Show BATTLE OF CONVICTS DESPERATE STRUGGLE OCCURS BEHIND PRISON WALLS two desperate crim nals engage in a duel to the death one being armed with a knife and the other with an iron bar is william brown and ed W hamit ton two convicts at the utah state penitentiary were desperately and perhaps mortally m bounded in an en an counter in the corridor of the prison early monday morning As the result of the conflict hamilton is confined in the prison hospital breathing in gasps through a perforated lung and suffer ing from other wounds while brown Is lying in his narrow cell ancon ocious from a rain of bloms inflicted with an iron bar upon his head both men were mutilated in the affray and neither is likely to survive according to the statement of dr A C young the prison physician either neither of the wounded men will talk regarding the tragedy the men occupied adjoining cells and had been heard quarreling the night before when hamilton informed brown he get him the men were tn parching arching down the corridor hamilton being just behind brown when sud denly hamilton drew from beneath beneath his jacket a short iron bar and brown on the head brown drown pitched forward and tumbled down the stairs kamilton Ka il mllton amilton with a fiendish fien dibb yell sprang utter after the prostrate man and struck him again before he rose brown luched forward and tottered lettered to his teet feet drawing at the same time a long knife from the folds of his jacket seizing the arm wh which ich held the lrea bar with bis left hand he struck his assailant time after time with the knife loosening his arm from browns grasp hamilton struck the abid which held the knife and sent the weapon clattering along tho th ce re floor unarmed and facing a desperate antagonist bron lost courage a and fled dashing madly up the stairs ho he rushed back to his cell hamilton followed ia in close pursuit beating the man over the head with the iron bar as he ran brown reached the cell but tried vainly to escape his assail ant he was beaten into insensibility before the guard and other prisoners could separate the combatants both men are so seriously injured that there is no hope tor for recovery brown was serving a forty year sentence for mur I 1 dering a chinaman in ogden while hamilton had been sent up from salt lake county for three years for as sault with intent to commit murder |