Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-12-01
Four Convicts In the Missouri Pen
itentiary Become M~urderers.
ONE OF THE QUARTETTE DEAD
The Others Have to Answer For the
Lives Uf Officers clay ana Alli-
son, whom They Killed In
Their Attempt .

only moan. "You don't know US, III
never tell in answer to Gov. Folks
artful coaxing, and this is all the au-
ttc rites have learned in their efforts
to fix respr visibility for the amazing
dash of Blake and his pals from tho
penitentiar>, armed with revolvers ami
bottles of ni~troglycerin, which cost the
lives of Capt. +. Allison and John w.
Clay Of tho prison guards, and later the
life of Blake. The governor was fol-
lowed by the penitentiary officials at
Blake's bedside, and for four hours
they pleaded and threatened, or offered
immunity for a confession.
CCnnivancc and assistance by some
aitache of the prison is strongly sus'
pccted, and it has been learned that,
probably through this means, four as.
caliher reyolvers, 100 cartridges ami
two half-pint bottles of nit%roglycerin
were passed to the convicts.
Warden Hall said, 81 know little OF
the details, having been away. | am to-
tally at a loss to know how these men
got hold of nitroglyCerin. | do not
think the plot was long being Matched,
or We would have got ar inkling of it.
AS for the nitroglycerin. it is possible
to smuggle anything excepting a can
non into any state penitentiary, so long
as it is the right of the public to go
through penal institutions. and of
frif fIg IN NfGit h nriCnnprG
Outbreak Cost Three Lives.
The outbreak cost the lives of Guards
f. Allison and John w. Clay and OF
Convict Blake, Deputy Warden K. f.
See, Prison Officer J.. c. Young and
CoEvicts Vaughan and Charles Ray
mond were wounded.
story " Desperate Break.
All was quiet in the prison. The four
%cOnvicts suddenly made a dash across
the dead line and ran into the warden's
Office, where was Deputy Warden X. Il.
See, He drew a revolver, bu: was shot
in the right hand, left arm and side be-
fore he could use it. The convicts
picked up See, and made him give the
signal to open the inner wagon gate.
Guard Clay opened the gate, and was
Immediately riddled with bullets. Capt.
Allison appeared, and was instantly
killed.
The outer gate was blown with nitro
glyocrin. and the cOnvicts fed to The
Missouri Pacific station. amid a iusil-
ladr of bullets from prison guards AMI
citizens. IIouck M~c!icnry, an express
man. was forced to whip up his horses,
and the party started through the town
in the wagon. With policemen and
guards in pursuit, the wild ride con
tirrcd. The convicts in the wagon shot
at passersby and at residents who ap-
pearod at windows and doors.
Raymond was shot ana fell from the
wagon.
AS the wagon reached the Madison
hotel, George Walthcrs, Gerhart Gre
welt and Leonard Green attempted %
stop the horses. Green grasped the
bride reins. Vaughn shot at him but
missed. Vaughn then leaped from the
wagon and attacked Green, who
cliEched with the convict and ooh
away his revolver. Vaughn then sur
rended. Meanwhile Walthers and Gre
volt had subdued Ryan.
The %convicts were taken back to the
penitentiary, to where the wounded
Raymond and Blake had already been
removed.
citizens Are Worried.
Great uneasiness prevails among the
citizens here. II is feared that there
are more explosives inside the peniten-
tiary walls than were used by the con-
victs in their desperate dash for lib
erty. While Warden Hall is regarded
as a good nan in all the relations OF
life, it is said that under his kindly
rule discipline has grown very Lax a.
the states prison.
Vaughn q Desperate Man.
Harry s. Vaughn, the train robbie,
who led the outbreak, is a desperate
man and handy with a gun. He was
a member OF the Norris aughn-R Rose
nauer gang. In a battle with these
three desperadoes in st. Louis on Octo-
be, 81, 1904, three detectives and two
OF the robbers were killed or fatally
wounded.
saved Life by Ruse.
Deputy Warden See says he saved his
1tfa nv a ruSa "VIhan I woc shot In tbo