| Show MAKE DARING ESCAPE fROM fEDERAL PEN Bold Dash for Liberty by Five Train Robbers Serving Life SEIZE SWITCH ENGINE TO EFFECT PURPOSE Two of Them Recaptured and the Other Three Surrounded Il LEAVENWORTH A Kan April 21 Five train robbers serving life ife sentences sen sea tenses escaped from the federal prison near here early today Within a short time two of the men were recaptured At 2 o'clock the three others were surrounded surrounded surrounded sur sur- rounded in the brush seven miles from prison and it was believed all would be taken The men recaptured were Bob Clark sent up from Tyler Tex Ter and John Gil Gil- eon of Moscow Ida The three others were Thomas A. A Kating sent up from Allen AlIenI Okla Arthur Arthur Ar Ar- thur Hewitt flewitt from Caddo Okla and Frank Cre ware one of the men who held up a Union Pacific mail train near Omaha last fall The break for liberty was made about 8 Two of the convicts were wele at work inthe in inthe inthe the carpenter shop and the others were in the tailor shop A Union Pacific switch en engine ine lied had backed into the t prison prison pris pris- ris on yard At the sound ot of the whistle the men dashed into the yard and made toward the en engine ine Leveling dumm dummy guns at the engineer the men climbed into the cab and compelled him to reverse reverse re roo re- re verse his engine The en engine ine with the convicts aboard rushed through the west gate zate into the open country and soon was speeding toward toward to to- ward the woods When the escape became known a afew afew afew few moments later the tho siren whistle at tho prison was sounded as a warning to farmers to be on the lookout The whistle may be heard for miles and its use nse caused consternation At the same time heavily armed guards were thrown around the gates to prevent pre any further attempt at escape while others ethers started in pursuit When the had bad reached point point- engine a six six miles from the prison the time five m metr men leaped to the ground round and made for the woods Clark and Gideon separated from the others and soon were captured Then every available guard led by Deputy Warden Lemon Iemon started after the other oilier three men A half balf mile further fur fur- further further ther on the trio were surrounded in the woods No shot had nad been blen fired on either side up to 2 o'clock when the guards began blan to close in on n the con con- viets Althou Although h the convicts com are all desperate men it was believed their only weapons were guns uns made of wood and painted in the carpenter shop Fake weapons taken taen from Clark and Gideon had been Ingeniously made Even en the c cylinders lInders showed imitation bullets protruding Took Guard Along When Whan the men made their dash for liberty lib erty they covered Harry Barn teed need a guard with their guns suns and forced him to enter en en- enter ter tel the engine cab with them But one ona other guard named Burnett was in the vicinity He lie rushed up and struck Kating over the head causing a wound from which blood flowed freely Kating was only stunned and running after his confederates confederates confederates con con- federates he scrambled Into the engine just as It was as getting under way The rhe guards inside the prison do not carry weapons Hating Kating was employed for five years jears ears asan as 88 asan an engineer on the Lake I.-ake Shore and he ha assumed the leadership when the engine started He lie directed Charles Curtain the engineer to throw her wide open and told Fireman Millard Milliard Heeler Heeter to shovel coal as he had never shoveled before When the engine had arrived ed at a a. D paint lm six miles s northwest or of the prison whole where the road was skirted on both bOUl sides by heavy timber the en engineer and fireman were instructed instituted to kill the engine engino Then the desperadoes forced the engine crew to disrobe and two of the convicts appropriated ed ld their garments The Time men started to force the guard to disrobe also but Hewitt Hewitt Hew Hew- itt said enough time had already been wasted Basted and the men plunged into the time woods Time The trainmen then tired fired the engine and rushed it back Clark Clarl and ami Gideon were pre placed in solitary soli soil tary confinement when returned to the prison Hewitt Kating Rating and Clark were leaders In the mutiny at the tho prison on here on November No No- November vember 7 7 1901 when n one une guard and one prisoner were killed and two guards wounded and the they were 1 serving ln Cf ing life sentences sentences sentences sen sen- for murder in connection with that offense Hewitt was the ringleader In that mutiny was s serving a ht life e se sentence i i t ence for his participation in the tho robbery lobber ol ot a Union Pacific train near Omaha in No u vember 1909 1901 Gideon was serving a life sentence tot for tle e robbery of a Northern 1 Pacific mall mail train In III Idaho In 1905 |
