The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 28, 1903, Page 4

THE PURSUING OFFICERS STOP THE ENRAGED FUGITIUVES ND ONE CONUICT IS KILLED IN TERRIBLE C OMBflT EVADA, July 27.—Captain Bost of Company C, Second ‘Fltzgel'a[d wlll Regiment, National Guard of California, received structions from the capital this afternoon to have his men Orde,: an In’ vestigation. ready at 5 o'clock this evening to take the trail of the escaped SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1903. Gate Is Openedl'J‘ for Murder- || ous Crew. ACRAMENTO, Governor Pardee au- | thorized the offering of $100' each for the arrest of the convicts who escaped from Folsom prison July has in- | | sk ! ey TH Stite Phion’ {OXRS convicts from Folsom. During the afternoon couriers were 9 | issionted iave & kiaampae e | kept busy going to the different mines hereabouts, and by 3 Guns flre J[leflt of $50 each for the 1rrc<:uf (‘<~1 o’clock, with one exception, every member of the company, sixty- Deplores LaCk of bE per o | five strong, was present with arms, forty rounds of- ammunition 3 i a Wall at caping prisoners, so this makes a | total of £150 each for the men at| large. It is not believed that ;m)'; of the fugitives will be taken| 3 | live, and the fact that valuable| During the | Tumult. [ and in full marching uniform. At 5 o'clock orders came to keep the soldiers at the barracks in readiness to go to the front. Since that time a special train has been kept waiting to start at a moment’s notice. The members of the company are hardy moun- taineers, most of them miners and good marksmen, and they are eager for the summons to join in the pursuit of the convicts. Prison. Escape Made Poss |l sible by False Economy. State Guardsmen| Quickly Arm | in ‘Towns lives may be sacrificed in the pur suit is deplored \ Special Dispatch to The Call AKLAND, July 27.—R: M. Fits- gerald, president of the State | Board of Prison Commissioners, | sald: “It would be impossible to i place the responsibility for the break at this time, as [ kunow nothing — rison ar more of what has occurred other than has h r for berty too’ e | 0 m wer g marched from the | i | | been told in the dispatches from the prison. 1 received a telegram from Com- mi. oner Wilkins, who is now In charge. at 7:30 o'clock this evening, saying that everything was quiet at the pris | | the prisoners who escaped are practically surrounded. [] “1t s very easy to see Bow such & | | thing might be prevented after it has i | taken place, but at present I do not know where to place the blame. It is hard to understand how the officers could be taken unawares and made prisoners, but it is even mcre remarkable that not a hint of the plot reached the ears of the officlals of the nrisou. | |' “I see in the reports which have been | | publisked it s sata that the convicts were armed, with knives made from files. How | | they succeeded in making these weapons | | without being seen by some of the short | | term men is a puzale. The fact that they | | insubor- upposed line and marching s ool =t of the did so proves that either an unusual amount of secrecy was observed by the conviets, or some ong was culpably negfi- gent. “The fact | | ery could never have carried out if the p had been rounded by a wall as it should be. Ever since 1 have been on the board I have continually agitated the need of such a wall, which can be erected at compara- tively small expense to the State. All | | that the State needs to supply is the tools and the cement. We ha the labor and granite to bufld a wall which would render the escape of prisoners impossible, | | even though all the convicts in the msti- | | tution should mutiny and murder ev fficer in charge: They would still b side the wafl and under cover of the gat ling guns in the towers, and the rifles of the guar whom it would be ab impossible for them to reach ““The problem which must be sc | ot all is how to recapture t | | convicts without sacrificing the is that such a prison del been successf su w4 ery Itves the free men whom they hold as hostages will all be but | There is no doubt that th killed or captured sooner o they are cormered they may | | one of their prisoners before being ¢ come. It is° possible fhat they may rate to-night, and if they do have to release the captives. E o 2 PR together their capture is ¢ VIEW IN FOLSOM PRISON WHERE MUCH OF THE TROUBLE OCCURRED may cost the lives of the officer WHEN THE THIRTEEN DESPERATE CONVIC MADE THEIR WAY must be avoided