The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-08-26
THEY CAPTURE ONE MAN
Use Him as Shield, Hurting Taunts at
the Warden.
AT LENGTH THEY AGRkE TO SURRENDER
One Of the Three Drops His Hands and a Bullet
From a Guard Strikes Him In.
hicting a Fatal
Wound.
CBy the Associated Press.)

Frankfort, Ky, Aug. 20.-Fired by a
desire to gain their freedom, Wallace
Bishop and Thomas Mulligan, OF kenton
countv and LAFAYETTE Brooks, of Morgan
county, all murderers and desperate
criminals, made q futile attempt to es-
cape from the State penitentiary here
this morning. AS a result Bishop Is
dead with a bullet in his breast; Brooks
is shot through the shoulder, and Alfred
Ransome, cOlOred, a Louisville murderer,
who for q few moments essayed TO fol-
low the three daring leaders, is suffering
from a wound in the shoulder. The
mutiny. which lasted for four and a hall
hours and ended in an ignominious sur
render by the convicts, caused great ex-
citement in the prison and among the
people Of Frankfort.
Brooks made a statement to the
warden this afternoon. He places the
responsibility for the attempted out
break on Wallace Bishop. He says that
he and the other two men had worn
shackIes constantly for months on ac-
count of bad conduct and that Bishop
assured them that he could get them out.
Wallace Bishop, alias Burns, died to-
night. He was conscious up to an hour
before his death. At his request Father
Major OF the Catholic church was sent
for and baptised him shortly before he
died.
The riOting started while Brooks, Mul-
ligan and Bishop, one of whom had a pis-
toll concealed about his person, were
coming out Of the dining room to answer
a hospital call. Suddenly one of the con
Victs drew q weapon and compelled
Guard A. II. Gill to give M his arm.
Guard F. Il. Hurst, who rushed to GiiIs
assistance, was also captured by the con-
Victs. Captain Mat MaGigan. acting
warden, then rushed forward With six
guards and fired on the bunch, but no one
was wounded.
The convicts ran across the yard and at
the entrance to the rel department of
the chair factory captured Charles Will
lis, of Clark county, a foreman. They
covered him with their pistols and plac-
ing him between them and the guards re-
treated to the rocker department in the
chair factory, whence they would COM
nland a good view Of the entire yard.
At a window they stationed Willis ard
Brooks with a revolver in his hand took
a position just outside the captive, rest
ing the muzle of the weapon on the fore
mans side. The convicts then defied
Warden Lillard to attempt 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 gath
cred at the prison gate. but the warden
denied admission to all. He issued or
ders 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 despcradoeS had barricadcd them
selves and called on them to surrender.
The ConVicts only reply was Il taunt.
For the protection of Foreman Willis, the
warden then determined to starve the
desperadOcs into submission. James
Buckley, former city workhouse keeper,
and Morgan Brewer, a formc. guard at
the penitentiary climbed to tho ROOF of a
residence overlooking the building III
which the %convicts had taken refuge and
fired several shots into the room where
the dcsperadoes were intrenched. They
were compelled to desist, however, as
Foreman Willis was forced to the Win
dow in the line of fire.
Finally a letter was dropped from tie
window, saying that if the warden would
come to the head of the steps leading to
the reed department the convicts WOULD
surrender, first sending their weapons
down by Frank Brooks.
Warden Lillard prepared to accept the
terms Of this note, and as a matter Of
prccaution a half dozen ~convicts were
placed in the hospital overlooking the
reed department..
Warden Lillard, accompanied by eieht
men, then proceeded to The foot Of the
stairway.
The prisoners emerged from the iced
room as they had promised with HANDS
up, but as they proceeded down the
stairway, Bishop dropped his hands to
his side as if to draw a weapon. He had
hardly made the motion whom one OF he
Wardcn's party fired, the bullet. striking
Bishop in the breast, intiicting a fatal
wound.
When Bishop fell Mulligan and
Brooks sank to their knees, begging the
warden to save their lives and at 1890
o'clock the two de~speradoes, heavily
shackled and accompanied by ten men
with drawn pistols, were placed in thc:r
cells and quiet had been restored.