ATTEMPTED ESCAPE OF CONVICTS
Shot by tho Guard,
Galveston, October 5.—A despatch from Rusk, Tex., to "News" says: Yesterday at tho terminus of tha Kansas and Gulf Shore line, near Luf kin, Tex., sixty convicts working on the road made a do.sporato break for liberty. Just as thoy had finished their supper, with deafening yolls they started up in a body and rushed for tho neighbouring woods Tho guardß opened fire upon tho fleeting convicts with deadly effect. The last report says that twenty-five of them wero killed or wounded. Tho prisoners ran in ono largo body, and the guards simply emptied their repeating rifles and small arms into the moving mass.
Galveston, October 6.—A special to the " News " from Rusk Bays : The report that sixly convicts in camp near Luikin had escaped and that twenty-fivo fugitives had been killed by the officers in pursuit proves to have been greatly exaggerated. There were sixty convicts in the camp, all of whom made mutinous demonstrations, but only fifteen had the courage to break through tho linos and run. Cne of the latter was instantly killed, seven woro severely wounded, and seven escaped.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 265, 14 November 1885, Page 2
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