if vohfl»“tblv - OUT OF THE PENITENTIARY W SN ATE St When asked about the rumor that War- = | TE WITH WARDEN AND OFFICERS. | |den Wilkinson may have ordered the o 7 el e X | | guards in the tower not to fire on the es- 1 * | caping convicts, Mr. Fitzgerald said " | | wagon road. Ryan fired three shots at DIRECTOR WILKIN “The Warden was in a very trying po- | [the convicts as they crossed the bridge, I sition. He had not only his own life to | |but failed to hit any of them. In|Member of the Stnte Board at Scene | think of, but the lives of the other men & | [the excitement that followed the shots in the hands of the convicts, among | | Guard Vertress dropped over a rock into of Trouble. whom was his own grandson. Had he the river and made his escape by swim-| OAKLAND, July 27.—R. M. Fitagerald, | ordered the guards to open fire he prob- | | ming under the bridge. | president of the Board of State Prison | ably would have been killed on the spot, | | The convicts then proceeded up _the | Directors, has received the following of- | 274 the rest of the hostages with him | | wagon road toward Nigger Hill, which is | g atches from Prison Director J. | AT it may be that the guards themesives feared that if they fired on the escaping about three-quarters of a mile from Mo H \\I“\[rfl who was at Placerville at the ! mon Island bridge. At this point they | - ! convicts the public would condemn them T raided a farm and looted the place for | 'IMe of Qw outbreak and who went at | for sacrificing the lives of nearly a dozen - { clothing and valuables. They secured a | Once to Folsom Prison and took charge | free men to prevent the escape of thirteen . e bar 58 = 3 four-horse team from Joe Foster, a Por- | during the absence of Warden Wilkinson: | prisoners when there was a possibilijy of Vilkinson and | (ONETE Sepagtog . seovicls tuguese, and forced him to drive them | ‘“Folsom Prison, 12:20 p. m.—R. M. Fitz- | recapturing them later without endanger- alled out thar 1ad captured go | | and their captives along the road toward | gerald: This d ing the lives of the prison officer over the il g S | e his morning while the vag | INE the ol 4 n and his com- | OVeT nill and pass from | | Bear Mountain, which 1s seven miles | gornesc 0% FOTUE WENe the line Was | irne facts will all be brought out at the Dolan 'Il' £ | | from Nigger Hill. On their way they met | oy (o0 oroee my oo Teak was m‘{de bY | i vestigation which will be held, but I with a| ."!N-“ e prison was uproar and a teamster, Willlam Slotman, who had a “,‘, onvicts. They overpowered Warden | gnaj) not call a meeting of the board until sed | alarm. The hundreds of pri s in Fol- | | load of wood, They compelled the guards | WIKINson, Captain Murphy and several | the men who are in the hands @€ the fugi- : som shouted and yelled at the top of | d— -———— — il > [ to unload e wood and. took Slotgian's other officers and mortally wounded Ben | tives are released. Their testimony Is of > : Jut they made no attempt to : : horses. They then stole the wagon and | C. Cochrane and Guard Cott . ’ fmportance, and I would no or S Ao 194 Guard ‘Johly, but “aga S Comb L asa ' i S : | otter. The con- | the greatest importance, an ald not br ‘_kf or ltberty, when the remaining “."11 ”\“"““h({’( e f?fl : xfwl‘ {' it »Tni_.m,\ a supply of ammunition to last | team, but decided to abandon the wagon | victs were armed with knives. wx:n the | think of ordering an investigation until vl Doy s i ¥16 to desiat in his plan OF mURGEE. " | © o and hitched the team of Slotman to those | officers surrounding them so that the | theY can be present, unless, as is possible, 20 000l head ts direct affafrs or.do experiences of the officers who had | TROOPS IN PURSUIT. ,‘l!‘::‘, "‘_l(‘;;‘:l‘:"u‘:;““’l“‘"m:":f:gnx O Ot | Buards could not fire, they selzed the | tN€Y lose thelr lives at the hands of the ught in this | thing to give a general alarm or released were listened to with deep tachment of the hospital corps of | Bald Mountain and on reaching the £00t | anq wis and armed themselves with rifles Diattive sty unwilling party of | men to run down and pursue the mur- rest by the guards ard officials at cond Regiment arrived at Folsom | of the mountain they abandoned the wag- | o, PIStols and destroyed ai. weapons that >t the viet band. | derers who had made their escape som Arn.x it was soon realized that the | on this evening's regular passenger | on road and took a stralght cut across | witn thel taken. They have gone north DR. PIERCE’S REMEDIES. advanced upon was the outbreak had oc- ey "d“”‘“ dy':""("‘l'; b;m*"“ulhfl-*;;-u \ulr | train, bringing with them a complete hos- | the country toward Pilot Hill, which is | :‘x‘lm “"':‘fl P";"""S W :‘rdvn Wilkinson, |~ s he base of one 1 the watch towers s, the colored convict, R. M. | pital equipment. It is realized by every | about six miles from Bald Mountain. The 3 urphy, .