Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-23

at two farm houses. The occupants, thinking they were tramps, refused to give them anything tc eat, and they dodg- ed back into the woods
 For the rest of the night Stivers and Bassett kept out of sight They admit ted after their capture today that they had spent the night seeking an outlet of escape, but being unfamiliar with: wood-, craft they had wandered about in circle and at daylight found themselves near where they had started They had no sleep and no food.
 Warden Lawes and his keepers, who had hurried here on receiving the word that the men were cornered. joined Sheriff Wooster during the night. At daybreak. members of the posse were strung out along the borders of the | woods for distance of ten miles, and l others were sent into the forest, where l in systematic fashion they sent round after round of shots in every direction
 As it developed, afterwards. this meth | o& was successful in gradually forcing | the fugitives toward the outer edge of the forest. They were not seen, however l untel this afternoon.
 Sheriff Wooster sent two men,, Edwin L. Forsaith and Carl W. Rowe, to a l point on the roa,l near a house on Tory Hill. They had not been stationed thers l ten minutes before they caught sight of two men lying under an apple tree close | to the road and munching apples. Creep ing along "a newall, Forsaith and 1 Rowe got close to the men without be- I ing seen. Then they strengthened up The men. thinking they were hunters asked them the way to <-adford, an ad joining town. For answer Forsaith anc
 Rowe pointed their rifles at the ner
 and ordered them to surrender.
 Taken by surprise the men threw uJ 1 their &'ands, and in a few minutes the,
 were bound hand and foot They admit
 ted they were the escaped convicts Row
 stood guard while Forsaith went to tn
 nearest house and telephoned the sherih
 Shortly. afterward Sheriff WoorsterP an,
 Warden Lawes arrived and the warden a
 once identified the men as Stivers an,
 1sassett.
 After the posse had been dispersed, tn
 convicts were taken to Concord, leavin
 that city by automobile late in the aft
 ernoon for Worcester, Mass. whenc
 they were to be returned to Ossining b
 train. <. Stivers and Bassett talked. freely af, CT their capture. They said that thei first move after escaping fromsthe pri, 1 on was to steal an automobile nearb! } They drove at top speed for the stst ' | line and into Connecticut. At Derb,
 Conn. they hold up man In anothe
 rar and stole his overcoat and. that of
 companion, some money and the numbs
 plate of the car. which they attached the automobile they were driving
 t, Always with the idea in mind g- | 1 eventually reaching Canada, they dro' i back and forth over ,sConnecticit roat |, during Sunday and Monday, hoping 1 !. throw pursuers off the trail On Tue | day they dashed into western :, Mass chusetts and managed to find their " S1 Springfield and Worcester, then turn,
 northward again and drove to Keene,
 H. From .Keene they proceeded tcS Ea
 laffrey and followed the railroad line R concord through Hanniker, and West Ho
 kinton :ts,.. .ss-f l. In Concord they stole another autonn T sile and Bassett drove :. 1t off, follow, V by Stivers in tft first car. They retur > ed to Henniker and tried to rob lup' l. room proprietor, firing one shot at hi,
 but were frightened away by the : 2
 ival of armed neighbo-s. A short al
 tance from the village they abandoned t
 car in which they had come into u E state and proceeded in the stolen coneo
 automobile. .s e, On Tuesday morning their gasoline h $ given out and they obtained a. sn; l. quantity at Carl JeT-elfs garage in War y. er. When this was used up they abando le ed the car and seeing men approach 70 realized that they were being pursu h snd took to the woods. ,
 By singular coincidence, it was :.