The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-14
Are Heavily Armed and a Fight
Is Looked For.
FIVE CAPTURED LAST NIGHT
They Had Hidden in Cellars
and Box Cars.
Eleven of Those Who Escaped
Are Still at Large.

Rawlins, Wyoming. Oct. 14.-Armed
with shot guns. rifles, revolvers, cleav-
crs, and butcher knives, half dozen
or more of the most dangerous men
known to crime in the west, were said
t. be trapped in a canyon just south
OF Rawlins early today. and a battle
between these desperate men and the
posse of a hundred men vsko camped on
their trail in the hills throughout the
night, is momentarily expected.
The men in hiding are among the
dozen or more convicts who escaped
from the state penitentialy here late
yesterday afternoon, sitter they had
over powered the guards within the
prison, took their weapons from them
through yards of private homes, ter
rorizing men, women AMI children.
The convicts paused Ia their mad
dash for freedom when they came upon
livery barn, secured nLants, then
sred toward the hills before citizeus
could arm and give chase.
The total number of prisoners who es-
c;.ped, it is said will not be known
definitely at the prison until those re-
naming within the walls are lined up
Owing to the excitement in Rawlins
tCtal casualties are unknown.
Antoine Pazo, a Mexican, heralded a.
leader of the convicts in their break x
Tor liberty, was shot TO death by De-
putty Sheriff Hugh Rogner, who saw tfe
Mexican as he started On horseback
for the hills, after having slashed Bert
Talbert across the face and head with
a butcher knife. Talbert is the owner
OF the livery barn.
Barber Shot to Death.
Charles Stressuer, a barber, was shot
t. death while walking along the streer,
apparently unaware that the convicts
had escaped and seemed hent on mur-
Gcring all who blocked their paths. A
negro convict was seen 10 fire at Stres-
suer Five of the conyi,IS who esca1 u
cd yesterday We're cap dred last night.
ley were eonyicts Elliott. Frazer
Stewart, Burke and Gilmore.
They had sought refuge in cellars
of private homes, in boxcars and in
outbuildings. They were unarmed and
offered but little resistance. Desperate
fighting was reported in the prison be-
| tween convicts and guards, following
the outbreak, but reports that several
men, both guards and convicts, were
killed before quiet was restored late
at night are uncOnfirmed.
Eleven of the 20 convicts who broke
out of the prison Saturday afternoon
after overpowering the cell house keep
er and securing his keys, are still at
large and it is believed those who
escaped yesterday have joined forces
with their fellows who liberated them
selves on Saturday.
Warden Felix Alston, with a nosse
of citizens and prison guards, was re-
turning to Rawlins after a fruitless
search for the conyicts who escaped
Saturday and he did not know of the
second delivery until he. reached Raw
Inns early today.
Soldiers Sent Home
Although a company of Wyoming
state militia remained under arms for
some time last night, the soldiers were
late in the night informed from Gov
ernor Carey's office at Cheyenne that
their services would not be needed
Governor Carey was not at his home
in Cheyenne when officials at Rawlins
tried to communicate with him by wire.
but later he was reached by telephone
and gave his sanction to a request
made by the mayor of Rawlins that he
be authorized to surround the prison
with armed citizens. The line was
quickly established and had auieting
effect On The 300 or more convicts who
made no attempt to escape.
Bert Dalton, member of the Whit
ney gang of bandits who terrorized Wy
oming for months, is said to have sue
| ceeded Antoine Pazo as leader of the
| convicts now in the hills.