The Sentinel=record., 1912-03-19
TWO OUTLAWS
 ARE KILLED
POSSES KILL TWO ESCAPED PRIs. OVERS, AN INNOCENT MAN
 AND CAPTURE A THIRD.
Bloody Running Fight Between Sher- ifs Posses and Men Who Escaped From the Nebraska State
 PenitentIary.

Omaha, Neb., March 1S.-Two of the conyicts, John Dowd and John Taylor, who escaped last Thursday from the state penitentiary at Lin coln, and James Blunt, an innocent victim of their murderous attempt to gain liberty, are dead as the result .of battle between the bandits and officers this afternoon.
 Charley Morley, the third member of the trio, which escaped from the state prison after killing three off cials of that institution, saved his life by surrendering to the officers with whom he had fought running battle over two and a half miles of country with horses on the run.
 The three escaped convicts were within striking distance of the hoped for goal of safety when the final struggle for liberty occurred. They had covered the stretch from Lincoln  to within 10 miles of the Omaha city limits where they had expected to receive the protection of friends.
 From the moment of their escape the three men had employed the same desperate methods to protect them selves from re-capture whilh featur- ed their escape from prison, and they did not hesitate at the crucial mo- ment to attempt to sell their lives as dearly as possible. It was fu- tile attempt, however, because they were armed with shotguns and re- volvers, while their pursuers had a full supply of repeating rifles Ear ly in the day the telephone operator at Gretna, about 15 miles south of this city, reported the presence of the desperate men. It had the re- suit of bringing to the vicinity six organized parties They included one from Omaha, another composed of Sheriff McShane and his deputies of this county, and third made up of Sheriff flyers and his deputies from Lincoln Sheriff Chase of Sarpy county, with his deputies, were also within striking distance and South Omaha sent two posses under Chief of Police Briggs. The Gretna com- pany of militia also was early on the scene.
 Chief Briggs of South Omaha and his deputy, John c. Trouton, were leaders in party which finally over took and vanquished the three con- victs and shot an innocent victim in the desperate dash for liberty. Briggs left on an early morning train with several Omaha police officers. They left the train at Springfield, about 15 miles south of here, and there learn ed of the movements of the convicts. The men had broken into store at Murdock, between this city and Lin coin, and stolen guns, ammunition and clothing.
 It was learned the men were on their way north, with Albright, an Omaha suburb, as their destination.
 Chief Briggs got a fast livery team az Springfield Sheriff Chase had good span of horses, and Sheriff Fly CTS of Lincoln also joined the party. Three miles out of Springfield the posses learned that the convicts had forced James Blunt and his wife to give them breakfast and to furnish A team and wagon with which they hoped to escape to Albright, com pelling Blunt to act as driver. The chase began at once, the rural tele- phone playing its part in the chase, as by it's use the pursuers learned from farmers along the route Of the progress of the convicts.
 Reaching a pointSeight miles from here the officers caught up with the vehicle carrying the convicts. Young Blunt was compelled to lash his horses into a run, but the officers kept up the pursuit until they were within few hundred yards of the fleeing desperadoes. Then Chief Briggs driver baked and refused to s..,.o errtbsr Rriqgs himself grasped the reins and whipped the horses in to a gallop,
 When they were within a hundred wards of the pursued men Briggs and Trouton opened fire with their rifles From that time until Morley finally surrendered, it was dashing fight over three miles of rough country roads.
 Finally there came a halt when
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