Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-27

terday morning, but none of the con- victs Were aboard it.
 Automobiles are being used to good effect in securing the country for the escaped convicts, but the lat ter have evidently taken to the low country along the river, where de- lection is difficult and with the ex- ception of Johnson, ali appear to nave eluded their prrsuers so far. The fact that it was necessary to shoot Johnson before he could be taken bears out the exoectation of penitentiary officers that bloodshed would be necessary, as some of the escapes are known to be desperate men, and all carried arms when they escaped from the stockade at the farm.
 "Wolf's" Fourth Escape. The escape from the Tucker con- vet farm Sunday night was the fourth of it's kind for Yates Standridge, who earned the nickname of the "human wolf" by his desperate acts. Just week ago he and several other con- victs escaped from the farm at Tucker, only to be recaptured the next day.
 Penitentiary officials believe that Standridge, Charley Meyers and Jim Haden were ringleaders in the plot. Meyers and Haden were serving TO- year sentences for bank robbery at Huntsville, Madison county. Joe Willis of Hot Spring county, serving 1 IS years for murder, also was one of | the leaders.
 From the precision and smoothness with which the escape was perfected, l so) I o,,t that it had been planned for several days.
 How It Was Done. ] Alfred Mcknight, "trusty" work ing as a night watchman, was first a revolver through the bars of the stockade and ordered him to throw up his hands. Three other convicts had revolvers. Harrison Stout, the free guard" in charge, heard the convict command the 'trusty" to throw up his hands, and started to his assist ance. Another convict jumped from his bed and forced Stout, threatening him with a revolver, to halt. The convicts then ordered the two guards to lie down.
 In the meantime convicts from vari- ous parts of the stockade began to leave their beds. indicating that plans formulated in advance were being car ried out While convicts with re- volvers menaced the two guards bar was pried from the stockade and one by one the IS men filed out. The two guards were relieved of their re- volvers and were forced to accompany the IS convicts to the farm office
 At the office 12 shotguns and six revolvers, together with ammunition, were obtained. With the four re- volvers already in their possession and two taken from the guards, the IS convicts then were armed with 12 ing admonitions not to following the convicts liberated the two guards and disappeared in the darkness.
 Blount Declines to Leave.
 Lee Blount, the Faulkner county convict who escaped from the Cum mins farm January 21, and again from the Tucker farm last week, with Standridge, did not attempt to escape Sunday night. Penitentiary officials believe Blount was afraid to accom- pany Standridge and others who es- capped. Standridge and Williams, two of the men who escaped last week, blamed Blount for their recapture, de- claring he tipped off" the officers to their whereabouts.
 Meyers, Haden, Willis and Needham were four of the 24 convicts who es- capped from the Cummins farm Janu- ary 21, and, with Black Williams, led in the dash for liberty. Williams never has been caught.
 Several Escaped Before.
 Escaping was not new thing to Roy Tryon, former Little Rock mes senger boy. Several months ago he escaped from the Tucker farm, and paid the penalty by being shot and severely wounded. He was caught by Sheriff Pat Swain and deputy in Lonoke county. He was taken to Little Rock, and for several weeks was in the penitentiary hospital. He had been shot in the abdomen.
 Meyer, one of the Huntsville bank robbers, faced federal penitentiary sentence following expiration of his Arkansas prison term. Willis, too, was wanted in Missouri as an escape from the Missouri penitentiary, and Craighead county officials had asked for the retarn of Needham when he finished his sentence. Needham's sen- tence was to expire July 15, next.