without any attempt
/ being made to capture them.
LEWIS MORTALITY WOUNDED
Kan,as City, November 11.-Lawreuce
Lewis, one of the escaped Fort Leaven-
worth convicts. was captured this morn
| ing. being mortally wounded near Quenemo,
Kan. while making dash through n cor
don of armed deputies. Lewis is n white
bov. 20 years of age. who was sent up In
October. 1900 to undergo a iiye-year sen
tonce for larceny He was tracked to a
wooded place near Quenemo by the city
marshal of that place, which Is sltunted
/ forty miles southwest from Fort LehNcn-
/ worth aud a dozen men bearing rifles. An
. order to surrender was met with defiance
and Lewis. unarmed, aud although practi-
1 caily surrounded, darted for the nearest
onsnin. He had gone scarcely hundred
Yards when n bullet from winchester In
The hands Of one of his pursucrs pierced
his lung from behind and brought MIN to
the ground.
From the descriptions received Warden
! McIaughey believes that the two captorS
az sheriff Cook of Topeka were Arthur
Hewitt, white, and Lon Switzerland, part
Hewitt. and Frank Thompson. negro
were ring leaders In the outbreak and tht
warden today Increased the reward Tor theli
Hewitt and Southerland were boil, sery
ing fve-year sentences for larceny Uewlt,
is 90 years Of age, while Sutherland Ii
hut IS.