CHASING CONVICTS
HOW AMERICA DOES IT.
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(iCITtAUAN - h'IW IllUNt CAILI ASSOCIATWH.)
NEW YQBK, 26th August.
!*, message from Rapid City, South D&botq, states than one. tfe« most remarkable man hunts in the history of the State ended to-day, when » sheriff's posse, after a search on horse, motor-car, and aeroplane, cornered four convict* who escaped on. 17th August from the South Da£oto penitentiary. ',
The convicte were, speeding in a stolen motor-car towards the.fanjous Bad Lands wilderness, where they hoped to find: an asylum, when they were, met by the
poese. \ v ' A fight ensued. One convict wm Killed and one sheriff was mortally wounded. Two other convicts were -wounded and captured. ' ■
The last convict escaped in the woods, where he is virtually surrounded.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 50, 28 August 1922, Page 7
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125CHASING CONVICTS Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 50, 28 August 1922, Page 7
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