-arry Wilkinson and C. . ry watch towers Warden Wilkinson com- | :}f‘(jl"""""",'l‘)"i“‘r\;':""‘:“f?fl;(:?1;m.- there that much blood will be shed | convicts were heading east with a slight | ll]hw;mql(l.‘u :o"l‘;‘_!"“]'“)‘;“g after an hour. A WOMAN s RISK vard | and he welked as if In great pain. Some | gon 1o under ronteone ot eorty five veors | aptured . 4 . H. were Intercepted by a posse that had | Klencandorfr, T. o man’s. She must have a man's courage wi3 | of the guards ran to his aid and quickly | o2 der sentence of forty-five years | Look is in charge of the hospital corps. | been traveling due south from the city of I, T. 8. Vertrees Jr. and 'W. o pomesh gats | belped him -to epter the Pprison reverve] machr L in. acramento, and J. L. ( Colonel Seymour and his staff proceeded | Auburn. 5 > '{\'m,lf.""k"?" Thirteen convicts escaped. a man's muscle to ; waving their hands | and reach his house [ Woods is werving a term for life for 1ob- | to Folsom prison and held a_consultation CONVICT IS KIL Vhile excltement existed among the other | She must also work under m‘d‘m’" S e watch towers, the | The Warden at once set about to bring | e with Warden Wilkinson and his officers KEPLD. T o Rt s iramed n aptiion: b SN w. Sepe SAY nmmg- ? ard the office of the cap. | order out of chacs. He told the guards | ALARM FROM PRISON. It was decided to hold the troops in | Telephone reports to-night are to the | ¥ 1 Eelcral delivery was narrowly | an accident to women acrobats e nd more convicts in the | that the convicts had forced the officers| With the return of Captain Murphy readiness to proceed as soon as some def- | ¢ffect that the prison posses also caught | TUEFFe AU the prisoners are now locked | be attributed open space of t wrd. The Gatling guns | they had captured to change clothes with | the prison n of Captain Murphy 10| nite word was recelved from some of the | UP With the convicts at Pilot Hill at 7:30 | {h: 1 &I 1RnE active measures to cap- | to the sudden U the towers were tralned on the inner | theta, and the Jast the Yeardn caw of | (¢ Prison the work of sending out the | posses that are scouring the country. All | this evening and a battle was fought at | Ju | 5 o and BacEraph me any in- | ~ weakness to The Tundreds of prisoners | the band the: comicte: wers anerw ©f|alarm and cauing for ald to run down | kinds of rumors filled the air here, and it | that point. Convict Howard is reported to | 250 Frs YoU and Senator Felton think | whicl all ed and the | guards’ uniforms and the guards were at- | the escaped convicts commenced at | was seen that it would be a wild goose | have been killed by the pursuers and the | AGRCa0E AL, e work o© at once | tired in the gray-striped prison suits, | once. Telephone messages were sent to | chase to send the troops helter skelter on | colored convict, Seavis, is sald to have ana e Slpich Srrived N T30 p. m. W S commence The convicts had released the Warden | Governor Pardee at Sacramento asking | mere rumors. The posses from Folsom | béen wounded in the leg, “Folsom Prison.—R. S of cov- Meamwhile the band of escaped convicts | and when he left them the pang. eon | for troobs o help the guards and Sher- | Prison and Folsom City are under the | Stage Driver Brown, who Is attached to | p o ruiiiny 1o ouios 1 Moo Fitsgerala: | tain times. had arrived at the base of the armory | heading for Mormon Island, about a mile | iffs. Messages were sent to the Sheriffs | charge of Frank Lockhard, chief of the the prison, and who was one of the cap- | g0\ "0 1S 5 ‘é‘:’ A here. No necessity Dr. Pierce's ower. There were eight guards in the | from the prison in a direct lne taken by | 0f El Dorado, Sacramento and Placer | S¢cond watch, and Charles L. Taylor, |tured officers is also reported to have | ,norg are mirromndet: s e | et Fis the the time, and they had locked | the escaping prisoners % them the news of the | foreman of the rock crusher. They are | been wounded. Seavis and Driver Brown | c0CT0 (0® TERElind, according to latest | scription heals the door. A demand was made by the con- | RETURN OF | outbreak and telling the direction the con. | détermined men and will leave nothing | are now reported to be dying at a small | & several officers | the womanl - v ke Son b WARDEN. ete had tamen Dr. Hanna of Sacra.