The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-18

BATTLE AT THE BARN
An Hours Rain Of Bullets at School
House and Then the Last
stand at tho
Stable.

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LINCOLN. March 18.-convIcts
Gray and Dowd, two Of Warden Della
hunty's murderers, arc dead, tho for
mer being slain by the posse and
Dowd killing himself when convinced
that all escape was cut off. Morley,
the third and last Of the fueItlves, Is
still firing from barn, but tho rwo
posses are elosIns In and his capture
or death Is certain. Tho posses and
the convlcts mixed In a battle OF bull
lets for neariy an hour, the latter hrst
taking refuge In school house and
then fleeing to barn.
Morley Also Killed.
LINCOLN, March 1s.-convict Nor
ley, tho third murderer, has Just been
killed.
The Early Chase.
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LINCOLN, Nebr. March 1S--Sleuths
are closing in on Gray. Dowd and
Morley, the three convicts who made
their murderous escape from the Ne
braska prison Thursday. The hunt
shifted today to Murdoch, station
twenty miles east of Lincoln on the
Rock Island railroad, and armed
posses are hot on the trail, confident
of effecting capture before the day
is over.
A general merchandise store at
Murdoch was burglarized last night
and the clue is unmistakable that the
robbery was committed by the prison
murderers. The thieves helped them
seves to complete outfits of clothing
including overcoats, and carted off
rifles, revolvers and cartridges, A
sack, found near the railroad station,
contained overalls, shirts and pair
Of prison shoes. The overalls cor
respond in description to the ones SO
cured by the fugitives at the Dickman
home, two miles from the prison,
where the murderers held UP the fam
lily and remained in hiding until 10
o'clock Thursday night, later forcing
one OF the Dickman boys to hitch
horses to a milk wagon and drive
them boldly through Lincoln and let
them out in the outskirts of the city.
A handcar was missing from the
Murdoch section house this morning
indicating that the fugitives are spin
ming eastward over the Rock Island
tracks toward South Omaha
Quiet reigned today at thu prison.
The $50 convicts were let out of their
cells this morning for the first time
since the Thursday tragedy, being
permitted to eat breakfast in the big
dining hall The prison shops were
idle this morning, in tribute to the
murdered warden, James Delahunty.
over whose body funeral services
We're in progress at St Theresa's
cathedral Acting Warden Flyers an
nounced that the shop work would be
state militia men are to remain at the
prison until the end Of the week
AT 1890 a. M the fugitives had
been trailed to the Platte river valley
near Meadow, ten miles northeast Of
Murdoch. The convicts had ditched
.heii hdnuSdI anu were OH lou WHeH
sighted by farmers, having turned
away from the Rock Island tracks and
taken to the farming country in
Sarpy county midway between Lin
coin and Omaha. The country roads
are deep in mud and snow and will
afford slow progress unless farmers
are held UP at the point of guns and
compelled to give over horses. Towns
/ to the north of Meadow are turning
out posses and every road leading
toward Omaha will be closely watched.
The convicts, now armed with auto
matte pistols and rifles. are certain to
wage desperate battle when cor
nered, which now seems fairly certain
before the day is over.