Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-10-14
ESCAPING CONv|CTS
IN WYOMING SPREAD
TERROR TO PEOPLE
THEY ARE DESPERATE MEN and HAVE SECURED WEAPONS AND HORSES
FIGHT IS STILL ON IN PRISON WHICH IS GUARDED FROM WITHOUT.
SEVERAL C0NVICTS HAVE Been SHOT BY POSSES
WARDEN BADLY INJURED WHEN HIS
PONY FALLS CRUSHING HIS LEG

prison, took their weapons from them
and fled down the main streets and
through the yards of private homes,
terrorizing men, women and children
The convicts paused in their mad
dash for freedom when they came
upon a livery barn, secured mounts,
then sped toward the hills, before
citizens could arm and give chase. An
tone Pare, Mexican, heralded as
leader of the convicts in their break
for liberty, was shot to death by Dep
uty Sheriff Hugh Rogner, who saw the
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.
Charles Stressner, a barber, was
shot to death while walking along the
street. Five of the convicts who es-
capped yesterday were captured last
night. They were: Convicts Elliott,
Frazer, Stewart, Burke and Gilmore.
Desperate fighting was reported in
the prison between convicts and
guards, following the outbreak, but re-
ports that several men, both guards
and convicts, were killed before quiet
was restored late at night, are uncon-
firmed. Even of the 20 convicts who
broke out of the penitentiary Satur-
day afternoon after overpowering the
cell house keeper and securing his
keys, are still at large.
Reports received here at noon state
that Sheriff McCourt, of Sweetwater
county, and five deputies are close on
the trail of Convicts Richardson and
Burke, sentenced for murder, and Con-
vict Backstrum, short term man, in
the hills several miles south of Raw
Inns. The report states that Back
strum is wounded but still is able to
ride. The convicts are mounted and
armed.
Convicts Bert Dalton, Red Mike"
and another prisoner, whom Warden
Alston was pursuing yesterday are
said to have crossed the railroad about
thirty miles west of 1iawlins, headed
for the Colorado line.
Canon City, Colo, Oct 14.-The out
break at the Wyoming penltentlary
does not make me apprehensive OF
any trouble in the Colorado prison.
said Warden Thomas ]. lyman today.
in fact | am going to send fifty more
men out on road work this week. Far
from convincing me that my plan OF
giving the men liberty in road camps
is a mistake, the Wyoming trouble
has made me more certain than ever
that I'm right. Why, / have within
twenty miles of the Wyoming line
more than half as many men as there
are in the Wyoming penitentiary.
They are under the supervision OF
unarmed overseers. At night there
is one armed guard in the camp-and
he's a convict.
THE Wyoming system is entirely
different from that in force in Colo
RADIO. We have the road work sys-
tenn, while they use the factory plan.
| attribute the few escapes in Colo
rado partly to the strict laws of the
state, and partly to common sense
method of handling prisoners. The
men in the road gangs put in eight
hours of the hardest kind of work
exery day and men who do that are
not likely to lie awake nights think
ing up plans to escape