Show AN EMEUTE Five Prisoners Escape From the Penitentiary BUT THEY ARE RECAPTURED The Guard Disarmed and the Deeper ate Kunavray Steal a Bur to Drive olTIa The most desperate attempt at escape that has been made trom the Penitentiary Peniten-tiary was that which occurred atthat institution in-stitution yesterday morning and gives the priscipsl actors five of the convicts incarcerated there tho palm for daring and their subsequent retaking by the deputies tho highest praise for efficiency effi-ciency The desperadoes were John Watrint Ernest Williamson John Cleveland George Davis an > John A Flowers They were engaged in grubbing sagebrush sage-brush in the field close by when their attempt to escape previously planned was put into execution It was to overpower the guard who bad been warned before starting out to keep his distance He unwittingly appears allowed the convicts to creep on to him and m an unguarded moment mo-ment he was seized and his pistol and gun taken from him Possessed of these defensive weapons the prisoners made for the hills In their flight and a abort distance from the Pen they stopped an old lady who was driving down the road ina twonorsi rig politely askoa herto step down and out which she did as nimbly as her age would admit of and off and the gang climbed in driving leaving the owner to make her way as best she might The vehicle was not driven far having been abandoned a abort distance up the road when the prisoners took to the brush The alarm was ito wediatel given and Warden Dow and bisiuards were soon on the trail of the fugitives Marshal Dyer was promptly telephoned for aid and he with a p > sse of puties was not long in giving chase among the force being lireenman Vandercook Smith and Franks The path taken by the culprits was noted bv the guards and the deputies well armed in 1 resolute were on their tracks with a vengeance Three of the runaways were observed 10 enter a clump of bruih it was stated and several sev-eral rounds of ammunition were fired in the direction with the intention of bringing them out Tho result of the shooting there was the wounding of Watrin through the leg and the grazing of the wrist of one of the others The three here captured were Watrin Williamson and Flowers The brat i named is serving a four year sentence for grand larceny Williamson is the young horse thief who was sentenced a few weeks ago on three charges for a year on each Davis was In for three years for hor estf aims Cleveland was also in for grand larceny in the robbing of C P cars at Ogden and Flowers was serving out a term for an assault with s deadly weapon Thev are all desperate men wno took desPerate chanoA when they made their break for liberty but the sequel shows that they were outdone in the matter of bravery by their pursuers and captors Theother two Davis and Cleveland it I was feared toward nightfall had eluded their followers and got clear but It was learned late in the evening that they too had been overtaken and recaptured and taken back to their cells within the Penitentiary walls The promptitude with which action was taken in this matter b deserving of great praise on the part of the Warden the Marshal and their aides The following fol-lowing up and retaking of five of the most desperate men imprisoned in the Pen when they had so much th tart of their pursuers is a feat which reflects cedit upon the force and will rio dOUbt impress others contemplating escape that the Marshal and his men will not do to fool with |