Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1908 — Escaped Convict Killed. [ARTICLE]

Escaped Convict Killed.

Bismarck, N. D., Mar. 16. —Joseph Bassanell, one of the convicts who escaped from the North Dakota penitentiary here Friday, was killed Saturday night by Sheriff Beck of MoLean county, in a pistol duel. A few hours earlier Alfred Woolens, the other escaped convict, was captured by a posse 15 miles west of Mandan.