Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1901 — KUHNS IS A PRISONER. [ARTICLE]

KUHNS IS A PRISONER.

Notorious Indiana Desperado Again In tk* Tofts. Marvin Kuhns, the notorious desperado and convicted murderer, who escaped from the Ohio state penitentiary last November and has since defied all attempts at capture, was run down and secured Thursday night in the little hamlet of Green Hill, near Lafayette, Ind., by a sheriff’s posse. The outlaw was not captured without a struggle. He was wounded by a bullet in the cheek by one of the attacking party and himself managed to break loose from his assailants and bring down two of them with his revolver. None of the men is dangerously injured. Kuhns and his brother are now prisoners in the Cass county jail within half a mile of the spot where on the 10th of last December they fought a desperate battle with the ofand got safely away. The two men stole a team last Sunday night at Plymouth and started south. Former Sheriff J. E. Marshall and Marshal T. J. Chaney, as soon as they were satisfied of the identity of the robbers, started in pursuit and traced them to Lafayette. Kuhns is a desperado with a career rivaling that of DiCk Turpin. He has been by turns horse thief, burglar, bandit, jailbird, murderer and outlaw. He has been captured frequently, but almost as often has escaped from the officers or broken out of prison. He was born in Noble county, twenty-five miles northwest of Fort Wayne, thirty years ago, and as a boy became the leader of a band of young thieves. During the last thirteen years he has been a prisoner or a fugitive from justice.