| undone to capture or kill the escaped con- | hotel at Pllot Hill. These telephone mes- with them. _J- H. WILKINS." 2 { Short after Wilkinson arrived at the prison the figures of Captain of the sages came to Warden Wilkinson from victs and rescue the guards whom they Sheriff Kenna at Auburn, who received forced along. The thirteen convicts who mento came on here from Sacramento in ald order was n complie CRIMES OF ELDRIDGE. does threatened to blow the armory and his antomobile to render to the ft= cupants to eternity. Through m,‘(‘E‘u?:l hfumh\ zmd Stenographer Harry | wounded officers of the prison, have escaped are listed on the prison | the messages at that city by telephone =5 windows the guards on the inside saw | ilkinson were seen in the distance. Cap- | At noon a special train arrived from | book as follows: from the station at Cool. Fugitive Burglar Is Well Known to R e poweriess 1o preven the | tain Murphy was minus his trousers and | Sacramento bringing Dr. G. L. White, | Albert Seavis (colored), troia Sacramen- | A later regort, at 10:30 to-night, comes the Oakland Poli - of the convicts of 16 aid Wardes | BATTY Wilkinson was attired in his un- | two trained nurses, “Jack” Stafford of |t0. 2 years for robbery; J. L. Woods, from | from the Sheriff at Placerville, The Sher- sy s s Wilkinson ane b aesaand Wardel | gerclothes, the convicts having forced |the Governor's office, District Attorney | San Francisco, life term for robbery; R. | iff telephenes that the stage driver who | OAKLAND, July #—Harry Eldridge, Guas E. Wiley threw the key to the | them to take off their outerggarments for | A, M. Seymour of Sacramento County and | M. Gordon, from Sacramento County, 4 | drives between Flacerville and Coloma who was among the escaping convicts, is armory out of the window when. he eaw, | {R€IT OWD use in evading arrest | Court Reporter Warren Doane. As Gov- | vears for robbery; Ray Fahey, from Sac- | has just arrived at Placerville and that he | a three-term burglar. He was sent to the convicts were getting ready to ignite | ; By 9 o'clock Captain Murphy was back | ernor Pardee is in the Big Basin country | ramento County, life term for robbery; | reports the band of convicts to be head- | Folsom Penitentiary in Marca for thirt sticks of dynamite that they had in iheir | \" Pi® office, where the bloody encounter | Private Secretary Nye suggested to Colo- | Frank Miller, from Fresno County, 12 |ing south from Pilot Hill toward Coloma, | years, having been convicted of b + had taken place two hours previous. The | nel H. 1. Seymour of the Second Regiment | years for burglary; Harry Eldridge, from | which is situated on the South Fork of | with a prior convietion recorded "."::;y! s the American River. Messages have been few residents at Coloma to hurried statements made by Captain Mur- phy and young Wilkinson to the Warden of the National Guard that military ald be given the Folsom Prison authorities. Alameda County, 30 years for robber: John Theron, from San Francisco, 1i Ri. - Hlatidge anisres the-zesidenin ot T B. Coghill, 1304 Jackson street, to the armory in their possession the conviets quickly opened the sent to the door 1o the room where rifies, revolvers z"‘"j’b‘h“"‘lh“ convicts had released | Word was sent to Captain C. A. Swisler | term for robbery; Fred Howard, from |arm themselves and to give battle to the and stole and ammunition were Stored. Ten rifies | (Bem about half a mile beyond the bridge | to assemble ompny H at Piacerville | Sacramento, 15 years for robbery; Ld |desperate band of convicts. A posse from | £36t of Mivegwuke, . and fficen revolvers were taken and a | 44inE to Mormon Island. Shortly after |and be prepared to move o the scene of | Davis, from San Francisco, I8 years for | Placerville s heading toward Coloma and Folsom prison is not big enoush or e s T s Tt large quantity of cartridges. Having | CoPtain Murphy and young Wilkinson ar- | the convicts' trail. robbety: J. 3. Allison, from San Joaquin | is Itkely to meet the band of convicts at | Stfon§ enough to hold me.” declared El-| ¥ould e R e 2% oo mrmed hemeriees. the cameier qelaving | rived at the prison they were followed by | Colonel Seymour came to Folsom Prison | County, 4 years for robbery; Joe Murphy, | that point. dridge to Jaller Charles Clarke, 'who took | Taise up. My feet and hands would feel the rifies and Tevolvers that they a1 mot | Marter Mechanic Ward and Guard Jolly. | on the special train and was accompanled | from Contra Costa County, 14 years for| A portion of the National Guard regi. | DI (o the penitentiary. like ice. Since taking Dr. Pierce's meed in order 1o mamper e hey 0id not| YWard was forced to give up his clothes | by Major W. M. Greer, Captain J. A.