Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 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 among them. At a signal from George East, nn Indian Territory desperado, the men broke for a cornfield. The guards commenced firing with shot guns and a!) the prisoners but. three surrendered. East was shot six times before he gave up. He was fatally wounded. Sam Mills and S. Dove were also badly, but not fatally, -wounded la-fore they were run down. When the bloody prisoners 'wererun into the penitentiary yard, where ”00 convicts were breaking rock, there was 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 uud firmness qulcteji the revolt..