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Show COMPLETE CONF ESSION IS MADE BY A CONVICT; AftER CHIEF PLOTTER JEFFERSON CITT, Mo,. Nov. 28. A complete confession was made to Warden Hall of the State penitentiary last night by George Ryan, one of the convicts recaptured re-captured after his escape from the penitentiary peni-tentiary last Friday in company with three other convicts, during which three men were killed and several Injured. Ryan told the Warden that H. E. Spencer, Spen-cer, who was discharged from the penitentiary peni-tentiary November 9, agreed to furnish the Pistols and nltro-glycerlne which was used to blow the hole In the stockade. He was to purchase the pistols in Kansas City with $40 which they gave him, and then go to Carthage, Mo., and steal dynamite dyna-mite and nltro-glycerlne from the mines there. These were to be brought here last Monday night and taken up on the stockade, which is not guarded at night. He was then to let himself down by a ' rope on the Inside and take the material and place it under the bench which Vaughan used in the factory. Spencer was then to. climb back over the wall and make his escape. Nothing was heard from him, but on Thursday morning the supplies were found where Spencer said he would put them. Thursday afternoon and night the prisoners had a consultation and decided to capture Deputy Warden See, Yard-master Yard-master Porter Gllvin and Deputy Yard-master Yard-master Frank Moore and make them open the gate and let them out or they would blow their way out. They proposed to capture an engine, make the run to Moreau and blow up the Missouri Pacific bridge at that place to prevent pursuit until they could get to a safe place. Friday they started to put their plan In operation when they found that only See was in the office. They started with him and two strangers they found there to get through the round gate. When the big gate was opened they changed their plan and started through it. Officer Clap appeared with a drawn weapon and they killed him. They fastened the gate and ordered See to let them out. He said he could not. but would let them out through the office. They crtlled- for some one to open the gate, and when Capt. Allison appeared with his gun they killed him. Tliey then blew open the gate and made their es-ct-:e. Warden Hall has sent telegrams all over the country asking for Spencer's arrest. Gov. Folk has offered a reward of $300. and every effort will be made to capture him. |