Show RIOT RIOT REIN REIGNS S IN A KENTUCKY PRISON i FOR EXCITING PERIOD OF FOUR HOURS r f Desperate Convicts Make fold Bold freak Break for Liberty One Is Fatally Wounded Founded and aid Two Iwo h Others Badly Shot Shoff a T T TT T T T T T T f SAME SA lE CONVICTS IN MUTINY lUTINY ONCE BEFORE J f t rf FRANKFORT Ky Aut Aug 20 Later O. Later developments show that Ransome 1 rf the negro who was shot ahot swa was wa not pressed Into service by the despera- despera f r F does docs but had Joined them after the they entered tho the rocker department r f rf Brooks Bishop and Mulligan were among the most moat desperate of or the 1500 r H- H convicts here All I t re young oung men A year ear ago abO m Bishop hop and Mulligan Mul- Mul r rf ligan declared they would m ml nit 1 work and the warden It took tool sev- sev f t I rf eral oral weeks' weeks punishment and to subdue them and since then f ff u f each has carried a heavy ball and chain L L L T T T T T T T S T T T T T T T I FRANKFORT Ie Ky Au Aug 1 The Tho 0 Tho officials of or the State penitentiary and amI Ulc- Ulc citizens of oC Frankfort were thrown into a no state of ot wild excitement to today ay by byn n n. riot In the prison started b by an attempt of three desperate murderers Lafayette Lafayette Lafay Lafay- ette cUe Brooks Wallace Bishop and T. T Mulligan to gala gain their liberty Before the riot which began at 6 0 o'clock and lasted until after 10 was f quelled and the mutinous convicts captured Bishop was fatally wounded Mulligan Mul Mul- ligan was shot In the shoulder and a negro convict Albert Ransome of Louns- Louns Ville whom the desperadoes had pressed Into service was hit by a rifle ball TWO O GUARDS G CAPTURED BY DY THE DESPERADOES The rioting started while Brooks Mulligan and Bishop were coming out of the room dining-room to answer a hospital call Suddenly one of the convicts drew drewa a n revolver and compelled Guard A A A. II H Gill to give sl up his arms Guard F. F F. F f Hurst Burst who rushed to Gills Gill's assistance was also captured b by the convicts Capt Madigan acting warden then rushed forward firing on the bunch but no one I was hit I FOREMAN AS HOSTAGE HELD IN LINE OF FIRE f Th That convicts then running running- across the yard to the entrance to the reed de- de of the chair factory captured Charles Willis Ill Is a n foreman They coy cov covered ered eyed him with their pistols and placing him between them and the guards retreated retreated retreated re- re treated to the rocker ar department in the chair factory factor from whence they could command a go good d view of or the entire yard At a window Willis and Brooks with witha a revolver In his hand took tool toola a position Just beside the captive resting the muzzle le o of the weapon on Williss Willis's shoulder e i iW WARDEN ARDEN DEFIED TO ATTEMPT THEIR CAPTURE The convicts then defied Warden Varden Lillard to attempt to capture them shoutIng shouting shout- shout Ing ng that the they would kill the foreman at the first move mo made against them By this time several hundred citizens many of at them heavily armed had gathered at nt the prison gates but the warden denied admission to all He lie Issued Is- Is sued Buell orders for all departments to close and for rOl all the prisoners to be he returned at ot once to their c cells He then placed a l guard g o of sixty men around the building build build- Ins ing In which the desperadoes had barricaded themselves and called on them to surrender The convicts' convicts only reply was a a. taunt ASKED KJ FOR A TRUCE FROM PRIS ON OFFICIALS d Nor or the th ke Projection lon of Foreman Willis tho st t enel de determined to starve the desperadoes into Vito Bub submission In about half hale an hour a note was dropped from the window of the room room where the convicts had taken refuge asking l Warden Lillard and Deputy Warden arden Madigan to come up under a flag of or truce and deal with them This demand was ignored Shortly after this James Buckle Buckley a former city workhouse keeper and Morgan Morgan Mor Mor- I gan can Brewer a former guard at the penitentiary climbed to th the roof of a residence residence res res- Mence overlooking the building in which the convicts had taken tal refuge and fired several shots into the room where here the desperadoes were IMPRESSED FOREMAN PLEADS FOR LIFE They were compelled to desist however as Foreman Willis was as forced to tho the wIn window ow In the tho line of fire He called to the men to stop shooting and In Informed informed In- In formed them that a negro convict whom the desperadoes had forced Into servIce service service ser ser- ser ser- vice had been shot In the shoulder At 9 o'clock a a. note was dropped from the convicts' convicts win window ow offering to fUr fair render if the men were Insured safe delivery to the cell house This request was also ignored The convicts asked that Capt Copt Lillard and Capt Madigan an come In person to escort them but It was believed that this was merely a ruse toi to kill the officials I i I OFFER TO SURRENDER WAS MERELY A RUSE Later another letter was was brought brought from the desperadoes b by Frank Brooks of Bond county The note stated that If It the warden would come to the head of the steps leading to the reed department the convicts would surrender first sending their weapons down by Frank Brooks Warden Lillard appeared to accept the terms terms' of this note and as a matter of precaution a half dozen guards s were placed In the hospital overlooking the j reed department Warden Varden Lillard accompanied by eight men then proceeded to the foot of the stairway Suddenly the tho crack of at a Winchester was heard showing that tho the note was but a n ruse We Ve got goot Bishop shouted a guard He Ho Is dead RINGLEADER BROUGHT DROUGHT DOWN BY GUARD The prisoners had emerged from the reed room as they had promised with j i hands up but as they proceeded down the stairway va Bishop dropped his hands to his side as I if to draw a weapon He had hardly made the motion n when one of the wardens warden's party fired the bullet striking striking- Bishop In the breast Inflicting f a fatal wound When Bishop fell Cell Mulligan Mullis-an and Brooks sank t to their knees S. S begging begs the warden to save their lives QUIET RESTORED AFTER FOUR HOURS ll By 1030 o'clock the two desperadoes hen heal fly ily shackled and accompanied by ten men with drawn pistols were wore placed in III their cells and quiet had been roc rc- rc f c stored After the men had been securely locked c up it was discovered that r Mulligan had been heen in the shoulder thou though h he was not seriously hurt |