The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-14

victS overpowered the inner guards
at the Rawlins penitentiary and es-
capped. They spread out over town
and then went into the surrounding
country. Warden Alston ordered out
a half dozen posses to search for
them and by noon Sunday ten had
been re-captured.
The absence OF many guards from
the prison was the direct cause OF tho
second escape. Antonio Pasea, bad
man. OF the most desperate type, or
ganized party Of prisoners and ear
ly last night eight of them rushed the
inner guards, overpowered the turn
key, climbed the walls and quietly
walked away. Before going. how
ever, they armed themselves with
butcher knives, hatchets and cleav-
ers from the kitchen.
The party remained together and
started through the residence section
of Rawlins. Prison yard guards gave
chase Charles Strasser saw the fugs
| tives and tried to capture them. They
| fled from him at first until they
reached the yard Of Bert Talbert.
| Paseo slashed Talbsrt across the
throat, seized his revolver and shot
/ Strasser dead. The convicts took
j 5lStrasseE's rifle and ammunition and
ran. Guards overlook them near the
railroad yards and shot the top or
| Paseo's head off The others fled
through the yards firing as they ran.
Three were captured and four reach
ed the outskirts and got into the hills.
large party of guards and citizens
pursuing
South of Rawlins, the fleeing fugi-
tives took possessing of sheep
camp, compelling r. J. Daley to drive
them southwark. When over-hauled,
they unhitched the horses, took arms
and ammunition from the wagon and
I escaped in the darkness, two on each
horse. These four are heavily armed
and are sure to give desperate battle
/ if cornered 1t is feared they may eff
| feet junction with the ten fugitives
/ led by Dalton and enter upon a united
/ plan of defense.
That the Dalton fugitives are most
! desperate was shown at noon yester-
day when party of them, believed
/ to number six, were trapped m a
canon south of Rawlins. They had
1 built a barricade of rocks and fired
on the guards from behind this, fore
/ ing the pursuers to retreat. When
/ the guards returned to the scene re-
/ inforced. the convicts had disappear
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4 Meantime a condition bordering on
panic exists at Rawlins Last night
heads of families, fearing the fugitive
convicts might seek refuge in their
4 homes, sat UP all night with rifles
across their knees and revolvers lying
near by. Mothers were afraid to go
to bed and scenes rivalling those dur
ing the days of the Indian uprisings
thirty years ago were witnessed.
Mayor Anderson and the council
4 today appointed a posse Of twenty
/ picked gun fighters to watch the PEN
itentiary SO that, in case of another
Jail delivery, the town will be safe.
Three hundred citizens today organ
lied themselves into vigilance com
mittee after patrolling the streets OF
Rawlins all night.
4 It is now believed that both jail de-
liverfes were long planned. The re-
cent lynching in the prison OF Frank
WigfaH, negro assailant Of Mrs. Julia
Higgins, evidently demonstrated TO
I the prisoners that it was easy for
them to oyerpower their guards n
they made rush. This is believed
to have caused them to organize the
mutinfes of Saturday and last night.
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