Cincinnati (OH) Daily Times, December 24, 1874, p. 1. ESCAPED PRISONER RECPATURED [Special Dispatch to the Daily Times] Jeffersonville, Indiana, December 24-William Rodifer, a noted convict who scaled the walls of the prison here on Tuesday morning and robbed a residence in New Albany that night, was arrested today at eleven o'clock in Memphis, Clark County, after a desperate fight. Rodifer went into a store to get provisions and was recognized by Dr. Reynolds. Rodifer saw he was recognized and started to run, and citizens went in pursuit. Rodifer cut the halter of a horse hitched to a post, jumped on his back, and rode away at a fearful gait. Armed citizens mounted and pressed him so closely that Rodifer turned about to ride through the crowd with drawn knife but was knocked from the horse by a blow with a club in the hands of a boy. Fully 20 shots were fired at the desperado before he gave up. The convict was bound and brought down to the prison this afternoon. The property stolen at New Albany was found on his person.