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Show SEVEN ESCAPED CONVICTS FOUND Captured by Posses in Boxcar Box-car Other Six Are Surrounded. JOLIET, Ills., Dec. -L Seven of the thirteen convicts, who escaped from the state penitentiary here yesterday morning, were captured early today by three posses, near Morris in a box car on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad. The other six are surrounded in the railroad yards and their capture is expected shortly. The convicts offered of-fered no resistance. The three posses wero organized late last night after the convicts had stopped stop-ped a Chicago, Ottawa and Peoria in-terurban in-terurban car. robbed the passengers of everything they had, including most of their clothes, and had driven the car to Morris, 111., where they abandoned it. One posse was led by Sheriff Walter Hendricksen of Grundy county, another an-other by George M. Scholl, and the third by prison guards. Reports from Morris stated that the passengers from the interurban car reached there about midnight, all bad - j 1 bruised but none seriously Injured. |