CRIME . . . SLEEPING CULPRITS CAUGHT IN CULVERT

An escaped convict and a teenager suspected of a cross-country murder and robbery spree were nabbed in Santa Fe when they woke up in handcuffs. State police found Lewis Gilbert, 22, and Eric Elliot, 16, sleeping under a culvert -- with two high-powered rifles, a shotgun and a pistol. The cops followed up on a tip from a motorist who had given the two a ride last night. Gilbert and Elliot, both from Newcomerstown, Ohio, are suspected of kidnapping a 79-year-old Ohio woman, burglarizing her farmhouse and stealing her car a week ago, then killing a Missouri couple, then killing an Oklahoma woman.