The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-21
the reed department, the convicts would surrender, first sending their weapons down by Brooks.
 Bullet Brings Down Convict.

SuAAchoci' III Sl StHuiue tAch "SoROiiS down by Brooks.
 Bullet Brings Down Convict.
 Warden Lilliard prepared to accept the terms of this note and as matter or precaution 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 of the de- partment.
 Suddenly the crack of a Winchester was heard. showing that the note was but ruse.
 We got Bishop" shouted the guard. Hes dead.''
 The prisoners had emerged from the reed room as they had promised. with hands up, but as they proceeded down the stairs Bishop dropped his hands to his side as If to draw a weapon. He had hardly made the motion when one of the wardens party fred the bullet striking Bishop in the breast. inficting fatai wound.
 When Bishop fell, Mulligan and Brooks sank to their knees. logging the warden to save their lives, ard by t0:30 o'clock the two desperadoes, heavily shackled and accompanied by ten men. with drawn pistols. were placed in their cells and quiet had been restored.
 After the men had been securely locked up it was discovered that Mulligan had been wounded in the shoulder though he was not seriously hurt
 Negro Was a Conspirator.
 Later developments show that Rapsome, the negro who was shot, was not pressed into service by the desperadoes, but mad joined them after they entered the rocker department A bowie Knife was found l.. uxxtz AH
 Brooks, Bishop and Mulligan were con- sidered among the most desperate of the 1,50O criminals incarcerated here. They are young men.
 Since their confinement, all three men had given the prison officials much trouble
 About a year ago Bishop and Mulligar came up to the prison entrance and throwing down their coats, declared they would not work and defed the warden
 Men Were Desperate. It took several weeks punishment and confinement to subdue them. and since then each has been carrying locked tc one of his legs a heavy ball and chain
 Brooks has been employed in the shoe shop and Bishop and Mulligan in the reee department
 Bishop was under life sentence for thu
  ington. He and Mulligan. who also were under a life sentence. had killed tramI in cold blood at a tramp's rendezvous near Ludlow, Ky, and Bishop had taker street cars for Covington, when the police of Covington were notified.
 Policeman McQuery attempted to ar rest Bishop and Bishop shot him. Th' murderer then jumped from the suspen sic n bridge into the Ohio River and wher the men in boat tried to save him, h' threatened to kill them. He had recort of killing several men and always resist ed arrest The police here and in ad joining Kentucky towns regarded him al a most desperate outlaw.
 a Brooks was sent up from Morgan Coun ty in 1897 to serve g. twenty-one years sentence for manslaughter. He was ono sentenced to be hanged. Ranson1e wa given a life sentence for killing Scrap py'' Allen Cook on the steamer Tarascol at Louisville in July, 1900. Foreman Willis, who was held as hostage by the convicts. went to worl as usual after bis exciting experience. H' says the desperadoes were perfectly coo and calm while besieged by the guards and that Bishop said at one time:
 Damn them. they can't scare me. be cause I would just as soon be dead al alive"