ATTEMPTED ESCAPE OF CONVICTS. Shot by the Guard.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 129, 21 November 1885, Page 4

ATTEMPTED ESCAPE OF CONVICTS. Shot by the Guard.

Galveston, October 5.— A despatch from Rusk, Tex ,to "News" says : Yesterday at the terminus of tha Kansas and Gulf Shore line, nearLufkin, Tex., sixty convicts working on the road made a desperate break for liberty. Just as they had finished their supper, with deafening yells they started up in a body and rushed for the neighbouring woods The guards opened ffire upon the fleeting convicts with deadly effect. The last report says that twenty-five of them were killed or wounded. The prisoners ran in one large 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 says : The report that sixly convicts in camp near Luikin had escaped and that twenty-five 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 the lines and run. One of the latter was instantly killed, seven were severely wounded, and seven escaped.