Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1896 — PRISONERS MUTINY. [ARTICLE]

PRISONERS MUTINY.

Leader Fatally Wounded in Trouble at Fort Leavenworth. While a gang of thirty prisoners from the United States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth were being worked on the prison farm a mutiny broke out nmong them. At u signal from, George East, an Indian Territory desperado, the men broke for a cornfield. The guards commenced tiring with shot ggjts and all the prisoners but three surrendered. East was shot six times before ho gave up. He was fatally wounded. Sam Mills and S. Dove were also badly, but not fatally, wouuded before they were run down. When the bloody prisoners were run Into the penitentiary yard, where 200 convicts were breaking rock, there wns an ugly demonstration and a second attempt at mutiny. The guards were about to fire into the convicts when Warden French appeared and by coolness and firmness quieted the revolt. hf: .