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Show BULLETS STOP I CONVICTS' DRIVE Three Officers Wounded i and One Felon Slain in Dakota Chase RAPID CITY, 8. D. Auk Hy tho Aspnciiitcd iM's". ) Refusal of a boatman to taks them across the Cheyenne river at Pedro s. D., and fiil k wirl f i telephone operator relghtun, in notlfvlnff p..s:.eniTi v. ere mainly r'tnnslble fur the capture cap-ture of three .f I he convict who c- caped August it from the sioux i-'aiis penitentiary end killing of the fourth It became- known today. Today two of the convicts, joc Foreman, Fore-man, leader and Joe Tell were In Jail Murdo. and the third. J. B. Kng. i at the penitentiary at Sioux Pallsi The fourth, ll-.irv Coc-e, a nepjro driver nf lh. ro.i vict's car. was killed and his body taken to Murdc. Foreman Fore-man was wounded but will re over, it wax sil.l i-'rom the time Friday morning when they overpowered three officers oast of Stamford, seriously wounding wound-ing States Attorns M h Parish, antb Stealing his nr th" frail of the foxir, convicts led north and west. FLIGHT II MH I) PiAPID CITY S. I, Auk 2t. -(By the Associated Press.'.) Halted at the. borderland of he Black bills, four esci ned Cpnvlctl from the Sioux Falla penitentiary ended their terrorising drive across S.ni h Dakota about Bu, miles cast of her late Friday with the death of one of their number nnd the capture of the other three. I Their w ild flljrht wa? begun Aug. 17 j when they kntld a dc.puty warden kidnaped the warden and escaped in an automobile. ThioiiKh three counties they streak j ed Friday probably mortally wound-Inir wound-Inir n county official an. I Injuring two' others in a rlnnh near Stamford, and finally Stopping when a rnek shot1 from a sheriff's rifle toppled the driver of their ?ar and sent p Info n ditch. COKS I II I l B ITTLE. The other three convhts SCUrrlSdl Into a corn field nlon the road, but With the sheriff's parly reinforced they soon were routed out and raptured, rap-tured, though noi until they had put up a fight In which another of their number "as shot and wounded. Henry Coffee, atlas Hick, a nero Was the convict killed, and Joe Fore, man. recognised leader of the Rant? was seriously wounded, The two ton. victs taken uninjured are Joe Teel and J. B. Klnsr. All were sent to prison upon conviction of grand larceny. ft wns said the last convict captured cap-tured begged hi comrades tn shoot him. rather than permit his autre aut-re nder. Airplanes circling overhead and heavily armed posses headed iv state and county officials marked the end of the chose. 'M i l y WODXDfi OFFICERS ESarly Friday mornintr the convicts wer- discovered at Murdo in Tones county and when Ihev left toward Stamford, toward the west States Attorney U i,. Parish, sheriff j c ; BabCOCK and J. A Robertson set out i In pursuit I Overtaking the convicts near Stam-I Stam-I ford, which Is Just over the line In I JackSoil county, the official- opened I fire and were met with an answering j volley that probably mortal!!? wound ed Parish and. lees serlouslv hurt Babenck and P ibertson. I Parish, :n i critical condition from wounds In the irm. shoulder and neck, and with p bullet In his bend Was taken to Mitchell Fririav -,i.-. noon PI RSI ERS' r rt TAKEN After their successful dash with the Jones county officials ine convicts con-victs seized Parish's automobile and I continued their flight south west ward I through Jackson county, abandoning I the car at Inferior, and stealing another an-other , eighth they had taken in as many days. The four convicts escaped from the I Penitentiary late Thursdnv August 17. knifim Deputy Warden rthui Mux how Into helplessness and forcing warden Geprge W. Jamieson to accompany ac-company them in the automobile the, I stole near the prison. A guard Witnessing the escape withheld with-held fire in fear that he might hit the warden The convicts left the warden bound In a church about 16 miles from Sioux Falls. He had not been Inlured |