The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25
1898 81 So
As Result of Mutiny in Mis-
souri, State Prison.
Blake Died With Gov. Folk
Sitting by His Bedside
EndeavOring to Persuade Him to
Make a Confession.
MICH LARGER BREAK
Is Believed to Have Been Ar
ranged by the COnvicts.
All the Remaining Wounded
Are Expected to Recover.
Details Of a Most Daring Dash
for Freedom.
Details Of a Most Daring Dash
for Freedom.

Jefferson City. Mo, Nov. 25.-Charles
Blake. the convict who was shot during
the mutiny at the state penitentiary
yesterday, died during the night With
ing on his death bed Blake would only
moan, you don't know US; I'll never
tell" and that is all the authorities have
learned so far in their efforts to fix the
responsibility for the outbreak
Governor Folk sat by the side of the
dying convict and endeavored to per
suade him to make a confession. He
was followed by officials Of the pent-
Tertiary and for several hours they
pleaded, threatened or offered inmuni-
ty for a confession Of the details of the
desperate plot to escape, but Blake
tasty refused to divulge any informa-
tion and finally death sealed his lips.
His death made the third resulting from
the mutiny. The wounded men-Depu-
~ Warden See. Guard J. K. Young,
Convicts Harry Vaughn and Charles
Raymond, all viii recover.
COnnivance and assistance by some
attaches of the prison is strongly sus-
pected and the investigation that is be-
ing made will be of a most vigorous
character. This much has been discOY-
cred, that four As caIibre revoIvers, 100
cartridges and two half pint bottles of
nitro glycerine were secured by the
leaders of the mutiny yesterday. The
prison authorities are inclined to be
lieve that the mutiny had been arrang-
ed on q much larger scale and that it
was to have been a general uprising,
but for some reason the plans did not
fully carry out. This leads to general
uneasiness within the prison as it is
feared that a large number of the con-
victs are armed with weapons and ex-
pl0siYes and more trouble may follow
when the present excitement has died
down. For a long time the prison ON
GERS have feared an outbreak.
Story Of the Dash for Freedom.
AS the result Of a daring dash for Hber-
ty at the Missouri penitentiary late Fri
day afternoon by four desperate con
victs two officers are dead, r. e. See,
deputy warden is wounded, one convict
is dead and another wounded. The dead
officers are: Judge Allison, who had
charge Of the commissary, and John
Clay, gatekeeDer.
The convicts who participated in the
riot were Harry Waughen, sent I'd from
st. Louis for thirty-f1ve years for as
sault to kill; Charles Raymond, also
from st. Louis under a three-year SEN
Cence for burglary and larceny; Hiram
Blake who came from Grundy county
for three years for Burglary and larceny
and George Ryan, the notorious "fce
box" robber from Kansas City, who is
serving an eight-year sentence. Blake
from the wound he received in his lea
thigh. Vaughan was shot in the right
arm. but was not dangerously wounded.
The other convicts surrendered to the
officers and were returned to the peni-
tertiary.
These four convicts all live together
in one cell, and all came to the peniten-
tiary about the same time, witch was
the early part Of this year They were
all employed in the Observation-Disclosures
in Giesecze's shoe factory, Raymond in
Sullivan's saddle tree factory. Blake in
the Star clothing factory and Ryan ia
Priesmeyer's shoe factory.
Time Was Opportune.
They had evidently been planning this
mutiny since it became known that the
federal prisoners would be taken to
LeavenWorth, and they no doubt
thought this an oD0rtune time as War
den Hail, Yardmaster Gilvin the assist
ant yardmaster, Mr.. Finney, and Officers
John Boon, Charles Caughlin and John
Alexander had gone to Leavenworth at
10 O'Clock with the seventy-one federal
prisoners.
Vaughen is supposed to be the ring
leader Of the gang. The four cOnvicts
all finished their tasks in the shops
about the same time and got a pass to
their cells. They met at the deputy
warden's Office and rushing in. each
with revolver in his hand, ordered
Deputy Warden See to surrender No
other officer Of the institution was in
the office. but two visitors, whose names
were not known to the deputy warden.
were sitting in the t1sitors' room at the
office.
Instead of surrendering the deputy
warden, who was sitting in his office
chair, sprang to his feet with his hand
on his revolver and Convict Vaughn
shot him through the right wrist The
officers revolver fell to the floor. The
convicts grabbed up the weapon and
marched the officer through the ward