|robbery; James Roberts, from Sacramen- | ment from Placerville went from that Eldridge sald he would not serve out | Prescription I can sieep weil all night. Ther mews wouid mamper the men whom | by the convicts and to don prison garb, | Blair and Major Frank Urescott of the | to, 20 years for robbery; Frank Case, from | clty toward Georgetown and _Auburn, | % 197" sid Clarke to-day, “and he in- | Bartly Og R e Bt ot o With the rifies over their shoulders and | Guaca Jolly had can oo Beysatn T, Los Angeles, lite term for robbery. which are situated above Coloma. Witn | 5isted that he woulu take advantage of | SUS. 5 T Weeks Canet e th revoivers stuc tmear shoulders and | Guard Joily had two narrow escapes for | On the arrival of the special train at the posses from Folsom prison and the | thc, ATt opportunity to make a break. X eakel owe fo Dr. Plore Thelr hirts on 0 thelr ro h0%0ms Of | nis lite to-day. When the ouibreak took | Folsom the officers of the National Guard | OFFICIALS ARE RELEASED. | ngibnal Guardsmen who are driving rap. | S10W08 that he felt desperate we were| Weak and sick women are invited to the thirteen convicts marches alaacet®: | place in the prison yard Jolly was slashed |and the doctors and nurses were driven| The band of convicts. with the officers |idly in the trail of the convicts, it is esti- | yoion Pit Surprised to hear that he was| .;neuit Dr. Pierce, by letter, free. All Wil Jeading through the prissn oo | ACcToss the collar With a razor in the | over to the prison in teams that were In| they had captured, fArst made for ' the | mated that the convicts will be surround- ST T Whs e (e SeBg s g fongoni, sl They were right in line of fire of e | Honos of Convict Howard Howard made | waiting. The special train also brought | prison orchards and the hill adjoining. At | ed on all sides by daybreak. It is feared, ok P h & = Dr. Soithy Gt nne. Mitith e e IO Dr:! e was pre- |up & supply of rifles, shotguns, revolvers | the foot of the hill Warden Wilkinson | however, that the desperate band may “Ic"" b ’d "'°!D¢l' of the fugitive con- v ¥ 3 oy By o Ao Thiafiare ] yented from Illling the officer by tho in- |and ammunition to replace the supply|was released. The party took to the |scatter in the night, Which is ntensely | {ne Alameda Cot scumits 20 2. crem | I S ',hcmn‘ Ys,m edieal S0t ‘dosw: GalE Al - T8 2 Ewaras Brobbir el e :cls :,.r When | stolen by the convicts in making their | wagon road leading to the Mormon Island | dark, and that the morning will find them ,: iting trial ounty Jail, where he was Dr. s M oo e 1 ke A Eoes LaTTES | S5 SR baid S¢ convicth ween in the | escape. The special train was then sent | bridge and crossed the south fork of the |in all directions. The country in which Chine & ok 9 & arew of robbing a | Adviser, contai more than a thou- b 1 Cocnping cotinmmats meam ine | mods beyond Mormen [sland bridge, Al | to " Piscerville tor Company Tt "ot | American River At Mormon Island briage. | the convicts are to-night {s very nilly and Chinese leundryman on Eighth-strest of-,.a large pages, is sent frec on receipt ol g o Db sl . the . : ! ational | Before reaching the bridge they released | rough. There is plenty of timber and . stamps to of mailing desperadoes had forced along as & shiekd | sellow conviete. thar he. apand: told hls | Guard. The bove, In Xhaki uniforms, ar- | Captain Murphy and Stenographer Wil- | many ranches are to be found. It e | P R Ty Tanbbay 34 it 0] quly. Sotl o ey stamps for the from the weapons to prevent escape from | shoot the “top of the head of Guard Jolly evening, and they are a fine looking lot of k’::c,:lhg bridge Guard Tom Ryan was on :::ev::uth'e“v!l':rlo:fd:zi::ly::!?h:m do‘:: e g e L A ?ot the m'fll mer' c‘cov‘mfl':u]y ilm 1 the prison. The guards in the watch- into little bits.” Seavis leveled a rifi: at fellows. They are all armed with rifles horseback, having gone around by a small will be a very difficult one thoritles as_one of the most dangerous criminals in’ California.