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Show SEVEN SHOT TO DEATH. Attempt of Convicts to Escape From Prison Results in Death. McAlester, Okla. Seven men were shot to death and three persons were injured .Monday when three convicts attempted to escape from the state penitentiary' and were slain by the guards. One of the men murdered by the convicts in their mad dash for liberty was John B. Thomas of Muskogee, formerly United States district judge, and once congressman from Illinois. Despite the commotion caused by the three .men in trying to shoot down everyone who came in their way, no general attempt was made by other convicts to join in the delivery. de-livery. The three men were encouraged encour-aged by their less desperate fellows, who cheered the onslaught of the armed prisoners. The desperadoes had taken the keys from the turnkey, John Martin, whom they had wounded, and had sheltered themselves through the prison yard by holding Mary Foster, a telephone operator, in front of them until the only shot fired by guards in the yard hit the girl in the leg. Outside the gate the men seized the horse and buggy of Warden Dick and dashed away, only to be shot to death by pursuing guards. |