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Show A Convict Cuts Three Deputies. Pittsburg, February 4. A serious affray occurred in the Riverside penitentiary this morning, in which Deputies McEain, Greaves and Edwards were injured, the two former dangerously. A prisoner named James Clarke, who is serving a sentence of seven years for burglary, had been ordered to the dungeon for infraction of the rules. McKain and Greaves repaired to his cell to escort him to the dungeon.- He promised, to go quietly, but in an unguarded moment turned upon then with a large knife, which he had secreted in his coat. He first made a desperate lunge at McKain and plunged the knife into his neck, and then stabbed him in the right temple. Turning from MoEain he thrust the bloody weapon into Greaves' right shoulder blade twice. Deputy Edwards, Ed-wards, hearing the noise, came to the aid of McKain and Greaves, but before he could render them assistance, Clarke felled him to the ground with a terrible ter-rible blow, and jumping on him kicked him in a frightful manner. By this time the guard had been alarmed, and Clarke was overpowered, and placed in the dungeon. The mjured men were removed to the hospital. hos-pital. -An examination of their" injuries showed McKain to be perhaps mortally wounded. Graves and Edwards were seriously seri-ously hurt, but will recover. |