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POTTER MENARE HEROESFought Escaped Prisoners From Leavenworth.ESCAPED FRIDAY EVENIN6Gus Pope aud Henry Zeh Captured Them But Fugitives Made Their Escape.STwo Potter men. Gus Pope and • Henry Zoh, had a fight with escapedj military prisoners yesterday morning, j near Potter, and were overwhelmed, j j but not seriously injured. Four i iiours later the fugitives were captured in the woods east of Curlew, 1 ' by a squad of soldier guards from• the prison, and a posse of Curlew 'and Potter men. iI The fugitives were Herschel Young ■ and Clarence Bernard, 22 and 21,' years of age. They had escaped from ( , the military prison at Fort Heaven-;J worth Friday night.Yesterday morning, at around nine ! o’clock, Henry Zeh. a farmer living ? least of Curlew, met the pair on the t I railroad right of way, as they were 4 1 going toward Potter. At the point \ of his revolver, he marched them into Potter, and to the garage operat- ( ed there by Gus Pope, Potter's celebrated angler.Pope and Zeh and the two convicts started to Leavenworth in Pope's j car. C»us was driving the car. and j Henry sat in the hack seat, with the s ? two convicts. i(A mile east of Potter, one of thej| convicts called Zeh's attention to a t j clump of trees along the roadside,', (while the other grabbed the gun, •*.a ;which Zeh had placed in his pocket, j j Pope stopped the car during -ihe:r struggle for the revolver and climbed ‘ over the front seat. He grappled J with Bernard, who had the gun.f«LThe taller of the two convicts. ! j Young jumped from the car .pickedup a rock, and hurled It at Pope. Butj* his aim was poor, and the missle struck Bernard. A second rock hurled by Young, struck Zeh on the head, and stunned him. and a clod struck . Pope.Before Pope and Zeh could reoov-] er, Young and Bernard had taken to the w'oods .toward Curlew'. Theirsecond capture followed after twenty,* farmers and Potter merchants, armed -; with guns, clubs and rocksAand eight; soldier guards from the military pris- ion at Fort Leavenworth, had scoured the woods along Stranger creek In c that vicinity for four hours. jlThe fugitives were found In a ,3 dense clump of underbrush and trees, | east of Curlew. Thev were taken [ r back to Leavenworth late yesterday t afternoon, shackled and heavily aI guarded to prevent their further es- acape. j* Aside of bruiftos on their head®, j ciZeh and Pope art4 none the worse for their experience.t
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Atchison Sunday Globe
Atchison, Kansas, US
Sun, Oct 02, 1921
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