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Show REVOLT OF CONVICTS. Prisoners In Colorado Penitentiary Make Desperate Dash for Freedom. Kirsch Kuykendall, a convict at the Colorado stale penitentiary, located at Canon City, was shot and killed early Monday while attempting to escape with five other desperate prisoners. As Or. T. D. Palmer and the hospital steward were making the morning rounds. Kuykendall complained of being be-ing 111, and the doctor prepared for an examination. The prisoner drew a bottle supposed to contain nitro-gly-cerlne and ordered the two men to throw up their hands. They did, and five other convicts then overpowered Cell Housekeeper Clarence Cleghotn and Steward John E. Keefe. The four prison officials thus made prisoners were stripped of their clothing, which the convicts donned. Taking the doctor doc-tor and the steward with them, they proceeded toward the gates. On the way the mutineers captured Warden John C. Cleghorn's wife and forced her to go along, using her as a shield to prevent the guards from firing fir-ing at them. The inner and o'ller gates were blown off their hinges with dynamite, which the convicts riad somehow secured, but an attempt to force the armory was foiled. Meanwhile Mean-while Warden Cleghorn had arrived from town, and, collecting the guards ordered them to shoot the fugitives whenever an opportunity presented itself, but to do so without injuring Mrs. Cleghorn. Holding knives over the woman, the mutineers shouted that they would kill her if the guards fired., Mrs. Cleghorn fainted and the convicts con-victs then took to their heels, pursued by the guards. Kuykendall was killed by Yardmaster John Clark after shouting: "I'll never be taken alive! I'll not go back to that hole." James Armstrong was overtaken by Will Cleghorn, son of the warden, and was severely beaten over the head with a revolver, but was not fatally wounded. The other fugitives wer6 taken alive. |