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Show CONVICT AT LARGE. Battle Batwaan Officers and Eacapad Criminals ia Hourly Expected. Of the thirteen convlcta who ea-called ea-called from the alaln penitentiary at Kolftotn, Cat., Mondny, twelve are atlll at large. Joe Murphy, who waa serving serv-ing a fourloen-year sentence for roll-bery, roll-bery, deaerled hla followers soon afler they left the prison, lie la heavily armed and It la not known In which direction he sought aafety. A negro convict named Heavla, who waa reported re-ported wounde In the flrat encounter with the offlrera, appears not to have been Injured. Tho eleven outlaws who renialn togotbor are making for the Hlerra Nevada niountalna. They arn cloaely puraued hy the eheriffa of Hac-ramento. Hac-ramento. Kldorado and Placer counties, coun-ties, each harked hy numerous riepn ties and a roinpnny of nillltla. About twenty gunrda from Ihe Kolaom prlaon are alao engaged In the r liana. It la believed that the fugltlvea will be aiirrounded and a dcnicrate battln la anticipated, aa all are heavily armed. |