The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-06
Escaped convicts From ILL
nois Penitentiary Manage to
EIude Pursuers and Flee
Through Marsh Regions.
SEARCHING THROUGH
NIGHT AMID EXCITEMENT
Guns Discharged at Bushes
And Into Fields in Hope of
Wounding Convicts Who
Are Armed Heavily.

Chicago, ILL.,, Sept. 5.-Three deter
mined serching parties armed with
shotguns and automatic revolvers and
aided by bloodhounds, secured the
southern end of Cook county today and
tonight in an endeavor to capture
James Kaiser and Clarence Wise, the
fugitives from Joliet penitentiary,
who escaped Thursday. Chicago po-
lice and detectives, deputy sheriffs and
prison guards, co-operated in the man
hunt, all bent on taking the convicts
Snto custody at any cost. The fugi-
tives, who are suspected of blowing
safe in Elgfn since their sensational
dash for freedom, are known to be
armed and ready to do battle as last
desperate means toward liberty.
Two trails were covered by the keen
eyed pursuers today. One led north
east from Orland through Palos Park.
Palos Springs and Worth. The other
ran east to the Lake Calumet region
within the city limits. Two big
searching parties are employed on the
latter clew. Dense marshes, afford
ing opportunity for deadly defense by
two desperate men, figure in each trail
the dreary Sag between Palos
Springs and Worth. and the swamps
surrounding Lake Calumet.
Woman Was Hysterical.
The hunt starting at Orland began
last evening, when 1t was reported to
the town marshal, Ed Rust. that two
men of suspicious appearance had
been hiding in a haymow on the farm
of Charles Doctor, near that place.
The men had been seen by Mrs. Doc
tor, who became nearly hysterical
with fear. The posse gathered by
Marshal Rust was soon reinforced by
squad of guards from the penitenti-
airy, headed by Joseph Green. F. Men
gler and j. Thompson. They had
come to Orland not as the result of a
summons, but because Kaiser was cap
tured in that place when he escaped
from the penitentiary four months
ago.
A search was pushed all night by
the guards, who drove about the coun-
try roads in buggies and probed the
The farmers of the region became pam
ic stricken because of the nocturnal ac-
tivity, which was heightened by the
occasional firing of shotgun into the
midst of every clump of shrubbery that
looked like a possible hiding place.
Orland was thrown into great ex-
element in the morning, when prepa-
q a q
were begun. A party of twenty armed
men left the village in buggies at 8
a. m. with bloodhounds from the pen
itentiary, intending to rake the coun-
tryside to the northeast. Before their
departure, women implored Marshal
Rust to leave a force to protect the
town in case the convicts should enter
the village during the absence of the
posse. Children were kept in doors
throughout the forenoon and the ter
TOR increased among the farmers when
the baying of bloodhounds wasadded
to the firing of guns.
From Orland to Palos Park the
trail became hot" Guard Green de
clared that he had observed traces oi
Kaiser's footprints. Hopes were
placed on finding the men in hiding in
the Sag" where conditions favored q
pitched battle. Another band of pen
itentiary guards set out early in the
morning in rigs for Lake Calumet, fol.
lowing an almost straight line from
Joliet. This hunting party was arm
ed as heavily as the one that started
from Orland. A shotgun search was
instituted in Hegwise today by the
east side and Kensington police. fol
lowing a report that the refugees hat
been sighted hiding in the marshes il
the region of 12Sth street.
While posses elsewhere believe the.
have the fugitives cornered some of tn,
Chicago police are skeptical. They re
newed their search for the convicts il
the city following information receiv
ed by Captain Obrien. that the TIVE
men had been seen boarding north
bound Wabash train after their es
cape.