AMERICAN MAN-HUNT
CONVICTS RECAPTURED Press Association— By Telegraph- •'Copyright. NEW YORK, August 26. The most remarkable man-hunt in the history of the State ended to-day, when the sheriff's posses, after a search on horseback, motor car, and aeroplane, cornered four convicts who escaped on August 17 from the South Dakota Penitentiary. The convicts were speeding in a stolon motor car towards the famous “ Bad lands ” wilderness, where they hoped to find an asylum. Hero, however, they were met by a posse. A battle ensued, one convict being Killed and one sheriff mortally wounded. Two, other convictr were wounded and captured, and the last convict escaped to the woods, where ho is virtually surrounded,—A, and N.Z. Cable,
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Evening Star, Issue 18058, 28 August 1922, Page 4
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