The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-15
Ex-Warden Is in Charge Of the Pur-
suit Which is to be
Most Thorough
One.


pursuit of the three convicts who
yesterday killed three guards and es-
capped from the state prison. was this
morning taken up in earnest and dur
ing the day every effort will be made
to capture them The police have no
clew but believe it will be impossible
for them to escape. Because of the
eighteen inches of snow on the
ground, no trains left Lincoln last
night and the convicts are either
within the city or some one of the
suburbs. All trains, both freight and
passenger, leaving the city today will
be closely searched.
The state authorities believe the
conyicts have already succeeded in
exchanging their prison stripes for
citizens clothes, although the cast-off
clothing has not been found All
three convicts were members OF or
ganized bands of yeggmen and the
police are confident their comrades
without the prison made all arrange
ments for the escape and possibly
sent them to place of refuge after
they gained freedom. The men are
known to be heavily armed with pis-
tolls and dynamite.
| Governor Aldrich, who is snow
bound in eastern Nebraska, is in touch
with the situation by phone and has
ordered that no expense be spared IN
running down the escaped man.
No Giles Found.
LINCOLN, Nebr. March 15.-Plod-
ding through the deep snow drifts In
the farming country surrounding the
Nebraska penitentiary, the posses
which searched without avail during
the night for the three convicts-
Taylor, Dowd and Morely, who yester-
day murdered Warden Delahunty,
Deputy Wagner and Usher Heilman
and then fled from the prison, this
morning reported no clue.
Today the state authorities are con-
vinced that confederates were in wait
I ing outside the prison and that the
fugitives are in safe hiding and may
eventually escape.
| Adjutant General Phelps, com.
manding a squad of the national
guard, continued today in command Of
| the prison. The 400 convicts were
kept locked in their cells this morn.
ing and will be forced to stay there
until the end of the week. The gener.
al mutiny still threatens and the
| adjutant generals decision to keep
every prisoner locked up was on the
special order of Governor Aldrich who
4 is still snow-bound at Auburn, Nebr.,
but directing prison affairs by long
/ distance phone.
The governor is determined to in
! stall a rigid inquiry into the prison
management, as he is convinced there
must have been collusion between the
conyicts and some guard by means OF
which the murderous revolvers and
| the nitro-glycerine, which the three
convicts used in blowing the steel
doors. were smuggled into the prison
! Ex-Warden r. w. Hyers, former
Nebraska sheriff, and man hunter OF
4 the old school. was placed in charge
of the pursuit today and every barn,
! haystack and possible hiding spot
within a radius of FIVE miles from
/ the prison were ransacked for the
fugitive murderers. This afternoon
Adjt General Phelps, temporary pris.
on warden, admitted that the search
ers were without the slightest clue
Phelps now believes the convicts are
being housed by confederates, pos
sibly in Lincoln, and squad of de
tectives was detailed to search every
rooming house in the city.