Show POSSES BA BATTLE K WITH CON CONVICTS CONVICT'S VICT'S KILL ONE ANOTHER A SUICIDE 1 Third NebrasKa Penitentiary Penitentiary Penitentiary Mutineer Is Cap Cap- FARMER LOSES LIFE LIFE IN THE GUN UN FIGHT Two Bands of Pursuers I Had Rifles While Desperadoes Desperadoes Desperadoes Desper Desper- I Carried Revolvers LINCOLN Neb March Match 18 Advices Advice received here confirmed from three sourCes declare that posses have killed Convicts Taylor an and Dowd and have captured Morley The fight occurred near Gretna OMAHA March 18 The The report reached here at that Taylor was killed Dowd committed suicide and Morley surrendered The rhe fight occurred between Gretna o leo A r 1 joy Roy Blunt the fa farmer er who was driving their conveyance also was killed The tight fight between the posses and the 9 convicts was an uneven affair the tha officers officers om cers being armed with rifles rUles and tho the bandits with revolvers The posses en the men at once onee having crossfire crossfire cross cross- fire on them Taylor aylor was killed by the bullets of th the officers after which Do Dowd recognizing recognizing I the tho situa the hopelessness of tion turned turne hi his Wc pon upon pon himself Morley signified his wish to give ive up the fight Blunt tho young farmer who had been forced to drive rive tho the desperadoes in his sleigh h was wag found dead but bul whether from tho the bullets bullet of the convicts con con- or the officers is not clear dear At 0 o'clock clock it was reported that Morley also o was w k killed Sheriff Hyers Hera of Lincoln wIts was said to have ha fired tho shot eliot that killed Taylor or Gray ns as ho was wall otherwise W e known George Geor winkle Mo-winkle on whose who e farm the fight occurred is s-ald s to have hao been slightly hurt None one of the officers was W wounded First Trace of Convicts The Tho three convicts who to escaped from the tAte state penitentiary were first seen pen jut Just daylight today tod neB near I SoutI Bend Neb b on a Ii handcar The Th They h liar had rt stolen toll th lie handcar at Prairie Homo Home just out of oC Lincoln and haitI lind broken Into lute a hardware hard store at stealing guns gimp ammunition and clothing Strong posses led b by She lff Hays 1 and others I left Lincoln ou on th trail of or th fleeing handcar as aa a oon as' as asa a as a special train could b hp hn made r The Fine ron lehl ditched d th th handcar hand hand- car Ar at Meadow Nab and started to toward ard Omaha on oil foot footo Meadow 1 I is In Sarpy Sarp county shout about fifteen miles southwest of ot Omaha Driven by Tanner Farmer rh y were driven toward In Ina a It sleigh h by nO Roy Hoy Blunt a farmer who re resides ro- ro sides Ride three mullen miles north of or that town The nun convicts con w were rc lina down In the tho bolt bOil body of nf the vehicle forcing the farmer r to ox- ox exi i pose pOu to tho the bullets of or the posse a us as as th they 3 got sot within firing distance The three convicts approached the Blunt home holO a about II t 11 It o'clock this morning and d forced thin the farmer Carmel lu tu take them III In his sleigh 1 hh to SprIngfield rId He Ue refused eoJ at first t. t hll but t they covered hIm with the revolvers md mind r ordered him latin to make mako haste haRt The thieo thine fugitives l 5 Ta Taylor lor Morely and ind Dowd spent Friday Frida nl night ht and all HII day n arid and part of or Sunday night at ot atthe atthe the th home of Mr Ir and amid Mrs Elmer Hall hail on ona onn a n farm five t ml I ox cast anti anil u H. mile mill north of After j Mr rr and Mrs tn Hall HaIl so t o securely that thie they the 1 believed t 01 I they mold could not 1 1 bora te themselves l el thc they tore 1010 the telephone Instrument from Its place flace ut i the and auth I left tl th lie Hall hail home ie at nt 30 10 Saturday night During their sta stay I they compelled d the th people u at t the farmhouse farm fann- house hOUise to atm norv them with meals and p permitted permitted per per- r- r no one to leave lEa tin till house After fter leaving th the Hall Hail home the time fugitive fugi rul- tive tives went to Prairie Home Hom secured cured a handcar and went to in Murdock where they burglarized two stores and secured cured arms ammunition and clothing Later Laler the thc con- con were r seemu w walking on the railroad tracks between n South Bend arId and Meadow Next XeM th they lucY worn wor lI seep seen pt passing th the home or of T. T P. P Call Dall two and nd a haJ half miles west est estor of or Meadow |