Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-03-19
CONVICTo KILLED IN RUNNING BATTLE Men Who Shot Their Way to Liberty in Nebraska
 are Run Down. ONE IS TAKEN ALIVE; Captured Farmer and Made iiim Drive Them and He Was tlS0 kiii-
 cd By the Posse.
ONE IS TAKEN ALIVE,

Omaha, Neb, March 1S-"W Wiib 6 sleigh toad ef dead men, the horses running wild with no driver and all anmm .sion gone, l jumped from th q sleigh and surrendered myself fo the first man who could get to nle,a EaiJ Charles Morley, the only living one of the three c1unVlcts who last Thursday dynamitcd fheir cells ana shot their way to liberty from the Nebraska Stat Pcnitentiafy.
 Morlcy's story was a description of the end ng of the battle which the three conviets fought against lr,I>- ably one thousand sherilIs, polic2- men, detectives, soldiers aed farme 5, Who chased the convicts for m.ny mil5,s and finally surrounded th. m on all sides and shot them to death Roy Blunt, young farmer, whom the fugitiYos impressed into serv ce early fhis morning and Who waa forced to drive them i'll his slalgA for hours, also was killed. The eel victs were attempting 10 reach Om3- ia and safety among friends in tho city
 For four days Eastern Nebraska has been simply alive with armed men, searching for the GonYicts, John Morley, John DoWd and shorty Grey. Early this morning when the general stols of the little town ol Murdock, fourteen miles east of Lin c0ln, WIS opened three su ts of con- victs clothes were Gound on h. floor. Missing from the rack We're three shotguHs and a large amount of ammunition.
 Telephones were set to work und within all hour posses from Omaha, South Omaha, Pl2'.tsmouth and Lin coin were en route, by special trains to the vicinity of Murdock. Soon, however, the convicts were bound to nave crossed the Plate river on the ra lroad bridge near Louisville, ana the specials were diverted iowa ds that polnt. Again the ccnvicts were reported by telephone, this time by the little town of Meadow, and again the special trains were recalled ana set on a new trail, which at this place suddenly broadl7ned out and was not again lost.
 "They'Ve got my husband and ca.-
 
 agonzed tone of womans voice tG the telephone operator at Louisville. Questioning broughi out the fact that the tlree cenvicts had stopped a. the house of Roy Blunt, near Mead ; ow, and had forced Mrs. l}lunt, who was' married less than two months ago, to prepare hreakfaSf for chem, Then they compelled Blunt to hitch his horses to a Bob sled" with q deep body and drive them towards Omaha, but they forget ,hc telephone and 3efore the men were out of sight of the house, Mrs. Blunt wa: arousing the neighborhood. Posses came from all directions.
 Near the farm of William M)w- inkle, three miles from :he town Of Gredna, the first sight of the fugi- tives was had and the pursuers set up great cry. It was answered by "a shot from the sleigh. One man sa,: on the seat of the moving ve- hicle, three others were lying down in the body behind the high de.
 For God sake don't shoc',' .hov begged, "the driver is our brother Twenty-Five rifles cracked together. Roy Blunt, the captive, fell back from his seat in the sleigh. There- af$er, the horses were without q driver and ran wilder than eyer. A man rose from the bolton of the sleigh with revolver in either hand. He blazed away at the on- coming posse. From men crouching m the botcm shoSguns boomed ana from the pursuers came the sharp of b.o, sleigh slackened it's speed as tho horses struck a bill. Out from the pursuers raced a ligh& buggy wi'1t three men, two firing rifles and tha third driving
 Grey, the bank robber who stood upright in the sle 'gh, suddenly crimpled up and fell across Dowd. For a half mile the fight continu2a Dowd, s,anding upright and firing while other shots came from the bottom of the sleigh. Suddenly Dowd looked at his revolver. Then rais- ing t to his temple he pulled the trigger. T.. was the last shet in the pistol. He died instantly. Morley continued to fire and the horses con tirued to run. The pursuers drew nearer. Morley emptisd his ravolv- CTS, picked un Grey's gun, snapped it and, finding { eei'y, fhr2w it f'r0m the sleigh With bullets flying at him from all directions, Morl y leaped from the vehicle. raised his bands above his head and waited the coming of the officers.- Ho wac taken % che pen.tentiary at Lincol1 1 tonight