Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1908-03-19

ne Cr1ed TO eaten 1relgnG train OUT
was fired on by the guards at the
railroad bridge and got away. He
crossed the river on the ice and had
breakfast at the house of one Ander-
son, close to the stock yard at Sun
nyside, five miles west Of Mandan.
Anderson suspected him and went to
neighbours and telephoned to the
sheriff, who at once responded with
a posse. Meantime Woolens offered
to pay for his meal, showing he had
secured money in some way. He
asked Anderson's son If the neighbor
had a phone, and when told that he
had, heat once fled to some brush
near by. The officers and farmers are
said to have corralled the fugitive in
the brush and even saw him moving
about, but instead of going after
him, wired Warden Helstrom to come
over with the bloodhounds, which he
did, but by that time Woolens had
escaped. Later he was seen by wo-
man four miles west, so the .pen
guards in that neighborhood were
notified.
It appears that. Woolens had twice
escaped the pen guards and farmers
who had been patrolling the line of
the Mp. west of the stock yards and
had reached point about Is miles
west, where he had got dinner at the
farm house of R. Austin and paid for
ii. He had secured an old suit of
overalls somewhere, but his makeup
aroused the suspicious of the farm
er's son, E. Austin, a strap ping
young fellow, who, after Woolens lad
left the house, went after him with
A Colt. Catching up with his
man he ordered him to throw up his
hands, but the convict instead ran
and was shot in the right leg just
below the thigh. He then ran about
20 rods, when R. Austin caught and
fell on him, res ulting in his capture.
Father and son then carried the
man three miles to where they
caught train, which they took to
Mandan. Just as they got off Woolen
made grab for Austin's gun and
nearly secured it and put up an aw-
ful fight before he was overpowered
and placed in jail until train time.
when he was safely brought here.
Warden Hellstrom vas prompt with
his reward and the Austins we're paid
the 500 at the depot.
Thus ends. one of the most sensa-
tional man hunts this section has
ever seen. The entire Missouri Slope
had been apprised of the escape of
the desperate men.. and half the men
in the county we're on armed watch
for them. It is fortunate that Bas-
sanellla had no better weapon or
other crimes might have been ADDED
to that fer which he was imprisoned.
Further investigation shows that
the tunnel made by Bassanala and
Woolens, and through which they
escaped, was about eighteen inches
in diameter and folty-four feet long.
The floor of the carpenter shop was
made of two inch planks and was
about two feet above the ground.
A short length of plank near the
middle of the floor was removed and
the tunnelling began in sloping di-
rection so that it's depth beneath the
surface at the PRISONS out wall was 7
feet. So nicely had the men guaged
the excavation that the outside tun-
mel opening was close to the wall.
The earth from the excavation was
carefully spread on the ground under
the floor and covered with sawdust
and shavings, so they had the best
chance in the world to cover their
tracks. From hints CLEANED from
other convicts the men were SIX
weeks working on the tunnel, but
no definite information on the point
can be secured.
Woolens' wound is not considered
serious and he declares he will escape
again.
Bankruptcy Proceeding.