Fighting with Convicts.
A fight is reported to have occurred at Placeville between the remnant of the escaped Folsom convicts and a sheriff’s posse. Four of the posse and two of the convicts were killed. Ten of the sheriff’s men and five of the convicts were wounded. The remainder of the convicts are holding the mine in which they had taken refuge. ' A cable message published on July 31st stated that fifteen prisoners, after killing two gaolers, broke out of gaol at Folsom, California, and took to the woods. They were chased by sheriff's force, and two of them were killed. It was then reported that the pursuers had surrounded the runaways, and were using Gatlings on them.
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Manawatu Herald, 6 August 1903, Page 2
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118Fighting with Convicts. Manawatu Herald, 6 August 1903, Page 2
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