The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-21
DEATH. HIS FREEDOM
Murderer Is Killed While At
tempting to Escape.
TERRIBLE RIOT OCCURS
Three Convicts Have to Be
Starved Into Submission.

Frankfort. KY. August 2O.-waTlace
Bishop and Thomas Muliigan, of Kenton
county. and Lafayette Brooks of Morgan
county, all murderers and desperate Grim
ipals. made futile attempt to escape
from the state penitentiary this morning
and as result Bishop was shot dead:
Brooks is shot through the shoulder. and
Alfred Ransome, (colored), a Louisville
murderer who for few moments essay
ed to follow the three daring leaders. is
suffering from a wound in the shoulder
The me nentrenched themselves in a
building overlooking the entire grounds
and used Chas. Willis. foreman who
! they had captured. as a guard.
Warden Liliard finally starved them
out, although they attempted several
ruses to entrap the officers.
! The rioting started while Brooks, Null
ligan and Bishop were coming out of the
dining room to answer hospital call.
Suddenly one of the convicts drew a revolt
yer and compelled Guard A. H. Gill TO
give up his arms. Guard F. F. Hurst
I slAo AhSAASn " NTitA dSSlStdLCts was eSiSD
captured by the convicts. Capt Madi-
gan, acting warden, then rushed forward
firing on the bunch, but no one was hit.
The convicts then running across the yard
to the entrance of the reed department Of
the chair factory, captured Chas- Willis,
a foreman. They covered him with their
pistols and placing him between them and
the guards, retreated TO the rocker de-
!
whence they could command a good view
of the entire yards. At the window they
| stationed Willis and Brooks with a re-
voIver in his hand, took a position just
beside the vaptive. resting the muzzle of
the gun on Willis's left shoulder. The
| ccnvicts then defied Warden Lilliard TO
try to capture them, shouting that they
would kill the foreman at the first move
made against them. BY this time several
hundred citizens, many of them heavily
armed, had gathered at the prison gates.
but the warden denied admission
to ALL He issued orders for
all the shops to close and for all the
prisoners to be returned at once to their
cells. He then placed a guard of sixty
men around the building in which the
desperadoes had barricaded themselves,
and called on them TO surrender. The
oonvict's only reply was a taunt. For
the protection of Foreman Willis, the
warden then determined to starve the
desperadoes into submission. In about
half an hour a note was dropped from
the window of the room where the con-
victs had taken refuge asking Warden
Lillard and Deputy Warden Madigan to
come up under a flag of truce and deal
with them. This demand was ignored
Shortly after this James Buckley,
former city workhouse keeper and Nor
gan Brewer, former guard at the peni-
Tertiary, climbed to the roof of resi-
dence overlooking the building in which
the convicts had taken refuge, and fired
several shots into the room where the
desperadoes were intrenched. They were
compelled to desist, however, as Fore
man Willis was forced to the window d.
rectly in the line Of fire. He called TO
the men to stop shooting and informed
them that negro convict whom the des-
peradoes had forced into service, had been
shot in the shoulder.
At o'clock another note was dropped
from the convicts window offering TO
surrender if the men were insured safe
delivery to the cell house. This request
was also ignored. The convicts asked
that Captain Lilliard and Captain Madi- |
gan come in person to escort them but
it was believed that this was merely a
ruse to kill the officials.
Later another letter was brought from
thedesperadoes by Frank Brooks. of
Bond county. The note stated that if the
warden would come to the head of the |
stairs leading to the reed department, |
the convicts would surrender, first send |
ing their weapons down by Frank Brooks. !
Warden Lilliard prepared to accept the ]
terms of this note and as a matter Of /
rrecaution a half dozen guards were |
placed in the hospital overlooking the /
reed department. Warden Lilliard ac- |
companied by eight men then proceeded |
to the foot Of the stairway. Suddenly /
the crack Of a Winchester was heard, /
showing that the note was but a ruse.
The prisoners had emerged from the /
room as promised with hands up. but as
they proceeded down the stairway Bishop |
dropped his hands to his side as if 10 l
draw a weapon. He had hardly made /
the motion when one of the wardens /
marty fred. the bullet striking Bishop in /
the breast. inficting a fatal wound. When 4
Bishop fell. Muliigan and Brooks sank 4
&c the knees. begging the warden to save
their lives BY 1920 o'clock the two des- /
peradoes. heavily shsckled and accompa- /
MED by ten men with drawn pistols, were /
placed in their cells and quiet had been
restored
After the men had been securely locked
M It was discovered that MuIlisan had /
been wounded in the shoulder, though he
vas not seriously hurt.
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