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Show J ANOTHER TO I LIST OF !? FOLSOM. Cal , Sept. 19. Ja- cob Oppcnhelmer, man tiger of - the California penitentiaries, stabbed to death hffi ancient one- 4-ray, 4-ray, Francisco Quljada, In tho -f corridor of the cells for tho con- -4-demned In Folsom prleom at 2:15 - o'clock this afternoon. -f . Both men were murderers and tin-:r tin-:r sentenco of death. Quljada fro-icntly fro-icntly had said he would die happy Oppenhelmer preceded him to tho iIIowb. His enemy had as often de-'Iflft de-'Iflft clarcd his readiness for death If ho IS J could kill Just ono moro man gv 4 Assistant Turnkoy Frank Eatulllo, !5 Jj lacconjpaniod by a "trusty," accord-ij accord-ij i'jng to tho prison custom, opened tho J, i cell doors of the four men In tho con-ka; con-ka; "lemned corridor this afternoon' for t a ventilation. As his door was opened. I;S Quljada sprang to tho center of tho ' corridor and shouted a challengo to Oppenhelmer1 j Stabs Challenger to Death, ; "Come out and fight, Jako." Oppenhclmor replied to tho defl-') defl-') ancc of the Indian by a sudden rush i'from his cell. Boforo Qtiijada could m raise a hand In defense, the point of la sharpened bit of Iron, six Inches In length, that Oppenhelmer had con-' coaled, had plorced his breast Just below the heart. Eustlllo separated them and placed Quljara in his cell. Turning to Oppenhelmer, Op-penhelmer, the turnkey said: "Give me that, Jake." Gives Up Weapon. "All right, sir," said Oppenhelmer, and calmly surrendered tho deadly weapon which in some unknown manner man-ner he had managed to fashion from a short Iron bar. "When Oppenhelmer had been locked lock-ed up, Eustello turned to Quljada. "Arc you hurt?" he asked. "A. little bit," was QuIJada's reply EiWollo then sent for the prison physician. Before tho doctor arrived, Quljada was dead. Oppenhelmer and Quljada have been living for several years In the shadow of the gallows, while the constitutionality con-stitutionality of a California statute under which they were sentenced has been pending- In the supremo court of the United State's. Waiting for U. S. .Supreme Court. Quljada, who had a strain of Yaqul Indian blood, was first sentenced ro life in FolBom for murder in V"03 An golcs. He figured in the attempted break at Folsom, December 29. 1901, belns seriously wounded by Captain Murphy One bullet entered his arm, amputa-tion amputa-tion being necessary. ' In this break three convicts were killed b the guards. He was sentenced to horn; by Judge JInrt on December 23. 1905. under the law making an attack on a prison guard a capital offense The execution of both men were postponed post-poned until the decision of the United States supreme court on the question or tho validity or the law. Oppenhelmer, passive and unemotional, unemo-tional, appeared tonight at the coroner's coro-ner's Inquest to explain that ho and Quljada .nrranged -this morning to fight to the death In the afternoon His piece of Iron, he said, he picked up In tho yard four months ago and used It today because ho was "determined "deter-mined to take no chances." SUBJECT OF AN ARTICLE. SAN FRANCISCO, ScpL 19. By a curious coincidence, Oppenhelmer is made the subject of an article in a scries written by an ex-convlct and now appearing in a San Francisco pa-por pa-por According to this article, he had "kindly Instincts." Oppenhelmer started llfo as a San Francisco messenger boy His first j fight was over a favor shown to another an-other messenger boy by a girl who had charge of tho messengers. For this he was locked up, and when, af-I af-I tor being released, he sougnt the girl, who ridiculed him Some time after he. with an accomplice, robbed a drug store in Oakland and Oppenhelmer Oppenhel-mer wa sentenced to Folsom for fifty fif-ty years. In prison he made enemies right and left and became the subject of a death plot. He heard about it and killed his opponent, a convict named Smith, before the latter could act. For this he was sentenced to life imprisonment im-prisonment at Son Quentin prison, being be-ing transferred there from Folsom. The guard at San Quentin watched him too closeb to please Oppenhelmer Oppenhel-mer and after duo warning he secured a knife and nearly murdered him. He was then sentenced to solitary imprisonment im-prisonment for life, and was confined above the Jute storehouse, which ho tried to firo by dropping lighted shavings shav-ings through a crack. His cell was changed, but he cut through "his new bars, almost under the eyes of a guard, wrenched a bread knife from a convict In the prison kitchen, nearly-severing nearly-severing tire latter's arm "and ttmied to fight, but was struck down by a prisoner and disarmed. He then was prosecuted under a law made following his own attempted murder of a guard and providing the death penalty for assault in prison. Ho wns con's icted and taken back to Folsom again and was confined there pending a decision of the United States supremo court on tho constitutionality consti-tutionality of his sentence. The ex-convict in writing of him. said, "While his life has been a criminal crim-inal one, I believe he would ., make good if given the chnnce. I only saw him once He was fearfully emaciated emaciat-ed His skin was the color of dry mud. Ho looked the incarnation of despair." no |